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By making my origin relevant in this discussion. How is it relevant?
15 freaking pages and the most important thing for the Pakistanis is my origin.
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15 freaking pages and the most important thing for the Pakistanis is my origin.
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I never made it relevant in this discussion. You mean the Vietnamese-American part? I acknowledged you're American. Iranians in the USA, even the ones that have been born in the states are called Iranian-Americans, Is that racist too? I just wanted to be precise, if that sounded racist to you, then I'm sorry.
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15 freaking pages and you're still bringing lame excuses to reject my gift. How rude of you! lol
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Precise? Really?
Are you an Iranian-American? If yes, why should it matter to me regarding this subject? If not, then it is worthless to try to use that foil.I do not care if you are Shiite or Sunni. I do not care whatever tribe you are from in Iran. I do not care if you were borne in Iran or you were borne elsewhere and move to Iran. As long as you flagged yourself as Iranian and speak for Iran, I will and have treated you as an Iranian. So if I do not care all those details about you and their relevance in this forum, why should details about me matter soooooooooo much to you that you MUST be 'precise' in your discourse with me.
There is a saying in America: 'This is not my first rodeo.'
You are not the first ME racist busted and then tried to dance his way out of what he BELIEVES to be an abhorrent attitude for a person to have. My advice to you and the same advice to all racists in this forum: Be proud and vocal of what you are. Everyone needs intellectual and emotional anchors in their lives and if contempt for other races in any degrees is part of you psyche: accept it, embrace it, and honor it. To me, the Klansmen and the neo-Nazis are more courageous than you and the Pakistani racists here when it comes to what they are and what they believe. Do not believe your racism to be abhorrent. Believe it to be a good thing to make you feel better about yourself, after all, that is what made you what you are today. If the Klansman and the neo-Nazi does not believe their racism to be a bad thing, why should you?
So you are wrong. In insisting to be...aaahhh...'precise'
...regarding my origin, you made it relevant in this discussion. You will continue to make it relevant whenever we meet. I will continue to treat you as an Iranian while you will continue to treat me as a Vietnamese-American. Your latent racism WILL compel you to be 'precise' so that you can have a convenient rhetorical weapon. When all else fails and when you find your arguments in tatters on the floors, you can always come back to how a Viet is supposed to hate the US. And WHEN that time comes, I will be laughing my @$$ off.
So we should continue to hate the Americans? Is that what you want us to do? Since when I said I'm in love with a rapist? Why are you putting words in my mouth? Stop pulling assumptions out of your a$$ and accused people for not listening to you. Just because we don't listen to you, it does not mean we don't like you. Your stupid assumptions only make you look ignorant. Why are you even in Canada? go back to Iran. If one American is a rapist, does that make the rest of them a rapist? Are you an idiot? like seriously. Go get an education, dude.
You trolls, you people have never been in a real battle, you will never understand until you people get into one. Good luck trying to stay alive. You breed hatred and more hatred will fall upon your people.
The Vietnamese people fight for achieved freedom and earned independence. Our people all have to sacrifice one way or another to achieve this. Right now we are enjoying peace and freedom and will continue to protect it. Until Iran achieve the same thing, then I will open my ears to you. Other than that, you are only throwing dumb assumptions. Watch your back Iran, the Americans are going after you. Now, it is your turn. Good luck and watch your people blow up and hope you can live with reality.
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January 22, 2012
Tehran mocks US with $4 drone toys
Morality police also intensify drive against Barbie-led cultural invasion'
Miniature toy models of the US drone RQ-170 with a slogan quoted by Irans late founder of the Islamic, Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, reading in Farsi: We will step on the United states.
Toy shelves in Tehran will be making room for a new design that will make some Iranians smile and US officials grind their teeth: a scale model of the American stealth drone that Iran brought down in early December.
Iranian officials trumpeted an "intelligence coup" when they brought down the top-secret batwing craft that had been on a CIA spying mission over Iran's nuclear facilities.
As a joke I will probably buy one, because it would take the sting out of the reality, as a kind of relief Tehran resident
An Iranian engineer working to unlock the secrets of the drone told the Monitor at the time how Iranian electronic warfare specialists had "spoofed" the drone's GPS navigation system, causing it to land in Iran.
Now that event has been immortalised in a 1:80 scale model of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone. Though Sentinel models are already on the international market, Iran's come in an array of bright colours and atop a stand engraved with the words of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution: "We will trample America under our feet."
"What is annoying are the toy shop tactics, when we have such serious issues to confront," says a Tehran resident who asked not to be named. She noted drums-of-war rhetoric coming from the US, Israel, and Iran; the covert war against Iran's nuclear programme; and mounting sanctions.
One for Obama
"Our savings have lost 40 per cent of their value in a season, and they are making drone toys!" she says. "As a joke I will probably buy one, because it would take the sting out of the reality, as a kind of relief."
The models began release last week, and the makers say they have already set aside a pink one for President Obama - who has asked for Iran to return the original US craft.
"He said he wanted it back, and we will send him one," Reza Kioumarsi, the head of cultural production at the Ayeh Art group was quoted as saying on Iranian state radio.
Production is set at 2,000 models a day, selling for the equivalent of $4 (Dh14.68) each.
Military option
The drone capture was presented in Tehran as the most significant response so far to recent setbacks for Iran that have included killings of nuclear scientists, the Stuxnet computer worm that disrupted uranium enrichment, and unexplained blasts at missile and industrial sites.
