Knowing Ahmadinejad’s love of photoshop, his calls for Israel to be wiped off the map may indeed be only a matter of playing around with Photoshop, than actually sending nuclear missiles down the path (the missiles might end up being painted paper as well).
So, this is how Ahmadinejad will annihilate the Jewish state, according to Gooya News.
Before the operation.
After the operation.
On September 2005, Azadeh and I boarded a plane at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport and traveled all around the globe before we landed in Winnipeg. It is fair to say that the land we started rebuilding our life on belongs to the people now politely referred to as the “aboriginals”. There is no need to look at the statistics; you only have to walk in the streets north of Winnipeg to see how off the society the original inhabitants of this land are. This observation will be complete when you talk to some “Canadians” and how much pissed off they are of “these people who reproduce to rip off more of our tax money”. Does that mean that I hate Canadians? Obviously not. Does that mean that I think the aboriginals are sub-human? Definitely not.
Imagine a Canada not surrounded by the Oceans, but by millions of Inuit ready to fight the European “occupiers”. Imagine an Indian leader having said “if each one us spits once, we are able to wash these bastards off our land”. Imagine cash and weapon coming from all around to fight off the “bastards”. Does that sound familiar? Yep, that would be called Israel and the leader will be the late Ayatollah Motahari of Iran.
The “occupiers” of Canada, including Azadeh and I, have been fortunate enough that none of the above has happened, that the first waves of immigrants were able to “push the indigenous people up north”, putting it very gracefully. Then, we came down the staircase and to the new city which embraced us and gave us new hope.
Does that mean that I think morality is not a factor in global affairs? I don’t know. Do I imply that we have the right to be where we are? Maybe. We are living here anyways. Do I mean that the same applies to Israel? Well, no European has had Canada being mentioned as the promised land and they are here. Israelis at least have the name mentioned in their “holy book”.
I wouldn’t want to be a Palestinian living in a refugee camp for sure, similarly not an Inuk living in a dusty reserve, if I could choose. Nevertheless, I don’t see what makes Israel anything more than a Canada established on the peak of a volcano.
“Are you sure the Islamic Republic/Ahmadinejad have asked for Israel to be wiped off the map?” This is the question I have been asked by so many people over the course of the last few years. While I became more and more concerned why so many people kept asking the same question, I kept describing it, quite diligently, to whoever asked the question that “Israel is described as the tumor of the region by the former leader of the Islamic Republic and it is quite common to see slogans which ask for the destruction of Israel in military marches and such”.
Because the people who asked the question were more or less identifiable as belonging to the so-called “left”, I convinced myself that people are trying to negate the Bush administration’s perspective through saving the face of the Islamic Republic. When I was asked the same question for the last time by another friend a few days ago, however, I realized that the Iranian call for the “wiping off” of Israel might in fact be not about a “second Holocaust”.
A few days ago, I was asked the same question, this time by a friend who works for an institute some people accuse of leaning towards the “right”. When my friend Mark (name is fake) asked me the same question, I gave him the same answer, quite like playing a sound track I had stored somewhere in my brain. He refused to accept and sent me the link to the page on Wikipedia which talks about Ahmadinejad’s remarks about Israel. That was when I started doing a bit of research on the Persian sentence Ahmadinejad used in his speech at the “World without Zionism” conference on October 2005. Based on my knowledge of the Persian language, which I speak as my mother tongue, the translation given by Juan Cole, whose political viewpoints might be point of debate but his scholar weight in the field is irrefutable, and also given the translation published by MEMRI, which has no intention of apologizing for Ahmadinejad, I think the president of the Islamic Republic did not in fact ask for the “wiping-off” of the Jewish state. What he asked for, not that I find it legitimate, was the removal of the current regime in Israel.
Maybe this will make the issue more clear. My understanding of the average Iranian, and I am not referring to the super-ideological Armageddon-lover hardcore members of Basij, is that while they are mad at Israel because of its continuous portrayal as the “regime which has occupied Qods” in the national television, there is no strong anti-semitic sentiment in the Iranian public. I would compare that with what I have perceived in some of my Arab friends and how hateful some of them are when we talk about Israel. Without making any judgment about any person, I argue that in the Iranian case, even if Ahmadinejad does ask for the a second Holocaust, I do doubt that he would be able to gather an army who would fight for his “cause”.
