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Iran rejects Ahmadinejad attack reports
By: Various on: 04.08.2010 [10:59 ] (845 reads)
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Iran's Ahmadinejad Survives Grenade Attack
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/04/2010 04:30 -0500
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Associated Press reports: "A handmade grenade exploded Wednesday near President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy in western Iran, but the leader was not harmed, a conservative website reported." We are trying to determine just how this news will be spun to push the red futures (probably the first day in two weeks futures have been negative, and one of several times in the past two months this has happened) back into the green.
From AP, via MSNBC:
TEHRAN, Iran — A handmade grenade exploded Wednesday near President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy in western Iran, but the leader was not harmed, a conservative website reported.
The website, khabaronline.ir, said the blast took place in Hamedan as Ahmadinejad was on his way to address a crowd. The president gave his speech as planned and it was broadcast live on state TV.
One person was arrested in connection with the attack, the report said, adding that the president's car was about 100 yards (meter) away from the site of the blast.
The website said it had no information about whether other people were injured.
"The explosion caused a lot of smoke," it said.
Officials could not immediately be reached to confirm the report.
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Iran rejects Ahmadinejad attack reports
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:09:56 GMT
Speaking to Press TV, an informed source in Iran's presidential office has rejected as false the reports of grenade attack on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Some foreign news sources published reports that a grenade exploded near the motorcade of President Ahmadinejad during his visit to the western city of Hamedan on Wednesday.
The source denied the reports, saying no such attack took place.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137410§ionid=351020101
by Zoraida on 04.08.2010 [11:04 ]
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(CBS/AP) Iranian officials denied reports Wednesday that a handmade grenade had exploded near President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's convoy in western Iran.
Conservative website khabaronline.ir said a blast took place in Hamedan as Ahmadinejad was on his way to address a crowd. The president was unharmed, according to the site, and gave his speech as planned, which was broadcast live on state TV.
Not long after reports of an apparent assassination attempt swept across the world's media, an official Iranian TV channel said "Iran vehemently denies" that the president's convoy had come under attack, blaming the explosion on a firework set off in celebration of his arrival.
Khabaronline.ir reported, however, that one person had been arrested in connection with the supposed attack, adding that the president's car was about 100 yards away from the site of the blast.
The website said it had no information about whether other people were injured, but injuries were reported by other, Arabic language news organizations.
ht tp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20012585-503543.html
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by Zoraida on 04.08.2010 [11:19 ]
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Conflicting Reports on Alleged Assassination Attempt on Iran’s Ahmadinejad
Tehran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad survived an attack with a homemade explosive device on his motorcade during a visit to the western city of Hamadan on Wednesday, a source in his office said.
The source said Ahmadinejad’s convoy was targeted as he was traveling from Hamadan’s airport to give a speech in a local sports arena and the president was unhurt but others had been injured in the blast.
One person had been arrested, the presidency source said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Another official told AFP, however, that Ahmadinejad’s motorcade was not attacked, explaining that an explosion was from a “firecracker.”
“It was a firecracker, and a statement will be released soon,” the source from the president’s press section said.
Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam TV reported that the firecracker was set off to cheer the president.
Ahmadinejad later delivered a live televised speech to locals gathered in a stadium and made no reference to the alleged incident.
The populist, hardline Ahmadinejad has accumulated enemies in conservative and reformist circles in the Islamic Republic as well as abroad.
Al Arabiya television said an attacker had thrown a bomb at Ahmadinejad’s convoy before being detained.
Dubai-based Al Arabiya television cited its own sources as saying the bomb had hit a car carrying journalists and presidential staff.
Ahmadinejad appeared on live Iranian television at a sports stadium in Hamadan. He was apparently well and made no mention of any assault.
During a speech to a conference of expatriate Iranians in Tehran on Monday, Ahmadinejad said he believed he was the target of an assassination plot by Israel. “The stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me,” he said.
The oil market initially reacted calmly to reports of the attempted attack. One energy analyst said: “People are just waiting to see what this is about — to confirm the nature of the action.”
Ahmadinejad recently sought to isolate rival political factions by declaring that “the regime has only one party, which is the velayat” — a reference to Shiite Islam’s hidden Imam, for now represented by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
One of Ahmadinejad’s trademarks has been constant travel around his vast country to deliver provocative speeches before outwardly adoring crowds who shout “death” to Iran’s foes.
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by cosmo on 04.08.2010 [14:20 ]
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it willl be counter productive there are many Ahmadinejads and the lives of the ziowestern leaders will be on the line for asassination as well.
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by MmArRgDdOnN on 04.08.2010 [15:15 ]
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Always a stundoid ziohead. Just can't get your little peanut wrapped around the fact that you zioheads are nothing but hatemongering bigots can you.
Do you really think that the western world give a fat ferrets freaking fuzzy fanny about some insane puppet of the wanker Iranian theocrats,..., and this achmadmanjihadidad is such a nice person and all,..., who would want to wax his arse. Not to meantion this crazy achbar nutbar is always yammering on about adding fuel to the world's decent into violent chaos.
Like I said,..., this achbarnutbar is getting what it deserves,..., live by the sword,..., die by the sword. Achmadmanjihadidad has danced far to long with the devil djinn and who cares if he is to reap the whirlwinds. This universe would be a better place without this demented wanker roiling the water.
Toss the sucker a few more grenades,..., but hey,..., pull the freaking pin first and make sure the spoon does it's thingie.
Such should be the lot of every achbar nutbar islamofanatic whackjob that is trying to spread nothing but violence and death around this planet.
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by pilot-x on 04.08.2010 [15:23 ]
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Your pig ilk have killed millions MMarrgfag
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by MmArRgDdOnN on 04.08.2010 [15:28 ]
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Bet you moronic zioheads thought I was gone,..., don't fret your little fannies off,..., I am way too busy to spend much time around you hatemongers,..., I, unlike you, actually do good things on this planet,..., things like work towards peace in the mid-East and the creation of a Palistinian Homeland in the Two Nation State solution,..., something else your poor little peanuts can't get wrapped around.
You know,..., it really is too bad that you just don't have the intellectual capacity to comprehend the fact that the entire world with the exception of a few Islamofanatic whackjob locals has backed and will back the existance of Israel for over half a century now,..., and will continue to do the same into the far distant future. Your FN Dinosaurs wailing your way into extinction.
Your actually nothing but bags of hot air in the grand scheme of things,..., nasty little bags trying to aggitate for aggression against your fellow humanity. Don't give me that old worn out "It's the Damn Israeli Jews that are to fault either. They merely took their Homeland back from the squatters anyway,..., history and Religion attest to that fact,..., and more than one Major Religion at that.
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by MmArRgDdOnN on 04.08.2010 [15:32 ]
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Try sticking your head into the Georgian Straight for a half hour or so,..., maybe an Orca will end your demented run for you. In other words,..., you know the rest don't you,..., FN Zioheaded hatemonger.
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by MmArRgDdOnN on 04.08.2010 [15:33 ]
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Like I said,..., your little peanut and those like you bore me.
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by cosmo on 04.08.2010 [20:16 ]
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the End of the zioentity along with its occupants.
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by Syrian on 05.08.2010 [10:12 ]
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"Achmadmanjihadidad has danced far to long with the devil djinn"
The insane asylums really need to improve their security.
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by Saigon on 05.08.2010 [10:56 ]
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MmArRgDdOnN... havent you taken your daily dose of Ritalin ? Ahmadinejad is pissing both in your head and your president head. Whether you like it or not. Leave the discussion to the big boys, and go back filling your bowels with cheeseburgers.
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