generalspeaking

Wishful Thinking, Moral Obloquy 

"His comment, 'Let the historians decide' -- the historians have decided. There's been a consensus. No respectable historian raises any objections. Does he say that about World War Two? About the Battle of the Bulge?"
"I find soft-core denial much more insidious and invidious than hardcore denial, because it's kind of subtle. He's getting all these kudos for not denying the Holocaust."
Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, Georgia, professor of Holocaust studies

"Therefore, what the Nazis did is condemned (but) the aspects that you talk about, clarification of these aspects is a duty of the historians and researchers. I am not a history scholar."
Islamic Republic of Iran President Hasan Rowhani

The international community in the West is behaving like an eager lap-dog, anxious to believe that overnight the Islamic Republic of Iran has suddenly changed course. The oppressive theocratic regime has become gently persuasive, surrendering its former image of a snarling wild-animal threat to a mild-mannered domestic pet. And all's well with the world.

This, despite its new president having clearly stated that his country has no intention whatever of setting aside its nuclear program. Which, as has been claimed all along, despite uranium enrichment to a degree unrequired for medical isotope and domestic energy production is meant purely for peaceful means.

The suspected explosion within a specially built steel container outside an military installation was completely innocent in nature. The search for perfection in a longer-range ballistic missile battery is simply misunderstood by the West, seeing threats wherever it looks. Peace-loving Iran is all for the outlawing of nuclear weapons, and it would like to start with persuading Israel to surrender its.

Of course, the name Israel would not pass the lips of any self-respecting Iranian diplomat or government official; better known as the Zionist entity, it was obliquely referred to in the CNN interpretation of the interview that President Rowhani submitted to in the questioning by Christine Amanpour when the president said: "...you can say Nazis committed crime against a group now therefore, they must usurp the land of another group and occupy it".

CNN, insists the Fars news agency "fabricated" the quotes by President Rowhani. What they interpreted bore no resemblance to what the official Iranian interpreter accompanying the president to the interview came away with. At no time did the president mention, for example, the word "Holocaust", and take from that what you will.

That the word to Iran, is meaningless since it represents an event that has its genesis in the imagination not in fact.

But it is a quibble.

Labels: Holocaust, Iran, Nuclear Technology, United Nations

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, September 28, 2013