By who else?
"U.S. Troops Arrest Members of Iran Ministry in Baghdad" by Stephen Farrell/New York Times August 29, 2007
BAGHDAD, Wednesday, Aug. 29 — An Iranian Energy Ministry delegation was arrested by American troops at a hotel in central Baghdad during an official visit to Iraq, the Iranian state news agency, IRNA, and hotel staff said Tuesday night.
American forces confirmed that a group of Iranians was detained after coalition forces searched them and their Iraqi escorts at a checkpoint, found unauthorized weapons in their vehicles and confiscated them.
The American statement did not mention the hotel, but it is near the checkpoint on the east bank of the Tigris where United States forces said the group was stopped and searched.
Staff at an Iraqi state-owned hotel called the Sheraton Ishtar said Wednesday that the delegation was detained while the members were eating dinner in the ground floor restaurant, where they had apparently proceeded from the nearby checkpoint.
They said six Iranians were led away blindfolded and handcuffed shortly after 10 p.m. Hotel officials said the delegation checked into the hotel on Monday bearing a letter of invitation from the Iraqi Electricity Ministry.
[Outrageous!! Absolutely fucking outrageous conduct!!
You know what?
I am SO SICK of stinkfuck fucking America's whining and complaining about how other people treat their PRISONERS!!
WE TORTURE, WE HUMILIATE, and then we got this stinkfuck asshole on television everyday with his SELF-RIGHTEOUS SHIT-SPEW about what the Iranians are doing.
Well, AmeriKa fucking stinks under this lying, law-breaking, mass-murdering fucking war criminal!]
The detentions are certain to increase tensions between Iran and the United States, which has repeatedly said that Iran arms and finances Shiite militias attacking American and Iraqi forces in Iraq.
Iran has denied the accusations, and has protested the arrest of five Iranians by American troops in northern Iraq in January. The United States has said the five had links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Tehran has denied the accusation, saying they were diplomats.
[Yeah, we can just pluck whoever we want, and the Zionist-controlled press hides it all!]
Mohaned Abed, the Sheraton’s night manager, identified the members of the Iranian delegation from hotel records as Jamal Bayati, Abathar Mirzani, Mohsen Ashouri, Saed Raai, Hassan Tharif and Bahmatullah Muradi, who was accompanied by his wife.
Mr. Abed, 39, said 14 people had been detained: six members of the delegation, Mr. Muradi’s wife — who was not handcuffed or blindfolded — and seven Iraqis who accompanied them. They included drivers and interpreters; the Iranians appeared to speak little or no Arabic.
[Why would they? Their language is Farsi!]
Mr. Abed said the soldiers entered the al-Warkaa restaurant on the ground floor where the Iranians were having dinner, brought them into the lobby and questioned them:
“The American soldiers arrived about 9.30 p.m., entered the hotel and their commander asked me about the Iranian delegation, how many they were, their room numbers and did I have a copy of their room keys. I told him that the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity had invited them, that they were guests of the ministry and that we had a letter from the ministry confirming this.
After about 15 or 20 minutes they gathered the Iranians’ personal belongings, put them in plastic folders, put blindfolds on their eyes and then accompanied the delegation outside the hotel.”
[We went over and BUSTED 'EM during DINNER!?!?
This is fucking outrageous! A VIOLATION of INTERNATIONAL LAW!!!!
I can see where the world begins to get the impression -- richly deserved -- of the ARROGANT AMERICAN ASSHOLE!!!]
Here is more aggravation for the "enemy":
"Plan Released by Iran and U.N. Atomic Agency Is Faulted" by Elaine Sciolino/New York Times August 29, 2007
PARIS, Aug. 28 — An agreement between Iran and the United Nations nuclear agency aimed at allaying suspicions about Tehran’s past nuclear activities is inadequate and is likely to delay further international sanctions against the country, some Western governments and nuclear experts say.
[Nothing the Iranians do or say will ever be good enough for these bastards!]
On Monday, Iran and the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency released a plan laying out a step-by-step timetable of cooperation with the goal of resolving by December issues that have been under investigation for four years. Agency officials have praised the timetable as a breakthrough and Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Tuesday said the investigation into his country’s nuclear activities was now closed.
Mr. Ahmadinejad, at a news conference in Tehran, according to The Associated Press , said:
“Not one member of the International Atomic Energy Agency has cooperated as well as Iran. So from our point of view, Iran’s nuclear case is closed. Iran is a nuclear nation and has the nuclear fuel cycle.”
