Posted on 02/06/2006 11:57:02 AM PST by humint
On Sunday, Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker said that the recent cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad which have sparked a wave of protests across Europe were linked to the international dispute over the Islamic Republic’s refusal to end its sensitive nuclear activities.
(Excerpt) Read more at iranfocus.com ...
What complete BS! This one sounds something like you would expect from the personal injury lawyer who advertises on TV. Is there anyone out there who these scum think is buying this?
Some ask "why now?" with respect to the riots when the cartoons were originally published back in September of 05. The timeline is circumstantial evidence but, I'd say your impression holds water.
Brussels, Jan. 17 – Belgium and Denmark called on Tuesday for Iran’s nuclear file to be sent to the United Nations Security Council because of Tehran’s decision to resume nuclear enrichment-related activities....Separately Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen added his voice for Iran’s referral to the Security Council.
What is it with Iran and embassies?
Well that is not much of a suprise, just what of what is wrong in the World isn't Iran behind.
Talk about begging for a hideing.
Isolationists...
Oh, my no. The Iranians are on the outside of this one looking in, and they don't like what they see - they want to be the spearhead of militant Islam, not the folks who are encouraging the European demonstrations. Their problem isn't that this is all connected to the Iran nuclear issues, it's that it isn't.
The Iranian government is involved in these embassy burning demonstrations. How involved they are is a harder question to answer.
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 06 – Iran’s ambassador to the European Union blasted on Friday EU reactions to recent anti-Semitic comments by hard-line President of the Islamic Republic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Ali Ahani, who is also Iran’s diplomatic envoy to Belgium, told a top official in the Belgian Foreign Ministry during a meeting that Iran condemned the EU reaction, Iran’s official state news agency IRNA reported
“It is very regretful that European states react with intolerance to reflections and observations opposed to their framework of views and thought”, Ahani told Marc Guelen, the director general for bilateral relations in Belgium's foreign ministry.
Not complete BS. Stratfor just released an article linking Syria to some of the worst "protests", and Iran is behind Syria on this.
If the timing is determined by the Iranian nuclear program, it is even more interesting.
Not complete BS. Stratfor just released an article linking Syria to some of the worst "protests", and Iran is behind Syria on this.
If the timing is determined by the Iranian nuclear program, it is even more interesting.
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No, I didn't mean the article itself was BS, I was referring to the lame premise the Iranians were trying to sell.
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