Iran Urges U.K. ‘Restraint’ While Ahmadinejad Calls For UN Security Council Action Over Riots
- Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:16pm by
Billy Hallowell
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Violence and looting continue to color the U.K.'s worst rioting in decades.
Iran’s president is seizing upon the violent and destructive London riots to take some jabs at the U.K. In a move that is likely rooted more in payback over England’s support of past Iranian protests, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is urging the U.N. Security Council to take action over the rioting in Britain.
Ahmadinejad was also quoted by state radio on Wednesday calling on Britain’s government to listen to the demands of their people. He was heard on the radio asking: “What else should happen for the Security Council to react?”
An image from Iran's 2009 Green Revolution
His comments appear to be direct jabs at the country, which supported Iran’s opposition during post-election turmoil in 2009 (also known as the
Green Revolution).
The Iranian revolt was characterized by human rights violations, as it left scores wounded, while hundreds more were carted off to prison. The Guardian writes:
Iran has called on the British government to “restrain” the police and stop the “violent treatment” of rioters.
The foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said dialogue would calm the situation, and urged the UK to respond to the demands of the “protesters”. He also asked human rights organisations to investigate the death of Mark Duggan, which led to the riots.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Guardian also reports that Iranian media with close ties to the government are also reporting that England’s violence and turmoil is the result of “social unrest.”
This unrest, they contend, is rooted primarily in poor living conditions and police mistreatment of those on the lower rungs of the economic strata.
While the Iranian government seeks to exploit the situation for its own political gain, Egyptians are mesmerized. CNN reports on their reactions to the British unrest following their own revolution earlier this year. Here’s just a snippet of perspective:
Noor Noor, an Egyptian activist and son of presidential candidate Ayman Noor reflected on events Tuesday, saying: “Politically speaking, marginalized people and injustice is everywhere and when it happens in more developed countries like England, people are more likely to react more violently to injustice.
He added: “I hear people flirting with the word revolution in London but this is premature. The January 25 revolution started with certain demands that later resulted into controlled aggression. London started with aggression.
As The Blaze has reported extensively, over the past days, overnight rioting has gripped the British capital and looting has been rampant in other cities. The unrest began Saturday after an initially peaceful protest over a police shooting in a London neighborhood turned violent. Thus far, the damage has been widespread, opening an opportunity for Iran to criticize one of its Western opponents.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (90)
WARRIORSCROWN
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:17amI don’t even want to try and spell out his name… but this radical calls for restraint?? I think he needs to restrain his lips! He must just be genuinely concerned about oppressive government action…ha ha NOT Shut it M.A.!! “Even a fool can show wisdom by not speaking”.
Report Post »muhamadhater
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:42amI just call him president imaretard (im a re-tard) works for me!! just sayin!!
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:05amThis guy is now going to argue that there is a “Responsiility to Protect(R2P)
Report Post »Just wait until the riots start HERE and the UN is weighing moving onto OUR streets
http://markamerica.com/2011/08/10/coming-to-america/
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:38amYou can see this playing out. The UK is read to use troops. This will kick off the Responsibility to Protect concept. Obama & Clinton will “scold” UK. The UN Security Council will vote for intervention under RTP with the US voting for intervention. UN peacekeeping troops will try to enter the UK. The UK will respond with force of arms (remember the Battle of Britain). While the US probably send troops, we are the largest single financial sposnsor of the UN, so our money will support the war.
Mob riots will increase in size and intensity in the US. RTP will be applied to the US.
This the stuff of fiction. But it can happen easily in real life.
Report Post »usmc1063
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:10amShow restraint? You have got to be kidding me!!! He’s still eliminating members of the green movement in his Country.
Report Post »mils
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:42amWe need to remember…he is merely the mouthpiece for his country…
Report Post »conservative510
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:08amEven this headline is absurdly ironic!
Report Post »just the facts
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 11:02amI can’t wait until Israel takes him out!!
Report Post »opNorthwoods
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:18pmwell … the attacks on Libya are not too different from whats going on in UK ….. Un should arm the UK rebels and bomb London !
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:10amBrittan should be deporting any looters, eaters, and pillagers who are rioting, and residing in Brittan. Deport them back to the middle east where they will be treated fairly and justly under Shariah law! Anyone caught rioting and receiving assistance from Brittan should stop receiving assistance and that assistance use to purchase one way cargo transport back to Iran.
