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Samsung’s products could be banned in Iran, over an ad it didn’t produce
TNW ^ | 02/03/12 | Nancy Messieh

Posted on 02/03/2012 5:23:29 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Samsung’s products could be banned in Iran, over an ad it didn’t produce

3rd February 2012 by Nancy Messieh

An Israeli commercial may be on the verge of causing Samsung’s products to be banned entirely in Iran, as well as bringing an end to Iran’s trade ties with South Korea.

A commercial produced by Israeli TV station Hot, depicts Israeli Mosaad agents disguised as Iranian women, and while looking at a Samsung Galaxy Tablet, they accidentally blow up an Iranian nuclear plant. The entire advertisement can be seen below:

According to Press TV, Iran’s Head of the Parliament’s Energy Committee Arsalan Fat’hipour accused Samsung of producing the ad to “curry favour with Israel”, adding that even if Samsung apologized it would not be sufficient.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenextweb.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: galaxytablet; iran; israel; samsung
Check the video at the source link. It is hilarious.
1 posted on 02/03/2012 5:23:41 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Didn’t understand a word of it and it was still funny.


2 posted on 02/03/2012 5:31:34 PM PST by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Excellence

I love it. Cracked me up.


3 posted on 02/03/2012 5:36:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Excellence

Need translation or at least subtitles into a Christian language.


4 posted on 02/03/2012 5:58:31 PM PST by stormhill
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Nachum; AdmSmith; nuconvert; FARS; SJackson

P!


5 posted on 02/03/2012 6:01:56 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: stormhill

Aramaic? Copt? Armenian?


6 posted on 02/03/2012 6:02:26 PM PST by kenavi (1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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To: stormhill

Aramaic? Copt? Armenian?


7 posted on 02/03/2012 6:02:37 PM PST by kenavi (1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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To: stormhill

Aramaic? Copt? Armenian?


8 posted on 02/03/2012 6:02:45 PM PST by kenavi (1% of the 1% were born in the 1%.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Samsung ought to pay the Israeli TV station for the free advertisement it is getting over this.


9 posted on 02/03/2012 6:03:32 PM PST by rawhide
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To: kenavi

No offense intended, dude. I’m an old man, I tell old jokes.


10 posted on 02/03/2012 6:04:05 PM PST by stormhill
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To: TigerLikesRooster
A scene from the ad:


11 posted on 02/03/2012 6:07:35 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I think what really offended them is the male Mosaad agents are prettier than most Iranian women...


12 posted on 02/03/2012 6:17:53 PM PST by null and void (Day 1110 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: null and void

That’s funny!


13 posted on 02/03/2012 6:27:30 PM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

lol@pic
It reminded me of a musical and a book called “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”.
Though, the outfits were totally different in that musical..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert_%28musical%29


14 posted on 02/03/2012 7:43:15 PM PST by odds
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To: Excellence
Didn’t understand a word of it and it was still funny.

I laughed just at the excerpt!

15 posted on 02/04/2012 3:27:28 AM PST by Does so ("What elephant?")
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To: Excellence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xfug_ncuP9o

Here's a link with subtitles and some context for the Israeli in-jokes.

16 posted on 02/05/2012 9:31:19 AM PST by ChicagoHebrew (.)
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