Tag: Iran
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Just another day in Iran
Four Iranian gay men are due to be executed for sodomy under their nation’s Shari’a laws, Pink News is reporting. The four men — identified by the Human Rights Activist News Agency in Iran as Saadat Arefi, Vahid Akbari, Javid Akbari and Houshmand Akbari — are set to be hanged after their guilty verdict was approved recently by high […]
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The useful idiot doesn’t fall far from the tree
Like father, like son: Oliver Stone’s Son, Defender of Ahmadinejad, Converts to Islam He said criticizing the Iranian government is “like someone coming to your house and saying the father shouldn’t hit the kids,” he said. “Who are we to tell them how to rule their country?” So it’s a bad thing to intervene when […]
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Iran has a culture minister?
When he’s not keeping silent on his regime’s jailing of artists who support the country’s reform movement, Iran’s deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari is defending directors who claim sympathy to Adolf Hitler. Director Lars von Trier has since apologized for his “unintelligent, ambiguous and needlessly hurtful” remarks about the Fuhrer, which got him banned from […]
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Oliver Stone, useful idiot and shameless propagandist
The hack director of a fawning new documentary about Hugo Chavez just told Larry King that in Venezuela “you can say anything you want.” Bullshit! The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has strongly condemned the repression of freedom of speech and the press in Venezuela, and has called on President Hugo Chávez to […]
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‘For Neda’ premieres this weekend
Well-timed, as the anniversary of Iran’s rigged election approaches. See it on HBO or right here — just watch.:
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