Iran: “No Difference” Between Conn. Shooting Victims and Those in Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan

Cybercast News Service ^ | December 17, 2012 | Patrick Goodenough

[Olog-hai]

The 20 young victims of Friday’s school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut are no different than those “who fall victim to armed actions” in the Gaza Strip, Iraq or Afghanistan, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said at the weekend.

An Iranian student paramilitary group, meanwhile, criticized U.S. gun laws, while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the tragedy to criticize what he called the “profiteering ambitions of a certain group … which have various destructive effects on the society and particularly innocent children and youths.”

An article on the foreign ministry website said ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast “urged the American society to trigger a movement to fight warmongering actions and massacre of defenseless and innocent people across the world by armed people during terrorist and crazy incidents.” …

[Olog-hai]

So . . . Iran is calling upon us to destroy their Islamic Republic?

[SpaceBar]

The resemblance between the Iranian and U.S. media is remarkable in how they both sit around and try to outdo themselves with over the top hyperbole and vulgarity.

[TigersEye]

Let's ask Neda Agha-Soltan about it. Oh, wait...

[Slings and Arrows]

Iran: The Westboro Baptist Church of nations.

[NurdlyPeon]

Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of: “The 20 young victims of Friday’s school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut are no different than those Israeli children who get blown up by Muslim suicide bombers”.

[jonrick46]

This is in a country where the Ayatollah Khomeini married ten-year-old Khadijeh Saqafi when he was twenty-eight.

[TangoLimaSierra]

So who were those Conn. school kids lobbing missiles at?

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

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