I remember talking to a veteran of the Iraq war and he angrily remembered Iranian soldiers refusing to attend the fight when Iran started occupying land in Iraq. “The soldiers said they were not allowed to pray in occupied land”, he said. Although living under a hateful regime, the Iranian public is still very conscious when it comes to committing hate-inspired actions such as what Ahmadinejad is accused of having asked for.
The important question is, who should be blamed for the wipe-off misunderstanding. Is it the Western media which “took advantage of a vague remark”, as the following video seems to suggest? I think not. The number one person to blame is no one but Ahmadinejad, for being talkative and vague. He lacks the basic skills a politician, let alone a human being, has to possess, and that is spending more time thinking than giving speeches. He, whatever idiotic ideology he subscribes to, would have been told not to mention such a vague sentence, given he had asked for an advice before uttering his infamous “wipe-off” speech. The second place, in the list of people/entities to be blamed for in this misunderstanding, is IRIB (the state-run television), which started the use of the idiom in their English translation of the speech, without knowing what it exactly meant in English.
The fact is, as shown numerously on this blog and elsewhere, the English-language state-run media sources in Iran are hasty and irresponsible. They make such silly mistakes (see: Press TV’s Latest, and Funniest, Mistake) that I sometimes ask myself if, for example, the “prestigious” Press TV is taken seriously even by its own staff (see:Video of the Day: A very up-to-date PressTV Anchor).
The “wipe-off” sentence has been referred to in the media over and over and has become another “proof” that “Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler”. While I am not sure if he does not daydream about that, the Iran I used to live in was not a country he would be able to produce a genocidal army out of.
By the way, happy 60-th anniversary to all Israeli friends.
“The ceremony will focus on designating rewards for the assassination of three Israeli top officials”. This is how the close-to-state website Farda describes an event to be held in Tehran. The three officials are Ehud Barack, Meir Dagan, and Amos Yadlin. The amount will be awarded for the “revolutionary execution” of these three individuals. The executive committee, which calls itself the “justice-seeking movements of students”, also registers people who would donate their kidney to help increases the reward [Persian].
I talked to Ido Hartogsohn of the Israeli website Nana last month, about the Persian blogosphere and how its members manage to communicate with Israeli fellows despite all the tensions between the two countries. The piece was originally published in Hebrew, but Lisa Goldman has been kind enough to translate the whole piece in English. The title is “Are the deepening connections between the Israeli and Iranian blogospheres the way to peace?“. Read the rest on Lisa’s blog.
Update: Maverick News Media comments on the piece.
Archive: This is copied from Lisa.
THE IRANIAN CONNECTION
Are the deepening connections between the Israeli and Iranian blogospheres the way to peace?
By Ido Hartogsohn / Nana
16 January 2008
On 25 December 2007, at the University of Tel Aviv, the Netvision Institute held its third conference on the struggle to maintain freedom of information on the Internet. The main topic was Iran: the attitude toward the Internet in Iran, Iranian hackers and also our Persian neighbour’s rapidly expanding blogosphere.
The conference did not go unnoticed in Iran. Five days later, on December 30, the Iranian news site Khedmat, which is considered close to former president Khatami, published an item under the headline, “Zionists Express Interest in the Subject of the Internet in Iran.â€
“‘The Internet in Iran and its various facets’ was the subject of a conference that took place at Tel Aviv University in Occupied Palestine,†reported Khedmat. “The conference participants discussed the role of the Internet in contemporary society, and Internet struggles. Iranian blogs, rap music and the role of the Internet in creating other types of music that imitate Western culture were amongst the subjects that interested the Zionists.â€
The article further reported that a committee of “Zionist experts†criticized Iran’s limited access to some internet sites.
