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Iranian Students Storm, Ransack British Embassy in Tehran

Iranian Students Break Into British Embassy in Tehran

Iranian protesters break the windows of a British Embassy building, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. (Photo: AP)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The mob surged past riot police into the British Embassy compound – which they pelted with petrol bombs and stones – two days after Iran‘s parliament approved a bill that reduces diplomatic relations with Britain following London’s support of recently upgraded Western sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear program.

Less than two hours later, police appeared to regain control of the site. But the official IRNA news agency said about 300 protesters entered the British ambassador’s residence in another part of the city and replaced British flags with Iranian ones. The British Foreign Office harshly denounced the melee and said Iran has a “clear duty” under international law to protect diplomats and offices.

“We are outraged by this,” said the statement. “It is utterly unacceptable and we condemn it.”

It said a “significant number” of protesters entered the compound and caused vandalism, but gave no other details on damage or whether diplomatic staff was inside the embassy, although the storming occurred after business hours.

The semiofficial Mehr news agency said embassy staff had left the compound before the mobs entered, but it also said those who occupied the area had taken six staff as hostages. It did not give their nationalities and the report was later removed from the website without elaboration.

The protesters broke through after clashing with anti-riot police and chanting for its takeover. “Death to England,” some cried in the first significant assault of a foreign diplomatic area in Iran in years. More protesters poured into the compound as police tried to clear the site.

Smoke rose from some areas of the embassy grounds and the British flag was replaced with a banner in the name of 7th century Shiite saint, Imam Hussein.

The occupier called for the closure of the embassy calling it a “spy den” – the same phrase used after militants stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 hostages for 444 days. Washington and Tehran have no diplomatic relations since then.

The rally outside the British Embassy – on a main street in Tehran downtown – included protesters carrying photographs of nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari, who was killed last year in an attack that Iran blamed on Israeli and British spy services.

Outside the embassy, students from some universities and seminaries burned British flags on fire as clashing with police.

State TV reported that another group of hard-line students gathered at the gate of British ambassador’s residence in northern Tehran, at the same time.

Tensions with Britain date back to the 19th century when the Persian monarchy gave huge industrial concessions to London, which later included significant control over Iran’s oil industry.

Iranian Students Break Into British Embassy in Tehran

An Iranian hard-line protester runs inside the British Embassy as a diplomatic vehicle is set on fire by demonstrators who stormed the embassy, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. (Photo: AP)

But they have become increasingly strained as the West accuses Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons – a charge Tehran denies.

In recent years, Iran was angered by Britain’s decision in 2007 honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood.

Rushdie went into hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, ordering Muslims to kill the author because his novel “The Satanic Verses” allegedly insulted Islam.

The decision shortly after Iran detained 15 British sailors and marines in March 2007 for allegedly entering the country’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf – a claim Britain denies. The 15 were released after nearly two weeks in captivity.

In 2006, angry mobs burned the Danish flag and attacked Danish and other Western embassies in Tehran in protest to the reprinting of a cartoon deemed insulting of the Prophet Muhammad in the Nordic country’s newspapers.

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  • loriann12
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:09am

    We all base our opinions of other cultures based on those we interact with. That being said, my first experience with an Iranian wasn’t good. My aunt took me to a club when I was 17 (private club for dancing, I didn’t drink) and an Iranian college student asked me to dance. i agreed, even though it was a slow dance (my highschool was very small, thus I was probably a bit naive). He tried to “dance me out the door.” I told my aunt, and she said don’t dance with the Iranians, they think one dance means you want to sleep with them.

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 3:16pm

      … dumbazz muslims can’t think for themselves. They all have to be led around by the nose and told what to do by their dictators, royal highness’ or those dirt hole countries under theocratic rule.
      Islam is a cult and it SUCKS DOG DIRT IN HELL!

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    • Miss Anne
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 3:37pm

      Iranians are animals. A chubby girl I knew in college dated some Iranian guy, and he wanted her to move back home with him to get married. She was going to do it, but she got too drunk, and missed the flight, and the Iranian guy was “pushed away” by my friend’s family. She knows she dodged a bullet and wants all girls to know “DO NOT MOVE TO THE MIDDLE EAST WITH ANY MAN”

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:54pm

      Miss Anne, She should have seen the signs earlier about mohammedans; the hideous body odor, being hung like baby chipmunks, thus the anger. Momma said “better shop around”.

