There is no denying the antic chaos that reigns in Tehran. If any Western government had a sense of humor, and a desire to challenge the legitimacy of Khamenei, Ahmadi-Nezhad and rest of them, we could have a daily Iran Comedy Hour, consisting of reprints from the Iranian press and its attentive bloggers.
This this, for example, from the failed reformists at Rooz:
A day after an advisor to President Ahmadinejad and the director of Iran’s Department of Environment denied reports of the dissolution of the High Council for the Environment, the department’s vice president resigned from his post in protest, and announced , “I am no longer willing to work with the Department of Environment under any circumstances.” Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the judiciary confirmed the reports that the husband of Ahmadinejad’s advisor was arrested for engaging in illegal financial activities.
Earlier this week, news broke out that the government intends to dissolve the High Council for the Environment along with 28 other government organizations. Nevertheless, an hour before the administration’s spokesperson Elham, confirmed the report, the organization’s director and Ahmadinejad’s advisor, Fatemeh Vaez-Javadi, claimed that the report was cooked up by “unemployed journalists.” Few minutes later, the administration’s spokesperson confirmed the news.
Maybe this all comes from the mullahs’ close working relations with the Chinese, who after all gave us the Marx Brothers’ routine known as the Chinese Fire Drill. But it’s also deep in Persian DNA. Have a look some day at the wonderful book, “”The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan,” arguably the best treatment of Persian culture.
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Dominique R. Poirier:Sir,
Why not getting straight to the point, after all, with “The Adventures of Haji Baba and the 40 thieves” as this extract of a paper published by the Washington Institute suggests that it would best suit the realities of Islamic Revolution?
“Contrary to their image as ideological fanatics, Iran’s leaders in fact devote much of their efforts to lining their own pockets — fighting more often and viciously to protect their incomes than their ideas.
Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad won the 2005 presidential elections by campaigning against the infamous corruption of the ruling elite, epitomized by his opponent Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Once in power, Ahmadinezhad and his followers have proved as corrupt as their predecessors. Ahmadinezhad’s family has parachuted into top positions; for instance, the head of the presidential office is his brother, the cabinet executive secretary is one brother-in-law, and the national police commander is another brother-in-law. On August 12, the Industries Minister, one of the more technically competent members of the cabinet, was replaced by Ahmadinezhad’s nephew. The foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, also appointed as his director-general for human rights his wife, a pharmacologist with no experience in foreign affairs.”
Read the full text at:
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2650
But I admit that it wouldn’t be that funny, unfortunately.
Best regards,
Aug 20, 2007 - 6:06 pm tanstaafl:“…we could have a daily Iran Comedy Hour, consisting of reprints from the Iranian press and its attentive bloggers.”
Sounds like a plan.
Mockery and humiliation the most productive way to get Arachnidjihad and the Mullahocracy to sit up and take serious offense.
Aug 21, 2007 - 1:08 pm Kourosh:Well just checking the daily comedy non-News paper Khyhan (the semi official paper of Khomeinist run by a well known terrorist), I noticed many jokes that was written in the editorial article. The main issue here is enlisting IRG in the list of terrorist organization. The comedy piece written by another well knows terrorist said;
Aug 23, 2007 - 12:12 am El Jefe Maximo:Title: “Paper Awe or Paper Reverence”
“The reason US is considering to include IRG (Pasdaran Terrorists) in the list of terrorist groups are because:
1) US is afraid of IRG.
2) To cover up the defeat!!! of Israel in the hands of Hez-bull-Ahs
3) US want to show Israel was not defeated!!! by a bunch of Arabs but Arabs who were trained and supported by Khomeinists. Therefore, the enemy is not small but actually a big one.
4) Then it actually directly and indirectly is saying so what if Khomeinists are supporting these terrorists group. They (Hamas,Jihad,…) are not terrorists but freedom fighters, Kayhan said.
4) The group and people all around the ME are now following Khomeini teaching and growing everyday, where some Arabs governments who are actually puppet of US can’t do anything about them, the article claims.
Here is the link for those who can read Farsi:
http://www.kayhannews.ir/860601/2.htm#other211
Keystone Kops productions like this…but they want everybody to know they are arming to the teeth — I talked about their “smart bomb” boasting on my own blog this morning.
Curious that somebody would dare arrest Mad Jad’s advisor’s husband. Somebody has some serious protection to be doing that. Not a lot of places that protection could be coming from, either. . .That’s very interesting.
Aug 23, 2007 - 10:53 am Kourosh:Apparently these days Guardian, BBC, and other leftist media are attacking FOX among other things. This time claiming FOX is encouraging the War with Iran as they caused the war with Iraq. These LeftOver Marxists who are real enemies of humanities easily close their eyes to the atrocities committed by Khomeinists who have consistently conducted acts of violence against Iranian, humanity and civilization at large.
To LeftOver Marxists Human Right abuses are all conducted by US and constant murdering, stoning, jailing, and other human right abuses by Khomeiniests against Iranian people for over 30 years mean nothing.
Iranian wonder why Guardian, BBC, and other oily media are this much against Iranian people. Where and when in the history of man kind, a regime have been this much perpetrator of atrocities against its own people while so-called media which is everything but progressive one way or another support them. Shame on Guardian, shame for defending the murderers.
ML:
on the other hand, Guardian has repeatedly run some of the very best reporting on the evils of the Iranian regime. No one has done it better, among MSM>
Aug 23, 2007 - 7:31 pm