Posted on 08/30/2010 1:06:45 PM PDT by LibWhacker
In a SPIEGEL interview, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, 57, discusses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike against his country.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Foreign Minister, you are the senior diplomat of the Islamic Republic of Iran. You represent a nation that prides itself on a cultural history stretching back more than 2,500 years. Don't you find it shameful that people are stoned to death in your country?
Manouchehr Mottaki: You come from a country that murdered millions of people during a tyrannical war, and you want to talk to me about human rights? OK, we can certainly discuss the laws in various countries and naturally we can, in a friendly atmosphere, debate the different legal principles.
SPIEGEL: It isn't a matter of legal subtleties. Stoning is a glaring violation of universal human rights. It's barbaric.
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‘The West Lacks Political Maturity’
Really?? THEY’RE the ones who have not ‘outgrown’ murder as policy!!
Ping.
Ummm, I thought their stance was that didn't happen.
Mottaki is a fierce bastard with a sordid history....
however he is correct here...
the Iranians, the Islamists in Turkey, The House of Saud, the Russians, the Chinese, the Abhkazians, the Russian aligned Ukrainians, the Pakistani ISI, the Afghani warlords/politicians/narcoindustrialists, the Hezbollah,... have absolutely won the battles and the war over the last 12 years.
The House of Bush were given their Saddam head on a stick as a trophy...
Iraqis, Kurds and Dubians lost.....
The Sudanese genocidal Khartoum regime lost...
The US backed Chalabi faction in Iraq lost...
Israel lost...
The US Taxpayer lost....
The US/NATO military industrial complex won...
The US/European banking kleptocrats won...
And Islam lacks sanity.
Good catch!
It was Iran that served proudly with the Nazi’s and Hitler wrote a tome extolling their proud and mutual Aryan history.
Thanks!
I don’t believe that we lack maturity, it’s our present squatter in the whitehouse who lacks maturity and a pair of bal*s.
Wow! I can think of more *all around, more qualified* people who could’ve interviewed that IRI pr!ck Mottaki.
Spoken like a true 7th century muslim. Why don't you try having an "enlightenment" sometime, hmmm?
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, 57, discusses the stoning of adulterers, the consequences of Western sanctions against Iran and the risk of a military strike against his country.
Iran lacks money
Iran Central Bank head seeks import reduction
An Iranian state-owned newspaper quotes the country’s Central Bank governor as saying imports should be decreased in response to the sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.
Mahmoud Bahmani was quoted by the Iran daily on Tuesday as saying the focus should be on importing “necessary goods,” and that the sanctions would help boost domestic production.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/08/selected-headlines-209.html
Khamenei has asked the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “seriously apply... the plan for removing subsidies,” state news agency IRNA reported late Monday quoting the all-powerful leader as telling members of the government, including Ahmadinejad.
“The people have embraced you (Ahmadinejad) for slogans such as those seeking justice, adherence to religion and fighting arrogance,” Iran's spiritual guide added.
“Thus, you should attempt to maintain these policies with determination and intensity.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/08/selected-headlines-211.html
Right decision, but stupid arguments.
However,
The parliament approved $20 billion in cuts, or just half of the savings demanded by Ahmadinejad’s government. Lawmakers have said they feared the full $40 billion in cuts would have prompted a 50 percent surge in inflation.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EBMT480.htm
The next step is to change the exchange rate otherwise they will destroy the domestic companies that are dying under the massive import of cheap Chinese products, and terrible unemployment I guess that it is about 30 %!
The exchange rate today is 1 $ = about 10 500 Rials, the new exchange rate would be 1 USD = 30 000 IRR, but I think that they only dare to make it 20 000 IRR.
Iran will soon implode in front of our eyes.
ILNA, Iran's Labour News Agency, reports that while Iran's Statistics Bureau estimated Iran's workforce at 24 million last spring, the new statistics indicates that five million people are currently unemployed in Iran and unemployment, at 18 percent, has reached its highest point in recent years.
Iran defines its workforce between the ages of 10 and retirement. Even one hour of work per day would constitute employment according to Iran's Statistics Bureau.
The Statistics Bureau also announced the average unemployment amongst the younger workforce to be at 30 percent. With 74 percent of its population under 35 years of age, Iran has the youngest population make up in the world.
ILNA reports that economic experts maintain that the unemployment rate can only be countered with over eight percent economic growth but the highest economic growth in recent years has never surpassed 5 percent which was a consequence of rise in the price of oil. Hamshahri newspaper reports that unemployment amongst Iranian women is twice that of men which attests to gender discrimination in the workplace.
... Payvand News - 08/31/10 ... —
Aster reading this, it sounds more like he wants to send more students out of the country than bring them back (which would go along with what they’ve been doing for yrs)...
“Islamic Revolution Leader continued by highlighting that the presence of university students in popular and student circles abroad can play a key role in ‘exporting pure thoughts and messages of the Revolution.’ “
“http://leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=contentShow&id=7147";
As usual, there’s mixed message to keep everyone confused.
The parliament approved $20 billion in cuts, or just half of the savings demanded by Ahmadinejad’s government. Lawmakers have said they feared the full $40 billion in cuts would have prompted a 50 percent surge in inflation.As if they can prevent it anyway. "No, we're going to continue to pretend reality doesn't exist, and that it can be dictated by decree."
...imports should be decreased in response to the sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program.Freakin' geniuses, aren't they? Imports should be decreased as a *result* of the sanctions, ya Shi-iteheads!
Iran's science minister has said universities that are against the values of the regime and its Basij militia should be razed to the ground, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Kamran Daneshjou was quoted by Iranian media as saying on August 29 that universities should follow the path of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“If the supreme leader says something that is absolutely in disagreement with our views, we should obey him, no questions asked,” he said.
http://www.rferl.org/content/Universities_That_Oppose_Values_of_Iranian_Regime_Should_Be_Destroyed/2143992.html
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