Rafsanjani: Jews were pain in the neck

Posted on 10/13/2007 by SnoopyTheGoon

Snoopy wrote thisIt appears that the master of Iranian stand-up comedy, Mahmoud Ahmydinnerjacket, has a serious problem with his ex-competitor for the post, the “moderate” Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani. They disagree on a key point in Mahmoud’s world vision. While Mahmoud is a Holocaust denier, Rafsanjani recognizes the slaughter. Well, in his own endearing way:

Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian president and current Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, said Friday that Hitler’s treatment of Jewish people in Europe was due in part to their being “a pain in the neck.” Rafsanjani’s comments came during a sermon for “International Jerusalem Day” on Iranian TV.

There is more in this MEMRI clip, it is not long, and to some of you it may look shocking. Not for me, though, I have done my little research on this sorry sack of human refuse. Oh well, of course in a day or two we’ll hear a different interpretation of this text from the inimitable Juan Cole or somebody else of his ilk.

I bet Rafsanjani will be invited soon to talk in one of the Ivy League universities (if he wasn’t yet), and I bet the “progressives” will forget to ask him about the warrant for his arrest issued by Argentine. And all his other heroic deeds.

Too bad.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

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One Response to Rafsanjani: Jews were pain in the neck

  1. Michael Lonie says:
    10/14/2007 at 12:32 am

    Well let’s see. The Pharaohs of Tehran have been a pain in the rear end to us for 28 years and counting, so by Rafsanjani’s own logic we would be justified in some rather drastic action against him, his buddies, and the whole country of Iran. He may want to rethink his premise, quite apart from his assertion being a lie in the first place. I assume that fact holds no status in his eyes.

    There will be no safety for anyone, Iranian, Israeli, American, or Arab for that matter, until these evil clowns are overthrown and forked out of their positions of power in Tehran. It seems the Iranians do not have enough strength to carry on another revolution. That just shows how much more ruthless these bastards are than was the Shah, for they are more abusive and oppressive than he was. Iran needs a Pinochet, who will overthrow the Pharaohs before they destroy the country. Faster, dammit.

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