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Iran Bans Necktie Imports

The xenophobic crackdown on all things Western continues.

The importation of ties, which "contradict the nature of Iranian culture," must come to an end, a senior Iranian customs official said Thursday.

"We must adopt serious actions in order to put an end to the importation of ties," Iranian Customs Deputy Director Asgar Hamidi was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency Fars. "We must change import laws to that end."

In addition to his customs duties, Hamidi also heads the Iranian program for the "development of culture, modesty, and headdress."

The custom of wearing neckties developed in Iran during the Shah's regime. However, in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution, ties were banned by authorities because they were perceived as a sign of westernization. Since then, senior Iranian officials and government ministry employees have shunned ties.

Appeasment

Below is an Open Letter to Obama from WND. The cartoon appears courtesy of American Thinker.

There is no common ground with those who adamantly cling to evil. Finding a midpoint between the twisted agendas of rogue states and the righteous mission of the United States is capitulation. Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union because he never compromised his basic stance that the Soviet Union was an evil empire that had to dismantle its global objectives. And the Soviet Union compromised because it recognized that the United States would force it into collapse.

You, sir, are no Ronald Reagan. You are not even a Neville Chamberlain – at least Chamberlain had the excuse that Britain was at a military disadvantage. You are a true believer in your own messianic myth. You are the fellow who thinks, "If only I could talk with him, we could straighten things out." If diplomacy should be the iron fist in the velvet glove, your diplomacy is the cotton-candy ego in the velvet glove.

Senator, I know you believe in the power of your words to convince. And why shouldn't you? You've hoodwinked millions of Americans into backing your presidential campaign. But if you become president, there's something you must recognize: There are some people who cannot be convinced minus the threat of force.

We should know.

Sincerely,

The victims of the Holocaust

The victims of Soviet oppression

The victims of Pol Pot

The victims of Ho Chi Minh

The victims of Saddam Hussein

The victims of Yasser Arafat and his successors

The victims of Kim Jong-il

Millions to come …

Iran's 19 Nukes

It's no surprise that Iran would continue with it's nuclear program, but the Western world and especially Israel should pay attention to Iran's choice of 19 nuclear plants as a hint of things to come.

Iran said yesterday it rejected any preconditions for talks with the US and a member of parliament was quoted as saying Tehran planned 19 nuclear power plants. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki made clear Iran's position on talks three days after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington was open to better ties and talks with Iran if it suspended sensitive nuclear work.

"We do not accept any preconditions for talks," he said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had earlier rejected conditions for talks.

Mottaki's remarks came as Kazem Jalali, a spokesman for parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, gave details of a planned international tender for 19 atomic plants a week after Russia said it had begun fuel deliveries to the Islamic state's first such facility.

Jalali said each power plant would have a capacity of 1,000 megawatts of electricity, the Iran News daily reported yesterday.

Meanwhile, the committee's head Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Iran's first home-built nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online in around nine years.

The number 19 is considered to be important to many in the Islamic faith. You may remember that there were 19 hijackers on 9/11. Referred to as the "Magnificent 19" by Islamists shortly after.

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To further my point, WikiIslam tells us that "Some Muslims believe that the Quranic verse Qur'an 74:30 is the proof that the occurrence of observed "19" related facts in Islam is a confirmation of the truth of Islam"

"Over it is nineteen"

Let's put that in context.

74:26 Soon will I cast him into Hell-Fire!
74:27 And what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is?
74:28 Naught doth it permit to endure, and naught doth it leave alone!-
74:29 Darkening and changing the colour of man!
74:30 Over it are Nineteen.
74:31 And We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doubts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts  is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth Allah intend by this?" Thus doth Allah leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: and none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind.

WikiIslam also gives examples of anti-Islamic phases adding up to 19.

"Islam is not from God":

IANVAdd: 209 = 19 x 11

That looks a lot like '01/9/11.