Report Post »TrailerParkDave
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:03amIgnorance is bliss!
Report Post »hoopla
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:11amI thought I was reading the Onion for a sec
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:50amI laughed so hard reading this headline that I ended up spitting coffee all over the place!
Report Post »Norm D. Plume
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:03pmIt’s beautiful, I must admit, in a “sauce for the goose” way.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:47amIs he really trying to say that England’s riots are not simply an excuse to be brats and to steal and use adrenaline fever to show they can torch a building – even if it hurts people and their own communities?
That’s a difference to trying to take down a govt. because it tortures people.
Report Post »ShamanWorld
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:36amHe’s just trying to play the game…It’s not a coincidence that all of the past “colonial powers” are being torn apart from the inside. God is real,and punishment for what the British,French,Spanish, Italian, German, and Jew did(and still are) doing to Africa and the Americas’. They robbed these continents to sustain their own homeland, and now they want to keep it. It’s too late for the Europeans and the USA to be against multi-culturalism, because they were the ones invading and raping other countries and now it’s time for payback.Karma anyone? What goes around comes around. In life there are consequences. A-Jad is a little too crazy,but at least he has the balls to stand up to this evil cabal in London and DC that wants to dominate other countries. Our country is under full control of zionists if you couldn’t already tell. A-Jad is small fries compared to what the zionists are doing to our nation.
Report Post »Man Up America
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:50amReally Sham-wow? Oh the rape and pillage of Africa and the Americas. Glad to see you’re still carrying around and trying to shame people to make yourself feel better for something you had no hand in. I’m pretty sure God holds us accountable as individuals not at nation states hundereds of years later.
Idiot!
Report Post »oldironsides
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:40amWow, Shami, wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? your seething anger and hatred can’t be healthy- – maybe you could find a good 12 step program – any 12 step program – love is the answer
Report Post »my friend – shalom
techengineer11
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:22amShamanWorld: “It’s too late for the Europeans and the USA to be against multi-culturalism, because they were the ones invading and raping other countries and now it’s time for payback.Karma anyone?”
Although I agree that America is currently a ZOG it has not always been and I take exception to some of your comments. Back before the Occupation began, America didn’t invade or plunder any other Nation. Furthermore it appears that you delight in our demise?
I believe that if we could ever rid ourselves of the current ZOG, we have a chance to once again become a mostly White Conservative Constitutional Republic. Once European Americans realize that they have been had and that Multiculturalism is for the dogs or slaves then it will be entirely shunned.
Not your vision?
Report Post »kreese
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:49amThis country has no walls—LEAVE!
Report Post »Aliza
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:11pmHey, Charlatan ooops, Satan, or Shaman, or what’s your name you racist bigot;
Why don’t you move to Iran to avoid the “wrath of God” the rest of us about to experience as a consequence for the deeds of our great- of great- of great-ancestors might have done?
Run to your friend, Ahmadinejad, find refuge from the “Jew” and from the “corrupt Western way” under the protection of the Sharia law. You would fit much more with your mindset in to that society than you do in our.
You and Ahmadinejad are competing in intelligence.Full control of Zionists, eh?
In the latest version of Antisemitism, Jews alone are not permitted to have their own state, while the Christian world has 82 countries and the Muslims, 56. But one Jewish country is too many…” Israel is about the size of New Jersey… so think again you phobic maniac!
In the past Jews accounted for 10% of the total population of the Roman Empire. By the ratio, if other factors, such as crusades, pogroms, Islamic genocides of Jews, the Nazi holocaust, had not intervened, there would be 200 million Jew in the world today, instead of something like 13 million. And you delusionally believe that these barely 13 million people are controlling the banks, world governments, and all the aspects of your life?
Guess what, most university/college campuses in the west were turned into Islamic ideological battle grounds, financed by Islamists, so are many our banks. It doesn’t sounds like Jew control, does it? Sm
Report Post »Aliza
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:19pmstill @ Shaman, the racist bigot:
@ previous post I lost the last line, so I re-post it to you. It goes like this:
It doesn’t sounds like Jew control, does it? Smells like Sharia control! Don’t you think?
Report Post »JoeNY
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:35amI can just hear Achmie saying it now, “The Brittish need to practice restraint with the justifiable uprising. Their people are calling on them for change. It is another ‘Spring’.”
Media, “How about Iran recently shooting and arresting protestors (to never see them again)?”
