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Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry
The Hill ^

Posted on 01/03/2010 12:47:31 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry By Bridget Johnson - 01/03/10 01:48 PM ET

Iranian legislators on Sunday decided to not allow a visit from Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Iranian media.

"Members of the Iranian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee (a subcommittee of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission) voiced opposition to the request after studying the issue," Hassan Ebrahimi, head of the committee, told the semi-official Fars News Agency.

Several Iranian news outlets reported last week that Kerry had submitted an official request to visit Tehran in an emissary role.

Kerry spokesman Frederick Jones told the Wall Street Journal before Christmas, though, that no trip had been scheduled. "Is he planning now on going to Iran? The answer is no," said Jones.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said last week that "legislative officials are studying the case and they are in charge for providing a response."

On Saturday, Iranian legislators stepped up the rhetoric against the news that Kerry was considering traveling to Tehran with the blessing of the White House.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran has no plans to negotiate with any American official, unless the country (the U.S.) changes its policies," member of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Zohreh Elahian said, according to Fars News Agency.

"Iran-US relations are not under such conditions that could produce results through a number of non-targeted meetings and talks," rapporteur of the parliament's Nationals Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazzem Jalali told Fars on Saturday in response to a question about Kerry wishing to visit Iran.

"Americans are more seeking to exploit the media and means of propaganda in a bid to gain an advantage," Jalali said. "...A number of the high-ranking officials in the present U.S. administration sent letters for talks with Iranian officials when they served as senators.

"The bills ratified in the US legislative bodies against Iran are examples of paradoxical behavior which we are witnessing from American statesmen towards Iran, and indicate that their policies on Iran are not honest," he added.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bhoiran; christmasincambodia; iran; iraniannukes; johnfragginkeery; keepowt; kerry; liedtocongress; nucleariran; obama; traitor; treason; xmasincambodia
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL.

What a tool.


101 posted on 01/03/2010 6:20:14 PM PST by CriticalJ
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To: Sub-Driver
Muslims don't like French poodles.


102 posted on 01/03/2010 6:24:17 PM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey, who knew the Iranians could get one right? ;)

If I were head of state of some other country I’d turn him away too.


103 posted on 01/03/2010 6:30:12 PM PST by G8 Diplomat
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To: Sub-Driver
kerry perv Pictures, Images and Photos
104 posted on 01/03/2010 6:32:54 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

EEEeeewww!
I’m taking my mace to bed tonight in case I have nightmares.


105 posted on 01/03/2010 6:37:19 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Pride in the USA

This just made me laugh and laugh.


106 posted on 01/03/2010 6:54:08 PM PST by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: okie01
..." traitorous SOB..."

You said a mouthful there okie. Remember, when Jim DeMint wanted to go on a 'fact finding' trip to Hondurus earlier this year, the Kerry bastard had tried everything to prevent him from going. DeMint didn't know up until the midnight hour whether he would be allowed to go and ultimately ended paying his own way. Such a f'ng hypocrite. Kerry wants to rub elbows with an insane dictator but could care less for the citizen's wishes in a country exercising their own Constitutional rights by having a wannabe dictator removed.

107 posted on 01/03/2010 6:56:58 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (If you remove the first Amendment, we'll be forced to move on to the next one.)
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To: Sub-Driver
New Year's predictions:

(1) Hillary will resign in private disgust during the early part of the new year. Kerry will be appointed by Obama as the new SOS.

(2) Turned down or not, this aborted Iranian "diplomatic" mission was Kerry's opening gambit in a carefully plotted bid for the next Nobel Peace Prize.

Leni

108 posted on 01/03/2010 7:27:54 PM PST by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: Vermont Lt

Maybe he will tell us how instead of Iran, he was in Cambodia this Christmas.


109 posted on 01/03/2010 7:30:07 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: Sub-Driver

His ego is severely injured now...give him another Purple Heart!


110 posted on 01/03/2010 7:31:37 PM PST by rfp1234 (R.I.P. Scotty 7/2007-11/2009.)
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To: Sub-Driver

That does it! Time to parachute in Pelosi! A couple days listening to her, and Tehran will cave to any demand to get her off their hands!


111 posted on 01/03/2010 7:36:09 PM PST by eater-of-toast
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To: Sub-Driver
Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

112 posted on 01/03/2010 7:40:12 PM PST by BAW (I'm right.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Would they have accepted Jesse Jackson, who has usually gotten these plum “emissary” roles in the past?
I can see why this Administration wants to make SOME gesture indicating SOMETHING that may suggest it’s even AWARE of what kind of totalitarian brutality is going on in Iran now.
So naturally, then send Long John Kerry, “war hero”.
Iran rebuffs him, and by extension, Obama, and Obama, playing checkers instead of chess, will be clueless as to what to do.


113 posted on 01/03/2010 7:40:47 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry Donors Include ‘Benedict Arnolds’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6884-2004Feb25.html

Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, frequently calls companies and chief executives “Benedict Arnolds” if they move jobs and operations overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

...Additionally, two of Kerry’s biggest fundraisers, who together have raised more than $400,000 for the candidate, are top executives at investment firms that helped set up companies in the world’s best-known offshore tax havens, federal records show.

Kerry has also received $20,100 in donations directly from individuals at companies with mailing addresses offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes, records show.

“Senator Kerry has made it crystal clear that he’s going to close these loopholes, forever,” said Chad Clanton, a Kerry spokesman. “Nothing will stop him. Period.”

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Iran denies entry to Sen. John “Benedict Arnold” Kerry


114 posted on 01/03/2010 7:41:04 PM PST by Son House (The Learning Curve for Democrats on Macroeconomics is getting Exponential)
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To: Bon mots

Oh, my goodness! That is HILARIOUS!!!


115 posted on 01/03/2010 7:45:29 PM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Aw, well. I’m sure there are other oppressive, dictatorial, homicidal terrorist regimes that Jean Francois can legitimate.


116 posted on 01/03/2010 7:47:13 PM PST by Stultis (Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; Democrats always opposed waterboarding as torture)
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To: Sub-Driver
Teresa will not be amused...


117 posted on 01/03/2010 7:47:49 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: True Republican Patriot

LOL, good one. Toss McCain in and it’s a deal.


118 posted on 01/03/2010 8:21:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Good news. HC bill will not cover illegal aliens. Bad news. 20-35 million will be made citizens.)
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To: Carley

ROFLOL!


119 posted on 01/03/2010 8:22:01 PM PST by FourPeas (Why does Professor Presbury's wolfhound, Roy, endeavour to bite him?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Denied for general douche-baggery...


120 posted on 01/03/2010 8:22:53 PM PST by libs_kma (If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
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