Posts Tagged → Iran
Iran calls Israeli kettle black
The world needs more time spent on creating a Mesothelioma treatment than on this, but Iran just added layers of meaning to the word irony as they have demanded a UN response to recent Israeli threats of military strikes against Iranian military installations, including nuclear facilities.
In a show of raw arrogance lacking any sense of irony, Iran – the country whose president makes almost daily threats against Israel – asked the UN to step in and stop Israel from “making threats.” Somehow that must be a New Math problem… for me, it just doesn’t add up.
Of course, it’s the old double-standard dealio: Iran can say anything it wants – while building nuclear facilities against UN mandates, by the way – but if Israel so much as breathes wrong, it’s time to get all pissy?
C’mon, Iran, stop acting like a “charming only when adults are looking” little girl and man up to your own needless and endless threats against Israel first, before pointing out Israel’s threats. Clearly, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black…
Iran claims 6,000 centrifuges
Look, no one is going to deny that even third-world countries like Iran have energy needs. The trouble with the recent announcement by Iran that they are now operating as many as 6,000 nuclear centrifuges is that their leader, President Mahmoud Ahmidinijad is still going around talking about how Israel will “soon disappear off the map.”
Any yet he expects world leaders to trust him and his country with nuclear technology? Hell, no.
Maybe if Iran ever grows up and elects a leader that doesn’t talk like, act like, and actually be a terrorist, maybe then we wouldn’t be so worried about them fueling their country’s energy needs with nuclear plants.
In the meantime… sorry, we just can’t trust ya any more than I can trust the purchase of office furniture to an inexperience intern.
Islamic Jihad attempts to bomb Israeli day care
A Palestinian militant group believed to be funded in part by Iran attempted to bomb an Israeli day care on Monday.
While the bomb, launched from the Gaza Strip, did not detonate and no children were hurt, the incident has been condemned by most international leaders – who then turn right around and tell Israel not to retaliate in even the most mild of ways, such as cutting off the flow of supplies until Hamas and Islamic Jihad call a cease fire. These same international leaders warn that such action would be, “morally indefensible.”
Some of these leaders apparently need brighter home lighting, since they can’t see the forest for the trees. That’s like having someone attempt to shoot a presidential candidate, but then tell the Secret Service not to take the shooter down because, “Well, he missed, so no harm done.”
Would that make sense? Certainly not!
Neither does telling Israel not to retaliate in any way at all.
al-Qaeda in Iran!
The Financial Times is reporting that al-Qaeda, the terrorist group responsible for the September 11, 2001, tragedy, is now confirmed to be operating in Iran. The story, written by journalist Stephen Fidler in London, quotes only one unnamed source directly; the rest of the story is the writer’s invention.
The whole thing sounds suspiciously like the news media stories about WMDs in Iraq during the Clinton-Lewinsky cover-up right through 9-11, who then shifted blame for the assumption to President Bush when it became convenient for the liberal media to do so.
I don’t know if the Financial Times report is correct or not, or if they’re all just in drug rehab this week. But I can guarantee you if Bush were to cite such a spurious, suspect report as a justification for war in Iran, somehow the blame would be shifted to “bad intelligence” and “bad leadership in the White House” rather than even a hint of “bad journalism.”
I would have suspected Fidler would at least know the one cardinal law of journalism: always use at least two reliable, quoted sourced in any news story. (Opinion pieces are a different matter altogether, but this is not a Fidler op-ed. It’s a “hard news” story.
If we ever get to a point where war in Iran is the necessary course, we don’t need suspect stories by trap-setting journalists to justify it. Frankly, for my money, Ahmadinijad’s constant threats to make Israel and the US disappear while rushing toward becoming a nuclear power against the direct mandate of the United Nations, is reason enough.