Israel is a concept that does not exist
The Israeli media has been paying attention to the lively Iranian blogosphere for several years now. Amongst other things, the visit to Israel of Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan (Hebrew link) was mentioned in several international media outlets. From the perspective of the Israeli reader, Iranian bloggers are a comforting alternative source of information about another Iran – one that is friendlier and less aggressive to Israel. Over the years, articles about the Iranian blogosphere portrayed it as a different voice from a society that was usually shown in the Israeli media as closed and extremist.
Recently, the Iranian blogosphere has been the subject of academic studies in Israel. In the talk she gave at the Netvision conference, for example, Dr. Liora Handelman-Bavor said that, eight years after the launch of the first Persian language blog, “The [Iranian] regime’s attempts to suppress the blogosphere have largely failed.†Dr. Handelman-Bavor claimed that the Iranian blogosphere was intimately connected with alternative culture, the graffiti phenomenon and street art.
And now, based on the item in Khedmat, it seems that the Iranian media is aware of Israel’s interest in the Persian blogosphere.
But according to Arash Kamangir, an Iranian blogger who lives in Canada, few Iranian bloggers are aware of the interest they have aroused in Israel. “You probably know that the term ‘Israel’ does not exist in the official language of the regime of Iran. Even in my passport I am banned from traveling to ‘Occupied Palestine,’†he wrote in response to the questions I sent by email. “The average Iranian blogger is very anxious about being known as a person ‘who has connections with Israeli guys.’ A very interesting example happened a short while ago, and I believe it describes the whole situation.â€
When Ahmadinejad moved to WordPress
As a means of illustrating the extent to which Iranian bloggers must be careful to avoid contact with Israelis, Kamangir offered an amusing-yet-sad anecdote about an incident that occurred last summer. This incident also shows how ordinary people who are citizens of enemy states find themselves making contact – albeit of a hesitant, groping kind.
“A friend of mine writes a blog about technology,†recounts Kamangir. “And a very helpful plugin for this system is called FireStats and is designed by an Israeli blogger. When my friend started using FireStats he was so fascinated by the functionalities that he wrote a post about it, in Persian of course. The next day he found out that he is getting hits from a Hebrew page. It turns out that the Israeli guys are also amazed that an Iranian person is using their code. So, they write a Hebrew post which reads, in English, ‘The formula to peace with Iran.’â€
Omri, the Israeli blogger who discovered the post by Kamangir’s friend with the technology blog, wrote an amusing post that describes an imaginary conversation between Ahmadinejad and the leaders of Iran, in which the latter warn the president against attacking Israel because, “FireStats is developed in Givatayim, so if we destroy Gush Dan [Greater Tel Aviv] there won’t be any more versions!â€
One of the Israeli readers surfed over to the Iranian’s blog and left a comment – in Hebrew. This apparently freaked the Iranian blogger out a bit. He deleted the comment and went over to the Israeli blog, where he left a comment asking for an explanation of what had been written about him. And that is how a discussion in awkward English was initiated between Iranian and Israeli bloggers. But a Utopian dialogue that unites “enemy†bloggers in an amusing exchange about politics and WordPress can be taken only so far.
“I wrote a piece titled ‘Iran-Israel Peace through a Wordpress Plugin,†recounts Arash. “Because of the sensitivity of the issue I sent an email to my friend asking for his permission before I would publish the post. The answer was very short: ‘Arash, you know this can be dangerous.’—
So Iranian bloggers cannot write openly about Israeli bloggers?
“When Iranian bloggers have to censor themselves when it comes to sharing the mutual passion for scripts and other nerdy stuff with Israeli fellows, I guess showing any attention to ‘the Israeli interest in the Iranian blogosphere’ is out of context.â€
So why are you not more cautious about entering into contact with Israeli bloggers?
“I live outside Iran, in Canada. There is a saying in Persian, “When you are drowning it does not matter if it’s one meter or 100 meters.â€
Posts from the Underground
Estimates of the number of blogs in Iran range from 170,000 to 700,000. These are certainly impressive numbers, but Kamangir says that they are not an accurate reflection of Iranian society – particularly in the sense that the people who live in the less developed areas are unrepresented. “Most Iranian bloggers are middle class university students,†he writes. According to Kamangir, Iranian bloggers tend to be more liberal than the rest of the population.
