English Iranian Press sites continue to find that the word “annihilation” comes in awfully handy …
Here , courtesy of the ever-watchful Elder of Ziyon. Read More »
Fars News (Iran): “Minister Stresses Iran’s Respect for All Religious Minorities”
Tell that to the Bahai’i: Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Minister Seyed Mohammad Hosseini underlined the Islamic Republic’s respect and support for the rights of all religious minorities living in Iran. Read More »
Juan Cole goes all Khomeinist in his explanation of US motives and starts writing Irangrish
I have been trying to do a scientific study of the effect of Khomeinism on the brain-cells that have to do with language. This provides an exciting new piece of evidence. Read More »
“Foreign Personage Lauds Kim Jong Il’s Feats”
“Lyne Sinyodyium “? Doesn’t sound like a real name, does it? I tried to Google it, and besides another Korean News article, I found this . Anyway, on with the lauding: Lyne Sinyodyium, director of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, issued a statement on Feb. Read More »
AFP: Headline: “New Palestinian govt will respect PLO accords: Abbas,” 4th Paragraph: ” . . . angry
I am not going to put any more of the the text of the article in this post. You can read it here . It could be worse. The article could omit Hamas’s reaction altogether, but I’d say this counts as press-bias. Read More »
Fars News (Iran): “Iranian Students Unions Laud American People’s Support for Iran”
What support, you ask? Read on : Four major Iranian students unions in a letter praised the American nation for their February 4 rallies against the US officials’ warmongering policies against Iran. Read More »
“New House for Education through Trees Bearing Slogans Built”
This blog is no stranger to the subject of slogan-bearing trees. The present article should bring us up to date nicely: A new house for the education through trees bearing slogans was built in South Phyongan Province on the occasion of birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il (Day of the Shining Star).The house has six rooms. Read More »
That’s funny, Haniyeh didn’t say anything about Israel’s being a “cancer” in his Washington Post …
From J-Post : Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh continued Monday to issue fiery statements about Israel, which he compared to a cancer that is threatening to spread to other parts of the body. Read More »
Los Feliz Ledger: “Thieves are taking the copper wire from streetlights, in some cases, leaving …
Is this an example of job-creation? I’ve been noticing streetlights out in Los Angeles myself: Copper wire theft is an ongoing problem in Los Angeles and the nation as a whole. Challenging economic times make the theft of copper wire and heavy metals very lucrative. Read More »
Guardian: “Iran to announce ‘major nuclear progress’”
Great news : Iran will soon reveal “very big new achievements” in its controversial nuclear programme, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced.Speaking at a rally in Tehran to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Ahmadinejad also said Iran would never give up its uranium enrichment progamme. Read More »LA Times: “Testing pot in a legal vacuum”
The idea of this article is that pot-testing is on the rise, but the situation is chaotic because it is illegal on the federal level: [...] The idea is that patients don’t pop a Vicodin not knowing if the pill has 5 milligrams of hydrocodone or 15. Nor do people make drinks wondering if they are pouring beer or bourbon or Bacardi 151.[… Read More »
Fars News (Iran): “Haniya: Palestinian Nation to Confront US, Israeli Threats against Iran”
Here’s an article that puts things in perspective. And Hamas and Fatah are forming a unity government, right? Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said during the February 11 rallies – marking the 33rd anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Read More »Mehr News (Iran): “Syria death toll report not accurate”
In which we learn that “the number of forces loyal to the government or police forces who have been killed are much more than civil forces. Read More »
“Letters Praising Kim Jong Il Carved on Natural Rock”
As this article reminds us, only 7 more days until Kim Jong Il’s birthday! Letters “Peerless Patriot General Kim Jong Il. February 16, Juche 101 (2012)” were carved on natural rock in Mt. Sokda, Jungsan County, South Phyongan Province on the 70th anniversary of his birth. Read More »
“Iranian President Warns Nations against Bullying Powers’ Plots” (Fars News-Iran)
Another of the many almost-identical articles based on Ahmadinejad speeches. The Iranian Press turns these out like so many snowflakes. It isn’t just that Iran makes hostile and threatening statements about Israel–it projects a suffocating paranoid conspiracist world-view with Israel as its central obsession. Read More »
Mehr News (Iran): “Cabinet approves bill to cut four zeros off currency”
According to a story from last April, it was going to be three zeroes. I guess they’ve become more ambitious : The cabinet has finalized a bill to slash four zeros off the national currency, rial, the vice president for planning affairs announced on Sunday. Read More »
“Why French Parents are Superior”–I don’t buy this
Here are the paragraphs in which the author notices the supposed difference: [...] We quickly discovered that having two restaurant meals a day with a toddler deserved to be its own circle of hell.Bean would take a brief interest in the food, but within a few minutes she was spilling salt shakers and tearing apart sugar packets. Read More »
Goofy Baptist preacher gets wrapped in Sefer Torah
“Messianic Jews,” i.e. Baptist and Pentecostal missionaries who specifically target Jews by dressing up Xianity in Jewish trappings are behind this goofiness. They manged to symbolize themselves perfectly. Read More »
“2nd ‘Hollywoodism and Cinema’ Conference Kicks Off Work in Tehran” (Fars News-Iran)
They like holding conferences in Iran. One of the subjects of this one will be “Hollywood and Holocaust”: The 2nd international conference on ‘Hollywoodism and Cinema’ started work in a ceremony attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran on Thursday. Read More »
The re-arrest of someone released in the Shalit deal and Angy Arab’s reaction
The post is entitled “The folly of signing agreements–any agreements–with the Zionist entity” and here is the text, starting with a quote from a Ha’aretz article: “The Israel Defense Forces arrested Mamun Ismyail Salame Stut, a Palestinian man who was released from Israeli prison in October as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal. Read More »
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