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    • philipzhao
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 7:05pm

      Dancing with a wolf !

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:15am

      @ookspay

      Actually, the Iranians I met used a bit too much cologne, and acted a bit too “european” for me.

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  • U53R3@50N
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:01am

    MSnbc is regurgitating half of this article on their website word for word lol, to my friends in the uk and france, as well as any other intelligent nation, leave iran immediately, they can taste a nuke its so close and they will sacrifice anything to get it, youre talking about a wounded desperate cornered animal, stay at your own risk, god bless.

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  • Mizpah55
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:40am

    We”re all in for a bumpy ride. WWIII? Could be! Hope not!!!!!

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:07am

      If we keep meddling in the Middle East for Israel’s benefit, China and Russia will not continue to stand by. You go into Iran, and you might find yourself at another Yalu River. Fools learn nothing from history.
      Israel is the problem. Most of the world recognizes this truth. It’s just that we, in America, have a media heavily influenced by Jews.

      http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4264

      http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19

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    • GodblessGlennBeck
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:13am

      Smackdown 33,

      More ignorance from you. If the media was controlled by Jews, it would not be so openly anti-Israeli. Once again, you display your illogical argument.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:18am

      Godbless, those facts are written by Jews, not me.

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:35am

      Media? JINO.

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    • Steve
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:12pm

      Smackdown

      Just love it when you jew haters post this crap but completly dismiss time and time again of the peace accords Muslims have rejected or broken. Or how Muslims hold positions within the goverment, universities, and judges.

      It seems as most Jew haters (and of course your in fine company with followers of Islam and Nazi’s) seem to point the blame at Jews simply because they exist. Their faith may seem to some a bit extreme but I dont recall any mandates that forse unbelivers to convert or die or imposing their laws upon those who dont subscribe to their faith.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:11pm

      No doubt about meddling in the mideast but for our own benefit and I was there to see it unfold from 87-2000 on mulitple tours of the area including a couple of Wars fought over oil access. Its for our benefit that the oil be controlled by the west where supposed cooler heads prevail. No oil, no life as we no it and certainly no power for USA internally or to project. WWIII is certain but it will be Israel lashing out once and for all against all those currently coming in for the kill. From 2000 to 2011 I can draw my own logical conclusions based on current develops and strife in the region esp since our recent uping the ante there with two Wars.

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:12pm

      @SMACKDOWN33,
      There is no excuse for the igornace of your post.
      READ HISTORY fool!

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    • Amos37
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 7:42pm

      The funny thing about his post is that he is right about one thing, iran will attack israel followed by russia and china. it’s called ezekiel 38-39 if anyone knows what that means anymore.

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  • Myresponse2010
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:36am

    I saw this movie, it was called Rise of the Chimpanzees.

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  • morristhewise
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:26am

    Bombing Iran is bad news; it will result in 25 of their Diesel subs to be deployed. Most will quietly sit on the seabed of the Gulf Of Oman. They will be invisible to satellite or sonar tracking until their Thageb missiles sink vessels large or small.

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    • PROV1X
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 3:44pm

      dont u think they will be among the things targeted? and if they get out, it will be like when the Iraqi air force tried to fly against our f15′s!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:18am

      Admittedly this was 22 years ago, but I tracked submarines for a living in the Navy. Diesel subs are not undetectable, they’re just more detectable when they are snorkeling and running the diesel engines. I didn’t even know Iran had subs. Course, I’ve been away for 22 years….they didn’t back then.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:14am

    Hey, these are the same people you were supporting a couple of years ago. These are the same people you pilloried Obama for not aiding with diplomatic and military support.

    Conservatives . . . can’t get anything straight.

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    • GodblessGlennBeck
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:00am

      There was also a Western-friendly head of the country at that time. BIG difference from the leadership these days. Liberals…can’t get anything straight.

