Ahmadinejad says Iran wants to investigate EU rights abuses

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded once again on Saturday that Iran be permitted to send inspectors to evaluate “human rights abuses” in the European Union.

In a press conference in Tehran which was aired on state television, Ahmadinejad said that Tehran was ready to dispatch a committee to states which accuse it of violating human rights. Iran would then allow inspectors from those countries to come to Iran to carry out their evaluations, he said.

“We will send teams to write and publish reports on the condition of jails, tortures, discriminations, election procedures, economic actions that end up against the benefit of their people, support for terrorists, as well as the judicial, parliamentary, and administrative systems of countries that claim to speak out for human rights.

He said that he had yet to receive a response from Western countries regarding his proposal.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5308

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1. He might find the curriculum at Fort Benning of

interest....

www.Soaw.org

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2. Fort Benning in GA?

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3. Link info.... apparrently you didn't check it....

WWW.SOAW.ORG



Torture, Empire and the SOA
"One of the main myths that seems to be propagated in the mainstream media right now is that 9-11 happened, George Bush signed a degree, the CIA took off its gloves, and torture was born in the military.

"I think the SOA experience is very important in educating people that torture has a long history in the US military and there is nothing particularly new about it. I think the SOA has a very important role to play in a discussion about impunity. The fact is that people, not just in Latin America, but in this country, have gotten away with murder and torture and acts of human rights crimes time and again. And that that is bad enough in itself, but to think about what are the consequences of impunity for the present? How does the past get whitewashed in a context of pervasive impunity and what does that have to say about people´s ability to mobilize against domination in the present? I think that the SOA has a very important role in all of that."

-- Leslie Gill, in an interview about her new book: The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

Also check out Naomi Klein's excellent new article 'Never Before!' Our Amnesiac Torture Debate from The Nation Magazine.

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4. That's pretty funny.

It would give the EU the opportunity to verify the stories about minors being executed, women being stoned, reporters being imprisoned and so on. But they'd never do it. It would mean accepting that Iran is their equal.

Ahmadinejad appears to be having fun giving them the finger.