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October 23, 2005
Iran: "Islamic Countries Consorting With Israel Are Criminal"
Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, the secretary-general of the International Conference to Support the Palestinian Intifada announced in Iran yesterday that it is a crime for some Muslim countries to be making efforts to establish relationships with the "Zionist regme", i.e. Israel, according to the Tehran Times.Speaking at a press conference at the offices of the Iranian Students' News Agency, he said:
"After Israel's withdrawal from Gaza under pressure from the Palestinian resistance, the United States and the Zionist regime demanded that Muslims normalize relations with Israel as a gift in return for their failure."Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar and Bahrain have started the process of normalisation of relatiionships with the "Zionist Regime", he said. He said that Israel was "an enemy of Muslims, and those who cooperate with Israel or legitimize or officially recognise it are also looked upon as enemies." Speaking on the car-bomb assassination of Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri, which is now shown in a UN report to have been managed by Syria, he said that America and Israel have benefitted most by Hariri's death, covertly implying some influence in the event. He said the case had now become completely politicised. "The Hariri case is the new US and Israeli scenario," he said.
Iran's publication of this conference is in line with the hard-line Islamism being promoted in Iran under its new leader, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The latest purge of westernism from his country has been a recent ban of US cinema, according to Al Jazeera. On Thursday 20 october, Iran's state television announced that the Supreme Revolutionary Council had issued the ban on foreign films which promote "arrogant powers, the propaganda name for the US. The ban also affects films that deny the existence of God and those that are viewed as promoting immorality, violence, drug usage, alcohol consumption, secularism, liberalism, anarchy and feminism. Under the previous rule of the reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, films such as Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" and Scorsese's "The Aviator" were allowed.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 23, 2005 5:34 AM
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