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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
‘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
Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran's supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that “Zionists” are waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear to kill him.
Hojatoleslam Zolnour made the comments earlier this week at Qom University.
He was quoted as saying that “Zionists” have security plans for Muslim pilgrimage sites including Mecca, Karbala, and other sites where he said it was likely that the Hidden Imam could appear. The Hidden Imam or the Promised Mahdi is the 12th imam of Shi'ite Islam, who Muslims believe will appear to bring peace and justice on Earth and put an end to tyranny.
“They've told their soldiers to kill immediately whomever they see with the characteristics [of the Hidden Imam] and not even take the risk to arrest him because he is a very awesome and dangerous person,” Zolnour said.
Last December, Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of doing all it could to prevent the return of Imam Mahdi.
“We have documented proof that they [U.S. leaders] believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts [the Middle East] and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world. They have devised all these plans to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam because they know that the Iranian nation is the one that will prepare the ground for his coming and will be the supporters of his rule,” he said.
Since the coming to power of Ahmadinejad, who appears to believe that the return of the Promised Mahdi is imminent, the emphasis on the absent Imam has increased in the Islamic republic, leading to criticism by some over what they see as the promotion of superstitious beliefs by Iranian officials.
Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rohani, was quoted as saying in 2008 that superstition was growing in the Islamic republic and that people were even putting out food for the Mahdi in case he returned that very night.
http://www.rferl.org/content/Zionists_Waiting_To_Kill_Hidden_Imam_Says_Iranian_Cleric/2145806.html
The five year old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Mahdi was killed in 874 and since then Iranian shiites believes that he will return one time, not like Santa Claus but to destroy the world.
I think science minister belongs with this guy...
“Mojtaba Zolnour, deputy representative of Iran’s supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guard, has said that “Zionists” are waiting for the Hidden Imam to appear to kill him.”
One economist says a stock-market crash is “inevitable” and could result in a disastrous financial collapse comparable to those that afflicted Russia in 1998 and Argentina in 2001, with grave consequences for Iran's political and social stability.
Mehrdad Emadi, a London-based Iranian economic consultant for the European Union, conducted an investigation that he says uncovered solid grounds for suspicion. After examining the share prices of seven of Iran's biggest companies — including the giant Mokhaberat telecommunications corporation, taken over last year by an IRGC-led consortium — he concluded that the increases were driven by government-led manipulation.
“There is absolutely no rational explanation in a country where productivity has been falling in the last 28 months consistently, [where] every quarter profitability has been negative for 92 percent of state-owned banks, and the banking system is highly indebted, to see such a boom in stock prices,” Emadi warns. “They do not reflect the profitability, they do not reflect the confidence in the economy, so it tallies that it is the reflection of the injection of new demand and money. Obviously this is kind of a bubble. But it is a state-created bubble, instead of sort of a market-induced bubble.”
But it lacks the hallmarks of a classic stock-market boom, Emadi’s investigation found. Three of the companies surveyed actually showed losses and negative rates of return over a period after April 2009, once inflation was accounted for. Private individuals wishing to sell shares were quoted lower rates than the official market price for transactions between companies — effectively meaning a two-tier system was in place. And the high trade volume and increased profitability normally associated with such booms was absent.
Read the article: http://www.rferl.org/content/Iran_Risks_Crash_With_Record_Stock_Market_Boom_Say_Economists/2146481.html
>>>” Iran will soon implode in front of our eyes.”
Yes. eventually & economically.
Khamenei will eventually die too. But, that should not imply something along the lines of “unless Khamenei dies, there won’t be a change “for good or for worse”. Some have previously suggested that.
IRI will have to be brought down not only economically, but also & mainly Ideologically. That ideology is Islam, not communism or socialism. I repeat, similarities can be drawn w/USSR, BUT, Islamic Regime & Islamic Iran are Not USSR.
My guess: *Eventually*, there will be an actual military war w/Iran. Most likely, won’t be confined to Iranian borders. The rest is/has been buying time.
