Kharnival of the Iranities
I had actually been thinking about giving the Kharnival the weekend off, maybe make do with a post on the UN vote, when things picked up. So we’re not only opening, we’re opening the gates a day early. Come one, come all. See what you look like in the mullahs’ funhouse mirrors! Updates to include all the twists and turns on this wild ride:
“Blatant act of aggression” steals headlines ahead of today’s UN sanctions vote.
UPDATE: UN votes 15-0 (AP). Bloomberg’s version here. WaPo adds some commentary.
Ajad cancels a perfectly good opportunity to go sniff the sulphur at the United Nations. Instapundit figures this means the Brit grab came as a surprise. Baztab gives Iran’s excuse. Al-Jazeera includes US rebuttal to that and notes sanctions vote expected to be unanimous.
Brits were intentionally grabbed as bargaining chips.
Walid Phares at CTB with some Iranthink.
US News reports on another recent cross-border provocation by Iran, whose troops surrounded an American unit.
Fars: Seized Brits confess to aggression against the waters of Iran. Iran’s FM: “dubious act illustrative of unusual objectives … illegal and interventionist … hostile.” FM’s trying hard but needs to bone up on his Jackie Chiles.
Riehlity check: heads up US Navy, time was no one would think of crossing the Royal Navy.
Pork is haram, so pigs will never fly over Iran. And, says Khatami, Iran will never build a nuke.
Maybe, but not for not wanting to. Embassies in Teheran updating their escape plans.
Hey, let’s try to stay focused on what’s important here. IRI’s UN mission protests a cinematic comic book as “300″ propaganda wars continue.
Brit-for-tat: London Times places seizure of Brits in context of Allied fleet vs. Iranian naval games in the Gulf, US seizure of Iranian agents, Iranian payments to insurgents in Basra, with an overlay of nuclear negotiations.
Several days before the Brit grab, the Times took note of the following fit of pique in the weekly newspaper of the Revolutionary Guards over the seizure of agents in Iraq and the defection of Asgari:
“We’ve got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks. Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis.”
PJM’s roundup here.
Gateway on the Iran links of the Sadrist caught with the IDs of 5 abducted, slain GIs in his pocket.
Alphabet City had Arab TV with more on Iran-Sadrist chumminess.
Bolton: Try a little less tenderness.
Chomsky scribbling for Baztab: US aggression vs. Iran is bid for oil, says water-carrying MIT prof.
MSNBC’s superficial click-through slide show of Iranian-US history brushes over some key details: fails to note ongoing ramifications of Carter’s response to Iranian aggression and why those hostages were finally freed; blames Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech for undermining Iranian moderates, though I seem to recall a rigged election and a lot of local repression had a lot to do with that.
Speaking of MSNBC, Pat Dollard on “Dumb and Dumber.”
NOYF “finds” Kerry on an Iranian talk show.
Via Kamangir, the Iranian press starts the Persian New Year on a down note. As the Year of “National Unity and Islamic Solidarity” kicks off, ink-stained Iranian wretches are warned not to discourage the public.
Nobel nomination from Kamangir: Ajad’s New Year’s speech warning the world not to “interrupt the development of the human race.” K says A needs a prize category all his own.
Another view from Iran, where domestic propaganda … not to mention the Beeb’s take … is seen for what it is and there are fears about what may come.
I thought this guy had packed it in, but Farrakhan has a couple of bombs to lob yet. Pro-Iranian-nuke Nation of Islam leader declares: “The Time for the Chastisement of Allah is here!“ OK, syntax check: Does that mean Allah doing the chastising or getting it?
Ledeen notices AP scribbler Ali Akbar Dareini’s marked pro-mullah stance that somehow gets through the New York office unchecked … or at least, not checked enough. Heads up, AP, you’re an American news agency. Ix-nay on the Islamic Revolutionary opaganda-pray. This is not the first time Ali and other local hires in the AP’s Teheran bureau have guzzled mullah Koolaid and spat it out in our direction.
In fairness to pschizophrenic Al-P, their Baghdad bureau did some groundbreaking work earlier this week with the detailed report on Iran’s co-opting of al-Sadr’s extremist breakaways.
Kharnival khontinues with updates here: A poetry reading and a movie.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:54 am on Saturday, March 24, 2007
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March 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I think Iran is going to use the British captives as leverage against the British government, to try and force it to back down and grovel (and incidentally, fork over some cash) to get its marines back. If the UK gives in (and it very well may), it is done in the Middle East.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
2007.03.24 Iraq/Iran/Surrendercrat Roundup
Guess Who’s Not Coming To Dinner? Ed Morrissey Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared last week that he would fly to New York to personally address the UN Security Council before a vote to impose tougher sanctions on Iran for their
March 24th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Obviously nothing short of a nuke attack will be considered an act of war by Iran.
Just when you think your disgust has reached its peak, something else happens to tell you just how wrong you are.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
http://www.antimullah.com/
I’m not familiar with the site so cant say good or bad about credibility but there’s a post claiming that the Russians are evacuating Iran and saying that April 5 is the “secret surprise” attack date for the US.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Careful now, you folks will piss off the resident rodent, IT…:).
Oh gee, gosh I hope I just didn’t…LOL.
March 25th, 2007 at 7:18 am
Iran Updates
Kharnival of the Iranities.
March 25th, 2007 at 10:07 am
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March 25th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
How Long Will We “Bend over” and Take it?
My answer to Captain Ed is to point to Greenwald with the stupidity from the left blaming Bush for this also… who else can writes such trash as Greenwald?