Posted on 02/18/2011 6:53:10 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
OTTAWA – Iran's regime has condemned a film that sold out its Ottawa premiere last weekend.
A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry says the documentary Iranium shows Western countries will do anything to hurt its nuclear activities.
The American-made documentary, which looks at Iran's nuclear program, finally screened Sunday in Ottawa at Library and Archives Canada.
The library had cancelled the screening twice after complaints from the Iranian Embassy and threats of protests.
Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore had to order the library to let the screening go ahead.
"It's a victory for free expression,” Moore said Sunday before the screening.
"Sort of an unfortunate victory because we shouldn't have been in this place to begin with.”
In a briefing reported Tuesday by the state-run Press TV website, Iranian official Ramin Mehmanparast said certain Western countries are "dismayed" by Iran's "peaceful nuclear activities," which are carried out in line with defending the country's inalienable rights.
Mehmanparast said the public wouldn't fall for "such fabricated, unreal facts.”
Last month, the outgoing head of Israel's spy service said Iran could have nuclear weapons as soon as 2015. The British defence secretary says it could be more like 2012.
The U.N. Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran for its uranium enrichment program.
Watching the clips on Hannity; pretty scarry stuff.
You can watch it on the Hannity.com website.
“such fabricated, unreal facts.”
Unreal facts..hummmm...
i plan to go see it asap...thanks for the post!
You remember we almost went to war with Russia over the Cuban missle crisis I wonder if Obama will have the guts to face down Chavez for the same stuff. Oh yeah, sarc.
Just watched The Stoning of Soraya M very scary stuff.
Ooooo that’s scary!!!
I bet the mullahs are quaking in their boots.
Ah, free expression in Canada..........unless you are speaking out about certain social issues..........
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Too bad the movie didn’t start with socialists Atlee and Truman allowing the Persians to steal the Anglo-American oilfields — because theft by government is okay, you know, ESPECIALLY if they are “democratically elected” as Mossadeq was.
Plugging Horowitz's book:
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Time to start posting a link to Horowitz's book...at Amazon:
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left [Paperback]
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Vastly Illuminating, September 25, 2004>
I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.
It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.
Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.
This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air.
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