On the other hand, Kamangir stresses the importance of differentiating between the opinions expressed by the Iranian regime and those of the ordinary people. “A friend of mine who came from Iran a few days ago was telling me that it is quite common to see Iranians criticize the regime, even using offensive words, in the public transit.â€
“At the same time,†continues Kamangir, “A big portion of the Iranians have been exposed to the propaganda of the regime for decades and thus have unintentionally become ambassadors of the Islamic entity in many aspects…there is a big difference between an Iranian who is living inside Iran and the one who has had the experience of living in a free society, such as Canada.†According to Kamangir, when Iranian leave Iran they “start to question what they have been fed by the regime for a long time and start to think independently.â€
“Blogs written by Iranian students abroad play a major role for these ‘new-born’ Iranians,†he writes. “Fortunately, this trend of free thinking is not limited to the Iranians who live outside the motherland. There is a huge number of blogs written by Iranians who live inside Iran and these blogs substantially question the official opinions of the regime. Interestingly, the questioning covers issues ranging from the official narration of Islam to human rights and sex.â€
A different image of Israel
Although the circumstances are not yet ripe for an Iranian-Israeli blogger connection that could be a contra to the enmity of the Iranian and Israeli regimes, Kamangir writes that “…very strong links have been formed between the Iranian and the Israeli blogospheres. The strongest one, which I am aware of, is our communications with Lisa Goldman and her blog, On the Face. From time to time I translate her posts to Persian and the statistics of my blog, which I too get from FireStats, shows that a lot of my visitors follow her posts passionately. There are of course other Israeli bloggers whose blogs the Iranian bloggers follow, but Lisa has become almost an icon* for many Iranian bloggers I have talked to.â€
“The Israeli blogosphere in English is a window into Israeli society for Iranians,†said Lisa Goldman in an interview for Nana10. “That is why I often translate items from Israeli blogs [in Hebrew], in order to expose a different view. Because the most interesting things written about Israel are written only in Hebrew.â€
Goldman, a Canadian-born freelance journalist, spoke about some of the fascinating encounters created by the connection between the Iranian and Israeli blogospheres.
“I do receive emails from Iranians. It is as if they want us to know that they are not all as they are made to seem in the media, and I’ve had some fascinating encounters. There was someone in Tehran who used to chat with me via Messenger. He was a really intelligent, knowledgeable guy who knew excellent English. We used to chat about the situation in Iran, the elections, democracy and Israel, about which he was remarkably well informed. He even spoke a little Hebrew. But he refused to tell me his real name, and he was pretty paranoid. Each time he logged on, he was at a different computer and using a different online identity. I felt as though I were receiving messages from the Resistance. It was an amazing experience, but one day he disappeared and I haven’t heard from him since.â€
How do Iranian bloggers find your blog?
“Look, I try to show a more human, complex and nuanced picture of Israeli life. They’re sort of stuck behind the Middle Eastern version of the Iron Curtain, but they’re very curious about us. They want to find out more, and it’s as if they’re extending their hands out through the Iron Curtain. The fact that I don’t write only about politics, but also about my day-to-day life in Tel Aviv, shows them a lively, modern, Levantine city that they would never see in the mainstream media.â€
Fewer reasons to kill one another
So are blogs the way to create unmediated contact between Iranians and Israelis who, it sometimes seems, are led by politicians whose careers were built on a mutual agreement to issue bellicose threats against one another? When the media on one side serves the interests of the regime, and the media on the other side sells newspapers with lurid headlines about existential threats caused by Iranian nuclear warheads, perhaps the blogosphere could be an alternative source of information.
