News from the land that Foreign Affairs forgot;
Iran’s hard-line government said Wednesday it was removing 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats, including supporters of warmer ties with the West, from their posts in a shake-up that comes as the Islamic republic takes a more confrontational international stance.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced the changes to parliament, saying “the missions of more than 40 ambassadors and heads of Iranian diplomatic missions abroad will expire by the end of the year,” which is March 20 under the Iranian calendar.
Mottaki, quoted by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, did not specify which ambassadors were among those being removed.
But IRNA said they included the ambassador to London, Mohammad Hossein Adeli, one of Iran’s top diplomats and a leading member of the pragmatic foreign policy wing that supports contacts with Europe.
The moves give the new government of ultraconservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the chance to purge pro-reform figures brought in by his predecessor, moderate Mohammad Khatami, and install its own supporters.
Ahmadinejad has taken a tougher line on a number of issues, particularly negotiations with Britain, France and Germany over Iran’s controversial nuclear program. Hard-liners have criticized Khatami’s government for agreeing to freeze much of the country’s atomic activities during the talks, and Ahmadinejad already has replaced much of the negotiating team with hard-liners.
The new president, elected in June, also generated a storm of international criticism last week when he called for Israel’s eradication, saying it should be “wiped off the map.”
Official Government Of Canadian response;
“BAD Americans! Softwood! Bad! Bad!”
I think it’s time to wipe Ahmadinejad off the map.
So- is he removing his diplomats from THIS country? (And if not- why not?)
I’m not going to regurgitate my rant from our host’s earlier post on the riots, but might not the riots and these actions by the mullahs be a bit of strategy that would nicely coincide with Dr. Zawahiri’s letter to Zarqhawi in Iraq? I mean the bringing of the “revolution” to the West was their whole point, al Qaeda’s that is. With the Iranian made explosives NOT having the desired effect in Iraq (US soldiers packing it in), the latest ploy of encouraging the “Arab Street” on the Continent would mesh nicely with ousting the US from the gulf states if the riots forced “multiculturist” states to scream at the US to “get out”.
I’m just saying..
This makes more strategic sense for the formation of a “Caliphate” than any other tactic that I can think of…
I just hope it doesn’t come to the point a new mineral needs to be investigated, like, say, Iranian radioactive glass. It’ll be hard to find through all that oil well smoke.
I have little doubt that there is an overt act of provocation somewhere ahead. The goal appears to be to ignite a global conflagration. Is the real desire to drive the U.S. out of Iraq? Perhaps keeping the U.S. in Iraq is the intent – in fact, to mire it deeper, all the while undermining support – to isolate it. There is one oversight in the Mullah’s thinking: the region has leverage only as long as it has oil. That will be gone within 50 years. Then what? Nobody will care about the middle eastern dustbowl. They only have 50 years to bring the Islamic paradise on earth to life. Not long in the grand scheme of things.
Iranian Alert – July 18, 2005 – Ganji Is Near Death in Iranian Prison, a Dissident Reports
Posted by DoctorZIn
On 07/18/2005 7:39:40 PM PDT � 1 reply � 2+ views
Regime Change Iran ^ | 7.18.2005 | DoctorZin
Top News Story Ganji Is Near Death in Iranian Prison, a Dissident Reports BY ELI LAKE – Staff Reporter of the Sun July 18, 2005 WASHINGTON – Akbar Ganji’s 36-day hunger strike has nearly cost the Iranian dissident his life, according to a writer recently released from the Tehran prison that holds Mr. Ganji, whom President Bush and European Union leaders have demanded the mullahs set free.In a telephone interview from Tehran, a former political prisoner who was released temporarily from Evin prison at the end of June, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, told The New York Sun that Mr. Ganji’s..
freerepublic.com
http://www.rapp.org/url/?50BD7ZVR
Posted by: maz2 at July 18, 2005 10:50 PM
This is rather unexpected. Oh wait! It’s not:
“Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom….
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
George W. Bush 29 January 2002
Exweb:
I bet you can find a few moonbats out there who’d tell you Iran’s increasingly hard line is BECAUSE Bush called them out on the carpet, that Bush shouldn’t have used such inflammatory language or somesuch garbage.
