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I’ve heard of appeasement, but this is ridiculous.

That must have been one hell of a letter.

Hat tip: Gomel.

We already knew that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one sick puppy.

Now it is being reported that he is also sick.

And if you don’t believe the reports, check out the pictures:

Yep, he’s definitely not looking too energetic.

I think he may have even shrunk.

You know you’re ill when Fidel Castro is helping to prop you up.

It’s enough to make a grown man genocidal maniac cry.

A delegate has her picture taken with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) during the 63rd United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 23, 2008.

50 years from now, people are going to be scratching their heads, wondering how it was that someone like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was treated like a celebrity, courted by the US media, and given a platform to sprout his maniacal views. Much like we find ourselves scratching our heads at the way the world responded - or more correctly failed to respond - to Hitler.

That is assuming there is a 50 year from now. Or if there is, that Sharia Law permits people to question such things.

Iran has reportedly been spending big on monkeys.

And no, it’s not to make Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad feel more at home.

Hundreds of endangered monkeys are being taken from the African bush and sent to a “secretive” laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments.

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Manji said scientists at the Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute in Iran had bought 215 vervet monkeys from him this year but he had become suspicious about their true motive, although he was still trading with them. They had “spent a lot of money” on getting the monkeys, even sending over scientists to check on each consignment.

“Iran is very secretive,” said Manji, who has been exporting monkeys for 22 years. “They said it [the monkeys] was for ‘our country’, for vaccine. [They said] ‘We don’t buy vaccine from anywhere; we prepare our own vaccine’.

“But I think they use it for something else. You know why? Because they don’t go on kilos. Iran wants [monkeys weighing] 1.5kg to 2.5kg, [but] 1.5kg for vaccine is not possible.”

Rubibira indicated that finding out what the Iranians wanted the monkeys for would be difficult. “They cannot say, you know. They are secretive. They wouldn’t tell the truth.”

The revelation will fuel speculation that the monkeys may be used for research involving biological weapons. Primates are typically used by scientists wishing to test both the effectiveness of germ warfare agents and defences against them.

The Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, which has its headquarters in Karaj, near Tehran, has been accused in the past by an Iranian opposition group of conducting biological weapons testing.

According to US intelligence, the pharmaceutical industry in Iran has long been used as a cover for developing a germ warfare capability.

In 2005 the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Iran “continued to seek dual-use biotechnology materials, equipment and expertise that are consistent with its growing legitimate biotechnology industry but could benefit Tehran’s assessed probable BW [biological weapons] programme”. Earlier this year it reiterated this.

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?

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.