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From Iran’s ever-amusing Press TV:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has blasted some ‘Zionist drug cartels‘ that develop new diseases to sell their pharmaceutical products.

“Some multinational companies and Zionist cartels produce new kinds of diseases to export their drugs to other countries,” Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Iranian pharmacists arragned to mark the Pharmacy Day.

“Contrary to the commercial approach that is prevalent in the world drug markets, our approach towards the production and export of drugs is humane,” Fars news agency quoted the president as saying.

“We should try to produce drugs that are needed worldwide to help the humans,” he noted.

Earlier this year, Iran successfully mass produced Angipars, the world’s first herbal medication for the effective treatment of diabetic foot ulcers.

So you see, the Jews - oh, sorry, Zionists - are creating diabolical new diseases just so these capitalist pig Jews - oh, damn, I meant capitalist pig Zionists - can profit from the drugs that only evil Jewish minds - evil ZIONIST minds - can develop antidotes to.

(I cannot find a single non-Iranian reference to Angipars on the Internet. Must be really popular amongst those humans that Ahmadinejad says he cares about.)

..comes courtesy of the Iranian Students News Agency:

Iranian kidnapped diplomats to meet their families

They must really hate their families if it being kidnapped by a stranger is the only way they’ll meet up with them

Ahmadinejad family vacations will never be the same.

There are some things, Iran’s Parliament has decided, that a public official should simply not be allowed to say — especially in reference to Israel.

Threats of a “crushing response” to Israeli aggression seem to be fine, as a representative of Iran’s supreme leader recently demonstrated. But suggesting that Iran is a friend of the Israeli people, well, that is an “unforgivable mistake,” Parliament declared Wednesday.

In a statement signed by some 200 members of the 290-seat assembly, Iranian lawmakers called on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to dismiss Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the vice president for tourism, after he repeated on Sunday his earlier comment that “we are a friend of all people in the world, even Israelis and Americans.”

In his comments, Mashai, a political ally of Ahmadinejad and one of his in-laws, specified “for a thousandth time” that his country was against Israel, not Jews.

But Parliament was not placated. “We do not recognize a country called Israel and so we cannot recognize a nation called Israel,” the lawmakers said in their statement, according to Fars, the semiofficial Iranian news agency.

“If Mr. Mashai does not have the political awareness that the Israeli people are the same people who have occupied the homes of millions of innocent and oppressed Palestinians and have created the army of the Zionist regime, he has no right to hold such a position,” the statement added.

Mashai, whose daughter recently married Ahmadinejad’s son, was the second member of Ahmadinejad’s cabinet to come under fire by Parliament this week.

I can just imagine the next family dinner….

Ahmadinejad: Can the Jew-lover please pass the salt?

Following from my previous post, it looks like not all Iranian athletes are doing the bidding of their Iranian overlords, with members of the Iranian basketball team sharing hugs with Russian basketball team coach David Blatt, who holds joint US-Israeli citizenship. In other words, the Big Satan-Little Satan quinella.

Despite the differences between their countries, an Iranian and an Israeli shared a hug and a pat on the back Sunday morning after the opener of the Olympic men’s basketball tournament.

Iranian center Hamed Ehadadi and David Blatt share a moment of goodwill after the Blatt-coached Russian team beat Iran in the opening game.

The hug between Russian coach David Blatt, who holds dual Israeli and American citizenship, and Iranian captain Mohammed Nikkhah, came after Nikkhah was questioned by an Israeli journalist about the tensions between the two countries stemming from Iran’s nuclear program, which Israel views as a threat to its existence.

On Saturday, an Iranian swimmer refused to race in a preliminary Olympic heat because an Israeli athlete was competing in the same race.

“We are coming here for playing sport, nothing else,” Nikkhah said. As he exited the postgame interview podium, Blatt stood and embraced him, and Nikkhah returned the gesture.

Blatt and Iran’s coach, Rajko Toroman, who is Serbian, had a similar exchange as Toroman left the podium. Blatt later warmly greeted Iran’s 7-foot-2 center Hamed Ehadadi.

I can’t wait to see how Iran is going to spin this. Zionist Death Hug^TM perhaps?

Update: Ha’aretz describes it as “shaking hands.” They further downplay it by reporting that “it is still unclear whether the Iranian players knew the symbolic significance of their handshake with the Israeli coach, or whether they were unaware of Blatt’s nationality.”

Update: In reporting the basketball game, the Iranians (predictably) omit to mention the close encounter of the Zionist kind.

The Iranians have once again tried to wipe themselves off the sporting map, with another of their athletes boycotting an event due to ZDS.

That’s Zionist Derangement Syndrome for the uninitiated.

An Iranian swimmer pulled out of the Olympic Games men’s 100m breaststroke heats on Saturday, just minutes before he was due to compete against an Israeli rival.

Mohammad Alirezaei’s lane one was empty when the field left the starting blocks while Israel’s Tom Beeri, starting in lane seven, finished fourth.