Actually none of the Middle Eastern oil producing states will let anyone do any testing to see how much Oil they actually have or how long it will last.
Last night I was just poking through the Energy Information Adm. website. I do weird stuff like
that for entertainment.
What these guys had to say was interesting. Basically the Saudi’s produce about 8.5 million barrels of Oil a day and the Iranians about 4 million a day. Now with oil at $60 a barrel that
quite a chunk of change over the last year.
Who do you suppose is funding the Iraq insurgency.
Thats right your neighbourhood Iranian and Saudi.
The American Energy information Administration went on to say that if another 800,000 barrels of oil came on stream the price of Oil would head south in a big way.
The really interesting part was that Iraq is currently pumping about 1.9 million barrels a day but back in 2003 they pumping about 2.5 million barrels a day.
According to the EIA Iraq has the potential to easily upgrade infrastructure and pump about 6
million barrels a day. With a good chance of getting to 8 million barrels a day.
If they get the Oil moving in Iraq just what you think is going to happen to the price of Oil and all that implies.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/iraq.html
This must be taken at face value; there is a dire threat to Western civilization in these words. Churchill & a few others warned Great Britain in the 1930’s about the threat from Hitler’s Nazi Germany; they were not taken seriously until almost too late.
Iran delenda est. (h/t ‘Cato the Elder’ (234-149 BC) >>>>
Taheri- According to Tehran sources, Abbasi is the architect of the so-called �war preparation plan� currently under way in Iran.
“But it is not only the US that Abbasi wants to take on and humiliate. He has described Britain as �the mother of all evils�. In his lecture he claimed that the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and the Gulf states were all �children of the same mother: the British Empire.� As for France and Germany, they are �countries in terminal decline�, according to Abbasi.
�Once we have defeated the Anglo-Saxons the rest will run for cover,� he told his audience.”
http://www.rapp.org/url/?O1LX0RM3
arabnews via newsbeat1.com
I just want to say that the comments on this item are all thoughtful and/or entertaining. Thanks all.
Duke
Reading the description of courageous Canadian Zahra Kazemi’s horrifying, fatal injuries, inflicted over the course of several days by the Iranian government makes the pandering anti-Americanism coming from the Liberal Party, and the CBC, and from smug Canadians in general too hypocritical to stomach.
Perhaps Mrs. Kazemi will visit these people some night while they sleep.
EBD
The liebral government may have forgotten about Zahra Kazemi… but Good Canadians have not.
Iran can not shield itself with a wall of oppresion like North Korea does. They do not have “friendly” neighbours, to harbor their oppressive ways… like North Korea does.
But truthfully, folks, those poor Iranian leaders are just misunderstood.
The cult of multiculturalism holds that all minorities are the victims of the majority and therefore minorities must be blameless. Don’t all you right wing really scary jerks get it? You are the problem, it’s your fault. By the way, has anyone heard if all those really smart lib/left people in toronto have solved their black/gun problem.
CSIS: terror cell busted
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On 11/03/2005 3:28:32 AM PST � 15 replies � 192+ views
National Post (Toronto) ^ | 2005-11-03 | Stewart Bell
TORONTO – Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned. The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants who had lived in Canada for as long as six years and were alleged members of a radical Islamic terror faction called the Salafist Group for Call and Combat. The central figure of the Toronto-area cell was a former al-Qaeda training camp instructor who studied bomb-making at Osama bin Laden’s Al Farooq and Khaldun training camps in eastern Afghanistan. The group was watched by intelligence officers…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514729/posts
AsIseeIt will be removing the blinders soon…I hope. In the meantime, one of Iran’s most serious problems are their own yuppie population who want to rebel against their idiot clergy leadership.
Less oil is being pumped because there is no place for it to go. Refining capacity is running at full bore but it has been diminished in the US by Katrina and is under repair.
There is a 7 billion refinery project underway in Alberta, but that’s years away from ready.
The US and Canada are sitting on vast oil reserves, witness the mothballed rigs offshore from Santa Barbara. In the chess game of oil, this irks the middle east, who must continue to pump oil in order to continue in the lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed.
There are expensive toys to buy like various weapons, and in Iran’s case, enriched nuclear products.
