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Iran’s Alleged New Invention: Finger Amputation Machine (Graphic Photo Warning)

Jan. 28, 2013 8:23am Sharona Schwartz

Morbid Iranian Invention: Finger Amputation Machine (Graphic Photo Warning)

Sentenced man is led by hooded men to the amputation machine (Photo from ISNA)

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and in Iran, a handful of fingers for the charge of robbery and adultery. Now the Sharia-guided regime has rolled out a machine with which to mete out the gruesome punishment, according to one of the country’s official news outlets.

France 24 discovered the story, having stumbled across photos on Iran’s official press agency site ISNA that were allegedly taken at a public amputation last week. Resembling scenes from the Medieval period, the blindfolded sentenced man is held in place by three men in black hoods, one of whom guides the man’s fingers into the large metal contraption, which presumably includes a rotary saw-like function.

Hooded men place blindfolded man’s hand inside the machine (Photo from ISNA)

France 24 reports:

According to the INSA press agency, the man shown getting his finger cut off was charged with robbery and adultery by a court in the southwestern city of Shiraz. He was also accused of being at the head of a criminal organisation…he was [also] sentenced to three years in prison and 99 whip lashes.

No independent witnesses were able to recount the circumstances under which this amputation took place. Four photos of the scene published by the press agency were widely relayed on social media networks. Strangely enough, the man’s face did not betray any signs of suffering in the photos, though it is possible that he might have been drugged.

Though TheBlaze is unable to verify the authenticity of these photos, if authentic, there’s little doubt how much pain the punishment would have inflicted. One photograph showed the man’s hand being taken out of the machine, revealing that four of his five fingers were chopped off, leaving only his thumb and a bloody mess.

Mahmoud Amiry-Moghaddam, a human rights activist with Iran Human Rights based in Norway told France 24: “What is surprising about this is that not only was this a public amputation, but that photos of it were distributed by official press agencies, and that they showed a machine that we had until yet never seen images of.”

His assessment is that the photos were intentionally posted as a warning to those who intend to launch protests leading up to the Iranian elections in June. “I believe this is a strategy to instil fear in the population so as to avoid any protests,” he said.

France 24 blurred this bloody photo. The original on ISNA showed four of the man’s fingers were completely cut off, leaving only his thumb.

Iran which has been under sharia law since 1979 has a notorious reputation for meting out violent corporal punishments. Amnesty International ranked Iran as the top country in terms of the number of executions it carried out, that is 360 in 2011, the most recent year such figures were compiled.

Just last week, Amnesty called on Iranian authorities to cancel the death penalty for five Arab minority members. It also condemned Iran’s execution last week of a 21-year-old who was arrested as a juvenile offender, calling it “a deplorable disregard for international law.”

As TheBlaze reported last year, Iranians were photographed taking children to watch public hangings.

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lonewolf
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:24am
I dont see ANY blood anywhere in the photos…FAKE??? It appears to be a shear, and the blade looks clean to me.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:18am
  Not only that but a person having a finger sheared off would be screaming.
  This man shows no sign of pain at all.
  
  I am at a point where I dont trust anything in the media any longer.
  Nearly everything is propaganda these days.
  
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- focalpoint
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:21am
  Are you looking at the same photos as the rest of us? There’s blood all over the flywheel on the right side of the last photo. It’s not a shear; it’s obviously a rotary blade.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:23am
  Im not doubting Iran is a sewer of atrocities but I say question everything.
  This kind of thing is real easy to fake when everyone’s face is covered, sections are blurred, etc.
  
  Kind of like the NKorea cannibalism story.
  Figure out some way to keep your cause in the spotlight by being totally over-the-top outrageous
  
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- OldVet
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:40am
  BODYBAG, I almost had my thumb cut off by a table saw one time. I didn’t feel any pain at the time. Just a tug as the teeth ripped through my flesh. Try to speak from experience instead of theory next time.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:47am
  And to imagine these guys are reaching for space. http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/dn22136-iran-space-agency-to-launch-a-monkey-into-space.html
  
  Can you imagine Muslims in space? Oh, wait – I know what that will be like. I remember seeing The Wrath of Khan. “Kiiiiirk!”
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:52am
  This little piggy went to the market….
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:53am
  Iran reportedly does alot of worse things than chop off fingers. I know for a fact that theft is often punished by the loss of fingers or a hand in Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
  
  The fact that the method used involves a saw instead of sword or knife is of little consequence. I imagine the treble whine of a table saw and the fact that it looks like a rusty, grease stained, contraption adds a nice dose of fear and drama.
  
