Comments on: Why the Western media are angry at Tehran NAM summit

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:20:56 +0000

Thank you for supporting my observation with your excellent summary of Iranian history.
My common sense point surely reached Roy but your comment is of great value to all the readers of deLib who may not be serious students of history and to Israelis like cosmo who FEEL the truth but do not have solid arguments to express it.
Iran is, as it has always been, a great threat to civilized nations. Cato Sr. famously said “Iran delendum est.”

By: David Holden

David Holden — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:33:11 +0000

yes, only a tiny one, but first i have to get my head round wordpress. as one of the few remaining greybeards born in the eighteenth century i do find all this newfangled technology rather baffling. but with good quills now beyond the pockets of those of limited means, and decent ink increasingly difficult to find, i have no realistic choice but to learn quickly how to wield the double-edged sword of electronic communications technology so accurately foreshadowed by seminal futurologists Diderot and Voltaire, and so foolishly ignored at the time by all the rest of us who prided ourselves on our ‘progressive’ credentials. la lutta continua!

By: fool me once...

fool me once... — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:39:02 +0000

David H? Does the nick change mean you’re going to do an article? If so, nice one!

By: David Holden

David Holden — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:35:31 +0000

with a notorious aggressor-nation like Iran, with its stockpile of undeclared 400 nuclear warheads, its persistent refusal to sign the non-proliferation treaty, its decades long arrogant cocking of snooks at a whole bookful of UN resolutions, its shameful persecution of its small Jewish population (who have even been tortured and brainwashed to say they prefer living in Iran to Israel!), its ritual execution of all women over the age of sixteen, its building of an ugly 2000-mile long concrete wall to pen in the Kurdish minority and separate them from their traditional pasturelands, its threat to wipe all nations off the face of the earth, the continual harassment of simple Turkish fishing boats using all the might of its powerful navy, its annual grants of trillions of rial from powerful allies like Russia and China, its planting of dual Iranian-American citizens throughout the top echelons of the US political system, who subvert foreign policy to wage murderous warfare against neighbouring Arab countries it sees as a threat, its use of electronic voting systems to rig elections…the list of Iran’s crimes might fill a large book.

i think, yes, we need balance. and let us not forget how its army of propagandists blare out a constant stream of mind-polluting pro-Iranian drivel through their control of the media in all Western nations (a la Hollywood), just as they squeeze and extort what little remaining resources are available to the world’s poor through their stranglehold on the global banking system.

quite simply Iran is an Axis of Evil in itself, and the sooner it is bombed back to the stone age, the sooner we will all be able to sleep peacefully in our beds. many people are unaware of how the Iranians (originally a relatively small nomadic people scattered through the nations of the world) enriched themselves by thievery, blackmail and conspiracy, then came as usurpers to the ancient holy land (formerly known as Persia), the cradle of the Mazdean religion which was a precursor of Christianty, and forcefully and cruelly drove out the handful of millions of farmers who had lived in peace on their ancestral pasture-lands from time immemorial. do not the cries of their spilt blood reach up to the throne of Almighty God, Protector of the Innocent, and Upholder of Justice? will He not hear them? will He not, when the appointed Hour of Destiny strikes, stretch out his Mighty Hand to avenge them?

By: Ariadna Theokopoulos

Ariadna Theokopoulos — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:42:24 +0000

No, Roy, you are wrong (as so often).
It is a question of BALANCE. Not to take the time to point out Iran’s authoritarian regime and its human rights issues at this particular juncture is as wrong as not discussing Palestinian corruption during Cast Lead. Warren has assimilated the important principle of balance from the MSM. You still have some work to do in that regard.

By: Roy Bard

Roy Bard — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:14:53 +0000

Have you been there? Or are you just relying on the propaganda?

By: Warren Metzler

Warren Metzler — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:48:01 +0000

I accept that the US, and whoever it gets to agree, are being very irrational and unjust in their efforts to punish Iran. And further agree it is reasonable that Iran host meetings like NAM. But shouldn’t there be a bit of admittance that Iran is a dictatorship, where there is little to no personal freedoms? And where the so called religious leaders are lining their pockets left and right?

By: who_me

who_me — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:31:29 +0000

“Why the Western media are angry at Tehran NAM summit”

surely that is a typo and it was meant to say the jewish run western media?

By: etominusipi

etominusipi — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:10:03 +0000

Sir,

perhaps i am old-fashioned, but from my kindergarten days i remember our history teacher Mrs Parkcroft used to stress the difference between a rebellion – an armed (and almost invariably brutal and thuggish) insurgency, funded and assisted by outside powers with the aim of bringing about violent regime change in the interests of the paymasters – and any form of legitimate attempt to exert pressure for political change.

it therefore shocked me to read the following in your paper the other day:

“…especially the Iranian one that is so complicit in crushing the Syrian rebellion as well…”

Mr Friedman’s wording inadvertently gives the whole game away. i suggest that his employers ought to be notified – they pay good money after all, and deserve watertight propaganda in return. as a first offence perhaps not a sackable mistake, but such sloppiness should be rewarded with a ‘slap on the wrist’, at least. we must all be vigilant guardians of the extremely high standards of journalism to which we have long been becoming accustomed.

long may your esteemed organ remain the beacon of democratic hope and the bastion of freedom of opinion and expression that it has, increasingly, always been,

yrs faithfully

Sophie Gabbelnutter (Ms)
Fairfax, VA

By: Rehmat

Rehmat — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:06:53 +0000

The 96% of western mainstream media is owned by six Zionist Jew families – who don’t like to see Israel as the only ME Bully being marginalized.

“There were attempts by the neo-conservative oligarchy in Washington, represented notably by Robert Kagan (Zionist Jew) of the elitist Brookings Institution and his State Department spokesperson wife Victoria Nuland (Zionist Jew), to convince Ban, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, and other recipients of U.S. aid to boycott Tehran,” wrote investigative journalist Wayne Madsen on August 30, 2012.

However, don’t forget, Ban Ki-moon, took along with him the most anti-Syria-Hizbullah-Iran Jewish thug, Jeffrey Feltman – and even presented him to Iran’s Spiritual Leader Ayatullah Khamenei.

http://rehmat1.com/2012/08/31/israeli-agent-pays-visit-to-ayatullah-khameini/