Eli Cohen, a senior research manager at Netvision, says, “The internet facilitates connections between individuals and bridges between cultures. Once you neutralize the political landmine it is possible, with the help of the internet, to create wonderful interpersonal relationships between human beings and to see that both your sorrows and your joys are very similar.â€
Goldman, too, sees blogs as a tool for creating understanding between peoples. “We must find a way to get past the pre-conceived notions and one-dimensional portraits presented by the mainstream media,†she says. “They just perpetuate conflicts. I think that if you hear a human voice from the other side, that’s the beginning of the way.â€
“I am not a sociologist. Neither am I a philosopher. However, I do know that when people talk they find less reasons to kill each other,†agrees Kamangir. “And this is what blogging is so generously providing us with.â€
*I swear I did not encourage Arash to call me an icon.
Another bizarre scene taken at the rallies held for the celebration of the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Republic. The text on the puppet reads “Death to America, Death to Israel”. The resemblance to the recent crane-executions is striking.
Do not lose this piece of art (direct link).
Do you think there is any chance for any professional news source to mistake a photoshopped image for a real one? Well, if it is Press TV, the answer is yes.
To see how the “Nuclear Energy is our Definite Right” on the left was changed to “Iran Loves Jews” on the right, in a satirical “Israel Dismantles; World Problems End” piece, and then found its way to a propaganda piece on Press TV, follow this link. Hat trip Gateway Pundit.
“They brutally attack and slaughter mothers and children, all, at once. There is no creature more horrible that these people”. This was how a guest on a TV show on the state-run Channel 3 was introducing the Israelis to the spectators when the studio experienced a blackout. Accidentally, the microphones were not lost and the crew were not fast enough, so a “politically incorrect” sentence was aired.
Moussavi (the guest): “It was the Jews [who cut the power]“, laughs.
A Technician: Silence! Silence!
When the program restarts the anchor says, “We were saying that it was the Israelis who cut the power”.
Judaism is one of the few recognized religions in the Islamic Republic constitution.
-Jews have not been enjoying total freedom but Iranians have never chased them down in the streets. In fact, Jews have been very active in the financial sector in Iran.
-Many Arabian governments hate Iran, because of religious differences and also because of the still active idea about Arabian superiority. I was once asked by a person from an Arabian country if Iran had any civilization before they “came in”. Not that I am accusing that person of anything. This just shows how the media bias is over there. Most of these Arabian states also hate Israel.
- There is a strong sentiment amongst some Palestinians to consider Iranians filthy, because of religious differences. It is a well-established fact that Palestinians fought with the Iraqi army during its raids against Iran. After Saddam’s executions they held symbolic vigilances for him in Palestine.
Not that I support any anti-Arab, anti-Palestine, or any other ideology which is against any human being, but, seriously, what do these Iranians think when they march on the Israeli flag? Does anyone remember Israelis ever attacking Iran?
The last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan was designated as “The International Qods Day” by Ayatollah Khomeini. This year, it will be Friday October 5th and the state-run media have started encouraging people to show a high turnout by posting pictures of the struggles between Israeli soldiers and the Palestinians [Persian]. In a related news, Larijani said “If the US wants to see Israel on a ‘wheelchair’, they should attack Iran” [Persian].
This is mainly for the attention of people like Roman Kalik who deceive us all into thinking that the Islamic Republic wants to harm Israel in any way. Look at this picture (source). This is solid proof that what Ahmadinejad wants to be annihilated is “Esrail”, and not Israel. To the best information of Google, there exists no such thing as Esrail. So, I demand all you Ahmadinejad-haters, including myself of course, to stop spreading irrelevant accusations.
p.s. Ahmadinejad does hate the US, though,
Happy Rosh Hashanah to all Jewish friends, especially to Antony, Lisa, Tori, Kamran, Carl, “Raccoon” and “The Israeli Blogger” (did I miss anyone?).
Happy Ramadan to all Muslim friends, especially to Azadeh, Esra’a and all the Iranian friends, including Hossein, Fereshteh, Majid, Faezeh and others in Winnipeg.
Frankly, this is not fair. Agnostics have nothing to receive happy wishes for. I do believe that we have to come up with some sort of holy-yet-agnostic day. Any idea?
The video is from Kamran and he has posted it for Rosh Hashanah, so I guess it is related to this event. I am positive that it has to be somehow related to today because the tone reminds me of Schindler’s List.
