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| Report: Shoe hurled at Ahmadinejad in Iranian city |
| 2009-03-11 |
| A shoe was recently hurled at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while he was in the city of Urmia, an Iranian Web site has reported. The incident in the Iranian city was an apparent imitation of a similar attack on former U.S. president George Bush in Iraq last year. Urmia News, the Iranian site, reported that Ahmadinejad was in a car en route to an election rally when the shoe was thrown. Ahmadinejad was traveling to a local stadium where he was meant to deliver a speech ahead of upcoming presidential elections. Advertisement According to the report, a hat was also thrown at the Iranian president before his convoy sped away from the scene. The incident was not reported by Iran's major news outlets. But it has been widely commented upon in the Islamic Republic's blogosphere, which is viewed as one of the most developed in the world. It is one of the key tools for disseminating information that contradicts the position of the regime. The government controls Iran's traditional media. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 tu3031 & darrylq hit the nail on the head. I'm irritated hearing about the shoe thrown at this idiot being reported everywhere when hardly anyone took notice of the raping of our country by both houses in DC these past few weeks. On topic, the real question is 'Did it have his name on it?'. Obviously not. Moot point. Nothing to see here...move along... |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2009-03-11 15:49 |
| #4 Too bad it wasn't a shoe bomb |
| Posted by: darrylq 2009-03-11 12:05 |
| #3 This shoe thing's getting old fast. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-11 09:19 |
| #2 In a show of support, an unidentified Iranian has donated his shoe to President Ahmadinejad. Film at 11 MSNBC |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-03-11 08:39 |
| #1 wardrobe malfuction |
| Posted by: Lonzo Glesh1593 2009-03-11 04:13 |