When Al-Jazeera tells a story like this one, it means something.
Iranian students disrupted a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his picture and heckling him.
The Fars news agency, which is close to Ahmadinejad, said on Monday: “Some students chanted radical slogans and inflamed the atmosphere of the meeting” at the Amir Kabir University.
“A small number of students shouted ‘death to the dictator’ and smashed cameras of state television but they were confronted by a bigger group of students in the hall chanting: ‘We support Ahmadinejad’,” it said.A group of Amir Kabir’s top students had earlier expressed objections to the government’s economic and political agenda as well as confrontation with student activists and ridding universities of independent lecturers.”Bankrupting the country’s industry, inflation, distribution of poverty, defacement of the country’s international image and playing with the nation’s fate in diplomatic issues,” were among the points brought up in a statement.
Whatever the number of students, there is something in the air. Coupled with the strengthening rumors about calls to move the presidential elections forward, this does not bode well for Mahmoud the Mad. Of course, the regime of Ayatollahs could be hardly shaken by a replacement of a puppet president, but it is a good sign.
Anyway, I have especially liked the following quotes:
“It is my honour to burn for the sake of the nation’s ideals and defend the system,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling protesters who set fire to his picture, according to ISNA.
“Americans must know that even if Ahmadinejad’s body is burnt a thousand times for this purpose, Ahmadinejad will not retreat even a centimetre from these ideals.”
Americans, and not only Americans, must also know that it is not a good idea to heat Ahmadinejad’s body, let alone burn it. The body in question is so full of crap that it should be disposed in some other way, avoiding heating at any cost.
Cross-posted on SimplyJews
the pro-mahmood ‘students’ likely weren’t students at all but some of the local hizbullah thugs they use to break up student protests
“It is my honour to burn for the sake of the nation’s ideals and defend the system,†Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling protesters who set fire to his picture, according to ISNA.”
Snoopy, this quote only confirms what I have suspected for a long time. Ahmadinnerjacket (I’ll call him Wild Weasel after this – or WW – it is easier to type) is the cats paw of the iranian regime.
He says all these outragous things, garnering all sorts of world press and ire, and then, when the world has had enough, the Iranian Regime has him step down only to be replaced by someone else – just like him.
In the mean time, the nuclear clock has ticked that much closer to midnight.
Besides, ‘Wild Weasel’ can take all verbal Heat Seeking Missiles he wants – after all they are just words. Its just that his luminous being called ‘reputation’ is getting serious damage.
Nevertheless, the Iranian regimes credibility is still lilly-white – but that is the puropse of a Wild Weasel.
Burn it? Heaven forfend! Quite enough to have it at room temperature.
Then again, is it much use to do Ahmadinejad without dealing with the mullahs? Now that’s an assembly in search of a nice earthquake.
I’ll believe the student rebels are serious when they take up weapons against the ayatollahs, and not a moment before. Protests are fun, but meaningless when the government can just look at your rebel leaders in a hostile way and they’ll hand over the entire movement, including the one they made in their pants in pure terror.
The ayatollahs came to power because they knew how revolutions work, and had the perfect opportunity to pull one off with Jimmy the Dhimmi’s help. They aren’t going to let another one take place on their watch. If there is going to be any change in Iran, it will have to come from the outside, not from within.
I can think of lots of things that should happen to him.