Following the issue about the cartoon in The Columbus Dispatch I did a quick research on the cartoons published in the state-run newspaper Kayhan whose head is appointed by the Supreme Leader. The result? See it for yourself,
One of the cartoons is shown here, the rest are available in the photoblog
p.s. If you like technical details, I managed to extract the entire collection of cartoons published in Kayhan using a Matlab code.
The former IRGC leader and the new adviser to the Supreme Leader, Safavi, is now acting as the front row of the Islamic Republic rhetoric. A few days ago he said, “There are 200,000 vulnerable American forces in the region and we have information about all their bases” [Persian]. Today, the Islamic Republic official newspaper quoted him saying “Washington can never predict Iran’s retaliation”. He stated, “In event of an American attack on Iran, they will have three problems. One, they have no idea how sever the retaliation will be. They can not predict how much vulnerable their 200,000 soldiers in the region are. Two, they have no idea what will happen to Israel. Three, they have no idea what will have happen to the flow of oil.” [Persian]
Apparently, Israelis have liked the Iranian movie Cafe Transit. That is enough for the ultra-right state-run newspaper Kayhan to complain, “The full support of the Zionists, whose hostility towards Iranians and Iran is well-known to everyone showed that … [this movie should have never been sent to the 2006 Oscars]“. Then, the newspaper asks how the “Zionists” have been able to acquire the copyright of the movie [Persian]. This is from a newspaper whose head is assigned by the Supreme Leader. Another person he directly assigns is the head of the national television. I wonder if they are that much concerned about Hollywood movies in there.
Last night, a big party was thrown for the the IRGC (Islamic Revolution’s Guards Corp) day (also see A Lonely Birthday for a Terrorist Organization (IRGC)) at the 12,000 people Freedom Stadium in Tehran. Other participants of the party were a group of Lebanese Jihadists and their families. That turned the ceremony to a celebration of “Hizballah’s victory over Israel”. For more picture see the photoblog.
The Supreme Leader’s representative in the Islamic Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s second army which might be designated as a terrorist group soon, congratulated its personnel for the national day of IRGC members. Today is the anniversary of Imam Hossein’s birthday, also called the day for IRGC members. Ali Saedi stated [Persian],
You IRGC members have the privilege of defending the holy regime of Iran under the thoughtful leadership of the Supreme Leader. You are going to continue our martyr-seeking [not literal translation] until the return of Mehdi [the Islamic Messiah] and the establishment of the international rule of good people.
The ambitions mentioned at the end of the sentence are probably among the reasons US has decided to add IRGC to the organization which support terrorism.
To talk about the inclusion, IRNA uses the title “The news about IRGC’s inclusion in the list of terrorist organizations is invalid”. The state-run agency quotes “an informed source” in the Foreign Ministry saying, “This is propaganda against the Islamic Republic by the American administration”. The report continues with, “If this is true, it is nothing new and it is illegal” [Persian].
To make things even more interesting, Fars has published an interview with IRGC commander, done for the anniversary of the IRGC day, in which Safavi states “IRGC is the largest defensive power in the Middle East”.”With access to the most advanced technologies, we are well able to defend our land. However, after the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan we have changed our doctrine and we are now able to fight against powers from outside the region, especially against airborne and seaborne attacks”. “We have missiles with 2,000 kilometers of range and our shore-to-see missiles can cover the whole Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea. No vessel can move in the Persian Gulf and be outside the range of our missiles. We have thousands of super fast boats in the Persian Gulf, plus a big defensive and offensive force in there”. “We have 12,000,000 Basij members and each city and village can defend itself…This defensive system is organized through five layers of communications…We can fight helicopters and we can attack Israeli Merkava tanks and American Abrams tanks, and so we can infiltrate American and Israeli forces.” Safavi, however, emphasized that, “We think about peace in the Middle East and this is all a defensive strategy” [Persian].
Thanks to Roman Kalik for the tip.