Neither the US nor Israel has taken the military option off the table to prevent Iran building a nuclear weapon. Iran says it has no intention of doing so, but wants to peacefully produce nuclear power.
"They are so kitsch they are kitschifying [America] and they are kitschifying the drone," says the Tehran resident. "What other espionage agency in the world celebrates a day for itself? Or puts up billboards which say: "Talk to us about your security concerns."
The drone model enters a cultural arena already hotly contested in Iran, where regime ideologues have battled "Westoxication" for a generation.
Top of the target list for toys have often been Barbie dolls, with their busty proportions and array of clothes and accessories seen as symbols of a permissive Western lifestyle.
In recent weeks, Iranian officials have renewed their protest at this Barbie-led "cultural invasion," decrying it as part of a "soft war" against Iran's religious values.
One Tehran shopkeeper said that morality police visited three weeks ago "asking us to remove all the Barbies." Past crackdowns have sought to remove Barbies from toy shelves they shared with Batman and Power Rangers and a host of other US- and European-style toys.
More than a decade ago, Iranian educational officials decried Barbie as "like the wooden horse of Troy with many cultural invading soldiers inside it."
Another crackdown against such "spiritual pollutants" was launched in 2002, on the Barbie dolls that have often despite their higher cost, and questionable legality been openly displayed in toy shops.
Sara and Dara
Iran's effort since 1999 to make its own version of Barbie and Ken an Islamically appropriate pair known as Sara and Dara, with the girl in a headscarf have not been big hits because they are heavier and stiffer.
gulfnews : Tehran mocks US with $4 drone toys
Tehran mocks US with $4 drone toys
Morality police also intensify drive against Barbie-led cultural invasion'
Miniature toy models of the US drone RQ-170 with a slogan quoted by Irans late founder of the Islamic, Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, reading in Farsi: We will step on the United states.
Toy shelves in Tehran will be making room for a new design that will make some Iranians smile and US officials grind their teeth: a scale model of the American stealth drone that Iran brought down in early December.
Iranian officials trumpeted an "intelligence coup" when they brought down the top-secret batwing craft that had been on a CIA spying mission over Iran's nuclear facilities.
As a joke I will probably buy one, because it would take the sting out of the reality, as a kind of relief Tehran resident
An Iranian engineer working to unlock the secrets of the drone told the Monitor at the time how Iranian electronic warfare specialists had "spoofed" the drone's GPS navigation system, causing it to land in Iran.
Now that event has been immortalised in a 1:80 scale model of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone. Though Sentinel models are already on the international market, Iran's come in an array of bright colours and atop a stand engraved with the words of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini - the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution: "We will trample America under our feet."
"What is annoying are the toy shop tactics, when we have such serious issues to confront," says a Tehran resident who asked not to be named. She noted drums-of-war rhetoric coming from the US, Israel, and Iran; the covert war against Iran's nuclear programme; and mounting sanctions.
One for Obama
"Our savings have lost 40 per cent of their value in a season, and they are making drone toys!" she says. "As a joke I will probably buy one, because it would take the sting out of the reality, as a kind of relief."
The models began release last week, and the makers say they have already set aside a pink one for President Obama - who has asked for Iran to return the original US craft.
"He said he wanted it back, and we will send him one," Reza Kioumarsi, the head of cultural production at the Ayeh Art group was quoted as saying on Iranian state radio.
Production is set at 2,000 models a day, selling for the equivalent of $4 (Dh14.68) each.
Military option
The drone capture was presented in Tehran as the most significant response so far to recent setbacks for Iran that have included killings of nuclear scientists, the Stuxnet computer worm that disrupted uranium enrichment, and unexplained blasts at missile and industrial sites.
Neither the US nor Israel has taken the military option off the table to prevent Iran building a nuclear weapon. Iran says it has no intention of doing so, but wants to peacefully produce nuclear power.
"They are so kitsch they are kitschifying [America] and they are kitschifying the drone," says the Tehran resident. "What other espionage agency in the world celebrates a day for itself? Or puts up billboards which say: "Talk to us about your security concerns."
The drone model enters a cultural arena already hotly contested in Iran, where regime ideologues have battled "Westoxication" for a generation.
Top of the target list for toys have often been Barbie dolls, with their busty proportions and array of clothes and accessories seen as symbols of a permissive Western lifestyle.
In recent weeks, Iranian officials have renewed their protest at this Barbie-led "cultural invasion," decrying it as part of a "soft war" against Iran's religious values.
One Tehran shopkeeper said that morality police visited three weeks ago "asking us to remove all the Barbies." Past crackdowns have sought to remove Barbies from toy shelves they shared with Batman and Power Rangers and a host of other US- and European-style toys.
More than a decade ago, Iranian educational officials decried Barbie as "like the wooden horse of Troy with many cultural invading soldiers inside it."
Another crackdown against such "spiritual pollutants" was launched in 2002, on the Barbie dolls that have often despite their higher cost, and questionable legality been openly displayed in toy shops.
Sara and Dara
Iran's effort since 1999 to make its own version of Barbie and Ken an Islamically appropriate pair known as Sara and Dara, with the girl in a headscarf have not been big hits because they are heavier and stiffer.
gulfnews : Tehran mocks US with $4 drone toys
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hahaha.....
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