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| Ahmadinejad says French deserve better leaders |
| 2009-09-24 |
| In what appears to be the start of a war of words with the French president, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the people of France deserve better than their leaders. On August 31, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Iranians deserved better after Iran's 10th presidential election in June. When asked to comment on the remarks, President Ahmadinejad, who is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly, said his French counterpart seems to be crossing the line with his statement. "The French people deserve better than their current leaders," he told France 2 television when asked to comment on President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent remarks on Iran. "Mr. Sarkozy is meddling in the internal affairs of our country. I too have a similar view," Ahmadinejad told France 2 television. "The French people deserve better than their current leaders." Ahmadinejad also urged Paris to move to earn the release of a French academic, Clotilde Reiss, who is held in Iran on alleged charges of espionage and aiding a Western plot in the aftermath of the presidential election. "Unfortunately, we have seen no action by the French government" in favor of the prisoner, Ahmadinejad said. Reiss is on bail and staying in the French Embassy in Tehran and awaits a verdict after her appearance in a televised mass trial. Ahmadinejad pointed to a number of Iranians being held in France and suggested that a prisoner swap could be arranged between Tehran and Paris for the release of Reiss. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 We all deserve better leaders. However, like everything else, you go to the international conference with the leaders you've got. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-09-24 23:19 |
| #3 Note that some chosen french wingnuts applause with both hands... but then again, as I've noted before, a good chunk of the french far-"right" is more interested in hating the jooooos, the americano-zionists, free-market capitalism,... than actualling being actual rightwingers with actual rightwing convictions... Nice to see they've already interiorized they've lost, and are rooting for the "strong horses", putin, iran,... in their fight against the Empire. http://www.fdesouche.com/articles/68238#comments To be frank, other commenters DO point out the idiocy of approving/rooting for the iranian midget, which is pretty nice, given that sarko really is not loved there, for good (phony "conservative") and bad reasons (jooooooos, sold to the USA, mossad agent, bling-bling, he stole pépé lepen's thunder,....). For those who don't speak french, 1st comment is "I love that guy", 3 is "but, he's very clear-headed, that dude", 4 is "me, I like him, he's in his home turf. And, after all, he does what he wish to in his country. He's just a scapeogoat for all those bitches sarko, bush, obama and co". Etc, etc, and so on (with the mitigating factor of th enon-idiotarians weighting in to tell how screwed up a worldview this is). Note that the "official" rightwing party, the FN, or what's left of it (an hollow shell with a cult-like devotion to the Fearless Leader) has made a clear shift toward that 'iranian friendly' stance and it's not recent. I guess being in the sphere of influence of the MM does allow to keep on paying the bills (some other red-brown micro-political parties have been co-opted as well, but those are very marginal, unacknowledged neo-n88zis, national-bolsh44viks, anti-zionists national-m99rxists,... but those are fringe). Pépé le pen seems to have falen back into the far-right lowest common denominator with age, funny to think that in the 80's, he was courted by the israeli right (french jews put a grinding stop to that, as was the wish of the then president, the awful mitterrand, in order to "demonize" the FN to destroy the conservative right... can't paint the Devil as antisemite if he's an anti-arab ally of Israel/jews), and the FN was leaning toward Reaganism. But, now, it's a cult of some sort, and pépé le pen follows his heart (his daughter is less "obsessed" with certain subjects, this infuriates some wingnuts who believe in "better - islamic - green than friendly to the joooooos"). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-24 13:01 |
| #2 Funny... I bet France often things the same about Iran (meaning the Mullahs and not their mouthpiece). |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-09-24 12:16 |
| #1 Give it a few more years and France will have new leaders. Ones that Nutjob will approve of. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-09-24 11:17 |