Of course, the occurrence of the number 19 is only 1 out of 19, not exactly long odds. But to Ahmadinejad and his ilk,  it represents the 19 "angels" in Hell, and he intends to bring that hell to the non-believers here on earth.

 

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Iran: Use of the word women Banned On State TV

Added to the List.

Not that the Iranian government thinks women are inferior, but...

The word 'women' must now be replaced on Iranian state television by 'family', reformist Norouz news agency reports.

In programmes broadcast throughout the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women last Sunday, Iranian state TV used the world family instead.

Nameless

It's best not to name your beating victims.

In recent weeks, Iran's Centre for the Participation of Women changed its name to the Centre for Family Matters.

At the time of former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami,  the centre was set up within the president's office.

Khatami was president of Iran from 1997 to 2005.

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Message To Ahmadinejad From Americans

Columbia Prof Bashes Ahmadinejad

What pleasant surprise. Frankly, I'm relieved that Prof Bollinger hands Ahmadinejad his hatred on a silver platter. The Prof slices and dices and makes mounds and mounds of evidence that Ahmadinejad is a "petty and cruel dictator" I still think he shouldn't be allowed in this country. As I said before, if allowed in, he shouldn't be allowed to leave. Hold him hostage for ...oh, I don't know... 444 days? But while he is here, let's give him what for.

During this part I broke out the pom-poms, "hold his feet to the fire, he's holocaust denier!"

But Amadinejad has a good comeback, there are no gays in Iran.

 

Glad that's settled, lol!

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Ahmadinejad Not to Visit Ground Zero

I say let him in, just don't let him leave. What better pay back for the '79 Hostage Crisis?

Drudge: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not press his plan -- just denied by New York City Police for security reasons -- to visit Ground Zero in New York City, he tells 60 MINUTES' Scott Pelley in an exclusive interview conducted today in Iran. The Iranian leader says he's "amazed" and skeptical that most Americans view his visit there as insulting as his intention was only to show respect. The interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday Sept. 23 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS television Network.

An excerpt from the interview follows:

PELLEY: Mr. President, do you intend to press your request to visit the World Trade Center site?

AHMADINEJAD: Well, it was included in my program.  If we have the time and the conditions are conducive, I will try to do that.

PELLEY: But the New York Police Department and others do not appear to want you there.  Do you intend to go there anyway?

AHMADINEJAD: Well, over there, local officials need to make the necessary coordinations.  If they can't do that, I won't insist.

PELLEY: Sir, what were you thinking? The World Trade Center site is the most sensitive place in the American heart, and you must have known that visiting there would be insulting to many, many Americans.

AHMADINEJAD: Why should it be insulting?

PELLEY: But the American people, sir, believe that your country is a terrorist nation, exporting terrorism in the world. You must have known that visiting the World Trade Center site would infuriate many Americans.

AHMADINEJAD: Well, I'm amazed.  How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?

PELLEY: Well, the American nation--

AHMADINEJAD: You are representing a media and you're a reporter. The American nation is made up of 300 million people. There are different points of view over there.

I suppose he means sleeper cells. 

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Iran Caught Shipping Arms to Taliban

Of course this story will be a big yawn to the folks at the NY Times, so I thought I'd post it here.
Hat tip, Jihad Watch.

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week of blaming Iran, saying the U.S. did not have evidence "of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the Taliban."

But an analysis by a senior coalition official, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, concludes there is clear evidence of Iran's involvement.

"This is part of a considered policy," says the analysis, "rather than the result of low-level corruption and weapons smuggling."   

This should come as no surprise, Iran has been hostile to the US in particular and the West in general for decades now. Here's an example of Iran's exportation of terror into Iraq dating back to 2003. This is a clear act of war against the United States, to behave otherwise will send a message to Tehran that American can be bullied.

There is also evidence that Iran is involved in Afghanistan.

