Robert Fisk’s World: In Tehran, fantasy and reality make uneasy bedfellows
The Independent / Robert Fisk
20-Jun-2009 (4 comments)

Now for the very latest on the fantasy circuit. The cruel "Iranian" cops aren't Iranian at all. They are members of Lebanon's Hizbollah militia. I've had this one from two reporters, three phone callers (one from Lebanon) and a British politician. I've tried to talk to the cops. They cannot understand Arabic. They don't even look like Arabs, let alone Lebanese. The reality is that many of these street thugs have been brought in from Baluch areas and Zobal province, close to the Afghan border. Even more are Iranian Azeris. Their accents sound as strange to Tehranis as would a Belfast accent to a Cornishman hearing it for the first time.

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Robert Fist is right on the money

by ObserverMe (not verified) on Sat Jun 20, 2009 05:47 PM PDT

He indicates "Lets not believe everything we hear". and I would like to add, "lets not get too emotional, we need to be level-headed."
Thanks for the article.


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Super lame argument about the rigging advanced by

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:10 PM PDT

a brilliant man, and the exact same one somone onsite told me days ago.well, you see, AN must've won slightly and then the results were puffed up.

Do you realize this is rationalization and fence-sitting to hallucinatory proportions? Talk about having your eat and cake it too

If this were the case then it is still muy mass mucho major fraud so then what is his point?

Ivcan't make an absolute determination about fraud, no one can. What I can say with absolute certitude  is that the regime's responses, beginning with shutting down the cell phones, constitutes a de facto illegitimacy of the results in a deeper sense than numbers ever could.

The other thing I can say with almost complete certainty is that the Fisk argument is an attempt at rationalizing, to play devil's advocate to both sides so that he can live with his painful doubt.


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Fred

Semi-pregnancy

by Fred on Sat Jun 20, 2009 09:08 AM PDT

Terrorist Hezbullah  cuddling, HAMAS killers approving Fisky brands the Islamist republic as "semi-dictatorship". Only the product of a semi-pregnancy can come up with such an asinine description of the Islamist republic.


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Bavafa

great reporting,

by Bavafa on Sat Jun 20, 2009 07:59 AM PDT

Many thanks for your honest and hard work.

Mehrdad


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