Some good news at last

The U.S. was behind the assassination of one of Iran’s top nuclear scientists. The fact that Iran is making this claim makes it highly unlikely to be accurate, but if it is true, it’s good news because it means the U.S. still has the balls to do what needs to be done.

From here:

Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media reported.

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a brazen daylight assassination Wednesday when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car in the Iranian capital.

The killing bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program, and has prompted calls in Iran for retaliation against those deemed responsible.

 

And now your daily laugh: Iran wants to monitor UK human rights violations

From here:

Iranian official urges Britain to allow delegation into country to investigate police human rights violations.

As riots have spread across the UK leading to hundreds of arrests and the death of one 26-year-old man, Iran has called on British police to avoid using violence against rioters and demonstrators, and to show “restraint” when dealing with protesters, Iranian Fars News Agency reported.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast reportedly asked the UK government to open dialogue with “protesters,” and has called on human rights groups to investigate the killing of Mark Duggan, 29, which sparked the violent riots that has seen substantial damage and theft.

If something is worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well, so Iran’s delegation is privately offering to share its longstanding experience in torture, rape, mutilation, murder and kangaroo courts with Britain, which never has had a particularly good grip on how to violate human rights properly.

If I Ruled the World by Hackphlegm Imadinnerjacket

If I ruled the world, every day would be a gloomy kind of thing,
This would be the only song that you could sing.
And we’d stone you if you have a little fling.

If I ruled the world, every beard would be big enough for nesting birds,
Every voice would be suppressed, never heard,
Take my word, you would hate each day that occurred.

My world would be a sharia place,
Where burglars would lose their extremities.
My world would cover every beautiful face
With a sack that comes right down to your knees.

If I ruled the world, I would drive each person around the bend.
There’d be jihad that no man could end,
No my friend, not if I ruled the world.
Every head would be held up high
On a pole: gays would be the first to die.
If the day ever dawned when I ruled the world.

© 2011 by grinning dwarf nuclear powered music.

With apologies to Tony Bennett:

From Google to Oh Lord in Iran

Iran is in the process of further isolating its inhabitants by replacing the evil Western Internet that assaults delicate Iranian sensibilities with so much nasty free information, with an intranet (a closed network) complete with its own search engine call “Oh Lord”. Have to keep those Mohammed cartoons at bay somehow.

Hadi Malek-Parast, Director General for Research and Development at the Iranian Information Technology Company, told the Iranian Mehr News Agency on Sunday that Iran has started developing a national search enginged dubbed ‘Ya Haq’, a Persian expression meaning “Oh Lord.”

Speaking of the need for faster search capacity and higher security for the country’s online communications, Malek-Parast said Ya Haq would be ready to launch in 2012 and referred to the project as a domestic Intranet, as opposed to an international Internet.

“They are not just developing a search engine, they want to develop an Intranet, instead of an Internet, which would be some kind of local Internet and only give access to state institutions and internally approved sites,” Pujan Ziaie, a senior IT strategist in Iran’s ‘green’ opposition movement told The Media Line. “The discussion began a few years ago and is based on a feeling that the Internet is a Western weapon. They are threatened by it but they cannot ignore it so they are trying to imitate what China has done.”

Iran: another Obama failure

From here:

Bolton: Obama won’t strike Iranian nuclear reactor

Former UN ambassador claims Israel has only 3 days to strike Bushehr plant before fuel rods mean radioactive fallout; “that’s what Israel did in Osirak, Iraq in 1981.”

Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said he didn’t see “any signs whatsoever that President Obama would make the necessary decision” to strike Iran’s nuclear reactor, speaking in an interview with Israel Radio Tuesday.

Bolton claimed Israel has only three days to strike before Russia “begins the fueling process for the Bushehr reactor this Friday,” after which any attack would cause radioactive fallout that could reach as far as the waters of the Persian Gulf.

In an interview with Fox Business Network earlier Tuesday Bolton had said the deadline was eight days, but he revised it to three in the Israel Radio interview, saying Iran and Russia had announced they would begin fueling on Friday.

It’s just another Tuesday: Russia rubs its hands with glee as it pokes the US in the eye, Obama takes a dip in the Gulf and Iran nudges the world closer to Armageddon.

Stoning women in Iran

You would think that the left, women’s groups, KAIROS, the United Church, the Anglican Church, primates, archbishops, bishops, clergy and other assorted social justice merchants would have at least something to say about this. If only to temporarily divert attention from away their obsession with homo-eroticism, global warming and compulsory wealth redistribution. But no.