SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - Iran's foreign minister boycotted a dinner of diplomats where he was to be seated directly across from Sec'y of State Rice, ostensibly because a female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.
"I don't know which woman he was afraid of, the woman in the red dress or the Sec'y of State," State Dept spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday.
"You can ask him why he didn't make an effort," Rice told reporters Friday. "I'm not given to chasing anyone."
Humm - Rice seemingly has all of the available knowledge. Apparently she still isn't aware of Muslin tradition or culture. Actually that has been her problem all along. Iran isn't the Soviet.
And of course she 'chases'. That's part of her job. She's been 'chasing' peace and stability since becoming Sec'y of Defense. Hasn't caught a thing since.
And as for Spokesman McCormack, it appears that the US is just as fearful of Iran as it is assumed Iran is of us.
Condi is a lightweight.
2007-05-04 05:29:42 · 11 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Diversity is and has always been with us. It is all a matter of accepting that people are very different. No. Rice doesn't have to kiss an Arab's behind anymore than she has to kiss a Black behind or a Russian behind.
But then, no one has to kiss HER behind either.
Neither is it etched in stone that Arabs/foreigners must accept "westernized" customs, beliefs, or our so-called "democracy".
Besides, to the average Iraqi, or even to the average Afghan, 'westernized democracy' means nothing less than deceit, death and destruction.
2007-05-04 07:09:47 · update #1
What's your purpose Cheryl..one could also follow the nuclear route of the USA.It is because of our own defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons that other countries follow suit. Besides no one really knows what Iran has. If they did, Bush and Rice would be touting still another war effort before the US public, just as they did re Iraq/Saddam.
I do not believe a word they tell us anymore. They cried wolf once too often, and look at the result.
2007-05-04 10:53:35 · update #2
Hmmm. I read the article you mention and I have to say that Condi is really not suitable for her role as the Secretary of State.
I have never heard of someone of her statue make fun of foreign minister like that.
It's most unbecoming and embarrassing.
But I hate to break this to you:
I am not surprised.
Condoleezza Rice is not known for her diplomatic skills and prowess as a power broker. Her negotiating skills are questioning and her ability to make deals is non existent.
2007-05-04 05:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by Magma H 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Zechariah 5. i'm waiting. think of he will commence with the statue of Ishtar we've in NYC? (Statue of Liberty) Bless up. BTW, "it is not a scroll; that's a basket/field (ephah)." 5:7 exchange "female" to "fire," which I understand the word would be study as in the previous vowel factors are further. Width is circumference. What fire gets sealed in with lead? and don't missiles take a seat on "altars" in "temples" (silohs)? i don't be conscious of who Allah is, precisely, yet he would desire to easily tell Ahmedinejad something, as would desire to YHWH the way we've been appearing. and that i does not have confidence him the two, if he advised me water is moist.
2017-01-09 11:41:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please would you suggest that she cover herself from head to toe. why aren't the Muslim leaders versed in the ways of the west. why should we bend over for them? she is an American woman that has a position of power and she need not kiss any Arabs @ss. she did the right thing. screw the Iranian intolerant fool. you sound like you are hurt by the secretary's bold move. sorry that Americans offend you maybe you will find a better life in Iran. women in this country fought for equality why should they give it up any where in the world?
2007-05-04 05:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by strike_eagle29 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"Apparently she still isn't aware of Muslin tradition or culture."
I agree. Perhaps it's because Shaha Reza, the Muslim girlfriend of Paul Wolfowitz's, was an adviser to the administration on the treatment of women in Muslim nations. It reminds me of how a sociopathic liar called "Curveball" was a major administration source on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
2007-05-04 05:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Shes a commie ******* just like Nancy Pelosi for meeting with the President of Syria
2007-05-04 05:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like the Iranian foreign minister is afraid of strong women.. The dems send Pelosi,who cowers before them like a good little girl.
2007-05-04 05:36:28 · answer #6 · answered by bebe 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Rice has no skills to negotiate. She has brought us NO deals. she might as well be Kruschiev pounding her fists on the table.
2007-05-04 06:27:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She'd have to, to take the job in the first place.
But, I think you missunderstood the quote. Islam asks women to dress modestly, to avoid insighting lust in men. Perhaps, Condi was saying that she wasn't going to 'chase' the poor man in that sense.
