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Friday, July 31, 2009

International Friday in Iran

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:38 AM

Yesterday's protests, in mourning for Neda and others who were killed by security forces or died in prison:

Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki blames the wicked West.

"Western and European countries, with their overt and covert capabilities, interfered in Iran's election... the worst among them being Britain," Mottaki was quoted on the state broadcaster's website as saying.

"The countries who interfered through their television networks by telling how to instigate riots, build explosives and other tension creating activities are accomplices in all the committed crimes, murders and are held responsible."

Who else blames the U.S., Israel, and Britain for Iran's problems? University professors in the U.S., Israel, and Britain.

Iran and Russia can't get enough of each other—Ahmadinejad hid there during the initial protests and now they're engaging in joint military operations in the Caspian Sea. (Ostensibly for environmental cleanup exercises, which is as plausible as Iran wanting nuclear power without warheads.)

Also this week: Ahmadinejad's interior minister was convicted of fraud, the U.S. Senate voted to ban companies who do oil business with Iran from receiving Energy Department contracts to sell crude to the U.S. Strategic Reserve, and the fucking Germans at Knauf Gips have threatened to fire any Iranian employees who participate in protests.

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Hello, what about Honduras??? It's upsetting to me that there's almost no coverage in the United States of what's going on there. Latin America is our neighbor!

Posted by care bear on July 31, 2009 at 11:44 AM

Thank you posting this.

Posted by kim in portland

on July 31, 2009 at 11:52 AM

@1 Interesting point.

Beer Summit 2009 has dominated all the headlines.

Posted by Ackham on July 31, 2009 at 12:17 PM

Were ceding South America to China in exchange for their trillions. And please tell me what took so fucking long for us to ban U.S. oil companies from doing business with Iran? Corporate America is killing us. And the Germans need to learn what is the right thing to do regarding Iranian protesters. They are clearly only concerned with their corporate interests.

Posted by Vince on July 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Interesting question: With Iran all nice and cozy with the most likely country in the world to sell them nuclear weapons (Russia seems to have a bunch of extras lying around, after all), why is everybody so concerned about them making their own? Wouldn't it be much easier for them to buy them on the open market? And they could have them tomorrow.

Posted by Dr Strangelove on July 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM

The Iranian people are my heroes - so rad.

Posted by Regina on July 31, 2009 at 2:47 PM