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What the Storming of the British Embassy In Teheran Tells Us
Fox ^ | Michael Rubin

Posted on 11/29/2011 10:46:47 AM PST by nuconvert

Hardline Iranian students stormed the British embassy in Tehran this morning, smashing windows and burning the British flag. The students, protesting the latest British sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic as a result of its nuclear defiance, demanded Tehran break relations with London. Rather than protect the embassy, Iranian security forces charged with its protecting simply stood aside suggesting official endorsement of the act.

The attack on the embassy follows the Iranian parliament’s decision on Sunday to downgrade relations with Great Britain and expel the British ambassador. That vote was 179 in favor of downgrading relations, and four against with 11 abstentions. Importantly, the four parliamentarians who voted against the measure felt that the Iranian government should go even further and sever relations altogether

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: britain; britishembassy; brits; hysteria; iran; michaelrubin; pandemonium; panic; streets; uk

1 posted on 11/29/2011 10:46:58 AM PST by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

Deja’ Vu, all over again!

When will these fools learn?


2 posted on 11/29/2011 10:51:23 AM PST by mazda77 (and I am a Native Texan)
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To: mazda77

the post under this one...Obungler’s admin is more like Carter’s every day.


3 posted on 11/29/2011 10:53:06 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: nuconvert

“Hardline Iranian students”

They’ve got an occupy movement too? hehe


4 posted on 11/29/2011 10:53:44 AM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: mazda77

>> When will these fools learn?

Think “Pyrexistan”.


5 posted on 11/29/2011 10:58:47 AM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: mazda77

“Blue Lancer” wrote this on FreeRepublic, September 13th, 2001. It bears repeating:

200 years from now, I want their children’s children’s children’s children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with “If you don’t behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you”, and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obeisance. I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea ... the powerful ‘Mericans …destroyed their forefathers’ wickedness.


6 posted on 11/29/2011 11:04:03 AM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: nuconvert

Obama’s America seems a hulluva lot like Carter’s America.


7 posted on 11/29/2011 11:08:22 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: QBFimi

Sadly, It will not happen with our political correct society and Obama and the leftist MSM. Any move would be seen as a negative. They could blow up New York and the MSM would blame Bush, Sarah Pain and Rush Limbaugh for the deed. Still, the day will come when these Commie leftists will be gone and an American Empire will bring peace to the Earth at the point of a sword.


8 posted on 11/29/2011 11:15:41 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: nuconvert

“Great Britain and expel the British ambassador”

Britain should expel all the Iranians in their country as well.


9 posted on 11/29/2011 11:16:15 AM PST by edcoil (I grew up in a country that was honest, I am growing old in a country that is not. I am sorry.)
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To: DonaldC

Yeah, I’m surprised Rubin repeated the “students” description of these thugs.


10 posted on 11/29/2011 11:21:30 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: QBFimi

Man: That’s Conan the Barbarian stuff there.

Great writing.

Fantasy of course, but great.

Where are all of those students who, a few years ago were going to take down Ahmadinejhad?


11 posted on 11/29/2011 11:25:28 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer
“Fantasy of course, but great.”

Our attempts at nation building have proven useless. It is time to “punish” someone and theses guys have been asking for it for 30 years. Take the gloves off and make an example of them. Think Rome and Carthage.

12 posted on 11/29/2011 11:33:49 AM PST by RedEyeJack
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To: RedEyeJack

You’ve got my vote.


13 posted on 11/29/2011 12:01:00 PM PST by Venturer
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To: nuconvert

All this on the day Obama passed Carter on job disapproval rating.


14 posted on 11/29/2011 12:08:01 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Defeat Obama. End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: Venturer

Dead...............


15 posted on 11/29/2011 12:47:38 PM PST by Boonie
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To: QBFimi

“Blue Lancer” sounds like a FReeper after my own heart. I like what Genghis Khan did to them after they violated his emissaries.


16 posted on 11/29/2011 12:47:43 PM PST by fallujah-nuker (Pat Buchanan, kryptonite to RINO's)
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To: fallujah-nuker
“Blue Lancer” sounds like a FReeper after my own heart. I like what Genghis Khan did to them after they violated his emissaries.

The entire Middle East needs a VIOLENT lesson. Tolerance is acceptance of this behavior. Britain no longer has the spine to really do a payback, but they should....destroy an entire city (Qom?) and begin burning ALL Iranian books, from school books to Korans to technical (nuclear) and science books. Make destruction of their culture a priority as they wish for ours. Make the destruction unrecoverable.

17 posted on 11/29/2011 1:46:27 PM PST by Rapscallion (OBAMA speak his name with loathing for what he has done to America!)
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To: Venturer

“Where are all of those students who, a few years ago were going to take down Ahmadinejhad?”

They’re watching the world do nothing while Assad mows down and tortures the opposition in Syria.


18 posted on 11/29/2011 2:44:04 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Rapscallion
Britain no longer has the spine to really do a payback, but they should....destroy an entire city (Qom?)

Qom is the city I wanted to use as the example back in 1980, it was Khomeini's hometown IIRC, and the main seminary (or whatever they have) of the Shia is located there. I must confess that I've looked over a number of such places on Google Earth, figure the radius using the line tool, and then matched that up with a nuclear effects calculator on the internet. My peace plan for the Middle East is "leave us in peace; or we'll leave you in pieces." And if they make us come over there it would be sort of like Genghis Khan meets Curtis LeMay. A wasteland where Kandahar once stood would have made a fine 9-11 memorial.
19 posted on 11/30/2011 1:00:34 AM PST by fallujah-nuker (Pat Buchanan, kryptonite to RINO's)
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