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| Thanksgiving in Iran |
| 2006-11-24 |
| by Michael Ledeen, "The Corner," National Review Sometimes long journeys begin with a single step. No Western government, no Western leader has been willing to challenge the fanatics in Iran. In recent days—to the total indifference of the dead tree media, the UN Low Commission on Refugees, and the Putin regime—the plight of an woman and her two children, marooned in the lounge of the Moscow Airport, apparently doomed to a potentially fatal return to Iran, has been followed by Pajamas Media. Then, miraculously, an American law firm convinced the European Human Rights Court to intervene. She is apparently not going to be extradited to Tehran, at least for two weeks. The mullahs were thwarted. And now, against a background of endless chest thumping by Ahmadi Nezhad (who has proclaimed that the world is being swept by a process he modestly calls "Ahmadnezadisation"), and the recent events in Lebanon presaging an Iranian/Syrian move to unleash civil war and overthrow the legitimate government in Beirut, there comes a very significant humiliation of the regime and its lunatic president: ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Iran was suspended from international soccer by FIFA on Thursday because of government interference with the country's soccer federation. The Iranian people are passionate soccer fans, and they will rightly blame the regime for this categorical rejection. FIFA has done what no Western leader has dared do: punish Iran for its cavalier violation of international standards. There will certainly be a political price to pay for this; the only question is how costly it will be. Watch out for demonstrations in Iran. But watch out online, not in the MSM. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 Soccer brings countries together more than politics ever does!!!!. I wish you Americans would be more interested in the 'Beautiful Game'.It has worldwide love! |
| Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2006-11-24 11:37 |