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During the 2004 Athens Olympics, Iran’s judo world champion Arash Miresmaeili, one of the country’s prominent gold medal hopes, refused to compete against Ehud Vaks of Israel in the first round out of solidarity for the Palestinian cause.

Miresmaeili, twice a winner of the flyweight world title, still received a 5,000-dollar award the Iranian National Olympic Committee had promised to medal winners and he was hailed by former President Mohammad Khatami for his stance.

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There had been reports that Iran would compete against Israel at these Olympic Games for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The Iranian National Olympic Committee (INOC) had said that as there was “no face-to-face situation” in swimming there would be no problem in attending the competition.

“Alirezaei swims in lane one and the representative of the Zionist regime (Israel) in lane seven, so they will not face each other,” INOC secretary Ali Kafashian told ISNA news agency prior to the race.

According to ISNA, also the country’s sports organisation, which is part of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government, had confirmed that there would no be boycott in the race.

And the Iranians are keeping up the pretense that there was no boycott. According to them, Alirezaei quite unexpectedly (and coincidentally) came down with some undisclosed serious illness that required medical attention.

Iranian swimmer Mohammad Alirezaei has pulled out of the Olympic Games on Saturday because of illness, MNA reported.

The 100-meter breaststroke swimmer was carried to a hospital in Beijing, according to the Iranian Swimming Federation officials.

Let me guess. He was poisoned by Zionists?

It bears reminding that Iranian swimmer Mohammad Bidarian missed out on the Olympics, after boycotting an event in which he would have to compete against another representative of Little Satan.

Update: This may explain Iran’s lame attempt to claim Alirezaei had an illness:

Iran could face action from the International Olympics Committee if it deliberately pulled out of the Olympic men’s 100m breaststroke heats because an Israeli was also racing, Olympic officials said on Sunday.

Iranian swimmer Mohammad Alirezaei’s lane one was empty when the field left the starting blocks on Saturday as Israel’s Tom Beeri, starting in lane seven, finished fourth.

International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies said she was unaware of the facts, but reiterated IOC policy.

“I wouldn’t specifically comment on this incident,” she said.

“Under the spirit of respect and fairplay, if it is confirmed that he deliberately pulled out then the IOC would take it seriously.”

It has been a bad day in Gaza for certainty, with not just one, but two, vague explosions.

Two vague explosions took place early on Friday in central Gaza city, one of them rocked a café killing a man and another explosion struck beside the house of Hamas parliamentarian, Palestinian security and medics said.

The Palestinian officials said that it is not immediately clear who was behind the explosions.

The first explosion took place just after midnight outside al-Jazeera cafe. The cafe has been hit twice in the past year by similar attacks, presumably perpetrated by radical groups who also target record shops and Christian institutions.

The officials said the explosion killed an unidentified man who was apparently passing by at the time. Three people were wounded.

The second bomb exploded outside the house of a Hamas lawmaker, Marwan Abu Rass, causing light damage but no casualties.

Hamas’ security forces deployed on Gaza crossroads and started search campaigns, looking for attackers.

And still on the subject of explosions, today’s news also involves one of the mysterious kind.

An Iranian military convoy attacked in a mysterious explosion last week was delivering a load of military equipment to the Hezbollah militant group at the time of the blast, western officials told the London Daily Telegraph in a report published on Friday.

Details of the explosion, which occurred near a Revolutionary Guards’ munitions warehouse in the Tehran suburb of Khavarshahar and left 15 people dead, were blacked out even in Iranian media.

Western officials told the Telegraph that the Revolutionary Guards had launched an investigation into the cause mystery blast, which apparently took place on July 19.

“This was a massive explosion that was heard throughout Tehran,” an official told the Telegraph. “Even though lots of people were killed, the Revolutionary Guards are trying to conceal what really happened.”

The Guards are investigating the possibility that the explosion was the result of sabotage, the officials said. There have been a number of unexplained explosions in Iran of late, including on at a mosque in Shiraz during a military exhibition, and another at a missile site.

A few days ago, I posted this rather unbelievable statement from the Iranian Vice President, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei:

“Iran wants no war with any country, and today Iran is friend of the United States and even Israel…. Our achievements belong to the whole world and should be used for expanding love and peace.”

Now, quite predictably, we are being told it was all one big misunderstanding (hat tip: Elder of Ziyon).

The following day, 20 July, Rahim-Masha’i denied the reports of his speech. “This is not what I meant and these are all lies. During my speech I also said that Israel was dead and only its funeral ceremony has been postponed, but they [the press] did not publish these statements,” Iranian state radio quoted him as saying.

Fars news agency, which appears to have been the sole source for the vice-president’s original, contested, remarks, cited him as declaring: “By ‘Israel’ I meant the Palestinian and Jewish people living in Palestine, not the immigrant Jews or Zionists, because we do not recognize the Zionists at all.”

