Iran’s News Agency Reruns The Onion as Real News:
This is… simply astounding.
A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
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Iran threatens to sue Google for not labeling Persian Gulf
Iran threatens to sue Google for not labeling Persian Gulf
Another one for the “Iran Is Crazy” files, courtesy of Josh Levs of CNN:
On state-run Press TV, the Iranian regime warns it may take legal action against Google for not labeling the Persian Gulf.
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“Toying with modern technologies in political issues is among the new measures by the enemies against Iran, (and) in this regard, Google has been treated as a plaything,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Thursday, according to state-run Press TV.
He added that “omitting the name Persian Gulf is (like) playing with the feelings and realities of the Iranian nation.”
Place names can legitimately be serious business. This is not one of those times.
China ship insurer deals new blow to Iran oil exports
China ship insurer deals new blow to Iran oil exports
Randy Fabi, Reuters:
A major Chinese ship insurer will halt indemnity cover for tankers carrying Iranian oil from July, dealing a blow that narrows the insurance options for Tehran’s main export already constricted by payment barriers caused by Western sanctions.
With Western sanctions on Tehran increasing, sources at the China P&I Club told Reuters on Thursday it did not want to stand alone in the market, especially after insurers in Japan and Europe plan to either limit or ban their own coverage for tankers operating in Iran.
This is the first sign that refiners in China, Iran’s top crude buyer, may struggle to obtain the shipping and insurance to keep importing from the Middle Eastern country. Iran’s other top customers — India, Japan and South Korea — are running into similar problems, raising questions on how Tehran will be able to continue to export the bulk of its oil.
From the Department of Things We Need to Do More Often, here’s the Iranian air force re-enacting Ayatollah Khomeini’s return from exile to Iran in 1979 with a cardboard cutout.
(Photo by Ruhollah Yazdani for the Mehr News Agency via Reuters, via MSNBC’s PhotoBlog.)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe ‘stealing Iran’s rain’
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe ‘stealing Iran’s rain’
Barney Henderson of The Telegraph, reporting on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the inauguration of a dam:
“Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of the world, including Iran,” Mr Ahmadinejad said in the city of Arak in Markazi province.
“According to reports on climate, whose accuracy has been verified, European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to dump” their water on their continent, he said.
By doing so, “they prevent rain clouds from reaching regional countries, including Iran,” Mr Ahmadinejad charged.
- Colin:
- I wish.
- Colin:
- Also if we did have weather machines
- Colin:
- why use it to steal only IRAN’s rain?
- Colin:
- Why not just keep all the rain to ourselves, period?
- Colin:
- “We sanction you. No rain for 25 weeks”
- ‘Ili:
- Why not Iran’s rain?
- ‘Ili:
- Sure it’d cause an international incident with most countries.
- ‘Ili:
- But Iran? “Oh, crazy Ahmadinejad is just denying the Holocaust again or whatever, what a kook”
- ‘Ili:
- It makes perfect sense.
- Colin:
- Excellent point.