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    • Emrys
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:02am

      Dont’ be an idiot; these aren’t necessarily the same people, and in fact are probably government stooges doing this to try to scare the Brits into not implementing any kind of harsh sanctions along with the U.S. due to Iran’s nuclear production. You are the perfect example of liberalism’s lack of intellectual depth.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Sensei

      You are such an intellectual slut.

      Take the youth in America you will find College Republicans & College Democrats. To say that the you the raided the British University are the same that protested during 2009 & 2011 Green Movement/Persian Awakening is a stretch at best & shooting from the hip partisanship at worst, if not outright mendacity that is not consistent form one moment to the next. Goebbels would be proud of you. I could see you in the historical department of Big Brother in the book 1984 moving swiftly up the hierarchy.
      There are 74+ million people in Iran with a huge percentage being very young. So you are implying that it was the same people because you can only count to 20. Yo counted the people inn the Persian Awakening protests & in the British embassy incident. You counted as high as you could go 20. So naturally you assumed that the people in the Persian Awakening& the British protest were one ?& the same. After all you think there is only 20 people in Iran.

      Mind you that many of the people in the Persian Awakening died or are in Prison. Some fled abroad. So they couldn’t possibly be the same set of people. I bet you had problem with Venn diagrams in school.

      “More than two-thirds of the population is under the age of 30, …” year 2008.

      2/3rd of 75 million ids 50 million. So there are so many young that the rioters today are not necessarily the same as the protesters.

      50 is double of 20 & then some. I hope tha

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:11pm

      YOUR SENSEI,
      It is you who cannot get anything right. You play a stupid,dangerous game Sensei.
      You are a DHIMMI of the first order.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:28pm

      ROUNDABOUT . . Demographics! Venn Digrams! Hysterical insistence! All proving what is already obvious to liberals but painfully eludes conservatives – there is a fundamental difference between awareness and understanding. But thanks for doing your part to illustrate this truth to your fellow Blazers. I doubt it will break through their cognitive dissonance. You can go to sleep tonight knowing that while you couldn’t serve as a shining example, at least you were a horrible warning.

      But don’t let your Google finger drift into early retirement. There is so much more you can confuse your fellow xenophobes with – I suggest you stay with Iran but go back a bit further. Say, oh, 1953.

      While you’re assembling your next screed, you might want to put a raw steak on that bruised ego. My bad.

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    • Ookspay
      Posted on November 30, 2011 at 6:33pm

      Nice Job Walkabout! You destroyed Sensei. I love a good fight, but this was not even close. When liberals try to make a point it always falls apart. It is so hard to defend a lie. Some libs have high IQ’s and impressive educations, but there is no substitution for common sense, values and experience.

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  • PPMStudios
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:14am

    Nothing that a well placed 164gr of lead won’t fix!!!

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:21am

      The worlds going to collapse anyways which makes me wonder why they are waiting for Iran to become better well armed.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:27am

      You know what I would do if I was in charge? I would take out Iran, but I wouldn’t stop there, and I would conquer the entire Mid-East.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:32am

      There once was a man in Germany who spoke just like that. He wrote a book about his struggle.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:34am

      Really, it‘s a hard decision because One World Governments don’t work out. I suppose that’s why certain people crave the desire for people to believe there is another world out there in space, and therefore the people of earth would be inclined to support a One World government, because then it would be earth against the other world. But, it’s just not so, at least not yet. And I assume that is another reason why certain people are so adamant about populating Mars or the Moon, in that it will provide that other world. I think the grand plan is that we have to get along without there being another world.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:37am

      smackdown33,
      Well guess what? When Israel finally pounds Iran, it will ignite the Mid-East against Israel anyways. So, why not?

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:38am

      If I were the Brittish Prime Minister, I would have the Navy take out every Iranian oil platform in the gulf. Ronald Wilson Reagan took out several platforms himself but he didnt face responding to an embassy takeover or hostages. Time for someone to step up and show some balls responding to these camel fleas.

      These parasites built the IEDs and supplied them to our enemies in both Iraq and Afghanashit and are responsible for many American deaths. Cmon… Israel,England, nobama, lets kick the tires and light the fires. Time to open up Diego Garcia, and start reducing stock piles of Tomahawks, Bunker busters, and Artillery shells. Let those Stealth Drivers earn their pay.