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“Sorry, when I said Iranians are friendly with the Israeli people, actually I wanted to say Palestinian people”, Mr. Esfandiar Rahim Mosha’i, the Iranian vice-President in charge of Tourism and Cultural Heritage Organisation corrected on 21 July 2008 his earlier statement in which he had said that “Iranians are friendly with the American and Israeli peoples. Actually, we think the American people are one of the best in the world.”

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In an official, but mild denial, published by the same Fars News on Monday 21 July, Mr. Rahim Mosha’i says “it is obvious that Iran can not be friendly with Zionist usurpators. Everyone should have understood that I made a mistake by saying we are friendly with the Israeli people while I had the Palestinians in mind,” he said, adding “however, as stated by our dear President several time, Iranians have no enmity with the American or the Jewish people, which we distinguish from the Zionists who occupied Palestinian’s homeland.”

Even Barack Obama would be scratching his head over that flip-flop.

Meanwhile, Iran Press Service notes this is not the first time Rahim-Mashaei has landed himself in hot water.

This is not the first time that Mr. Rahim Mosha’i, whose daughter is married to the son of the President, has provoked the ire of the orthodox media, angered at seeing him watching a performance of belly dancers in Ankara.

I would love to have heard his excuse on that occasion. Let me guess..he was being tortured by the Zionist ursurpators?

Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei believes our intelligence is there to be insulted.

How else do you explain his statement that Iran is a friend of the Satan brothers?

The deputy to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran was a friend of Israel, Iranian news agencies reported.

“Iran wants no war with any country, and today Iran is friend of the United States and even Israel…. Our achievements belong to the whole world and should be used for expanding love and peace,” said Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, who is also head of the Cultural Heritage Organization.

I can feel a group hug coming on…

Supplying terrorists with money and weapons to use against us? Just a misunderstanding.

All that talk of wiping us off the map, and calling us - amongst other things - a cancerous growth that will disappear by means of the Hizbullah fighters’ radiation [therapy]? Just playful banter between friends.

Referring to us exclusively as the “Zionist entity”? Just a nickname.

Yeah, right.

As for that reference to “[Iran's] achievements”, now that’s funny. Although I can’t help but think what they would consider their greatest achievement is not all that far off.

Unless we do something about it.

You know, as a friend.

Despite acknowledging being jipped, Israel is still going ahead with the terrorists-for-corpses exchange.

Syrian President Bashar “Dorktator” Assad sticks his neck out to avoid Ehud Olmert in Paris.

‘I’ll be Back’ meets ‘I’ll be Black’: Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’d work for Obama.

The world’s oldest blogger is now of the non-moveable type.

More Iranian fauxtography has been found.

Another sporting event, another Iranian wiping himself off the sporting map.

The Iranian swimmer, Mohammad Bidarian, has refused to compete with his Israeli rival in the 100-meter freestyle event in Croatia.

Bidarian advanced to the semifinal in the 100-meter breaststroke event after he clocked a time of 52.25 seconds on Thursday morning.

Despite the fact that he had a chance to get an Olympic berth for his country, the 19-year-old Iranian national gave up the competition as he was grouped with an Israeli swimmer on Thursday evening.

Another Iranian swimmer, Mohammad Alirezaei, gained the first Olympic berth in swimming for Iran at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Thursday.

Alirezaei, 22, qualified for the games after he clocked a time of 1.03.03 minutes in the 100-meter breaststroke event and improved his personal best by 0.89 seconds.

Top swimmers from 13 countries have taken part in the international event which began in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik on July 10 and will conclude on July 13.

He could have saved himself a lot of trouble by just photo-shopping his Israeli opponent out of any pictures of the race.

Previously on Israellycool:

Iran’s Tae Kwon Do Follies

Gutless

Olympic Disgrace

Looks like Iranian President/genocidal maniac Mahmoud Ahmadinejad almost got wiped off the map by a Zionist Death Ray. ^TM (Hat tip: Bennauro)

Enemies of Iran attempted to kill President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with high-intensity X-ray radiation during his recent trip to Italy, Iran’s former ambassador in Rome said on Monday.

Ahmadinejad attended a global summit on food at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Rome headquarters in early June.

“On the eve of the [Iranian] president’s visit to Rome, we checked the radiation levels in his temporary residence,” Abolfazi Zohrevand told Iran’s IRNA news agency.

“We found out that the radiation was higher than normal and its intensity was rapidly increasing,” he said, adding that several devices were used to avoid potential error in readings, but they all showed the same results.

Earlier, Ahmadinejad himself mentioned another assassination attempt during his March visit to Baghdad and said only changes to his schedule had foiled the plot. However, the West and even some inner Iranian circles dismissed his allegations.

The Iranian president pledged last week to provide proof that the United States was behind an attempt on his life in Iraq.

Ahmadinejad, 51, who became president in 2005, is a strong critic of the West and has also called for Israel “to be wiped off the map,” while Washington considers Iran to be the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.