Droll, Puckish Iran
What a wicked sense of humour has the Islamic Republic of Iran. Who might have guessed it? Humour isn't all that big in the circles that the Ayatollahs preferentially attend, but someone in there has a healthy dose of it and doesn't mind putting it to work on behalf of Tehran.It's even possible that that roguish sense of humour was given birth in the convoluted, zanily-vicious mind of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; who knows?
In any event, Iran has gone on record urging Britain to do the right thing and make an attempt at restraint; avoid using force in the suppression of the riots that have wracked-and-ruined parts of London and other cities whose thugs have taken advantage of a superb opportunity to remind the Brits that they're there in enough numbers to present as a problem to law-abiding citizens.
Those are the citizens that have been bereft of home and hearth, thanks to the mobs' penchant for torching buildings and cars. And oh yes, the many independent shop owners who must suddenly contemplate the reality that their shop inventory has de-materialized. Their possession having been acquired by the rampaging mob.
Young people, as it happens, of all ages, from pre-teen to early adulthood-with-delayed-maturity. Representing gang members, the unemployed resentful, and university kids as well, all sharing a somewhat similar attitude of being entitled to make off with whatever strikes their fancy. Because why shouldn't they have what the wealthy and the employed avail themselves of?
And anyway, it's the government's fault, for not providing them with these tender little luxuries; necessities in today's world; something that a social-welfare state should be utterly committed to. Irrespective of prevailing economic conditions, for what has that got to do with anything relating to the unsound-of-mind-mobs?
Well, a further indignity has been imposed upon Britain, with travel advisories in France and Austria to warn their citizens to avoid chaotic Britain, and Belgium wringing its hands in despair, fearing that it stands next in line for 'social unrest'. But it is Iran that trumps them all, with its history of gently putting down popular protests, chiding Britain, and encouraging it to "talk to protesters and listen to their requests".
Take, for example, Tehran's humanitarian, enlightened stance in response to the "green" revolution that attempted to evolve from a protest against what people saw as a democratic-deficit in their country. Did they not "exercise restraint"? Did they not "talk to protesters and listen to their requests?"
Did they not task the Basiji with assuring the protesters that they were safe in their own city, on their own streets?
Of course the foreign press write execrable lies about the Islamist regime, unforgivably painting them in terms the Ayatollahs will not readily forget nor easily forgive. That protesters were beaten, incarcerated, tortured and many murdered.
As though something so dreadful could occur in a God-fearing, God-adoring Islamic state.
Labels: Britain, Iran, Political Realities, Security, Social-Cultural Deviations
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, August 11, 2011
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