      We still owe payback for 1979, unfortunately, somehow, we still have Carter in office.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:39am

      smackdown33,
      Furthermore, you’re just another unthoughtful idiot.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:52am

      smackdown33,
      Furthermore, again, you are a self destructive idiot, who I wouldn’t even want to be in charge of the Boy Scouts. People in the Mid-East clapped by the millions when the WTC came down. There are high-up people in most Mid-East nations (that matter) who have called and offered money for the capture of Israelis. What would happen if you had a neighbor three houses down from your house if that neighbor was to stand out in his front yard calling for any person to burn your house down? They would be incarcerated.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:08am

      smackdown33… You sound like a terrorist sympathizer. Iran has been at war with the US since 1979. Killing Americans, Israelis, Britts, and Nato, and you speak of cause and effect.

      Hows this for cause and effect… Iran storms US Embassy in 1979, sponsors bombing of US Embassy, USMC and French barracks in Lebanon, sponsors of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the al-Mahdi army, supplying weapons to tangos in Iraq and Afghanashit that kill and mame coalition forces… Iran nuking up after declaring the intent to wipe Israel from the pages of time, taking British naval personnel operating in Iraqi waters hostage, American hikers hostage, now storming the British Embassy and taking hostages. Is that about it.

      There you have cause. What effect should be taken. Sympathy? Understanding? Maybe nobama should apologize?

      There is no evidence of American involvement in assassinations of Iranian atomic scientists, stuxnet, explosions in Iranian missile compounds or nuclear facilities.

      So what course of actions would you take??? Hmmmm? Inquiring, patriotic minds want to know. WHAT WOULD YOU DO???

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:23am

      Armedpatriot, you begin in 1979 when you should begin in 1953.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:29am

      Armedpatriot, better look into the Irgun, Stern Gang, and Haganah before you speak of Hezbollah, Hamas or al Qaeda. Better look into the bombing of the King David Hotel, and how Jews held the record for most civilians killed by a terrorist attack for decades. Might want to look into the barbaric killings of Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin, called the Sergeants Affair. Might look into the attack on the USS Liberty. Might want to look into the AIPAC Espionage case and Lawrence Franklin.
      On and On.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:54am

      smackdown33… So now youre an anti-Semitic terrorist supporter? I am less concerned with the 1953 imposition of the Shah, than MODERN HISTORY. Under the Shah, Iranians had more freedoms (although a brutal dictator) than they have now.

      They traded a westernized dictator for an islamic dictator. Which is worse? You evidently prefer the islamic dictator, under whos power the fate of the world is facing WWIII. Yeah, your an anti-Semitic, terrorist supporting historian, that wants to blame WWIII on the Jews and America.

      You are a piece of work. I bet you vote nobama, maybe Ron Paul? I bet you voted Carter. I bet you support OWS. I bet you are a Alex Jones listener. I bet you vote for the destruction of Israel. You are a piece of… work.

      I stand with Israel. I stand by the US Constitution and not by progressive interpretations, and case law. I believe that every American has the right to own a gun and shoot dead anybody that threatens a mans life, property, or freedom, and of those around him. I believe in the freedoms of man, which God himself gave us, which the progressives and the communist democrats have worked for over 100 years to take from us. I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in the utter destruction of American and Israeli (GOD) enemies through total war, not ROE. Make no mistake, Islam declared war on the infidels with the child raping, murderer, Muhammad in AD 622. I am a Christian descendant of Knights Templar.

      I say to you… bring it on

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:56am

      Smachdown33… I still say to you…

      So what course of actions would you take??? Hmmmm? Inquiring, patriotic minds want to know. WHAT WOULD YOU DO???

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 2:03pm

      Armed Patriot: I perceive that you are a zealous well meaning conservative patriotic individual; however, I do not believe that you have all the facts. Be careful with FOX News, Glenn Beck and the so called Conservative talk radio. I call it the Neo-Con radio. You need to learn more about Murdoch and the President of XM/Siruis Mel Karmazon.. Spelling is probably wrong but close enough.