2007-05-04 05:35:43 · answer #8 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ya, send Nancy Pelosi in there! She has a gavel!
2007-05-04 05:35:01 · answer #9 · answered by T-Bone35 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
At the Sharm el-sheikh conference in Egypt, when Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki excused himself after taking his seat across the table from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (saying that the violinist was inapropriately dressed)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/04/iraq/main2760338.shtml
The action of Mottaki might have been interpreted as a diplomatic rebuff. The violinist performed at the behest of the host (Egypt) which is aware of Muslim customs.
Ms. Rice may be using an old souk (bazaar) tactic. If a person seems too interested in a product, then the owner will charge a greater price. Iran's leaders have said that they are willing to talk but are unwilling to stop enrichment of uranium while talking....what would the talking be about??? It would be about enrichment of uranium and allowing IAEA inspectors to view the process.
The United Nations has imposed two sets of sanctions on Iran since December over its refusal to freeze enrichment -- a process that can be used to make atomic warheads. Ali Larijani made it clear to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Ankara that Iran had no intention of suspending uranium enrichment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300625.html
Iran may have plans to expand its power in the Middle East - to have a Shiite caliphate from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
With the "industrial scale" enrichment of uranium using at least 3,000 centrifuges, Iran could have enough material for several atomic warheads.
In defiance of the UNSC and the IAEA, Iran not only continues to enrich uranium but has gone from 3 arrays of 164 (P-1 slow) centrifuges to 18 arrays of (P-2 fast) centrifuges (=2952) in its underground facilty at Natantz. The facility was built to hold up to 60,000 centrifuges.
ISIS was skeptical of the Natanz FEP (fuel enrichment plant) being fully operational with 3,000 centrifuges by May 2007 to produce HEU which could be combined with the plutonium production at the "heavy water" facility at Arak and make a nuclear weapon.
Iran's President Mahmoud Admadi-Nejad announced on Monday, April 9, 2007 that the Natantz FEP plant had indeed installed the 3,000 centrifuges as was enriching uranium on an "industrial scale". This is in defiance of the UNSC expanded sanctions imposed on March 24, 2007. Leading Iranian nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, indicated that Iran would quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty rather than comply with the demands of the IAEA. Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani announced, "The Islamic republic of Iran has installed 3,000 centrifuges and begun feeding them with uranium hexafluoride gas."
Furthermore, in defiance of the UNSC travel ban, Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general, made a 6-day trip to Russian boasted his trip showed "the ineffectiveness of the resolution."
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4045
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6538957.stm
In the enrichment process, uranium hexafluoride gas is pumped into centrifuges, which spin and purify the gas. Enriched to a low degree, the result is fuel for a reactor, but to a high degree it creates the material for a nuclear warhead. The aim of enrichment is to increase the proportion of fissile uranium-235 atoms within uranium. The slightly denser isotope u-238 (see depleted uranium) is separate from the lighter u-235 (fissile uranium).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/05/nuclear_fuel/html/enrichment.stm
The head of the Iranian Nuclear Energy Organization, Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh, explains it thus:
The simple way is to inject 0.7% (uranium) and obtain 3.5%, right? Now, if you take this 3.5% and inject it again into the chain (of centrifuges), the result will be 20%. If you inject the 20% back into the chain, the result will be 60%. If you inject this 60%, the result will be 90%.
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1120
On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Reza Aqazadeh said that "industrial scale enrichment" means Iran is proceeding to install and operate the complete array of 50,000 centrifuges for maximum capacity of uranium enrichment.
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0704102262112737.htm
Iran's key nuclear sites.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4617398.stm
The Isfahan plant is above ground, but Natanz is more than 50ft below and would require either a tactical nuclear missile or a conventional bunker-buster bomb to destroy it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1753223,00.html.
Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles are capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and can be detonated by a remote-control device while still in high-altitude flight as electromagnetic pulse weapons - even one of which could knock out America's critical electrical and technological infrastructure, effectively sending the continental U.S. back to the 19th century with a recovery time of months or years. Iran will have that capability – at least theoretically – as soon as it has one nuclear bomb ready to arm such a missile
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43956
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2007-05-04 10:24:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