By AP and Times of Israel staff
(The Times of Israel) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that
the armed forces chief of staff has criticized Donald Trump for his past
harsh words about confronting Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf.
The Thursday report quotes General Mohammad
Hossein Bagheri as saying, “The person who has recently achieved power,
has talked off the top of his head! Threatening Iran in the Persian Gulf
is just a joke.”
He said American presidential candidates
during their campaigns “eat too much sugar,” a reference to a Farsi
proverb about those who talk nonsense.
In September, Trump said Iranian ships trying to provoke the US “will be shot out of the water” if he were president.
In January, Iran took 10 American sailors
prisoner after their ship veered off course into Iranian waters; they
were released a day later.
Trump has strongly criticized the nuclear
deal, formerly called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, reached
with Iran to halt its development of nuclear weapons technology, calling
it “one of the worst deals in history...” (continued)
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Ahmadinejad Says Enemies Destroy Iran's Rain Clouds
(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his country's enemies of enacting a sinister plan to create a drought by somehow destroying the rain clouds before they reach Iran, several Iranian websites reported on Tuesday.
Well-known for his anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric, Ahmadinejad has made similar remarks before and last year accused the West of devising a plot to cause drought in the Islamic republic.
"The enemy destroys the clouds that are headed towards our country and this is a war Iran will win," Ahmadinejad said on Monday, according to several websites including the BBC's Persian-language site and www.snn.ir...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Iranian Lady Ninjas Sue Reuters
From The Gateway Pundit:
The dreaded Iranian she-ninjas sued Reuters today on defamation charges. Iran Press TV reported:
Last month, Reuters showed a number of Iranian girls training martial arts in a city near Tehran, claiming Iran was training more than 3,000 female ninjas to kill any possible foreign invaders. The distorted Reuters report was picked up by other British media outlets.
Following the strong reaction of Iranian media to the report, Reuters made changes to parts of the report but refused to apologize for slander.
The Iranian girls, accused by Reuters of being assassins, say the damage has already been done and they are now taking legal action against the agency for defamation of character.
The athletes say the Reuters journalist asked them what they would do if their country came under attack. Reuters used the girl’s patriotic response as an excuse to call them assassins.
“The lady from Reuters asked me only one question which had a very obvious answer. I believe that anyone anywhere in the world would defend his country if it were attacked…but she twisted our words to make us look bad and described us as assassins in the headline of her story,” Khatereh Jalilzadeh told Press TV.
“We are taking legal action because the ladies that train in Ninjutsu first and foremost enjoy it as a sport. It’s about working out and staying fit. Reuters has blatantly lied about us,” she added...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry
- 01/03/10 01:48 PM ET (The Hill) - Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media.
"Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue," Hassan Ebrahimi, head of the committee, told the semi-official Fars News Agency.
Several Iranian news outlets reported last week that Kerry had submitted an official request to visit Tehran in an emissary role...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Iran's Photoshopped Missile Launch
From Little Green Footballs:
Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:13:47 pm PST
At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media has been Photoshopped:
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