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Misery of war on Iran will be beyond belief
March 26, 2012 - 2:49pm
A British novelist and screenwriter has warned against military aggression against Iran, saying such a measure would unleash mischief and misery "beyond belief."
"I belong to that very large cohort who think it would be absolutely disastrous to attack Iran," Ian McEwan said during The Guardian Open Weekend festival on Sunday.
The novelist repeated Iranian warnings that any attack on the country would have far-reaching consequences spreading beyond the Middle East.
Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/233284.html
This is a welcome find to me, more for my attitude toward McEwan, whose fiction I often admire, than for my agreement with him on the Iran situation.
I had associated him politically in most things with his good friend, neoconservative propagandist Christopher Hitchens (who agitated for an attack on Iran).
Although there are certainly views of McEwan's I still disagee with, he is not a political opportunist, and evaluates issues acording to his own lights, an actual contrarian.
Iran has hanged a man who was sentenced to death for the 2010 killing of a nuclear physicist, state TV has reported.
Majid Jamali Fashi, who had been accused of being an agent of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, was hanged in Tehran on Tuesday morning, the broadcast said.
Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by a bomb-rigged motorcycle that exploded outside his house as he was leaving for work in January 2010. He had no publicly disclosed links to Iran's nuclear program.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/15/iran-hanging-nuclear.htmlAnd how is that connected to the topic?
If you just put it here because its about Iran, think again: it is probably going to be taken as a deflection.
Not to mention that of all the constant hangings in Iran, what is notable about one where you have to most expect a response like this. ??? [And if you want to question that, maybe take the questions somewhere else. Start a new thread if that's what it takes.]
Iran contends that he was an Israeli agaent. If true, I wonder what Israel's response may be and what the results could be.
Whether he was or was not a Mossad tool, Israel ignores it; other than pro forma denials, if they bothered. That's policy. [And not just for Israel, for that matter.]
The Serial fabricators are now attempting to connect imaginary dots between Iran, Al-CIA'duh, and 9/11 terror.
Wild coincidence theorists seem to be going right along with this latest bit of war propaganda same as Iraq.