Mr. Ahmadinejad repeated his stance that Iran would not buckle under international pressure to curb its nuclear projects, which Iran insists are for peaceful purposes, and the United States and some European nations believe are to make nuclear weapons.
[Even if they wanted a bomb, who cares?
With the U.S. armed to the teeth with 'em, and asshole Bush threatening them everyday, who wouldn't?
It's called DEFENSE!
Question: Have we attacked North Korea yet? Do they have a bomb? Did Iraq have a bomb? Did we attack them?
Have we got after Pakistan, India and Israel for developing them without signing the NPT?
Why are we punishing Iran when they signed the NPT and are well within their legal rights to enrich uranium for power, which is all it is?
Case closed!!
Besides, ONLY ONE NATION has ever USED the abominable weapons, and that would be the good ol' U.S. of A. With Bush at the helm, the "A" stands for ASSHOLES!!!!]
But a number of Western governments, including the United States and France, as well as leading arms control experts, fault the plan as evidence of a new and dangerous strategy by Iran to drag out the process and answer questions about its past treaty violations bit by bit to avoid further punishment by the United Nations Security Council.
[Isn't that interesting that France just threatened bombing of Iran?
Sniff, sniff, STINK!]
David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a private Washinton research organization:
“There is no way to verify any of Iran’s claims — the agency doesn’t get access to people, documents, sites. The agency loses its right to ask follow-up questions in the future, a really strange development that sets a bad precedent. You’re left wondering whether the I.A.E.A. was tricked because it was so eager for a deal.”
[Yeah, Iran tricked the world community, right.
They the ones who lied to the UN to get into Iraq?
They the ones who spied on UN members of the Security Council to twist arms?
All the lies on Iraq, and this shitter comes out a-flackin' for shitfuck stinkfuck Bush?
And you thought my language was offensive!
Imagine what you will think when this guy flattens Iran with a nuclear fireball!!!]
In its plan, the agency announced that Iran had resolved questions about its past experiments with plutonium, a material that can be used to make nuclear weapons, although it offered no explanation of how Tehran had done so.
[But when Israel or the U.S. cite national security, etc., that's ok.
It is only Iran who shall be singled out!
And they say Zionists are running US foreign policy!]
It also said Iran was finally prepared to clear up other issues, including explaining a document Iran probably received from Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear engineer, showing how to make uranium into hemispheres, a shape suitable for use in a weapon.
Although officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency have not commented since the plan was released, the agency’s deputy director, Olli Heinonen, praised it as “an important milestone” during a visit to Iran last week in which the plan was finalized:
"[While saying the process] will take time. We have in front of us an agreed work plan. We agreed on modalities on how to implement it. We have a timeline for the implementation.”
[That's why the Bush administration is being SO SHRILL with its NEW SET of LIES for war -- this time ON IRAN!
Gonna eat shit again, Amurka?
Or you gonna let him do it, then charge him with war crimes?
Or you just gonna let him get away with it, ain't you, Amurka?
Keep chewing, stinkfucks!!!!!!]
But Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, called the document “superficial,” noting that it “drags negotiations on for many months and runs the risk that the agency will be left with incomplete and misleading answers from Iran.”
[Who cares?
Anything that stops the next phase of these insane wars!!!!!!!!]
The agreement also makes it easier for Russia and China to oppose new sanctions in the Security Council, because they can claim that Iran is showing some cooperation with the international watchdog agency. The United States and some European governments find that development worrying, because Iran is continuing to produce enriched uranium, which can be used to make electricity or a bomb, in violation of past Council resolutions.
[It is not in violation of UN resolutions because the enrichment levels of the uranium is far below the 90% threshold for developing a bomb.
Iran is 3-4 years away (at least) from developing the most rudimentary weapon, and yet we get threats, terror, and tyranny daily from the fucking Fuhrer Bush!
FUCK YOU, you MASS-MURDERING ASSHOLE!!!!!!!]
One senior French official, who spoke anonymously because he is involved in negotiations on potential new sanctions:
“We are at a crucial moment in diplomacy and the international community could very well lose its unity of purpose. Meanwhile, Iran is gaining time.”
[Yup, time is running out; which is why Sarkozy said what he did!]
The United States, which with France and Britain is pushing for a third round of sanctions against Iran, has expressed its displeasure with the plan.