  Iran’s punishments and executions are rarely doled out to the public, because they are horrific, and Iran has an image problem internationally. When they are released, you can bet it’s for a reason.
  This is a warning designed to chill the blood and make someone think twice about protesting the government.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:07am
  If they would have heated the blade up by cutting 30 flooring planks, then there would have very been little blood. Yes, the trauma doesn’t set in till you see blood or your fingers lying on on the ground.
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:28am
  Thats rust on the fly wheel. Besides, there would be no reason for blood to spattered everywhere from a compression cut/shear. The guy is organized crime leader, of course he wants to look tough and take the pain..it is possible.
  
  Iran, Saudi the UAE and a host of others have been doing amputation for a very long time. This is not new or even need to be faked.
  
  Call me Lefty!
  
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- JQuentinEvermann
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:33am
  Like most countries that use mutilation as punishment, he is doped out of his mind. How anybody can find it difficult to believe that animals would do this to one of their own is beyond me.
  
  The leadership of Iran and it’s non-youth culture are hundreds of years behind civilization.
  
  Also, if you look at the unedited pictures, it’s clear what happened.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:01pm
  @OLDVET
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:40am
  BODYBAG, I almost had my thumb cut off by a table saw one time. I didn’t feel any pain at the time. Just a tug as the teeth ripped through my flesh. Try to speak from experience instead of theory next time.
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  Congratulations.
  I dont buy propaganda from either side.
  I am speaking from years of experience and having personally watched it happen numerous
  times dimwit.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:07pm
  @OLDVET
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:40am
  BODYBAG, I almost had my thumb cut off by a table saw one time. I didn’t feel any pain at the time. Just a tug as the teeth ripped through my flesh. Try to speak from experience instead of theory next time.
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  Ive seen fingers cut off, arms ripped half in 2 and once witnessed a guy cut his hand clear off.
  Every single time there were blood curdling screams and the amount of blood was unbelievable.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:13pm
  With all the hoods…are you sure it’s not Harry Reid and the senate in session???
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:19pm
  Achmed…now which finger was it we were to remove?…The middle one I think…oh crap….which hand..the left I think, oh crap…ok lets try this again….
  
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- johnsnare
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:06pm
  I would think there would be blood all over the place. His clothes are clean, and he is not showing any pain or discomfort. Looks like a staged act. He seems pretty calm for someone who just lost four fingers. Typical propaganda shot.
  
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- K Chad Roberts
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:20pm
  “BODYBAG, I almost had my thumb cut off by a table saw one time. I didn’t feel any pain at the time. Just a tug as the teeth ripped through my flesh. Try to speak from experience instead of theory next time.”
  
  I’ve witnessed one amputation and a couple of partial amputations before. When the cut was clean, there was very little blood, but if it was a rough sheer, then there was plenty of blood. In all cases, the reaction to the pain was severely delayed, and usually started when the person saw the damage.
  
  From a medical stand point; When there is a clean amputation, the veins pull back into the limb and seal almost immediately, resulting in very little blood-loss/spray. When the cut is perpendicular to the limb, or the cut shreds or crushes, then the bleeding is profuse and will not stop without medical attention. Our bodies are very good at stopping blood loss when it comes to a clean amputation, but not when the damage leaves a messy opening.
  
  I have to agree with this poster, speak from experience please. I believe it when some people feel the pain immediately, don’t get me wrong, but if you cannot see the injury, or do not notice it, the typical person will not feel it as pain due to shock. Blood is also a bad way to identify an amputation, simply by the way our bodies react to a clean removal.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 1:59pm
  And It’s High-Tech equipment too.
  
  Ah, One happy world. We should ALL live in harmony under the U.N. and adopt the customs of our Global Brothers and Sisters.
  
  Burkas for all, Fish Eyeballs for lunch, Monkey Brains for dinner, Sex With Goats, Enslaving young GIRLS as Concubines, Hanging the Gays, etc.
  
  Ah, I love the United Nations and all it’s Global Citizens.
  
  World Peace, Love and all that other B#ii**** !!!!!!
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:09pm
  TH3OPH1LUS
  “Can you imagine Muslims in space? Oh, wait – I know what that will be like. I remember seeing The Wrath of Khan. “Kiiiiirk!”
  ====================================
  Muslims in space would be more like “The Search for Spock” and the Klingon that Chris Lloyd played, Kruge. He killed indiscriminately, and often for no reason, just o make a person angry.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:32pm
  I’m not a fan of any country in the Middle East, but let’s not forget that the propaganda is getting ramped up for our upcoming invasion of Iran. All to protect Israel (who can protect themselves on their own).
  
