Archive for September, 2007
One more of Ahmadinejad’s preposterous remarks came as a reminder of the fact that Iran can do with a truer, unfeigned democratic set-up. The cynical Iranian President–in New York for a UN meeting–took great pride in the fact that Iran didn’t have any homosexuals, and mocked the U.S for having people with homosexual orientations.
Is this man in a time trap? Wake up Ahmadinejad, this is not the stone age. Most people show great respect to individual sexual inclinations–discounting paedophillic propensities,of course. Though many countries in the world have been oblivious to homosexuality and have failed to legalize it, even their leaders forbear any whimsical remarks that disparage it as an unnatural disease. This dogmatic idiot with gaudy cultural pride has once again shown his disrespect for humanity.
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who has told you that we have it.” [source]
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From China Confidential
The dreadful decision by Columbia University president Lee Bollinger to invite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to address the Ivy League school is certain to do more harm than good, despite Bollinger’s dramatic denunciation of the Iranian leader.
In an apparent effort to mitigate the damage likely to result from providing a prestigious, internationally televised forum for the head of the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism, Bollinger called Ahmadinejad “a petty and cruel tyrant” and described his denial of the Holocaust as “ridiculous.” He also noted Columbia’s ties to Israel through alumni who have emigrated there and academic cooperation, and asked Ahmadinejad, who has threatened to destroy the Jewish state, if he also intends to annihilate Columbia.
But Bollinger’s seemingly well-intentioned introduction of Iran’s president could backfire, as shown by the rousing applause he received when he said that in Iran it is not customary to insult an invited guest with offensive comments aimed at “vaccinating” an audience against his views. This will play well in Iran and across the Middle East and also resonate among appeasement advocates and in Left-liberal circles generally throughout the United States and Europe. Liberal media pundits are also likely to be influenced; within hours of the Iranian president’s speech, the MSNBC cable TV network’s Chris Matthews was expressing criticism of Bollinger and sympathy for Ahmadinejad, reminding his viewers of alleged US crimes against Iran, including installing the (pro-US) Shah in a CIA-assisted coup more than five decades ago.
Bollinger’s remarks will also be crticized by diplomats around the world: a head of state, no matter how awful, is a national representative; an insult to a head of state is traditionally taken as an insult to his country. Better to have not invited the Iranian president in the first place, professional diplomats will say. (We say: there is no need for damage control when one debates a person who operates within a civilized society’s accepted zone of discourse. The fact that Bollinger felt the need to do what he did shows how stupid and unnecessary the event was and how fundamentally flawed his thinking is. A zealous civil libertarian, Bollinger is committed to a cockeyed concept of tolerance that not only includes domestic Nazis and other hate-mongers but also, as evidenced by today’s media circus, enemy leaders.)
Instead of undermining Ahmadinejad by allowing him a venue in which to reveal his fanaticism and ignorance, the event is more likely to undermine US foreign policy. Ahmadinejad was legitimized and humanized by his appearance, which could also be interpreted in a conspiracy-obsessed region as having been secretly organized by an anti-war faction within the Bush administration assumed to be headed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The federal government could have limited Ahmadinejad’s movements to the United Nations and the vicinity of his nearby Manhattan hotel pursuant to the UN headquarters agreement. There was no obligation on the part of the government to permit the leader of a nuclear rogue nation that is arming and aiding America’s enemies in Iraq to travel uptown to the Columbia campus.
Post Script: Matthews made much of Ahmadinejad’s apparent acknowledgement that the Holocaust happened. In the commentator’s view, this so-called new development proved that Bollinger was right to have invited the Iranian president but wrong to have denounced him before letting him speak. Nonsense. Ahmadinejad’s remarks reflect a somewhat more sophisticated Iranian line on the Holocaust–actually similar to the Al Qaeda postion–which is that Nazi Germany’s slaughter of European Jewry was exaggerated and exploited–and actually assisted–by the Zionist movement in order to establish Israel. Islamist Iran, as China Confidential has reported, has forged an alliance with foreign neo-Nazis, including professional Holocaust deniers. As sponsored guests of the regime–which also harbors Al Qaeda operatives–the neo-Nazis are frequent visitors to Tehran.
Iran’s Fars News agency has proceeded with its propaganda from this event:
“The Columbia’s dean actions proved there is dictatorship governing the US. There is no freedom and democracy in America” [source - Farsi]
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A military parade that marked the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran served as an ideal platform for the Mullah regime to hurl threats and issue warnings to the U.S and Israel. It was the usual show of defiance with Iran’s weapons being paraded.
