Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Ah yes, I remember all those critics so quick to defend Mohammad Khatami when his appearance at Harvard was being protested last September. He's a moderate, he's here for dialog, hear him out, we need more like this...as Robert Spencer puts it, "The moderate Khatami, voice of sweet reason, champion of dialogue with the West, Gallant to Ahmadinejad's Goofus..." It turns out the real Khatami is quite different, but not very surprising: Khatami tells Israeli reporters to 'go to hell'
Khatami reiterated that Iran had a right to a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program and that it did not intend to develop nuclear weapons. "We want to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes only," he claimed...
...Iran's former president also said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was overseeing Iran's nuclear activity, and pointed out that Iran was a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while "other states in the Middle East" were treated differently...
...Nevertheless, despite his calls for "dialogue," Khatami refused to speak to the Israeli reporters present at the talks.
Channel 10 later reported that Khatami, heading for his suite, had cursed them, saying, "Go to hell!"
On Friday, Khatami decided to skip the scheduled panel on Iran's nuclear program because an Israeli representative was slated to speak.
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Yes, I saw this as well. The comment came from the supposedly "moderate" Iranian. A moderate Iranian is like the tooth fairy or Santa Claus---they do NOT exist.
IMHO if you take a look at khatamis face and ignore his mullah turban and robe, khatami looks EXACTLY like a Jew.
Here's a link to a picture of him.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/khatami.jpg
..A little off topic (though you mention Harvard and this appears on the Kennedy School's site) is a recent paper about press coverage of the war against Hezbollah last summer. Of course, this paper hasn't been getting anywhere near the attention as the W & M paper. ..Which is a shame, 'cause this one tells the truth:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/research_papers/R29.pdf
Oops--I just realized you already had a post recently that referred to the paper I linked to in the comment I made earlier. ..Next time I'll search _before_ posting. :-)
No worry. That's a good one.
"No soup for you!" the Iranian mullah version.