  Photos can be faked and whole scenes can be fabricated to sway public opinion. I wouldn’t put it past Israel to stage this scene. They are masters of propaganda as demonstrated by the “chosen people’s” ownership of the media and Hollywood in this country.
  
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- TH30PH1LUS
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 2:48pm
  ANONYMOUS T. IRRELEVANT: lol yes the Klingons! Good call
  
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- RobbieDolev
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:43pm
  Sillyfreshness
  Just to put you in the picture:
  1. We don’t need the US’s help to take care of Iran.
  2. We don’t do propoganda as a prelude to protecting ourselves.
  3. When we do take care of Iran, it will take a lot of digging around to find out who actually did it and in fact that it was actually done. .
  4. Where would we find such a rusty contraption in Israel? If we were to build a machine to punish criminals, it would be made of sugical stainless steel because God forbid we cause some dirtbag an infection, the UN and Europe in general, led from behind by your president, would be all over us like hyenas: Barking, yapping and laughing, and fighting with each other over something as insignificant as scraps.
  
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- Jim S
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:39pm
  Our CIA has an improved model for the “rendition” chaps…and we don’t even have Sharia !…separation of church and state..we torture by law, not by God..see we’re better.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:10pm
  The device looks rather low budget.
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:12pm
  Amnesty International – calling it “a deplorable disregard for international law.”
  
  Hello? This is Iran! Sharia Law is in full effect there. They think everyone not of Islam is a Kufir (non-believer). Do you think they give anything about what you think?
  
  Now I do have to admit that I think we are way to light on your criminals. When I was stationed in Saudi Arabia, a lady forgot her purse on the bus. The next day, the purse was still in the seat she had sat in the day before, nothing missing. Maybe we would have less repeat offenders if they only had 1-hand left. Kind of hard to run out with a TV or stereo when you only have one hand to grab it with. That said, there is nothing on earth worth going to Iran.
  
  As for the machine, I think we should test it on Mah-mood Ack-ma-dinner-jacket. See if it really works.
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:27pm
  Golly Gee Mr. Wizard, Tell me it Ain’t So, I thought these Muslims were Obama’s Friends, Are We Really going to be Next in Line?
  NO, NO, Little Billy, OBAMA will just use a Guillotine on us Americans that don’t Bow Down & Kiss His Butt, ALL because we REFUSE to REJECT our FAITH IN JESUS & Serve his False, Maggot Infested, Dead Religious Leader, Mohammad & His Worthless Meteor Rock they call Allah!
  
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- Weiners Wiener
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:46pm
  Bodybag — You’re wrong. The pain is not instantaneous. I know, as I’ve had a finger severed myself. The pain was far worse after the initial shock was over.
  
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- uralrider
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 6:53pm
  The bloody picture is out of focus. I once had my thumb smashed in a door, it ripped the flesh from the bone, I could hit a person 6 feet away between the eyes every time my heart beat, I had no feeling until the 23rd and 24th stitch that held the flesh back on the bone. I am not surprised the person is not showing what some think he should for pain.
  
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Tickdog
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:23am
they need a machine to do that??????? wow.. lame!

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- OlefromMN
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:37pm
  It does appear to be the Rube Goldberg method of obtaining their desired result doesn’t it?
  
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Sickandtiredofextremists
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:20am
“rotary saw-like function”

Not that it makes much difference, but I’m forever amazed at how little reporters actually know about what they are reporting!!!! That looks like a little 5 or 10 Ton Punch Press…………not a “saw” of any kind. Makes me question the validity of much of what I read on the printed page. Don’t get me wrong, a punch press can mangle a finger or hand like no other sadistic torture tool on the planet. It could certainly be set up to “amputate” with little problem. Looks like a nasty old, rusty one and I imagine posting pictures of it might be much more intimidating that just showing someone having a hand whacked off with a sword or axe. At any rate, the government of Iran are ruthless, mindless savages. Don’t know why someone hasn’t just wiped them off the face of the earth a long time ago. Maybe Israel is getting ready to do it!

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- petroc
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:59pm
  “… I’m forever amazed at how little reporters actually know about what they are reporting…”
  
  You mean like when they refer to an ammunition CLIP instead of a magazine? Show how ignorant they really are…
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:38pm
  Or when they refer to AR-15′s as “assault weapons” just because they look like a military automatic weapon.
  
