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2004-06-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-22 12:59:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "You ignorant infidels. You know nothing about human-rights abuse. Yop must come to Iran and we shall teach you how to abuse human rights more effectively."

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-22 2:27:49 AM|| 2004-06-22 2:27:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is it just me or are the mullahs a whole lot more bellicose than usual?

Posted by AzCat 2004-06-22 2:57:43 AM|| 2004-06-22 2:57:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Can someone reminds me of the last declarations by the 3 european foreign stooges(Straw, fisher, de villepin) who were so self congratulating about how different they are from those brutal US bullies in getting results by softpower?
Hello dominque?joshka? jack?
still waiting....

Posted by frenchfregoli 2004-06-22 3:27:59 AM|| 2004-06-22 3:27:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 You're wrong-no you're wrong! LOL.

EU should pick their battles and take what Iran says with a grain of salt-"abuse" is a word Iran has no concept of.

Forget the death penalty--that's your hardest battle and negates any support you might get from the US on the rest of the legitimate accusations.

Iran will always point a finger outward because, as we know, in Islam self-examination and critique of the religion are rare occurences indeed.

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-22 11:52:16 AM|| 2004-06-22 11:52:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 On death penalty: Sure, some democracies like the USA also have it -- but most countries having it are tyrannies, and there's hardly any tyranny which doesn't possess it. Death penalty is needed by them, as they're held together by the fear of death, and the idea that individual human life can be sacrificed at the will of state.

On the whole a good analogy may be that insisting on the abolition of the Death penalty in Iran is for the EU what insisting on free market in China is for the USA.

Frenchfregoli> Are you talking about something that actually happened, or something you imagined of happening?

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-10-30 12:32:56 PM|| 2004-10-30 12:32:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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