Achmie, “That is an internal matter.”
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:17amI love it, maybe the U. K. and the U. S. should take some advice instead of always giving it……Iran’s people are not rioting, and when they were,,,,,,,they were peaceful..(They had to be, or the U.S. and U,K. would have bomved them Right.?) ..and Iran’s economy is not crashing,,,,,,,they don’t have high gas prices,,,,,their student‘s don’t owe Trillions of Dollars….seems pretty stable over there right now…..but wait……U.S. thinks/finds, accusses,,,,,,,them of 911 involement…..after how many years……..LOL
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:10am“Iran’s people are not rioting, and when they were,,,,,,,they were peaceful..”
Is there a “peaceful” riot? LOL… Any way, when rioters face death and/or prison that includes torture, the people have no other choice than to be peaceful…
“and Iran’s economy is not crashing,,,,,,,they don’t have high gas prices,,,,,their student‘s don’t owe Trillions of Dollars….seems pretty stable over there right now…”
When the over whelming majority of people are accustomed to living in poverty and know that they must produce in order to survive and not expect government hand outs nor expect to be educated, then from an IDIOTS point of view, things would seem pretty stable…
Ahmadina koo koo clock is nothing more than a dictator oppressing his subjects monetarily and educationally in order to keep things stable…
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:44amWhile I‘m tickled over the political posturing and I’d be the first to tell my Gov’t to keep its nose out of others business, I would not go as far as to underscore the seriousness of the situation in Iran. Although it’s not our place to lecture and certainly not intervene in Iran, the population is not free and that’s never a good thing.
Report Post »oldironsides
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:54amto DOUGLASSOILEAU —————— HUH?
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:29am“I’mADinnerJacket” is a joke! I thought the clerics in his country were going to get rid of him.
Report Post »douglassoileau
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:33amobama said he was not threat,,,,Iran is a sovriegn country………….we the people asked the U.S. for help he said,,,let them handle their small differences themselves,,,,,,,remember ?
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:55amThe man does have a PhD. That’s more than over 95% of the world’s population can say. Interesting that the Media never brings out that point isn’t it. Really sort of comical when we consider who/what the Media is.
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:40am@Tech
How many people in this country receive “honorary” PhD’s? To me, that is a significant difference… I’m not saying he has an honorary PhD., but it is a curiosity…
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 10:37amObama_Sham
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 8:40am
@Tech
How many people in this country receive “honorary” PhD’s? To me, that is a significant difference… I’m not saying he has an honorary PhD., but it is a curiosity…
True. He has an engineering degree. He’s obviously not a lawyer or an orator. My point was that any earned PhD gives a person a certain amount of credibility and the Media refuses to ever mention it so that he does not ever appear credible.
Report Post »BrokenHearted
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 5:01amAhmadinejad… this is a name you will hear more and more. I don’t know how many of you have paid attention to Iran over the years and see just how insane this man is. He says he is in communications with the 12th Imam, who by the way is thought, by many to be the anti-christ. Be warned, this man is not a good person.
Report Post »altar-ego
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:25ami DO have a LARGE BONE TO PICK W/ GLENN / SCOTT BAKER….it says ‘SPEAK YOUR MIND*’ above the box (*=just as long as it doesnt offend the wrong ppl..) glenn/ scott if you REALLY want /love this FREEDOM thing, ya GOTTA LET PPL MAKE ASSES OF THEMSELVES, NOT POLICE EM….or its the same damn thing as china or russia, or hell-EVEN IRAN!!! thanks, im just one of the stupid sheeple that need to be hearded around,cuz i obviously cant make the ‘right’ decisions, u gotta do it for me…and ppl, dont freak out, im a HUGE fan of gb, libertarian- u jus gotta be CONSISTENT
Report Post »Steve
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:20amReading that was painful. It was like watching watching Hitler give the opening speech at a bar mitzvah
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:17amWe don’t need no stinking Security Council for anything. And the only restraint being exercised that should not be is on the behalf of U.S. and Israel. Both countries should be blowing your Iranian @ss into oblivion!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:07amOh yes, and now it’s tit for tat, isn’t it?
Crazy Ahmed “urges restraint” in Britain after he just got done crushing his own uprising – but since the media has already spun him as a great humanitarian, they surely can’t call him out on his own hypocricy, can they?