It will be a devaluation in a few months.
Btw, whilst Jewish & Muslim conflict in today’s Israel has for so long been essentially about a piece of land (post-hitler Europe for “zionists” in particular), and there won’t be a solution for it any time soon, the situation w/Iran is distinct & many Jews, support the Islamic regime in Iran, or at least can well empathize with Islam as an off-shoot of Judaism. After all Judaism & Islam share much more than any other religion.
>>>”The economy determines the politics”
In exactly what way? I’m uunclear about your point or objective in comparing today’s Iran w/Russia or Libya?
Are you suggesting that the failure of economy in Iran will result in “regime change”? or is a weakness? Or will result in a shift from Ahmadi-Nejad’s govt to another govt within the Regime?
/bingo
Thanks odds.
Zionists Waiting To Kill Hidden Imam, Says Iranian ClericThe "hidden imam" will off himself, just as that delusional a-hole "The Mahdi" did thirty years ago during the Grand Mosque siege. He thought he couldn't be harmed, and was picking up the grenades being tossed in by Saudi armed forces to throw them back. He bet wrong the last time he tried it. When the survivors were being led off to their fates (surprisingly few were executed; some were deported back to the U.S., where they may be living next door) they were shown his dead and mangled body.
The Iranian economy will crash and the regime will collapse, what happens next is anybodies guess.
I’m very sloppy with splng anybodies => anybody’s
More waste of money:
Iran loans 200 million euros to Bolivia
Press TV | Sept 1
Iran has extended a credit line of more than 200 million euros to Bolivia to help the industrial development of the South American country.
The agreement included the transfer of technology to Bolivia, Iranian Minister of Industries and Mining Ali Akbar Mehrabian said at a joint press conference with Bolivian President Evo Morales in the capital city of La Paz on Monday, the state-run ABI news agency reported.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/09/headlines-us-wins-first-meeting-with-iran.html
Thanks for explaining.
I haven’t seen any indication of that so far, in 31 yrs, regarding Iran. The only time I saw a shift to “modest behavior” (external to Iran) from IRI was soon after 9/11 and just before & after Iraq war in 2003. And, I think, it was because around that time IRI seriously believed that the Bush admin had actual plans of ousting the regime in Iran.
While the government of the mullahs’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is grappling with a $140 billion debt, various parts of the economy and social services are taking huge blows.
According to a Aftab state-run news agency, 750,000 farmers have lost their jobs during the past five years alone. Aftab said that the latest reports and statistics by the regime show that bank credits to farmers are severely restricted and despite rising inflation, the government buys agricultural products like rice and wheat at cheap prices citing dubious pretexts.
At the same time, other agricultural products, particularly fruits, are being imported in an unbridled fashion, which leads to more unemployment in the industry.
Separately, 120,000 teachers have also lost their jobs, according to Arman newspaper. This week, a number of teachers protested to the decision by gathering in front of the regime’s Majlis (Parliament).
http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/8840/1/
While you normally can not trust that MEK-site the info above is probably correct as they are referring to other sources, but I will try to verify it.
Heavy clashes in Qoba mosque in the city of Shiraz
After Friday’s Qods Day rally, a group of organized thugs who were provoked by the remarks made by the representative of the supreme leader in the Revolutionary Guards of Fars province, and with the guidance of former hardliner governor of the city of Shiraz, using governmental resources entered the Qoba mosque (where the pro-reform Grand Ayatollah Dastgheyb gives his sermons). They then confronted the small number of people who were praying in the mosque.
Following the attack, a number of clerics and people were severely injured. Since it was not possible to take the injured outside of the mosque these individuals were treated in the mosque with limited medical equipment.
http://www.payvand.com/news/10/sep/1028.html
Check the video.
>>>”When the economy collapses anything can happen.”
We’ll have to wait for the economy to collapse then.
Thanks (again) AdmSmith!
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