An Iranian bookstore’s efforts for selling the last Harry Potter book in Tehran, exactly in time with the other parts of the world, outraged the ultra-right state-run newspaper Kayhan,
One of the questionable events of this week was the sale of the last Harry Potter book in a bookstore in the north of Tehran [the wealthier part] at 2:30am, exactly in time with America and Europe. This happened in a society where there are strict rules for publication and distribution of any book. In this society, any book, either translated or authored, has to be carefully considered by a group of experts and foreign books have to be sold in very specific bookstores under strict control. Were all this considered in the sale of Harry Potter’s seventh volume? I doubt it, because until the books were presented to the crowd, no one had access to the contents of the book, except for the author and the publishing company.
The manager of the bookstore Bayan-e Salis (بيان سليس), which apparently represents Bloomsbury in Iran, has collected the books from the airport in sealed boxes. Surprisingly, the airport security has not searched the boxes and has trusted the American-British publisher which has Zionist collaborators, such as Warner Brothers.
The newspaper then goes on by describing why Harry Potter “includes destructive words and sentences which oppose to the values [of the Islamic Republic]“.Especially, the authors is angry because the first buyer of the book has been a 12-year-old juvenile and asks why the Police has let a crowd gather in front of the bookstore at the middle of the night,
The aims of the Zionist project, Harry Potter, has long been understood, even to the Western intellectuals and they have very frequently pointed out their suspicion about the book. Zionists have spent billions of dollars on this project.
Does anyone know a good psychiatrist? (Picture is decorative)
Update: The Islamic Republic was not the only body who hated Harry Potter, a bomb was found in the city of Karachi, Pakistan, outside the shopping center where the latest book was to be launched.
As mentioned before, the Islamic Republic had announced the development of a new computer game, in which the players will fight the US and Israel in Iraq and in Iran. For the full story of the game see here. The game was release today, bearing the fancy name “Special Operation 85″, probably referring to the previous Iranian year 1385. For a few snapshots of the game and the ceremony see here.
source: FARS.
Lisa Goldman’s brave trip to Lebanon was not left unnoticed by the Islamic Republic News Agency. IRNA uses the title “Israeli reporter live from Beirut” and writes,
Lisa Goldman walked in different locations in the capital city of Lebanon and sent live pictures to an Israeli news channel. In some of the her pictures, banners with Nasrallah’s face on them can be seen. According to Almanar, some of her friends had advised her not to go to the southern Beirut because Hizballah members would identify her very rapidly. Almanar adds, “If an Israeli journalist can walk around so easily with a camera, what is going to stop Israeli intelligence members from entering Lebanon and carrying out their anti-intelligence missions, probably including explosions in Lebanon?”
Read Lisa’s account, and a comprehensive piece on the trip in Pajamas Media.
Source of picture: Lisa’s blog.
This is from Roozna,
The first nuclear computer game will be released next week. The game includes eight stages and the main character enters different countries in different stages. This 3D game is about Dr Saeed Koosha and his wife, Mariam. They are both Iranian nuclear scientists who are arrested by American soldiers during their trip to Karbala, Iraq, and are transferred to an unknown location. Bahman Naseri, an intelligence commander, starts a mission to rescue the scientists. He is at the same time following the case of Shapoor Farmanfarma who is an Iranian-Israeli working for the Iranian Atomic Agency, using fake documents. Bahman soon realizes that Shapoor has tipped the Americans off about the couple. Shapoor has also been helping Americans towards an attack on Iran, commanded by Jackson. Bahman arrests Jackson. Then, he goes to Iraq to save Iraqis and defuse bombs and finally save the couple.
This computer game can help students make better use of their extra time and will be sold for a lower price than other similar products.
This is a snapshot of the weekly publication Ya-Lasarat, published by the Islamic Republic Hizballah. The title on top of the picture reads “Religious Beliefs, the Reason for Abuse and Expulsion of another Iranian from America”. The picture, which the fundamentalist journal thinks belongs to a “good Muslim”, because of the beard, is no one but Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, which by pure chance is focused towards the “strategic threat from Iran“.
According to Asr-e Iran, Ya-Lasarat claims that an Iranian has been fired from an American company because of his religious beliefs.
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