      The only true Conservative really informed Constitutional scholar and Patriot on talk radio is Mike Church 6-9 am. Listen to him a few weeks then go back and try to listen to the others. I realize you probably can‘t stand me because I’m so distrustful and suspicious of the Zionist’s agenda but consider and weigh other opinions before drawing conclusions.. Although I”ve always been Conservative I’ve found that my opinion on matters today is far different then it was just 4 or 5 years ago and I thought I knew everything!! Be open-minded.

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    • PPMStudios
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 3:12pm

      @smackdown33

      Yeah, we’ve got a guy in America who also wrote a book called “Dreams from my father”… That situation isn’t turning out very well either!!

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    • Steve
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 4:28pm

      Smackdown

      Hitler wrote a book about what?
      Kiling Jews and then eventually Christians. and you somehow equate that to destroying an ideology that by it’s own history and promises that they make today to either convert enslave or murder all the world.

      Your posts are a prime example of the fools that walk the erath and allow evil to grow while making stupid comparisons and false accusations.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:09pm

      techengineer11… “Armed Patriot: I perceive that you are a zealous well meaning conservative patriotic individual; however, I do not believe that you have all the facts. Be careful with FOX News, Glenn Beck and the so called Conservative talk radio. I call it the Neo-Con radio. You need to learn more about Murdoch and the President of XM/Siruis Mel Karmazon”

      Sorry dont subscribe to XM and my conclusions are based on watching Iran since 1979. I was in USMC boot Camp when the barracks were bombed in Lebanon. I have seen thier hand play out against America, England and Israel in the many years since. I watched the fall of the Shah and the difference in Iran before and after, as well as their effects on the M.E. since. I have an understanding of the Mahdi Army and the 12′ers, their goals, and thier “savior” from the book of Revelations.

      I do keep an open mind but not a naive look toward islam, who they are, or their intentions.
      Sura 4:101“The infidels are your sworn enemies.”
      Sura 4:89 “seize them and slay them wherever you find them.”
      Sura 5:51“Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends.”
      Sura 5:17“Infidels are those who declare: ‘God is the Christ, the son of Mary.”
      Sahih Bukhari 004.52.176 “The Day of Resurrection will not arrive until the Moslems make war against the Jews and kill them, and until a Jew hiding behind a rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: ‘Oh Moslem, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew b

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Steve: As somone who actually read Mein Kemp I can say categorically that there was nothing in that book remotely similar to killing Jews or Christians. Don’t mistake the desire to have a Germany for Germans as an equivalent to killing Jews. I doubt seriously you‘ve ever read the book but it doesn’t matter. You know for hundreds or not thousands of years it was rather normal to have a Russian nation made up primarily of Russians, French nation made up of Francs, England made up of English, China of Chinese….etc, You get the point. The Multicultural experiment which was blamed on the Jews even back then was not well received in Germany at the time and personally I don’t care for it today either nor do I care for its promoters.

      By the way I’m a 42 yr old Engineer with an advanced degree.. Graduated w/ honors.. That being said I thhough Adolf Hitler was an incarnation of Satan on earth up until about 4 or 5 years… Then I read his book.. Was reluctant and was fully prepared to hate the man.. Who wouldn’t right? We’ve been told and indoctrinated into the need to hate him since the day we were born… Unfortunately the facts that we‘ve been force fed simply don’t bare out about Hitler, Germany, WW1 and certainly not about WW2.

      Sorry but it’s all a big lie Steve. Learn to read and think for yourself. We’ve all been sorely deceived. I hate to acknowledge but it’s true.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:16pm

      techengineer11… I do appreciate your throwing a line. We have not always seen eye to eye, and often have very opposite beliefs. I support God and the Children of Israel and will until my dying breath. Genesis 12:2-3 “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you,and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

      I do thank you for throwing a line. Good luck and hope you have a Merry Christmas and we all survive WWIII this winter.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:27pm

      Armed Patriot: Look I’m not a defender or a promoter of Islam. .I despise it and I hate it but you and I both know that if there‘s a hornet’s nest out in the woods a few miles out of the way we don’t go poking and prodding for no reason.. Now if they were to begin a march towards our property it would be a different story. We would destroy them and stop their advance but why risk going to their nest and making them even more angry?