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Landon410
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:20am
they sure are all about peace and love, what a wonderful religion

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tozzo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:18am
It looks like a contraption from an old Popeye cartoon! This is “cutting edge” technology for sure at its best.

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Selfreliance
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:15am
Sorry, but this is a fake. The machine is clearly a powered shear. The motor drives the large flywheel, seen at the right top of the machine. This flywheel is connected to a shaft that runs left through the top of the solid green assembly to an offset arm, seen pointed down in the first picture. As this arm rotates, it moves up and down the heavy shearing blade, “T” shaped when seen from the end (first pic) with a sharp bevel on the bottom edge. The shearing blade runs up and down right next to a fixed anvil.

At no point do we see the man’s fingers extending through the cutting zone, between the blade and anvil. Switch to the last picture, where this man’s fingers have allegedly been cut off by the shear. The blade is up relative to the anvil, since you can see through this space around the man’s waist. Notably, there is no evidence of blood or tissue on or around the blade or anvil. There is absolutely no possibility that this man’s fingers have just been cut off on this machine.

Nice tale, though.

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- tozzo
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:25am
  I think you should send them your resume.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:26am
  I did think that he looked quite relaxed in the last picture – like he’d just had his nails manicured…
  
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- Landon410
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:34am
  and they make sure to hold the hand open to the camera for the best picture possible of the hand, after reading your post and then taking a second look at photos, you’re making sense, but that makes you dangerous……… don’t answer your door today!
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:53am
  Actually it’s an outdated Mechanical Punch Press set up to shear fingers….I worked with a lot of them years ago…Except only the stupid or stoned sheared their fingers…
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:57am
  P.S. It’s the real deal…It was purposely blurred to cover the graphic detail…
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:01am
  PPS…..Here’s the youtube video of the pics…note the finger falling off the machine at the end….
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFsaVz3XDMU
  
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Yenaldlooshi
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:07am
Is the Iranian government and it’s religious leader crazees short of fingers?

…Hell, I’ll give em’ the finger!

I know a lot of people in Iran who will give them the finger.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Maybe they are throwing a campaign party and need “finger food.” The election ARE coming up.
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:03am
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I got a pair of Side Cutters that will do that job. And they use Green Energy…….

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:09am
  Hi Spank,
  
  A gift from a Mafia friend? : )
  
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thibx
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:59am
this is what oboma hired a nasa employee to go out and find, muslim contribution to the world.

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- RaydocX
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:31am
  well, they tried, but i think there is a harbor freight tag on the stand…
  
  when technological innovation is a device the Left would SCREAM is torture were it to appear in the West, and nothing is said by those same voices, their hypocrisy and underlying goals are laid as bare as the bones of the poor ‘guinea pig’s fingers…
  
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Yenaldlooshi
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:57am
Do they clean it between festivities?
…While I’m here, I wish to congratulate Mr. Ahmadinejad on his recent trip into space.The monkey refused to go.and they needed a look alike to fool the public.

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Slowman101
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:55am
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, yes! Another prime example of a so called “peace loving religion.” Reminds me more of a bunch of savages.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:50am
Morning BIOHAZARD, I’m beginning to think that one of these days they might be able to join the 18th century.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:07am
  Good morning, RJ.
  
  It looks like someone reported my comment and had it removed. What the heck is going on, dear moderator? I said nothing offensive. Are you letting the forever-offended, thin-skinned liberals dictate who gets to post what and when? I would really like to know what was so bad about saying that these people are stuck in prehistoric times.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:15am
  Morning Guys,
  
  Went to bed at 5:15am and couldn’t sleep so here I am. : (
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:17am
  I wonder is there is a smaller version for the Children to play with?
  
  (end sarcasm)
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:18am
  BIOHAZARD, Yeah, just noticed that. I didn’t see anything offensive in it at all. I’ve lost some really sedate posts for some reason. Hopefully, its the software is just not perfect yet.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:31am
  Something seems to be wrong here, Bio.
  
  Or maybe a troll has taken an intense dislike to you. I can’t imagine why – you are one of the more easy-going contributors.
  
  Is it worth emailing the Blaze, perhaps?
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:32am
  Monk might be able to help…
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:36am
  Morning BIOHAZARD,
  
  Did you actually “see” your comment post and then not see it later.
  
  Very important difference.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:37am
  RJ, I don’t know WTH is going on. Maybe our resident trolls are having a little fun with the site?
  
  Good morning, Monk! BTW, I’ve been up and working since 3:45. I know – yuck!
  
