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Iran President Orders Economic Reprisals for Cartoons (ROPers Still Frothing Over Moongod Pics)
Yahoo! News ^ | 02/04/2006 | AFP

Posted on 02/04/2006 12:07:33 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered the cancellation of economic contracts with countries where the media have carried cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the ISNA news agency reported.

The report said the hardline president had ordered the creation of an official body to respond to the cartoons, saying the regime "must revise and cancel economic contracts with the countries that started this repulsive act and those that followed them."

The presidential decree also condemned Saturday the "the insult by certain Western media of the prophet which shows the hatred towards Islam and Muslims of the Zionists who govern these countries and the absence of serious action by the leaders of these countries".

The body looking into reprisals will be headed by Iran's commerce minister and include a deputy foreign minister, a deputy oil minister and a deputy industry minister, ISNA said.

The cartoons, first published last September by the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, have since appeared in newspapers in countries including Norway, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

In a separate report, an influential state body -- the Council for Islamic Propaganda -- was quoted as calling for the expulsion of the Danish ambassador to Tehran as well as a boycott of Danish products.

Iran's foreign ministry has already summoned the ambassadors of Denmark, Norway and EU presidency holder Austria to pass on the regime's complaints.

It was the Islamic republic's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini who in 1989 demanded Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie's execution over his novel the "Satanic Verses," deemed blasphemous and insulting to the Prophet Mohammed.

Khomeini's successor as Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has yet to speak out on the issue.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoons; iran; islam; islamofascism; jihad; moongod; religionofpeace; ulululululululu; waronterror

1 posted on 02/04/2006 12:07:35 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

European countries shouldn't be doing business with Iran in the first place.


2 posted on 02/04/2006 12:11:06 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
So they demand economic reprisals for a cartoon, but go ballistic for economic sanctions because of nukes.

Gotta love the logic of the muzzies.

3 posted on 02/04/2006 12:12:00 PM PST by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Oh no, they're going to impose sanctions on us!
4 posted on 02/04/2006 12:12:08 PM PST by inquest (If you favor any legal status for illegal aliens, then do not claim to be in favor of secure borders)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

You don't think Syria and Iran will take advantage of this crisis do you?


5 posted on 02/04/2006 12:12:12 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hey, I like Iranian "pitted dates", and they aren´t poisoned.


6 posted on 02/04/2006 12:12:51 PM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

7 posted on 02/04/2006 12:14:44 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: softwarecreator
Gotta love the logic of the muzzies.

hypocrites...

8 posted on 02/04/2006 12:23:03 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: quantim

If they want to protest why don't they uncover there faces. A bunch in insecure touch-holes, if you ask me.


9 posted on 02/04/2006 12:51:27 PM PST by oyez
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To: quantim

Yeah, well, let me help ya'll not forget who they are. Here's a list of video links regarding Islam, Muslims and terrorists.

http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/islam-religion-of-peace-video-gallery.html


10 posted on 02/04/2006 1:37:38 PM PST by kokonut
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To: oyez

The reason is that they are men under those veils.


11 posted on 02/04/2006 1:38:27 PM PST by BookaT (My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Another smart move by an idiot. They are going to boycott themselves back to the 7th century, from which they are not far removed anyway.


12 posted on 02/04/2006 11:32:49 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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