Iran seizes rights lawyer's Nobel Peace medal

[Zorro]

Source: AP

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.

In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.

Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy. She has long faced harassment from Iranian authorities for her activities — including threats against her relatives and a raid on her office last year in which files were confiscated.

The seizure of her prize is an expression of the Iranian government's harsh approach to anyone it considers an opponent — particularly since the massive street protests triggered by hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed June 12 re-election.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/shirin_ebadi_nobel_seized

[timeforpeace]

1. If Iran is patient it's a cinch to get a Nobel Peace Prize of it's own.

[Posteritatis]

2. I'm sure their seizure was just mistranslated.

:sarcasm:

[Jim Sagle]

3. Actually it was a Mossad false flag op.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Posteritatis]

4. Or so Rove would have Mossad believe!

:)

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Myesss the Joooos did it!

:rofl:

[Indenturedebtor]

5. Bwahahaha yes in Farsi "Seizure" means "Gently Borrowed For An Indefinate Period Of Time"

:rofl:

[WriteDown]

16. Too awesome.

Post of the day.

[Lagomorph]

7. Utterly petty and vindictive.

Iran can make itself look very childish at times.

[Wizard777]

8. This symbolic attack upon Peace by the government of Iran is disturbing.

[ShortnFiery]

9. And so the demonetization of "the evil Iran" begins ... along with permission to bomb

the evildoers. :crazy:

Yeah, that reflect the desires of all those SNEAKY Persian People. :sarcasm:

[Wizard777]

11. At this point I can't see the Persian people and their government as being One.

In fact I think the Government is contrary to the Persian People.

[WriteDown]

17. Damn that Nobel Committee! nt

[Deja Q]

10. last I read,. 6 countries are annoyed at Iran's nuclear doings

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/27/iran-nuclear-iaea-vote.html

(a non-US source, to help solidify this isn't a neocon game like how many want to pretend it is.)

Even Russia and China are in support. That's how big all of this is.

[nyy1998]

12. And to think that people in the other Iranian thread

were praising Ahmedijibad(sp). Disgusting.

[boppers]

13. A hunk of metal was grabbed...

...I'm not sure what the intended point was?

[cowcommander]

14. Absolute assholes

The money grab makes it really obvious about just what they were after.

[LeftishBrit]

15. The Iranian government would be better employed in trying to EARN a Nobel peace prize

rather than snatching Ebadi's.

:thumbsup: to Ebadi