Monday, July 04, 2005
Iran goes wild over a cartoon
Apparently, the mullahs don't look kindly on free speech, even in other countries:
This is supposed to persuade us that we can tolerate their development of nuclear weapons?
Iran said yesterday it had lodged a formal diplomatic protest after a newspaper in Bahrain published a cartoon deemed insulting to the Islamic republic’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also warned countries in the region not to offend Iran’s ruling Shiite clergy, saying that “our capabilities are incomparable”.
This is supposed to persuade us that we can tolerate their development of nuclear weapons?
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