THIS PRE-CHOREOGRAPHED CONFERENCE WAS SUPPOSED TO BOOST IRANIAN PRESTIGE AND PROVE THE MULLOCRACY IS WIDELY RESPECTED.
Unfortunately the conference proved the exact opposite. Visitors have not followed the pre-designed script. These stinking foreigners are as disgusting as Ron Paul dissidents at a Romney-micromanaged convention.
The only consolation is that no one can stop the Ultimate Control Freak from rigging his own elections or ghost-writing for his media. What is a shame that Iranians persist in looking elsewhere for real news. If only the foreign press and the internet could be subject to the same controls used at home! Visiting scumbags insisted on making things worse by pissing on Khamenei’s party instead of doing as they were told. Isn’t it a shame rotten guest like that cannot be shipped off to Evin, taught a lesson, and placed back on stage with pre-scripted speeches?
THINGS THAT DID NOT GO AS KHAMENEI PLANNED (CAUSING IRANIANS TO CHUCKLE):
1. UN Secretary General refused to play puppet and “tough talked” the Supreme Leader who retaliated with a speech criticizing the UN Security Council a a “flagrant dictatorship.” (Note the hypocrisy in that charge). Retaliating further, Ban Ki-moon’s photographer was banned from entering sensitive areas because of “relations with Western spy services”.
(Question: What is wrong with the UN General Secretary? Didn’t he know he was supposed to follow Khamenei’s will just like the state media?).
2. Egyptian President Morsi has left Iran after a 7-hour stay, meeting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but not the Supreme Leader. Ironically the early departure occurred after Iran’s deputy foreign minister made a speech urging improvement in relations with Egypt.
3. Before leaving, Morsi made a speech paying tribute to the opposition challenge to the “oppressive regime” of President Assad. Mistranslating the speech for delegates, the regime watered it down to avoid further embarassment. Meanwhile Ahmadinejad sat stonefaced. The ever-respectable Student Basij militia groups asked Morsi to “reconsider his stance” on Syria but its plea fell on deaf ears.
4. The Syrian delegation walked out during Egyptian President Morsi’s speech, with its denunciation of “bloodshed” and implied support for the challenge to the Assad regime.
Censorship: CONTROL FREAK GAVE IRAN’S MEDIA THREE PAGES OF PRECISE INSTRUCTIONS ON “HOW TO REPORT THE CONFERENCE” (apparently leaked to outsiders by disgusted journalists)
Verboten (forbidden. On ne le permette pas):
Stories that undermine the summit; give voice to opposition political groups; write stories about human rights in Iran; cover Western allegations against Syria; raise concerns about security in Tehran; report on warnings about bad weather, natural disasters, energy cuts, crime.
Encouraged: Stories that hold the country and its leaders in a “positive” light and that highlight Iranian hospitality and its Islamic traditions, for example. And they are expected to reserve special coverage for stories that support Iran’s controversial nuclear program, to condemn the West’s “unlawful” sanctions, and to criticize Israel, which the document refers to as the “fake and Zionist regime.”
Recommended: Placing emphasis on messages by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, highlighting the importance of the NAM as the second-largest international organization after the United Nations, emphasizing the prominent role that Iran will play in regional and international affairs as head of the NAM, and the technological and scientific progress Iran has made despite “terrorist attacks”.
FG Makes a Suggestion: Visualize popular reaction in any western democracies if any head of state, regardless of party, issued such directives to the media and dared to try enforcing them. What chance would be have at the next election? Nevetheless we are told ad nauseum that the governments of Syria, the Islamic Republic and Russia are “just as legitimate” as democratic governments and that they allow “even more freedom.”
ADVANCING EDUCATION IN THE MUCH ADMIRED ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
The head of the Basij milita, Mohammad Reza Naqdi has said the Non-Aligned Movement summit is a testament to the “defeat of Western humanities”, in which “today’s university curricula are no different from ignorance”.
(Everyone knows, of course, that the regime’s Brownshirt people-beaters represent the peak of civilization by contrast).
THE LATEST ON “THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED (AND ENVIED) ECONOMY”
1. Khorasan reports that prices for dairy products have risen 8 to 40% within the past two days after four previous increases since March.
2. Reuters reports, from new documents, how South African telecommunications company MTN arranged procurement of embargoed U.S. technology products for its Iranian subsidiary, circumventing US sanctions
SPEAKING OF COVERING UP DIRTY LAUNDRY, IS IT OK IF WE TRAVEL DOWN MEMORY LANE ONCE AGAIN?
It is important that Iranians constantly recall Khamenei’s pre-2009 behavior, most especially his death squads and what he did to journalists who exposing them. The treatment handed out was similar to those who protested his rigged elections. Ponder especiallythe strange and untimely death of The Founder’s own young son, so embarassing to the Supreme Leader. The noteworthy victim had been a real pain in the butt who insisted on warning Iranians of Khamenei’s dangerously authoritarian tendencies. Ahmadinejad the Tool had not appeared yet so obviously he did not do it. Thus we must ask two questions repeatedly: “Who enjoyed a monopoly on motive, means and opportunity?” and “How did that person react when news of the Death Squads became public?