      Maybe too simply of an analogy but as the poster above stated you can’t start in 1979. We’ve been there since the early 20 century. Look I‘m no expert on the matter but I know enough that I woudln’t want another Nation or power setting up a puppet regime in America. How would you feel if the Chinese installed a puppet Gov’t in America and they soaked us and treated us badly and then they forced Buddism upon us?

      I don’t know exactly what the Shaw regime did or were accused of but the Iranians said they were not good.. You and I were not there but why are we setting up a regime in Iran to begin with? It’s not our place.

      Like I said I hate the religion but we have no place over their meddling.. You spoke of Lebanon. What did Reagan do when the barraks were bombed? We simply should not have been there. We are not the Global Police. As a matter of fact we are bordering on a failed state and we are completely bankrupt. Not one further dime should be wasted in the Middle East.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 7:16pm

      techengineer11… There is a simple solution. Support Israel (my point as stated in Genesis) and drill here, drill now, and allow the Canadian oil sands pipeline to be built. We CAN get out of the ME. We need oil. That is the fuel of freedom. We can get it for ourselves, or we MUST remain in the ME. It all depends on oil. Everthing, EVERYTHING we have is dependenat on oil. Without oil, we ar 19th century. The cities, even small towns couldnt exist. We would be back to hunting our meat, farming our own food, no medicine, no transportation, no electricity, no heat, no ac, no nothing. Without oil we will die.

      Simplist of solutions… drill here, drill now, open the continental shelf and the gulf, as well as Alaska, remove all oil drilling moratoriums, allow the oil sands pipeline from Canada, as well as oil shale deposits, and we hgave more oil than the ME. We can be sufficient. As long as the environmental (E-mental) agaenda is in place, we have to fight in the ME to support our way of life.

      The choice must be made clear… Support wars in the ME or drill here, drill now. There is no other choice. As far as Iran… They have been at war with Americans since 1979. Active war. BOMB THE HELL OUT OF IRAN and bomb them back to being Persians. You are aware that the Nazis convinced them to change the country’s name from Persia to Iran (Aryan)… right?

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:24pm

      Armed Patriot: I agree with your assessment concerning the oil issue. You know that is why I initially supported the Iraq War. I’m ashamed to say that now and I mean very ashamed but I knew the administration was drumming up propaganda and lying to the American people but I felt like they were actually acting on behalf for our best interests as in securing oil for the future. I’m really ashamed to admit that now because of all its implications but it’s true. Furthermore today I’m absolutely convinced that if they were securing oil interests it was not for the good of the American people but for chosen corporate interests and their shareholders. It never is.

      I’m all for drilling in America, Alaska, the gulf etc but always be mindful that they are not doing this drilling for the American people because all of the oil will be sold on the global markets. While it indirectly benefits us it is certainly not be a direct benefit for anyone but the drillers and the sellers of the oil.

      On the Israeli/Jewish issue, I simply disagree. Jesus has come. We have all now been chosen. Anyone that accepts Christ is Chosen. It’s really that simple. Follow Christ go to heaven; reject him go to hell.

      If Israel is attacked without cause and her people are harmed then I’d probably support defending her but no more or no less than any other nation on earth. Our Founders warned us about entangling alliances and encouraged us to stay clear of them. Israel will lead us to WW3

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 30, 2011 at 7:21am

      Well get ready for WWIII, it is nearly here. The Euro and dollar have already collalsed, they are just hiding it as long as they can, Iran on the verge of a nuke, Islamic radiacals taking over the collapsed governments in ME N Africa, Israels enemies lining up against her, all fore told in the Bible. Get ready, its gonna be a very cold winter.

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  • Ken
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:10am

    If the Brits don’t get out of there NOW, nobody will feel sorry for them if all their diplomats end up dead!

