Posted on 06/12/2005 6:12:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW YORK Iran was rocked by bombings on Sunday, killing at least nine and wounding more than 30, as dozens of journalists from around the world gathered in advance of the presidential election this Friday. One of those journalists, actor Sean Penn--covering the events for the San Francisco Chronicle--was involved in a separate incident, and had his video camera confiscated for a time.
Several hundred women at a sit-in outside the entrance to Tehran University demanded rights revoked after the 1979 Islamic revolution. As chants and taunts arose, police and plainclothesmen surrounded the demonstrators, pushing away those trying to join the group. Officials also cut off cell phone service in the area, and challenged reporters nearby.
In the process, they briefly seized the video camera of Penn, 44, who arrived in Iran as a reporter for his friend Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Penn was spotted on Friday with a notebook in hand covering a prayer service. He has also written about his visits to Iraq for the Chronicle.
One of the five bombs that exploded Sunday went off in the center of Tehran. The violence was the most serious in Iran in more than a decade.
Journalist, huh? He certainly isn't much of an actor.
Ping!
Jeff Spicoli, surfer dude and lib journalist
I'm sure he'll find some way to blame Bush for all the violence.
I wonder if Iran is the paradise he and his Hollywood friends believe it is. I'm sure it will be a glowing report, ala Fidels Cuban paradise.
Journalist?!
Editor and Publisher.
Nevermind...
Have no fear, he's sure to return and repeat the claim that the Tehran bombings were our fault.
* Please excuse the excessive use of the term "you know" in this post. I have a deal with Hillary Clinton where I say "you know" a lot and she pays me for it. She figures that if she can get a lot of people saying "you know" it won't be weird when she says it constantly and seems so stupid. You know?
We already know why the Hollyweird praise castro. Apparently, according to one of castro's security men who defected to here, some of our actors are into pedophilia, and practice it in cuba.
If they bad mouth cuba or castro, the tape will be released.
Presumably, he'll write an article, since he's now a journalist.
Let's wait and see what he writes. At least Penn puts his time and person where his mouth is.
Most Hollywood synchopants rant endlessly in total ignorance. You have to give Penn some credit for actually going.
I think he went because he is too stupid to realize what a dumb idea it was.
I hope they arrest his sorry ass.
Maybe they will confiscate his head.
Maybe when he gets kidnapped by some islamofascist group of thugs the hollywierd libs will finally realize you don't make deals with the devil
I wonder if anyone advised him of the penalties for bringing narcotics into a place like Iran.
What an ass. He is writing Parker and Stone's next movie for them.
SEAN DID IT!
Maybe the mullahs will bring out the black cats to finish the job (If anyone has seen 'Team America').
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