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Before continuing I just want you, the readers, to know how sick and tired I am of this war-thumping, war-drumming, Israeli propaganda being put out as "news."
"Remark by Iran’s president-elect creates furor; Some agencies admit misquote" by Thomas Erdbrink and Jodi Rudoren | New York Times, August 03, 2013
Ah, the pinnacle of propaganda itself!
TEHRAN — Two days before he officially took office, Iran’s president-elect touched off an international uproar Friday with disputed comments about its archenemy Israel, engendering a furious rejoinder from the Israeli prime minister that illustrated the wide gap between the two countries, fed by decades of hostility and mutual distrust.
I'm so sick of Israel's concern being everybody else's, and the prism of a mouthpiece that is telling me such.
The president-elect, Hasan Rouhani, attending a rally marking an annual pro-Palestinian holiday in Iran known as Quds Day, a reference to the Arabic name for Jerusalem, said in comments to state television that “a sore has been sitting on the body of the Islamic world for many years,” a reference to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Yeah, so? What's the big deal, he's speaking the truth?
Although Rouhani never mentioned Israel in the television clip, nor used the favored Iranian description of Israel as the “Zionist regime,” at least three Iranian news agencies appeared to misquote him as saying: the “Zionist regime is a sore which must be removed.” Later in the day they posted corrections.
Yeah, right, it was the IRANIANS that mistranslated the thing. You know, maybe it is, but after what we have seen in the past with AmeriKa's jewsmedia and its sources, I don't believe it.
Compared with the anti-Israeli invective often heard from other Iranian leaders, most notably Rouhani’s predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the remarks were mild — a possible indication of Rouhani’s effort to portray himself as a moderate who wants to take steps to ease Iran’s tensions with the West.
Nevertheless, the initial translation of Rouhani’s comments infuriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. He has previously described Rouhani as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” whose June 14 election victory was unlikely to change Iran’s policies....
Fine. Let the a**hole fume.
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Of course, that is from the same guy who says we should invade Syria.
When told later that the original translation had been wrong, and that Rouhani had in fact not referred directly to Israel or said anything about removing the “sore,” Netanyahu’s office was unmoved and seemingly uninterested in nuance.
“We stand by what we say,” said his spokesman, Mark Regev. “The remarks attributed to him we think, we are sure, that represents his true outlook.”
Yeah, WHO CARES about the FACTS or ACCURACY, right?
No wonder the world hates that shit stain in the Middle East called Israel.
Whether intended or not, the episode represented Rouhani’s first international test over Israel, one of the most vexing subjects for Iranian leaders.
While he has espoused an approach of moderation that would help improve Iran’s relations with the outside world — an approach that helped him win the election — he had been expected to say something critical about Israel at the Quds Day celebration, an annual ritual here for Iranian politicians and a reflection of what they view as Israel’s illegitimacy.
It's a daily ritual to spew Jewish war propaganda here in AmeriKa!
Oh, and btw, I think Israel is illegitimate. I didn't always think that way, but I've come around. I've simply seen and learned too much these last 10 years or so. The lying Khazar usurpers should be deported. Where I do not care, as long as it is not here.
Walking among people holding up signs saying “Death to Israel” and pictures of maimed Palestinian children, Rouhani, who is nicknamed “the diplomatic sheik” for his suave sentences, gave a preplanned statement to waiting television cameras.
Acting like Obama now.
And are you sure the signs weren't mistranslated?
“In our region, a sore has been sitting on the body of the Islamic world for many years, in the shadow of the occupation of the holy land of Palestine and the dear Quds,” he said. “This day is in fact a reminder of the fact that Muslim people will not forget their historic right and will continue to stand against aggression and tyranny.”
We stand with you, for aggression and tyranny must be fought everywhere.
As Israel and its supporters often point out, there is a long history in Iran of official insults aimed at Israel and the Jewish religion.
Then why does Iran have 25,000 perfectly happy Jews living in it? One is even a member of Parliament.
In 2005, Ahmadinejad was famously quoted as saying Israel must be “wiped off the map,” during a conference called “A world without Zionism.”
Oh, what a WONDERFUL WORLD!
While it later became clear from tapes of his remarks that he had actually said “Israel must vanish from the pages of history,” it made his international image as a staunch anti-Semitic hard-liner.
Yeah, forget the mistranslation, WHO made his IMAGE?
That image has only been reinforced by Ahmadinejad’s publicly expressed doubts that the Holocaust ever happened. On Friday, in his final public speech, Ahmadinejad repeated those doubts.
In 2006, Ahmadinejad organized a conference in Tehran to which famous Holocaust deniers were invited, among them the former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke.
Yeah, sorry, but the Jewish propagandists at the NYT are really reaching now, aren't they?
Yeah, they are not going to be cutting Dr. Duke a break, are they?
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Btw, I'm tired of being reminded of that damnable distortion at best, huge steaming stink of a lie at worst!