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  • barber2
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:10am

    Gee. Reminds me of the old Jimmy Carter years. Another lame Democrat in the White House, the economy in shreds, and the Iranian students on the loose… ( only it’s worse this time as the Lefties are now Occupying our own Democrat-controlled cities with their Lefty student militias )

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  • ImJusSayin
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:42am

    Shoot Them ! Nuff said

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:52am

      To be consistent, shouldn’t you be shouting, “Allahu Akbar.” Your radical fundamentalism is no different.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:03am

      You might research Martin Levi Creveld. Start here:

      http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101120132451AAyu5Ry

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    • BertM
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:11am

      Agreed! Rubber bullets in the first volley. If it continues, Then let them meet Allah.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:16am

      We’ve been sending far too many of them to meet Allah for far too long. That’s the point. ‘Return to sender’ is their predictable response.

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    • GodblessGlennBeck
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:05am

      Smackdown 33:
      It is an appropriate response to the threat to life as evidenced in this attack. Would you let someone come into your home and destroy it and NOT respond? I’m sorry for your family.

      Go find a liberal website and spew this ignorance.

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    • ImJusSayin
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:48am

      Killing to be killing is not what I meant. But defending your property should be your right. If you dont agree go find the PC police.

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  • shadowrider
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:37am

    Maybe it’s time to give “Them” (Iran) 444 Days of Pure Hell !

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:44am

      We’ve given the people of Iran 58 years of hell.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:48am

      Given the choice of their President, they may just get the “hell” they want, of a different sort that has massive ruins of cities glowing in the dark for millenia to come. I wonder how much of this is being sanctioned and run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?

      Somehow, the fact of the two accidents (if they were) at the missile base, and nearby city to Tehran, make more sense as a possible set up (their own Wag the Dog moment), to intitiate hostilites against Israel and the West.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:58am

      Should be noted that nothing happens by accident.

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/21/israelandthepalestinians.bookextracts

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:23am

      This is for Smackdown,this is obviously a piece of Iranian propaganda aimed at idiots like you! Are you a muslim sympathizer? Go live with them if you hate the U.S. so much, are you an Iranian ?

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:37am

      It’s my love of country, and the oath that I once took, that keeps me going. This is why I can not grow weary educating the historically challenged in this country. Cause and effect are fundamental to our universe and reality. Far too many focus on the effect, for convenience, and for power.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 1:55pm

      smackdown33

      Oh Gee Smackdown we helped the British overthrow the Iranian government in 1953. That was wrong. So what.

      Part of the reason that Iranians nationalized (stole) the British property was that the Americans were paying way more for Saudi oil just across the Gulf (3x more if I remember). The Brits did not want to renegotiate. Nationalization is always ugly. Added to those 2 wrongs, Khomeini & company may he rot in hell has added many more. Persecution of Jews, Bahia, Christians, Kurds, …

      After 1979 we froze arms sales to Iran & grounded their air force. Is that a reason to set up Hizbollah?

      If you really dig into it, Khomeini grew up bent!

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:18pm

      @SMACKDOWN33,
      You are such an ASS!
      READ HISTORY!
      I am not talking about your leftist SOROS crap! READ HISTORY!
      I cannot fathom your ignorance and your willingness to display it!

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  • Dodsfall
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:36am

    Why would any western country try to maintain an embassy in Iran? I guess they don’t believe in the fact that history repeats itself, or have very short memories.

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  • force_recon
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:35am

    It is time for Obama to take off his lace panties and grow a set. When will liberals learn that you cannot negotiate with people that want to kill you and hate everything that you stand for? If these devil worshipers want to meet their 72 virgins, I say we oblige them.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:40am

      Who hates who? Who hates the other’s freedoms? We took their freedoms decades ago. Now, people ignorant of that history, are upset with their predictable response. Go figure.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE

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    • dread_pirate_roberts
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:16am

      @smackdown33

      “We” didn’t take their freedoms, “we” didn’t give them 58 years of hell, and “WE” don’t condone their (Iran’s) actions which are an act of war. Our President should just call them and apologize and I imagine that would make you happy, I know he’s good at it.

      Walk the fargin plank ye idiot!

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    • Lucy Larue
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 5:08pm

      FORCE RECON,
      You’re correct.
      It is amazing to me!
      More than a decade after September 11, 2001 people still do not realize we are ALREADY engaged in WWIII! This is just the AMP up.

