Such reasonable people. I can't understand why there's a problem here.
Such reasonable people. I can't understand why there's a problem here.
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The only people that matter in Iran are the clerics. The President operates more like a VP candidate in American elections, used for rhetorical bombast, but ultimately not very important. (Cheney notwithstanding)
A leading Canadian-Iranian intellectual, Ramin Jahanbegloo, has been arrested at the airport in Tehran.
Jahanbegloo, educated at the Sorbonne in Paris and Harvard University in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, holds dual citizenship with Canada. He heads the department of Contemporary Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran.
He has lectured on the prospects for democracy in Iran (that is probably his crime), and authored books on Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and liberal political philosopher Isaiah Berlin.
He needs lots of media attention in order to remain alive in regime's prisons!
jpe,
Perhaps Cheney could take him hunting?
Again with the bad translations! Can't american's translate from Persian to English correctly?
-- corrected translations below --
"You should make the world understand that Israel is sexually repressed and that Israel must be destroyed by love." -- Ayatollah Ali Meshkini
"The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm. Unless the tree is watered by the love of Alah and the Persian people. Then it's roots will grow deep in the soil and we will all have a joint and sing along." -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"Very soon, this stain of disgrace [i.e. the stain on the blue dress] will be purged from the center of the Islamic world – and this is attainable." -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"As my momma always said, the candy covered Israel must be wiped off the road map when it melts on it. That and life is like a box of ... " -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than Alah himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves. It wasn't a massacre, it was a relocation into a new body. Because we all know that Xana is coming. And I sure hope that Alah will be able to kick his ass." -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Somebody alert Juan Cole....