Oops! It's a Misunderstanding....
It's a misunderstanding, that's all it is. The Islamic Republic of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been misrepresented. His statements have been taken out of context. We in the West, simply do not understand the situation, we are deliberately fomenting a crisis in world opinion to the detriment of yet another peace-loving Middle East country. Whatever can be the matter with us? Why are we picking on innocent Iran?Hormoz Ghahremani, press attache in Ottawa for the Islamic Republic of Iran goes to great lengths to so very earnestly explain the situation at hand. He has also chided the news media for their biased and prejudiced approach. We have disappointed Mr. Ghahremani and the Iranian diplomats who are guests in Canada, and that is so very regrettable. They expect better from us. Mr. Ghahremani describes the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, publishing in Canada's capital, an "esteemed" newspaper by his description, as being derelict in its duty to report judiciously and truthfully.
No matter that His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements have been published faithfully, and quite in context. No matter that Mr. Ahmadinejad's brutally incendiary, albeit truthful, intentions toward the State of Israel have been reported just as they have fallen from his lips. The world should be more trusting; this is misrepresentation of the president's true intentions. He's joshing, that's it.
He's also kidding around with the world crowing about Iran's success in enriching uranium. Nah, nah, you guys, we've got the stuff! In the name of Allah, blessed be he. Why is the world so incredibly concerned, after all? Well, could be because those other countries of the world who have developed fissionable nuclear material can be trusted, for the most part, to understand that there is more than the optics of a giant mushroom to the detonation of such devices.
Mr. Ghahremani reminds his readers that the democratically elected president of the Islamic Republic of Iran deserves respect; not the baseless and misleading assertions that people around the world fear that Iran may trigger another world war. He lectures that objective journalism is not being demonstrated by the western press; that discretion when addressing sensitive international issues should be the order of the day. Hmmm, wonder if that lecture would cut it in Iran?
We have, for example, the case of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Ramin Jahanbegloo having been arrested in Tehran because Iran's president is not too fond of being criticized. Mr. Jahanbegloo was indiscreet enough to bring attention to himself by writing an article for publication in a Spanish newspaper, critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust. Now state-controlled newspapers in Iran are accusing this humanitarian philosopher, attempting to drag his country into the 21st century and true democratic reform, of "counter-revolutionary" ties.
Mr. Jahanbegloo is incarcerated in the fearful Evin prison, famed for its torture methodology. The very same prison where, a scant several years ago, Iranian-Canadian Zahra Kazemi met her death through rape and torture for daring to take photographs outside the very same prison; another critic of the Iranian government.
So much for civilized dialogue.
posted by Pieface @ Monday, May 08, 2006
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