Iran asks U.K. not to use force against rioters

[Turborama]

Source: AFP Via The Daily Star (Lebanon)

TEHRAN: Iran urged Britain Tuesday to show “restraint” in dealing with rioters, the state television website reported.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast asked “the British government to prevent the use of violence by the police, and to engage in dialogue with the protesters and examine their demands in order to restore calm,” the website said.

=snip=

In 2009, Britain and other Western countries condemned Tehran for violently crushing protests that followed the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran denounced the Western condemnations as meddling in its internal affairs.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Aug-10/Iran-asks-UK-not-to-use-force-against-rioters.ashx#axzz1Uc5RBfcG

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No comment.

[dipsydoodle]

1. No comment ?.

Sometimes its hard not to laugh. :rofl:

:hi:

[Turborama]

7. I know, it left me speechless. For once.

It did make me laugh, though.

:hi:

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. there should also be some concern about UK nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of rioters

[dipsydoodle]

12. Children don't regard such things

as being as meaningful as the latest trainers.

[Rebubula]

39. LOL...

...no there should not be....

It is not as though this stuff is sitting around a store in Hereford or Essex....

I am hoping your post was meant to be funny or something....

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. My irony meter just walked across the room and jumped out of the window. RIP.

[Turborama]

5. LOL!

I laughed out loud at that one. :rofl:

Thanks.

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. I was sad at first,

but it kept pegging out over the last 2 years, so I knew it was likely on its last legs as it surely couldn't be reality causing that reaction so often.

To be on the safe side, I am going to order a case tomorrow - you know, to get through Nov 2012. I fear I may get another defective one, so best to have several on hand just in case.

:thumbsup:

[leftynyc]

4. A brand new example

of unmitigated chutzpah - and I do know exactly how to pronounce that.

[No Elephants]

41. Choo tz bah, as in choo-choo. Just ask Bachman

[Tiggeroshii]

6. Do they want to do it themselves or something?

...what am I missing?

[LeftishBrit]

8. Yes, because Iran is so noted for its humane treatment of protesters.

[Cool Logic]

10. They know how to play the game, don't they?

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. I for one can't wait to hear the reaction from State

Hopefully, we have the good sense to not address it.

If we applaud them and call them the adults in the room, I give up.

[BackToThe60s]

11. See???

It's not always necessary to use the sarcasm smilie.

[JI7]

14. he is being an asshole

[gordianot]

15. No disrespect to Farsi intended but Ramin Mehmanparast sounds vaguely like Entish

[AverageJoe90]

16. Tehran oughta shut their f***ing mouths.

Goddamn hypocrites, the lot of Iran's gov't people. We may be far from perfect, but at least we haven't MURDERED people for protesting.......not yet, anyway.

[MrDiaz]

18. lol

I think it's hilarious, everybody trying to tell Iran what to do, now they are just playing the same card everyone played on them... right?

[marasinghe]

43. sure, maybe not in England. but get back to us when you guys have apologized ....

.... collectively, for the past & ongoing 400 years of massacre, pillage, destruction & murder in your former colonies & dominions - like Ireland, for example.

when you return the crown jewels in your royal regalia, and the art treasures in the British museum, to the countries they were looted from - like India, for example.

and when you pay reparations to Iraq for over a hundred years of war crimes - from the 1800's, through Churchill gassing the Kurds when he was Secretary of War, to Tony Blair sending your troops trotting along like good little fascists in the scumbag Bush's wake, to kill & torture Iraqis.

Face it - your government is no better than the Ahmedjinjihadists of the World.

and the Iranians are just pulling the same bait & switch the Chinese pull on the USA - when all that empty rhetoric on human rights comes floating down the sewer of foreign policy experts spouting bullshit.

[dipsydoodle]

17. Libya joining in too

1055: BBC Monitoring

Libyan foreign ministry spokesman Khalid Ka'im has called on world governments to take action over the unrest in the UK. David Cameron has lost legitimacy and "must go", Libya's official news agency Jana reports. Libya "demands that the international community not stand with arms folded in the face of this gross aggression against the rights of the British people, who are demanding its right to rule its country", the report said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675

[GliderGuider]

19. It's only fair - we said almost exactly the same things to them, after all.

It's funny when the shoe suddenly jumps to the other foot, isn't it?

[AverageJoe90]

21. No it's not.

[GliderGuider]

22. Is so!

:hi:

[Turborama]

24. We said that to them because they were brutally cracking down on peaceful political protesters

The Iranians were indiscriminatly bludgeoning and killing peaceful protesters.

The big differences here are:

1) They are not protesters.

2) They are not peaceful.

3) They are not political.

4) There is no indiscriminate bludgeoning of rioters.

5) The only people who have been killed are citizens trying to protect their local community from the rioters.



Epic false equivalence fail.

[GliderGuider]

27. Why so serious?

I think the Iranians displayed a mordantly ironic sense of humour!

[Turborama]

31. Because I had just heard the father of one of the boys who was killed whilst defending his community

...being interviewed.

Serious stuff.

ETA Link to a thread about that: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4955147

[Turborama]

44. The interview I mentioned...

Can be watched here: http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16047325

[joshcryer]

33. False equivalence!

C'mon, you gotta be trollin' now... :P

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[joshcryer]

32. I do not believe that the UK has started executing protesters wholesale, yet.

[GliderGuider]

36. Is this what living under the Empire has done to us? "We're not as bad as Iran or Libya..."

I guess it's easier to ignore the boot when we're wearing it.

[GliderGuider]

40. Here's a serious question about equivalence.

If the UK rioters got organized and the whole thing morphed into an overtly political uprising, would we get behind it as we did for the Libyans and Egyptians and Tunisians? If not, why not?

[GliderGuider]

20. Being lectured by others isn't nearly as satisfying as lecturing them, is it? /nt

[SemperEadem]

25. tehran is in no position to lecture anyone about anything

with the gallons of blood they have on their hands.

Remember Neda.

[JVS]

26. That's their view of the West as well, particularly as the West has propped up dictators over there.

[GliderGuider]

28. Nor are we, with the gallons of blood we have on ours...

I think this was a wonderfully ironic jab by the Iranians.

[joshcryer]

30. Sorry GG, I cannot be credited with gallons of blood on my hands.

I didn't vote for the asshole that got us into two wars. :hi:

[GliderGuider]

34. Nor can most Iranians... nt

[lunatica]

23. Was her name Neda?

Why yes. Yes it was.

[SkyDaddy7]

29. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast

after releasing the statement...:rofl:

Seriously, the Iranian Regime are some of the most brutal & disgustingly nasty people on Earth...The irony of this is so off the charts I agree with the OP there really is "No Comment" that could put this in perspective.

[CJvR]

38. Well...

...mr Mehmanparasite is not alone in supporting the riots, Mad Dog is also in favor of them.

[CJvR]

37. Iran...

...can go hold an election for all I care.

[JAnthony]

42. FACE PALM AND.....

scratching my head!

[Alamuti Lotus]

45. NATO should be dispatched to help the protestors--the Queen & Parliament have lost the right to rule

A no-fly zone should be established over Manchester and London to prevent civilian casualties and facilitate regime change.

[Prometheus Bound]

47. I wonder if, with NATO air support, the rioters could force Cameron to step down.

[octothorpe]

46. +1 for EPIC TROLL, Iran.

I love these guys.