Some of the army trucks had slogans, aimed at the U.S and Israel, painted on them. Also, showcased were two of the new indigenous fighter jets. The Defense Minister Mohammad Najjar said that the weapons paraded were just the tip of the iceberg, and were capable of more.
While Iran is conspicuously parading missiles and jets, it is keeping its nuclear designs under wraps. It surely has to come clean on the nuclear issue, or otherwise suffer the consequences that many countries–including even France–might just include a military action against it.
“Those who prevented Iran, at the height of the (Iran-Iraq) war from getting even barbed wire must see now that all the equipment on display today has been built by the mighty hands and brains of experts at Iran’s armed forces,” Ahmadinejad said. [source]
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ElBaradei is a nonchalant and docile director general of the IAEA, and he said in an interview that Iran is not an immediate threat. He went ahead and said that Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons right now and is 3-8 years apart from them. He downplayed the need for military action against Iran.
But ElBaradei should know that Iran has hoodwinked the international community for over two decades about its nuclear programme, so, it is just not possible to trust it. With the eccentrical maniac Ahmadinejad running the show, the world must not leave it till too late and eight years will be too late.
We still have issues that we need to clarify in Iran. But I don’t see Iran, today, to be a clear and present danger. And our conclusion here is supported by every intelligence assessment I’ve seen that even if Iran has ambitions to develop nuclear weapons [which it denies], it’s still three to eight years away from that. We need to continue to do robust verification. But we do not need to hype the issue. What we need right now is to encourage the moderates in Iran. [source]
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The height of Iranian propaganda is reached and bettered every other day. Now an Iranian research center under the wings of Ahmadinejad’s office has equated Ahmadinejad with the great Greek philosopher Socrates himself, calling him the Socrates of the third millennium.
They seem to be in awe of his incisive oratory skills and logic, to the extent that they have not found any other better historical match for Ahmadinejad than Socrates himself.
The 15 page report published by the research center uses Ahmadinejad’s numerous speeches and writings as a case in point.
Also, Iranian officials have given the go-ahead to Oliver Stone’s proposed documentary on Ahmadinejad and they would like the director to visit Iran to familiarize himself with the country and Socrates Version 2.0.
I just wonder, if the research center supplies its researchers with hallucinogens (drugs that cause outrageous hallucinations) instead of coffee to research through the night.
In the document, various speeches and letters written by the Iranian president are analysed and it concludes that “Ahmadinejad reasons and discusses exactly as Socrates did in ancient Greece, by disarming other speakers and through his sharp reasoning.” [source]
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Ahmadinejad, who would be visiting the U.S to address the UN General Assembly on Sunday, had requested permission to visit the WTC site, but his request was turned down citing ongoing construction work there.
Also the NYPD would not allow the visit keeping in mind security concerns. The U.S ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalizad, said that the U.S would not allow the WTC site to be used for Iran to put up its anti-terriorism show. He added that Iran needed to do a lot more to convince the world that it opposed the girth of terrorism.
The request to enter the fenced-in site was rejected because of ongoing construction there, Browne said. [source]
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A highly placed Iranian military official said that Israel was not immune to a military retaliation by Iran. He warned that Iran had chalked up a plan to strike back against any possible Israeli military initiative in Iran.
The Iranian plan will see bombers and missiles being effectively used to bombard the Jewish state and Iran will wipe-out 30% of the Israeli strike force immediately.
It is not a far-fetched claim as Israel falls in the range of Iranian missiles and bombers. But, the Israelis are well aware of such threats to their security and will most likely destroy these strike capablities in pre-emptive strikes.
“We have drawn up a plan to strike back at Israel with our bombers if this regime possibly makes a silly mistake,” said the official, Gen. Mohammad Alavi, the deputy commander of Iran’s air force. [source]
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French might not be world renowned soothsayers, but you don’t need to be one to predict that Iran is inviting a military conflict. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that France had to be ready for the worst case scenario–a war–if Iran didn’t bow to international pressure over its nuclear program.
Though he was explicit over the possibility of a war, but did not clearly state if France will be part of an international military campaign against Iran. He advised Iran that peace was in the best interest of all.
Kouchner’s comments follow a similarly hawkish statement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said last month in his first major foreign policy speech since taking office that a diplomatic push by the world’s powers was the only alternative to “an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran.” [source]
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