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  • TrailerParkDave
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:33am

    DEATH TO IRAN! There… I said it……

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:43am

      Then, how can you criticize others for saying the same about Israel? Radical fundamentalism can be the only rational explanation for such irrational behavior.

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    • GodblessGlennBeck
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:11am

      Our presence in the Middle East and the hostilities with Iran have ALWAYS been the result of Iran’s provocation of anyone who is NOT a member of their religion or who wants some human rights and liberties. You may feel you are the (typical) elite Liberal who “educates” others, but the truth is that you are just one who is on the wrong side. Why don’t you move over there, if you are so partial to them, and hostile to the U.S.? I’m sure you would be welcomed with open arms.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:25am

    Yep, and these are the sane, rational people who need to have nuclear capabilities….. Right, Mr Paul?

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:32am

      One should know their history ‘before’ offering advice.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:59am

      **rolls eyes**

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:13am

      I recommend that you ‘open’ those eyes.

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    • GodblessGlennBeck
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 11:18am

      Given that Smackdown33 appears to gain all of his historical knowledge from YouTube, I can‘t believe we’re not all bowing at his feet for the “brilliance.”

      Shall we even cite the many verses in the Bible that advise that the chosen people are the Israelites, and that we must stand with them? Oh, wait, I‘ll better you’ve never even seen a Bible, let alone OPENED one and read it. Good luck, my liberal friend. One day we’ll all have to explain our lives and how we lived them.

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  • BiteMe
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:25am

    Crazy is as crazy does!

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  • paleoman
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:22am

    The only good muslim is a dead muslim.

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  • bigfatslob
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:18am

    The current British have less balls than Jimmy Carter, hell Iran could probably take the U.K. in a fight. Ahhh, western socialism is wonderful or is it the Neville Chamberlain syndrone ?

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:28am

      Don’t forget, Carter allowed our Embassy in Tehran to be taken twice. Once in ‘78, then again in ‘79. We quickly recovered it through the Iranian government’s assistance the first time, but one Marine was held hostage briefly afterwards. Then, he was returned safely. Carter actually had very little to do with it. He showed about as much leadership potential as we are getting from our current POTUS. it occurred all over again in ‘79 and the world is more aware of that 444 day period of time.

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    • Jack of Hearts
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:14am

      Bigfatslob
      Your name says it all. Ever seen the film of the SAS raid on the Iranian Embassy in London? Know anything about the British troops fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan? No, thought not.

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  • mrsalvage2
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:12am

    Now it‘ the Limey’s turn.

    After the whole Shah BP thing in the 1950′s, what took them so long to find the address?

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:28am

      Lets hope Obama backs up Israel when they bitchh slap Iran, cuz its comin !!!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:11am

    Iran has been shouting death to America since the 70′s I say we should empty our nuclear arsenal on them.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:24am

      A glass parking lot I say; sterile for 1000 years…………..

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:58am

      THIS is what I‘d call an opportunity that shouldn’t go to waste. Perfect excuse for everyone who wants to to attack Tehran. Today.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Obama is working hard on emptying our nuclear arsenal.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:08am

    Everyone keeps saying the Iranian people are good, they just have a bad government. Kind of like when they told us that Iraqi’s would welcome us as liberators. I don’t believe Iranians are any different than Iraqis, Muslims hate the West…period.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:08am

    ‘“Death to England,” some cried”‘

    Save your efforts, savages, the UK and the EU are well on their way, all by themselves.

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:01am

    This was obviously state sponsered. I mean come on, Iran? They would have stopped this if they wanted to!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 8:54am

    Maybe Jimmy Carter can find work as a consultant for the British.

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  • demint.disciple
    Posted on November 29, 2011 at 8:54am

    Ask Ron Paul, They’re just fooling around, he’d say…

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:16am

      Ron Paul is an idiot.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on November 29, 2011 at 9:31am

      Dr. Paul does not bow at the feet of Israel. He’s a Patriot and American. He will represent the interest of the US and the US only.

      Please go to Israel if you desire to fight for Israel. Leave the US out of it!

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