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Iranians whine about "media manipulation"
2005-10-29
TEHERAN - Iran complained on Friday that a call by its hardline president for Israel to be “wiped off the map” had been exaggerated by foreign media and played down the controversial remarks as being nothing new.

Ali Larijani, one of the regime’s most senior figures, said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech had been subject to “abusive misinterpretation” by “certain Western media and certain countries”.
Caught in the open, were you?
He also told the student news agency ISNA that the scandal was merely “media manipulation” aimed at spreading suspicions that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. “The position of Iran on Palestine has not changed: it is the Palestinians who should defend their own rights and decide on their own fate,” said Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and in charge of Iran’s nuclear negotiations.

“Zionist and American officials have often called for a change in the Iranian regime, but never caused an impact like this,” Larijani complained.
Threatening to wipe out another country tends to do that.
“It is a psychological war orchestrated by the media who want to weaken Iran in international institutions.”
Posted by:Steve White

#5  This is not the first time such thoughts have been uttered by the Iranian leadership. It is the first time there has been general negative disseminarion of them by the MSM. I can't say as I can't sympathize with the MM's confusion at having been betrayed by their allies without warning. Perhaps the MSM got a clue from the Palestine Hotel bombing but forgot to tell Ahmadinejad the alliance was over. Too bad. So sad.
Posted by: Elmoque Spuper4509   2005-10-29 09:06  

#4  You understand, that we mean 'wiped off the map' in the best possible way.
Posted by: Hupimp Glith1547   2005-10-29 08:51  

#3  "Wiped off the map” speaks for itself. No exaggeration required.
Posted by: PBMcL   2005-10-29 01:45  

#2  Lol. Nailed it, Frank.

Oops!
Posted by: .com   2005-10-29 01:42  

#1  they really just figured out they stepped in it, and bravado and bluster won't let them back down....love it
Posted by: Frank G   2005-10-29 01:35  

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