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 6:30amI guess it’s a good thing that our “Dear Leader” Obama said nothing when his good buddy crushed those crazy so-called ‘pro-democracy’ protesters in Iran. Somehow, though, he was on the side of the people in Egypt, and I‘m not certain what he’s got going in Libya, but in Iran he kept out of it. Maybe he thought that if the people overthrew this guy they result would not be a communist or islamic fundamentalist regime. Oh wait, they already have a islamnic fundamentalist regime. Anyway, good this he didn’t support those crazy kids, otherwise we might also get the same treatment from Amidino when the riots come to your neighborhood and mine (and they are coming. the leftists are doing their best to incite it).
Report Post »Archtard
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:01amThe U.N. should take action…obviously the police in the U.K. need some help! Load them up with guns and rubber bullets and show these punks how things go when they use a tragedy to justify looting and thuggery.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:08amNo… do it like they do in Iran and Syria… use real bullets and kill em
Report Post »Windsong
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:54amIf the UN decides to ‘take action’ over what is occurring in the UK, the rest of the world will be asking the UN to investigate Ahmadinejad for telling his ‘slave people’ that it is ‘Allah’s will’ that they strap bombs to themselves and murder as many Jews, Americans and all Islamic Extremist dissenters as possible. Remember who started the ‘Arab Spring’? Remember who has threatened to wipe Israel, America and the entire Western World off of the map? Remember who has funded the murders of hundreds of thousands of world? It was all done by your new best friends in the Middle East.
Report Post »So, forge ahead UN. Let the entire world know where you stand. Show the world what you truly stand for. Oh, and don‘t be surprised when over half of your ’nations‘ begin dropping out of your little ’change the world’ club. If you side with terrorists, then you are linked with them forever.
You were once a respected organization, but it appears as though you have chosen sides. That means that you are no longer necessary, effective or safe for the rest of the world to be involved with.
Your future decisions will be interesting to every nation. Perhaps Mr. Ahmadinejad will build you a new UN building in his country, which is neither democratic or free. Your choice.
Knucklenose
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:52amI think mahmoohd ablablah should crawl back in the tent he shares with 72 nock-kneed camels. And go back to sniffing mohamuds petrified turd.
Report Post »bs2722
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:27amGirl in the Iran protest picture is HOT!!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 3:08amYeah, she looks incredibly Western, doesn’t she?
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:05amWhat are the odds that she is still alive?
I’m guessing slim to none.
Report Post »altar-ego
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 4:16amw/her mouth open she’s jus BEGGING for sum1 to photo shop sumthin, eh?!?! j/k THAT’S WHY THEY MAKE THEM COVER THEIR FACES, they have VERY beautiful women there (al natural might i add, no plastic, botox or nips n tucks) so, men cant be HELD ACCOUNTABLE if one jus looks TOO GOOD not to rape—ITS CLEARLY A WOMANS’ FAULT: DARE I SAY, EVEN A PROVOKABLE ACTION, HMM…yes yes, all joking aside, i think this is a FABULOUS show of wit w/acme-demigod’s choice to speak out and what he said. he’s not JUST a psycho lunatic, bent on wiping jews/christians/homosexuals/lesbians/trans-genders/bi-curious-trans-genders/poly-sexuals/catholics/monks/etc etc off the map. im guessing he’s a pretty good chess player, and probably quite delightful over a cup of tea.
Report Post »wow, when i look back @that list i typed its ALMOST as if, we should ALL come together (no pun intended) to make a plan, to get rid of this 1, UNO, (SINGULAR) guy instead of ALL OF US dying @the hands of him, (or converting)….wait, Wait, WAIT-this makes TOO MUCH SENSE–THAT’LL NEVER WORK!
Obama_Sham
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 7:16am@Jaycen
“Yeah, she looks incredibly Western, doesn’t she?”
I was thinking the same thing…
Report Post »NoneSoBlind
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 2:03amYou are mistaken Hiswill: he is a full load, but the material isn’t bricks.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:52amTalk about funny, this takes the prize.
Report Post »deathorliberty
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:51amThank goodness we have the second ammendment! Let some unruly punks who think they should be entitled to most everything for free try to torch my house in my neighborhood! I imagine we could help the police here and be a helping hand!
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:48amThis guy is three bricks shy of a load. What would Akmadad do in his country if this were happening? I hear AK47s shooting thru the crowd, people taken to prison FOREVER and lots of. torture.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 1:34amthis article would fit right in here
http://picklyman.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/friends-of-irony/
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