[So it's gonna be Europe and us against the Muslims, Russians, and Chinese, huh?
Fuck. We ain't gonna win that one, no matter how many nukes Georgie sets upon planet earth.
Bye, world!]
Gregory L. Schulte, the American envoy to the atomic agency, told reporters in Vienna last week that the timetable had “real limitations.” He faulted Iran for refusing the Council’s demand that it freeze its uranium enrichment program and for failing to carry out the “additional protocol” to Iran’s nuclear agreement with the agency. That protocol gives the agency’s inspectors the right to ask for wider access to Iran’s nuclear facilities.
[Always asking for more, never happy.
The U.S. government is George W. Bush; it behaves as a spoiled adolescent who always insists on his way!!!
And as everybody understands, the kid is an ASSHOLE!!!!!!!]
Iran agreed last June to draw up a plan within 60 days to give the agency’s nuclear inspectors more access to its nuclear sites and to answer outstanding questions about its nuclear program.
Details of the timetable will be included in a report for the agency’s 35-country governing board that could be released Wednesday. The report is expected to be more detailed than the timetable, and answer some criticisms.
Iran has threatened to curb cooperation with the agency if the Council does not delay a drive for new sanctions.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator: “If they make an irrational move, then Iran’s cooperation [with the agency] will be sterile.”
[Got the feeling the U.S. may be more than irrational, Iranian.
Take cover, Iranians. Please!
When my craphole leader signs of on the bombs, I want as few of you as dead as possible.
I'm sorry that we in AmeriKa have failed you -- and the world!!]
More Iranian reaction, through the Zionist-filter, and we all know how much they like this guy.
I wonder if they mistranslated again:
"Iranian president declares US influence waning in Iraq" by Ali Akbar Dareini/Associated Press August 29, 2007
TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boldly declared yesterday that US political influence in Iraq is "collapsing rapidly" and said his government is ready to help fill any power vacuum. The hard-line leader also defended Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
[Oh, then he's gone soon. Think the U.S. is gonna put up with that?
Watch your back, Malaki. Maybe you out to shed the suit and wear a flak vest and helmet, dude.
How much you wanna bet he's assassinated soon?
That's what Blackwaters are for!!!]
Ahmadinejad, referring to US troops in Iraq, said at a news conference:
"The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly. Soon, we will see a huge power vacuum in the region. Of course, we are prepared to fill the gap, with the help of neighbors and regional friends like Saudi Arabia, and with the help of the Iraqi nation."
Ahmadinejad did not elaborate on what he had in mind, but his remarks reflected what may be the Iranian regime's eagerness to have an increasing influence on its neighbor's political scene.
The mention of a Saudi role may have been aimed at allaying regional fears that Ahmadinejad wants to dominate in Iraq. Even though Saudi Arabia and Iran have not cooperated in the past, it "doesn't mean it can't happen," Ahmadinejad said.
State Department spokesman Tom Casey said the United States wanted to see Iran play a more positive role in Iraq, but added that Ahmadinejad's remarks showed it isn't doing so:
"Unfortunately, what I think we're seeing here with President Ahmadinejad's comments is just more of the same Iranian rhetoric that claims to hold support and friendship for the people of Iraq, while actions, unfortunately, take them in the opposite direction."
[Well, they haven't killed ONE MILLION Iraqis like we have, nor have they locked up thousands of Iraqis in torture chambers like we have]
In defending Maliki, Ahmadinejad accused the United States of interfering in Iraq's internal affairs. President Bush... has said it is up to the Iraqi people to decide if their government deserved to be replaced.
[Except for us INVADING THE PLACE and establishing the government for them, right, asshole?
I am so fucking sick of this lying, mass-murdering shitbag I could scream!]
Ahmadinejad said of US critics: "They rudely say (the Iraqi) prime minister and the constitution must change. Who are you? Who has given you the right?"
[George W. Bush claims God has given that right?
I take it you disagree, Mr. Ahmadinejad? So do I, sir!]
Maliki has shrugged off the gloomy assessments, saying he would "pay no attention" to American critics and if necessary "find friends elsewhere."
["Find friends elsewhere?"
You'll be needing them, Malaki, because the U.S. ain't gonna be your friend no more! Iran likes you!
Doesn't that mean Iran is supporting the government that we created for Ira... you know what, never fucking mind!
Pffffftttt!!]