Q General McNeill, Barbara Starr from CNN. I wanted to go back to the issue of Iran and follow up with you on several points. First, the two convoys that you spoke about, when was this and where was it? Did you intercept them coming across a border or was it already within the country? And can you tell us a little more about the types of weapons you captured in those convoys, because there are some reports that those weapons might have had fake U.S. military markings on them?

GEN. MCNEILL: We intercepted those convoys, Barbara, inside of Afghanistan. We intercepted them out west. In the case of one of them, there were mortar rounds that were clearly of Iranian origin. There were also explosives, plastic explosives, packaged to make it look like U.S.-made C-4, which is an up-scale version of plastic explosives. It's my understanding that similar types of explosives have been found in Iraq, and once again, the information says they originate from Iran.

The left will deny that their rhetoric has any effect of the war, but can give no reason that Iran should think they can't get away with this. Such are the seeds of the left's distention for partisan gain.

Iran irate over Cannes film

Free speech is no friend to totalitarian regimes. This outrage comes from the same government that sent unarmed children into war against Iraq and habitually threatens to "wipe Israel off the map".

Iran has protested to France over the screening at the Cannes film festival of an animated film about a woman growing up in revolutionary Iran, slamming the movie as a "political act", local media reported on Monday.

Persepolis, which stems from a best-selling comic book series by Iranian emigre Marjane Satrapi and is competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or, shows its heroine struggling with the authorities in the early days of the Islamic revolution.

"The Cannes film festival has selected a film about Iran which presents an unreal picture of the outcomes and achievements of the Islamic revolution," said a letter to the French cultural attaché in Tehran carried by the press.

"Could the selection of this film not be counted as a political or even anti-cultural act on the festival's part?" said the letter penned by the government-run Farabi Cinema Foundation.

The Farabi foundation works under the culture and Islamic guidance ministry and is tasked with promoting and marketing Iranian cinema all over the world.

It complained that Persepolis was the only Iranian film competing in the competition this year and accused the festival authorities of "acting in line with the biased policies of domineering powers" against Iran.

Satrapi, whose black-and-white comic-memoirs have been translated into more than 20 languages and won several awards, co-directed the film along with Vincent Paronnaud.

The film, to be premiered in Cannes on Wednesday, shows Satrapi's rebellious eight-year-old screen persona watching the downfall of the shah followed by the imposition of Islamic law after the 1979 revolution.

She witnesses the horrors of the war with Iraq, leaves for Austria but quickly feels the solitude of an exile.

Satrapi, who now lives in France, published the first book of the four-volume series in France in 2000.

The series has not been published in Iran, which applies tough vetting on publications and bans books deemed to be decadent and un-Islamic or contrary to revolutionary values.

This is not the first time this year Iran has been angered by a major film.

In March the authorities and bloggers alike were infuriated by the war epic 300, a smash hit for its gory portrayal of the Greco-Persian wars, with officials saying the movie was "American psychological warfare against Iran."  

 

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Iran Outlaws Western Haircuts

Have a unibrow? Allah wills it.

Iranian police have warned barbers against offering Western-style hair cuts or plucking the eyebrows of their male customers, Iranian media said Sunday.

The report by a reformist daily, later confirmed by an Iranian news agency, appeared to be another sign of authorities cracking down on clothing and other fashion deemed to be against Islamic values.

"Western hairstyles ... have been banned," the newspaper Etemad said in a front-page headline.

I bet the people feel better already. Forward thinking, tolerant...The same thing happened in Pakistan a few months ago.

It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (17/133): “It is not permissible to remove the hair of the eyebrows because this is the namas (plucking) for which the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) cursed those who do it, and it is a kind of changing the creation of Allaah, which is the action of the Shaytaan. If a woman’s husband tells her to do it, she should not obey him, because it is a sin, and there is no obedience to any created being if it involves disobedience towards the Creator. Rather obedience should only be with regard to things that are good and proper, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said.”

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