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Started by Razgovory, November 29, 2011, 08:05:08 AM

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Razgovory

November 29, 2011, 08:05:08 AM
That's the banner at CNN.com.
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Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sheilbh

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November 29, 2011, 08:08:27 AM
Odd.  They've recently been going mental at us for some reason.  I think they tried to levy a $1 million fine and expelled the ambassador a while ago.

The Telegraph's started a live blog.  I give it five minutes before they demand we send in Kitchener :lol:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8922993/British-embassy-attack-in-Iran-live.html
Let's bomb Russia!

Josquius

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November 29, 2011, 08:14:48 AM Last Edit: November 29, 2011, 08:16:56 AM by Tyr
I think its because we did something to them- something about telling our banks to freeze their assets due to their nuclear programme or somesuch.

Strange this considering they just expelled our ambassador. Guess they figured that didn't speak to the common man enough.

Iran always has had a special obsession with seeing Britain as a real enemy though. They're stuck in the imperial days.
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Razgovory

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November 29, 2011, 08:15:15 AM
I don't think either the US or UK have an embassy in the country.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Sheilbh

#4
November 29, 2011, 08:21:33 AM
Interesting shadow of 1979, a group called the 'students for the Supreme Leader' or something similar, are claiming it's their responsibility.  Their statement was apparently written in blood :mellow:

Apparently a portrait of the Queen's been taken down.  The Telegraph's magnificently outraged, the Daily Mail will go insane.
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The Minsky Moment

#5
November 29, 2011, 10:26:36 AM
Ambassadorial integrity doesn't translate into Farsi.
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jimmy olsen

#6
November 29, 2011, 11:02:45 AM
 :lol:

Quote[The Muslim Students Followers of the Supreme Leader, who have claimed responsibility for organising the attack on the embassy, have issued a statement reportedly written in blood.

It reads:

Our people are not prepared to be humiliated any more under any circumstances and prefer a red death to a condemned life of misery. We are ready to be killed for our aims.

They have referred to the embassy as "another nest of spies that must be shown our wrath and hatred towards it".

They say the date of the action has been deliberately chosen to coincide with the fist anniversary of the assassination of Majid Shahriari, the nuclear scientist killed last year in a bomb attack. /quote]
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November 29, 2011, 11:07:30 AM
Payback's a bitch.
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Ideologue

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November 29, 2011, 11:53:27 AM
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Say it with me.

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Viking

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November 29, 2011, 12:06:18 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 29, 2011, 08:08:27 AM
Odd.  They've recently been going mental at us for some reason.  I think they tried to levy a $1 million fine and expelled the ambassador a while ago.

The Telegraph's started a live blog.  I give it five minutes before they demand we send in Kitchener :lol:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8922993/British-embassy-attack-in-Iran-live.html

Zombie "Chinese Gordon" is more dashing.
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Viking

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November 29, 2011, 12:09:29 PM
Quote from: Tyr on November 29, 2011, 08:14:48 AM
I think its because we did something to them- something about telling our banks to freeze their assets due to their nuclear programme or somesuch.

Strange this considering they just expelled our ambassador. Guess they figured that didn't speak to the common man enough.

Iran always has had a special obsession with seeing Britain as a real enemy though. They're stuck in the imperial days.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Uncle_Napoleon

That book has had a profound effect on the Iranian psyche as well as representing it's complexity.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Sheilbh

#11
November 29, 2011, 02:22:36 PM
Apparently a few of the 'students' were carrying ambiguously re-usable 'Down with you!' signs :lol:
Let's bomb Russia!

grumbler

#12
November 29, 2011, 03:32:06 PM
Britain actually had an embassy in Iran?  :huh:

I guess some people refuse to learn.  It's as dumb as the US maintaining an embassy in the PRC knowing that the PRiCks haven't protected it in the past and won't in the future.
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#13
November 29, 2011, 03:41:30 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 29, 2011, 02:22:36 PM
Apparently a few of the 'students' were carrying ambiguously re-usable 'Down with you!' signs :lol:

Death to Somebody!  :mad:

Sheilbh

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November 29, 2011, 03:42:34 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 29, 2011, 03:32:06 PM
Britain actually had an embassy in Iran?  :huh:
Reopened in 1988.  Apparently it is lovely.  Has massive parks and the property as a whole is the size of the White House + surrounding gardens.
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