Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami: This wave of holy rage must turn into a hurricane or a tsunami against the U.S. so that they will refrain from toying with what is holy to the Muslims. They should learn that toying with Islam and with its most honorable prophet is tantamount to playing with a lion’s tail. They will pay a steep price for this. They have already paid for this, and they will pay more.
Charmed.
Excerpts from an interview with Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, which aired on Al-Alam TV on September 16, 2012. (via MEMRI)
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As for the current concern about Iranian production, the energy analyst says consumers of Iranian crude are seeking alternatives, which helps explains crude’s surge at the end of 2011. But the idea that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. sanctions and Israeli provocations “can’t happen,” he says, citing the size of the channel, which is over 30 miles wide at its narrowest point.
“You need a gazillion boats to close that off [and] it would be suicidal if the Iranian Navy picked a fight with the U.S. Navy,” Stuart says. “A closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not an issue. What is an issue is tightening sanctions on Iran and Iran’s looming difficulty in selling its oil.”
Jan Stuart, head of energy research at Credit Suisse.
KAL’s cartoon: this week, Western agitators.
Funny line from a funny movie, Albert Brooks’s ‘Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.’
@AlbertBrooks on Twitter
Where have you gone Lt. Frank Drebin? Our nation turns its weary eyes to you…
Iranian soldier captured in Afghanistan | Telegraph
A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been captured supplying weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan for attacks on British and American troops. The capture of the officer confirms that Iran is directly supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In recent years, the Iranian government has not only refused to join the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), but has actively opposed it. … Iran’s discriminatory laws demonstrate that the Islamic Republic does not believe in gender equality: women lack the ability to choose their husbands, have no independent right to education after marriage, no right to divorce, no right to child custody, have no protection from violent treatment in public spaces, are restricted by quotas for women’s admission at universities, and are arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for peacefully seeking change of such laws.
Iran to set global gender policy?! (via seaofgreen)
Have you heard the one about Iran joining the United Nations’ council on women’s rights?
The U.N.’s a joke.
UPDATE:
Israel Is A Hideous Entity In the Middle East Which Will Undoubtedly Be Annihilated.
What Ayatolla Khamenei Tweeted about Isreal for Al-Quds day, which was yesterday.
(via afghanibanani)
For those who still think Israel is the hate-monger of the Middle East…
(via dailyrenegade)
Charmed, I’m sure.
Again, another flashback to a post of mine from last year before the election:
And a bonus zinger for you kids…
Ahmadinejad claimed that his statement on “wiping Israel off the face of the map” was mistranslated and he simply meant that the country, the experiment of Israel would fail and be “erased from the pages of history,” a la the U.S.S.R.
To that I say, fine, Mahmoud, but then to co-opt your line:
The Islamic Republic of Iran will be erased from the pages of history.
Not by force, but by the sheer will of its people to rise up against an irresponsible, inept, and corrupt regime that has retarded the nation’s path of modernity for the last thirty years. The measures taken by the ruling class are at odds with too many desires, rights, and dignities of a free people.
This experiment is a failure.
Quote me.
No translation required.
See also:
Iran is not at all inhibited about meddling
May 18, 2009: Next year’s State of the Union Address should be interesting
The Evils of Islamic Fundamentalism
“Three Basij members have been arrested in Tabriz for raping and killing a 26-year-old woman they arrested for bad Hejab (strands of hair sticking out of the veil). Her body was found near a cemetery. Autopsy showed she had been beaten, raped and shot 3 times in the chest. She had been missing for a week and her family’s search found her in the coroner office. The group’s leader, who is the son of a high-ranking Revolutionary Guard member, has confessed to the crime.
Apparently showing a bit of hair or skin by a woman is sacrilegious but tearing her clothes apart and raping her is not.”
via the fantastic @PersianBanoo