  The children’s version is a pair of medium-sized wire cutters. We can’t have them playing with cigar cutters, now can we? I mean, wouldn’t that be sending the wrong message, namely that tobacco is OK? Heh heh heh….
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:09am
  “”the man shown getting his finger cut off was charged with robbery and adultery”"
  
  Adultery??? I think they skipped the pics of the chopping for that particular crime….
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:28am
  Hey, guys! Thanks, Kiwi. I try to be pretty laid back, although some topics really get under my skin. :)
  
  But yeah, my comment was there earlier. Someone at the Blaze doesn’t like me anymore (or any less?). Oh, the horror!! Heh heh heh….
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 10:47am
  Holy cow, my comment is back (see below). I had clicked on my username and looked under my last 10 comments and it had been removed. Now it’s there. What gives??
  
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FiscalBill
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:49am
I dont know if this story is true but a caller to a conservative radio station said he was talking with a far left guy who was complaining about gay rights in this country. So he says “In muslim countries they hang you for being gay” to which the guy responded we need to respect their culture. LOL. I guess we need to respect this aspect of their culture as well.

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greg207
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:45am
It takes 3 of them to cut off 1 finger or however many.

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- N37BU6
  Posted on January 29, 2013 at 4:46am
  Must be union.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:45am
Pull my finger.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:51am
  LOL, and this will piss off WANG-DANG-DOODLE, but good thing that I did not have a mouth full of coffee
  
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- CanteenBoy
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:58pm
  Maybe that was his original crime…
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:45am
More medieval savagery.

One is scarcely surprised any more.

Another Middle East theocracy on the slippery slope toward rebellion…

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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:47am
  They are revolting to theocracy, not away from it.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:53am
  Looking at those photos and reading the story sort of makes one feel better about how Iran’s nuclear program must be progressing. More than likely they are just working on an advanced ray gun that removes fingers, hands, and feet for these procedures.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:11am
  @ Gonzo
  
  I wouldn’t be too sure about that. All Iranians are feeling the pinch and the younger Iranians are becoming increasingly restless.
  
  Things are not going all that well for the regime, though they try to downplay it.
  
  It’s hard to predict what will happen next in that Godforsaken country, but I’ll bet that the Imams are becoming a little bit anxious…
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:21am
  @NZKiwi – no matter what though, any democratic uprising that happens again Obama will refuse to aid in any shape, means or form. His loathing for anyone loving or seeking freedom is absolute unless it serves his political agenda.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:24am
  @ RJ
  
  Have you heard that they lost the Fordo facility last week? Dear, oh dear, will their tribulations never cease…
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 9:25am
  But look what direction Egypt took when Mubarak was ousted.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 3:51pm
  SNOWLEOPARD
  Exactly my thoughts.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:40am
I’m guessing they have strict gun control laws in Iran.

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:50am
  If they haven’t I expect that they will wish they did in the near future…
  
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Stelex
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:39am
I wonder if the NASA muslim outreach program helped them with this. Or are they giving us this new technology. I’m so confused.

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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:37am
It’s like reinventing the door knob…but that ugly thing looks dumb…costly…LOL

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- Zipit
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:49am
  Government inefficiency! Who’d a thunk?
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:36am
“Cigar cutter”, I had no idea. I spent my career in a shipyard founded in 1901 and full of real antique machines. I saw their device as a powered metal punch. I’m sure they salvaged it from the wreckage of Fordow Nuclear.

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biohazard23
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:36am
Wow, who knew those moo slims were so technologically advanced? One of these days, they may even join the 21st century. .

Of course, the rest of the world will continue to be about 30,000 years ahead of them, but still….

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lel2007
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:34am
Ishlam’s contribution to technology of the 21st century.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:32am
Idiots have been watching too many of those Rockwell infomercials. All they really had to do was call on the Japanese Yakuza for a few lessons in efficiency.

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- Zipit
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:51am
  RJJ where’ Ron Popeil when ya need him!
  
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denkat56
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:32am
Their cutting off the wrong digit for adultery. Just another example of a tolerant peace loving religious group in the world. Gosh I’m sure glad I’m not Muslim.

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- Darla_K
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:44am
  Once Obama gets done appointing muslims working in our government it will be a matter of time before this kind of torture comes here. Buckle up and be ready. :)
  
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raderby
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 8:28am
whoops- sorry towel heads – already invented – it is called a cigar cutter.

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- burnteye86
  Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:44pm
  Yep. Leave it to the Iranians to invent a cigar cutter that weighs 200 lbs
  
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