As with climate change or 9/11, anytime the Amerikan jewsmedia calls you a denier it is a badge of honor.
"Iran’s new president to seek sanctions’ end; Leader admits economic toll" by Thomas Erdbrink | New York Times, August 04, 2013
TEHRAN — Iran’s new president, Hasan Rouhani, vowed Saturday to work with the outside world to lift the “oppressive sanctions” crippling Iran’s economy, as he received the official backing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony marking the start of his presidential term.
In an acknowledgment of the growing toll that international economic restrictions connected to Iran’s nuclear program are having on the population, Rouhani and Khamenei made the economy a major theme of their remarks.
“The pain people feel when they look at their buying power must be reduced,” Rouhani said.
But he and Khamenei offered somewhat different solutions.
Whereas Rouhani said interactions with the world, meaning talks with Europe and potentially the United States, were a way out of the crisis, Khamenei, who as supreme leader has final word on all important issues in Iran, expressed pessimism that such overtures would yield fruit. “Some of our enemies do not speak with our language of wisdom,” he said, urging self-sufficiency.
As Rouhani takes his public oath of office Sunday, Iran’s growing economic crisis sits atop his agenda. Sanctions have slashed oil exports and limited Iran’s ability to transfer money from abroad. The shortage has been aggravated by the profligate spending that is a legacy of the outgoing government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
For most of the past eight years, during Ahmadinejad’s two terms, Iran enjoyed an oil windfall, with an unprecedented flow of dollars and euros that fueled massive imports on goods ranging from ice cream to Porsches.
But now Rouhani’s associates describe Iran’s economic situation as the worst in decades. Many blame what they call Ahmadinejad’s erratic economic policies, punctuated by slashed subsidies and unbridled inflation.
The signs of economic hardship abound.
See: Sanctions Making Iranians Scream
Don't really hear much about in my jewspaper though.
Lacking money, Iran’s national soccer team scrapped a training trip to Portugal. Teachers in Tehran nervously awaited their wages, which were inexplicably delayed by more than a week. Officials warned recently that food and medicine imports have stalled for three weeks because of a lack of foreign currency to pay for them.
While Rouhani has asked for 100 days to review the state of the economy and devise solutions, there are some voices who now say that the only way to solve the economic ills is a political settlement of Iran’s nuclear dispute.
“Rouhani’s economic success depends on the determination of Iran’s other leaders to find a solution for the nuclear support,” an economics professor, Mohsen Renani of the University of Isfahan, told the website Neco News.
In another sign of dissatisfaction about the consequences of Iran’s nuclear stance, recently an influential political professor publicly expressed doubt on the benefits of the nuclear program. “Why are we producing radioisotopes when we can import them much cheaper?” the professor, Sadegh Zibakalam of Tehran University, asked in an interview with the reformist weekly Aseman. “Why should we maintain a nuclear program when we have no economic justification?”
Because INDEPENDENCE and their LEGAL RIGHT MATTER!
While those voices may have grown louder, they by no means represent the official position of Iran’s ruling establishment, which contends that self-sufficiency in nuclear energy is nonnegotiable.
Then why am I getting an article that is pushing and promoting such a thing?
Oh, right, it is another NYT POS!!!!
“Whatever happens, our nuclear stances will not change nor waiver,” Mohammad Taghi Rahbar, a former member of Parliament , said. “Our supreme leader, the nation and all officials from all factions believe this is our inalienable right so we will not retreat at all.”
But ignoring the rising economic pressures, while vowing a better future, a strategy favored by Iran’s leaders in past years, is proving increasingly complicated. Almost everyone in Iran is feeling the pain.
Same IN AmeriKa!!! That's why the mouthpiece media and Obama administration are trying to get WWIII rolling!
“It starts with little things, like some weeks ago there was no butter to be found,” said Somaye, 31, a teacher who asked that she not be fully identified so as not to attract the attention of authorities. “It makes you think, what’s going on?”
Less oil money is coming in because of the sanctions. Iran’s largest customer, China, has not been paying for oil purchases with cash, instead bartering with goods and equipment at unfavorable prices, the Tasmin news agency reported last Sunday, quoting Amir Jafarpour, the manager of the Oil Ministry’s transportation and fuel headquarters.
“Instead of getting our money we have been forced to buy 315 Chinese made subway coaches at higher prices,” he said, complaining that the Chinese were also pocketing the interest at Iranian oil bank accounts in China.
I thought China was their friend.
The sanctions situation could become far more onerous under legislation passed Wednesday by the US House of Representatives, which would basically coerce Iran’s remaining oil customers to find other suppliers. The legislation, which will be considered by the Senate next month, amounts to a threatened embargo on Iran’s oil, its most important export.
And THAT, my friends, is an ACT OF WAR!!!!!!
