Iran: Obama's is the hand of Satan; Satan now has a black face

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On Iran's main state television news, not a frame of the inauguration was shown. It was mentioned once, but only in the context of America's economic crisis. There were no pictures of Obama on the front pages of newspapers. One magazine was closed by the authorities for doing just that after Obama's election victory. Out on the streets, thousands chanted his name. But only to yell "Death to Obama". They didn't wait for the inauguration to deliver their verdict on Obama, dragging his portrait through the streets of Tehran and then, three hours before he took the oath of office, setting fire to it alongside a picture of George Bush.

Hardly a good start and all because of Obama's long silence on the Gaza war.

It was the Supreme Leader's Special Representative though, who put it most graphically and with evident disgust. "Obama's is the hand of Satan in a new sleeve", explained Hossein Shariatmadari. "The Great Satan now has a black face". His words have weight because he speaks for Ayatollah Khamenei, the man who makes the big decisions in Iran; on foreign policy and all matters nuclear. His fingernails have regrown since they were pulled out by the Shah's torturers thirty years ago and Shariatmadari now edits Iran's most hardline newspaper.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...pe-in-Iran.html

[Yoink 7]

like a topic the other day where it was said that 70% of the population was under 30....

This is a closed society where the ruling elite censors any and all it wishes its subjects to see.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Oh poor Obama. He seems to be not liked in one country already.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Iran hates anyone who sits in the office of the President. The face is inconsequential.

[Jasman0717 9]

There is another noodnick in charge

[SaadBell 0]

Iran hates anyone who sits in the office of the President. The face is inconsequential.

You nailed it They just hate us period.

[dalegg 143]

That didn't take long.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

** Iran.

[andreea 0]

why ** Iran? Id say ** the manipulators in Iran.

enjoy life,

Andreea

[NickD 203]

"The Great Satan now has a black face"

Could anyone explain exactly who is Satan, and if there is such a thing or a person, what makes it great, and does Satan really have a face, and if so, does it have a color?

That statement doesn't make any sense, something lost in the translation?

And exactly whom is this Supreme Leader's Special Representative? Sounds he should either be in an alcohol or drug rehabilitation center or in an insane asylum.

[almaty 19]

Iran, sheesh...that chopf##k is the 2nd biggest attention ####### int he world....

Edited January 23, 2009 by almaty

[Ban Hammer 14,243]

Oh poor Obama. He seems to be not liked in one country already.

no hope for change there.

[Shad and Dani 3]

Isn't Iran so cute with their little country and little nuke factories. Nukem, and let God sort em out!

[Saddle Bronc 124]

That didn't take long.

Eh, Iran waited till 3 hours prior to inauguration--rather than do so 1 hour after election results!

[Saddle Bronc 124]

"The Great Satan now has a black face"

Could anyone explain exactly who is Satan, and if there is such a thing or a person, what makes it great, and does Satan really have a face, and if so, does it have a color?

That statement doesn't make any sense, something lost in the translation?

And exactly whom is this Supreme Leader's Special Representative? Sounds he should either be in an alcohol or drug rehabilitation center or in an insane asylum.

Satan: in Bible, the name given to an archangel initially in charge of praise-band but who decided he wanted to replace God; also known for being able to disguise himself exremely well (in other words a changeling).

In Koran, known as "Iblis".

To Iranian chopf##k mullahcracy, "Great Satan" is a reference to the US specifically, due to its 1952 restoration of Iranian monarchy--ironically, an event which proved the steppingstone to power of the country's first mullahcrat Khomeini (finalised by US President Carter's refusal to back the Shah in 1979; of course, the irony is lost on those chopf##ks that it was due to Great Satan that they got power in the first place!).