Bzuh?

[fightingthecage]

Holy crap. The Iranian president is giving a live interview on British TV right now.

Apparantly, Iran is a great and peaceful nation. And he is grinning and dodging the direct questions being asked about whether Iran plans to 'break the American's teeth.'

America is against the progress of Iran. It wants to do 'many things that it doesn't have the power to do.' And Iran 'knows how to defend itself.'

...and also railing on the journalist that's asking him the questions. He's not wanting to even let the dude ask him questions regarding Iraq.

Man, he certainly knows how to blather. And apparantly Iran and Iraq are 'great friends' and the interview was just finished....with him accusing the journalist of 'wanting to convey sentences, not answer questions.'

Wow. That was bizarre. And I had an open mind on Iran and its intentions up until now, but now I'm a bit more wary. Anyway. He's giving an interview to America tomorrow apparently so hopefully we'll get to see some coverage on that over here.

Odd. Very odd. Is this his idea of a charm offensive? Because he's achieved the opposite.

ETA: Oooh! He's given Channel 4 an interview as well. *watches*

...OK, the start of this is hilarious. Because the correspondent is sitting opposite the President in the gardens of his palace or wherever, and he's introducing the news, then going back to the studio so they can announce the rest of the headlines, then back to Tehran...and now a report on the political situation with Iran at the moment - and the whole time, the President of the country is just sitting there, looking quite bored and pissed off and being made to wait. BWAH!


...*snicker* Channel 4 News!guy has just asked exactly the same question as the last news guy did, namely, whether the US and UK are fighting a proxy war with Iran. He's not going off the deep end this time - the Americans and British need to 'correct themselves' otherwise they will be defeated again. Mr. Prez seems to find the question amusing this time, by the way he's grinning.

...Iraq is also, apparently, a 'great nation.' Iran is against insecurity and attack and Iraq is capable of defending itself too. Iran's influence in Iraq is solely because they have a very good relationship Iran can help solve problems in Iraq, help defend Iraq if the US and UK government 'correct themselves' and let them.

The US and UK are there to invade the region. Iran is 'ready to help' when it is requested.

What will happen if there are sanctions against Iran? The problem is American 'enmity towards Iran'.

'You do want a Bomb, don't you?'

'We don't need a bomb. We are against bombs, actually. From a political point of view, its not useful I think.'

...the journo just outright asked to be taken into a base that no one's ever been into. Prez is all, 'would you let us look into the British atomic plants?'

And he says he doesn't need a bomb and he prefers 'human solutions', in Iraq as well.

Israel is illegal. They are attackers. He wants a 'human' solution to it though, using the peaceful collapse of the USSR as an example of how Israel should be gotten rid of. Israel is 'cruel' and 'an invader' and neighbouring countries are against it - it 'cannot be allowed to continue.'

Its suspicious that 'they' wont allow them to investigate the Holocaust. And he's curious as to 'where the Holocaust happened.' (...he strikes me as a very bizarre dude, this President. It is also mildly disconcerting that he looks like a slightly uglier version of my Uncle Alan.)

'Why should we stop [enrichment] when American and Britain wont?' (Isn't that a direct contradiction of what he's said before?) 'Why shouldn't America be made to stop making bombs? We make dangerous bombs but its not dangerous if America does?'

Iran has no problem with the British government. But will not tolerate things being forced upon Iran. Iran prefers to deal with Europeans. He is sorry that British soldiers have been killed. They want friendship. Friendship to all! Iran loves all nations and all human beings! (literally what he's saying, btw). Peace and friendship for all. The war should finish and there should be peace everywhere.

...again, that was a lot of blather. He was asked whether - hand-on-heart - he could honestly say that Iran had nothing to do with the killing of some British soldiers. He totally didn't answer that question.


Well. He's quite blinkered and full of shit. And I still don't know what point he's trying to make with these interviews, apart from seeming to want some kind of worldwide group hug to occur. And not being very convincing about it either.

And in squee-inducing news, Led Zeppelin are reforming! AWESOME! Even if it is only for a one-off concert.