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Yeah, strange how ISRAEL ALWAYS GETS WHAT IT WANTS RIGHT QUICK while you are left with parti$anship stalling your needs, American.
“Iran is an economical wreck,” Yahya Ale Eshaq, a former trade minister and close ally of Rouhani, told Tejarat-e Farda, a business magazine, last week.
Then it is NOT a THREAT!
Warning that imported raw materials had dwindled, grinding local production to a halt, Ale Eshaq, who is also the head of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, said one of Rouhani’s main challenges would be just to provide basic goods. “We will face shortages,” he said.
Rouhani last week criticized Ahmadinejad’s economic policies, saying almost no jobs had been created during his two terms and that millions of Iranians could face unemployment in coming years.
He also told lawmakers that inflation was rising at an annualized rate of 42 percent — far higher than the 32 percent rate reported by the government-controlled Central Bank. Private economists say Iran’s inflation rate could be even higher.
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"Drop sanctions talk, Iran’s leader says" Associated Press, August 05, 2013
TEHRAN — Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported Sunday that Rouhani told Syria’s prime minister that no force in the world would shake the alliance between the two countries. Syria has been Tehran’s strongest ally in the Arab world since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Rouhani, a moderate cleric who won a landslide victory in the June 14 presidential elections, continued his call for dialogue with the West while asking foreign powers to respect Iran in its negotiations.
‘‘If you seek a suitable answer, speak to Iran through the language of respect, not through the language of sanctions,’’ the president said in a speech broadcast live by Iranian state television.
You won't be getting that because the U.S. government is Israel's slave.
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"Iran hopes to encourage more tourism" by Jason Rezaian | Washington Post, August 04, 2013
KISH, Iran — Iran’s new president, the moderate cleric Hasan Rouhani, has promised to support the country’s largely untapped tourism sector, but the arrests of European tourists this spring have cast a shadow over that effort.
Tourists, businessmen, hikers, all intelligence agency cover for spies.
Rouhani has been adamant about the importance of tourism to Iran’s economic growth, and since being elected, he has set a goal of more than doubling, to 10 million, the number of foreigners who visit Iran each year.
Such an increase, over the current level of 4 million tourists, would ‘‘create jobs for 4 million people, solving the problem of 3.5 million unemployed people in this country,’’ Rouhani has said.
On Kish, an island in the Persian Gulf that is a favorite destination of Iranians, developers have been waiting for years for an administration that is serious about tapping Iran’s tourism potential.
In accounting for Iran’s relatively low number of visitors, Rouhani blames sanctions, specifically those that have made it difficult, if not impossible, for tourists to use international credit and ATM cards. But tourism experts here think the problems run much deeper.
They say authorities’ general suspicion of foreigners and a lack of tolerance are the major obstacles preventing Iran from taking a larger slice of international tourism revenue, despite Iran’s environmental and historical attractions.
Gee, that is the same problem AmeriKa is having with its tourists!
‘‘We have all the potentials that we need to attract foreign tourists, but due to limitations, mostly cultural, like Islamic hijab, they do not come here. To attract them, we need to create a better political and social atmosphere,’’ said Ramezan Gholinejad, an organizer of the annual Kish Summer Festival.
One field in which Iran hopes to gain ground is adventure travel, but the revelation that seven Slovak paragliders, who entered Iran legally with tourist visas, were arrested more than a month ago highlights just how far Iran might be from becoming a serious international destination.
The Slovaks and their local host, a well-known member of Iran’s paragliding community, were arrested after flying over a military installation. The site where they were arrested was a front-runner to host a major paragliding competition.
Oh, my God, they ARE SPIES!!!!
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Now flip that over a minute. Imagine if paragliders(?) had been hovering near an American military base in this current terror warning climate. The AmeriKan would be screaming at the top of its lungs!
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The jewsmedia thinks we forgot the visit.
"37 firms directed funds to Iran, US says" by Michael Birnbaum | The Washington Post News Service, June 05, 2013
BERLIN — The workers at a gas tank factory in Dinslaken, Germany, had questioned the strange goings-on at their company ever since its Iran-linked owners bought it a decade ago.
On Tuesday, they got an answer.
The US Treasury Department announced that MCS International, along with companies in Croatia, Dubai, and elsewhere, had been part of a global network of 37 businesses designed to funnel profits and materials to the Iranian government and to evade sanctions targeting the country’s nuclear program.
The order, which places trade restrictions on the companies and on any individual or entity doing business with them around the world, is the latest of several efforts announced in the past week to curb trade with Iran-linked groups.
‘‘Even as economic conditions in Iran deteriorate, senior Iranian leaders profit from a shadowy network of off-the-books front companies,’’ the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, David Cohen, said in a statement.
Need I even comment?
Btw, Mossad and the CIA do the same thing.
The Treasury Department said the companies were part of a group called the Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order that sent billions of dollars in profits back to Iran’s government every year.
Then why is the economy such a s***hole (or so I am told)?
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