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Impotence-cure advert in Iran angers hard-liners
Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^ | July 15 2002

Posted on 07/15/2002 2:09:48 PM PDT by knighthawk

An advertisement for a "miracle" impotence cure depicting a man vying to raise the Tower of Pisa has left hard-liners in Tehran raging after it ran in the main official daily Iran over the weekend.

"The publication of this advertisement and especially the drawing are immoral acts", the arch-conservative Jomhouri-Eslami newspaper strongly complained on Sunday.

The paper asked how Iran, which is run by the official IRNA news agency, "dares to publish this depraved and immoral advertisement that is an attack on all modesty."

Saturday's ad by a health-ministry-approved drugs company claimed to offer a "miracle" treatment for impotence with a "98 percent success rate." The treatment was by a "brand new method" using a machine, it said without providing further detail.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: advert; hardliners; impotencecure; iran; stiffnecked
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Raising the Tower of Pisa! Bawabahahaha!
1 posted on 07/15/2002 2:09:48 PM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 07/15/2002 2:11:35 PM PDT by krb
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And Now For Something Completely Different…
3 posted on 07/15/2002 2:12:19 PM PDT by knighthawk
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Now where is that 'machine'?
4 posted on 07/15/2002 2:12:43 PM PDT by knighthawk
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Mullahs = pro-impotence.

big surprise. NOT!
5 posted on 07/15/2002 2:15:54 PM PDT by bourbon
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Good thing the ad was not something for a woman. They would have had to drag a bunch of them out to the soccor stadium and murder them!
6 posted on 07/15/2002 2:17:50 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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Impotence is forbidden in the Koran, it seems...
7 posted on 07/15/2002 2:20:36 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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Let's hear it for modesty.
8 posted on 07/15/2002 2:22:18 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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Impotence-cure advert in Iran angers hard-liners

Hmmmmm.....nope, not going to say it.

9 posted on 07/15/2002 2:24:16 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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Hmmmmm.....nope, not going to say it

It's just too easy, isn't it?

10 posted on 07/15/2002 2:27:15 PM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: knighthawk
LOL! Why the heck does it anger the hard-liners?
11 posted on 07/15/2002 2:27:38 PM PDT by BMCDA
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LOL!
12 posted on 07/15/2002 2:28:04 PM PDT by knighthawk
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LOL! Yup.
13 posted on 07/15/2002 2:28:59 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: knighthawk
LOL! This ought to be a great thread...
14 posted on 07/15/2002 2:29:14 PM PDT by HassanBenSobar
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this really isn't that odd. By supporting President Khatami, the Iranians have been propping up an old d!#k for years.
15 posted on 07/15/2002 2:30:09 PM PDT by bourbon
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Pretty clever. If the guy who came up with that can get to a free country, he has a decent chance.
16 posted on 07/15/2002 2:30:56 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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Now where is that 'machine'?

Could this be it??


17 posted on 07/15/2002 2:37:36 PM PDT by mc5cents
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Monty Python BTTT
18 posted on 07/15/2002 2:39:00 PM PDT by facedown
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They don't want the competion?
19 posted on 07/15/2002 2:41:40 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: krb
lol. Thanks to this thread, I will forever associate the leaning tower with importance . . . I mean impotence . . .at least the tower looks circumcized.
20 posted on 07/15/2002 2:41:49 PM PDT by Aliska
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