Let’s hope Iranian yuppies make succesful moves to calm their leaders soon.
There have been 3,186 Islamoblasts so far, and aside from numerous corpses and cripples, it has gained these idiots Zero, nothing, Nada, and zilch and so to this day. Only 10, 20, 50 more years of this to go? You say? pity. TG
Martin and Pettigrew continue to call assorted offensive Iranian actions (Kazemi, threats against Israel) “unacceptable”. Nonetheless, if Iran does replace its current ambassador to Ottawa with an Islamic hard-liner, I’m sure the Liberals will accept the new man (it sure won’t be a woman–the acceptance in diplomatese is called “agr�ment”).
Mark
Ottawa
I have it on good authority that Paul Martin will ban President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the Liberal Party for Life.
IN MEMORY OF IRAN
By Roger Scruton
From UNTIMELY TRACTS (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1987), pp. 190-1
(This originally appeared in the TIMES (London), 6 November 1984)
[Kindly uploaded and provided with notes by Freeman 10602PANC]
Who remembers Iran? Who remembers, that is, the shameful
stampede of Western journalists and intellectuals to the cause of
the Iranian revolution? Who remembers the hysterical propaganda
campaign waged against the Shah, the lurid press reports of
corruption, police oppression, palace decadence, constitutional
crisis? Who remembers the thousands of Iranian students in
Western universities enthusiastically absorbing the fashionable
Marxist nonsense purveyed to them by armchair radicals, so as one
day to lead the campaign of riot and mendacity which preceded the
Shah’s downfall?
Who remembers the behaviour of those students who held as
hostage the envoys of the very same power which had provided
their ‘education’? Who remembers Edward Kennedy’s accusation
that the Shah had presided over ‘one of the most oppressive
regimes in history’ and had stolen ‘umpteen billions of dollars
from Iran’?
And who remembers the occasional truth that our journalists
enabled us to glimpse, concerning the Shah’s real achievements:
his successes in combating the illiteracy, backwardness and
powerlessness of his country, his enlightened economic policy,
the reforms which might have saved his people from the tyranny of
evil mullahs, had he been given the chance to accomplish them?
Who remembers the freedom and security in which journalists could
roam Iran, gathering the gossip that would fuel their fanciful
stories of a reign of terror? >>>>>> more
http://www.fortfreedom.org/l14.htm
Let’s not forget that the U.S. was included in the map wipery.
I suspect the primary initial goal of “Ughmadasabat” is to stop the warming relations between Israel and some of the Arab countries. He implicitly threatened these countries.
Hatred of Israel/U.S. is the primary Muslim-uniting factor in order to create Allah’s army for the main course: regaining and expanding the Caliphate to include our whole world and possibly some of the neighbouring planets.
There are of course at least three groups that want to have the honour of leading this take-over. It’s gonna be a fun ride.
If you reacll, at the beginning of the ‘revolution,’ diplomats- appointed by the Ayatollah himself- were shot if they even suggested more reasonable courses of action.
It will b eintersting to see how many defect.
Speaking of enemies and idiots.
Tha smarmy wimpy Aaron Brown from CNN (USA’s answer to CBC) has been sacked.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/2/231048.shtml
Could this type of thing happen to Peter Mansbridge. Also a smarmy wimp.
I think those two could trade jobs and no one would notice.
This is toooooo good to not share.
Liberal hypocracy … wow … read it and laugh.
http://view.e.newsmax.com/?ffcc17-fe9a1674736d047d75-fdff15717160037870147377-ff2c1d70746d
Sorry about the long address. I couldn’t find a shorter route to this piece in NewsMax.
I know it’s a bit off topic, but anything that is anti-terrorist or anti-US and anti-you and me should have some relevance even on this post.
Will take the heat if Kate get tense on this comment.
Duke: Try http://tinyurl.com for those long addresses. Makes them more manageable.
Thanks for the interesting comments all!
Holy Wah … just when you think you know it all.
along comes tiny URL …
I gotta spend less time working and more time getting know about these neat tricks.
Many thanks LC CanForce 101 .. big salute to you and take care… your industry can be dangerous.
Has any of the MSM solicited our most famous
re-imported immigrant’s opinions on this .
Mama Khadr?? and indignant spawn.??