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The Islamic Republic of Iran has decided that the chipmaker Intel and the computer services outfit IBM are a bunch of nasty Zionists and banned their products from being advertised in the country.
Not that Iran has much choice. Intel and IBM gear is on a list of things that can't be exported to Iran, but hell the thought was there.
Comedy president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a new amendment to a law in the Islamic Republic that forbids the airing of advertisements for "Zionist companies."
The blacklist is made up of international companies, mainly American, owned by Jews, or that operate branches in Israel.
Under the law government ministries will establish a committee to identify and locate products from "Zionist" companies being sold in Iran.
The committee will have to find the names of leading figures in the blacklisted companies so that they may be boycotted too.
According to Ynet all this is supposed to hurt Israel, but practically it is more to do with shoring up civilian support for the Palestinians. The Jerusalem Post mentions Coca Cola as another banned substance.
AMD does not appear to be on the list we have seen, and some of its chips ended up in Iranian computers via a Middle East supplier backdoor. We are sure if Ahmadinejad could get his paws on Intel stuff he would not mind, the law only specifies that the goods are not supposed to be advertised, but since most chips come into Iran via illegal channels it should make no difference at all.
No source in Iran has mentioned any names of any companies yet, nor does the writer makes any actual quotes to any sources here, but I guess any nonsense can be published if it says bad things about Iran!
The Iran president is a "Comedy president", that must be an injustice to comedy acts like Bush ,or "MR. Change, but not realy" Obama or Biden, the true "Comedy Class Acts" !
In any case, that does not change the fact that you quote no actual source, you can even check Press TV or IRNA web sites and none of them mentions any companies yet, so the "news" you are spreading is not only inaccurate, it is practically fictitious!
I say this with as friendly humility as I can conjure; it is a terrible mistake to bask in nonchalant arrogance that people from Iran, or those who like Iran, have limited brain capacity. Having been there, I know how much ahead of western counterparts the average Iranian is, when it comes to general knowledge and knowing what happens in the world.
The American Public's depth of knowledge of the world? Well, the less said the better!
As soon as we discover FTL capabilities, we are SO outta here. Leave this sh*thole planet to you euro-peons and your masters, the chinese.
Sanctions? People here laugh at them. Perhaps they make life (for the importer) a little bit harder and the prices a little bit higher, but that's all.
I don't think this law will be implemented rigorously, since some items can't be boycotted. To be honest, we depend on Intel and IBM. Perhaps Coca Cola and Nestle are more viable to boycott, since they have many acceptable alternatives.
The matter of fact is that all HUMAN BEINGS must unite with President Ahmedinejad to boycott all those products which are owned by people or organizations which extend financial or even moral support to Israel which has been established on greed, massacres, persecutions, mass exodus, rivers of blood of innocent HUMAN BEINGS. Palestine has been occupied by heartless Aliens who are on the path of massacring innocent HUMAN BEINGS and surprisingly there is not a small population of "Human Beings" who are supporting this Alien occupation.
ALL HUMAN BEINGS,,,,, SAY NO TO ISRAEL.
The banning of trade with other nations, lack of development of a tourist industry and the development of a normal economy. They assume oil is all they have to produce and ignore the rest. That does not make Iran unique. Other oil producers like Saudi Arabia have the same arrogance and repressive attitudes and are even worse.
Iran has beaches, sun, scenery, history and a wine tradition that rivals Spain or Italy. It is a natural tourist country with friendly people who are very hospitable. But what does the thick regime do? It requires people to cover up at beaches, imposes a gender apartheid (which is hypocritical from a regime that refused to trade with South Africa in the 1980s due to apartheid. Iran's treatment of women v SA's of black people is the same), polutes its countryside and cities with industrial waste and smog, refuses to recognise its history because it is associated with a monarchy that was overthrown and bans its wine industry for most the population (certain groups of Iranians can legally drink alcohol but it is banned in public for most of the population). Is this the actions of a far sighted government? No. And before we start blaming Ahmadinejad for imposing this rigidity and being a hardliner, we have to also look at Khatami, Rafsanjani and all the other hardline (or a prefer to call them yes men) presidents of Iran in recent years. The 1997-2005 hardline regime of Khatami pretended to be "moderate reformists" but any time dissent was shown by Iranians (in 1999 and 2003, for example), Khatami's regime went along with the Shah's and the Pasdaran's clampdowns. Ahmadinejad is also known for his anti-zionist derversion speaches. However, it was that great reformist pragmatist Rafsanjani who is the only Iranian to actually say that Israel should be nuked. Ahmadinejad did not say this. Rafsanjani also is the reason why the Iranian presidency is a joke. He got the job from his friend, Shah Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 1989 and made sure the presidency was a yes man vehicle for the regime and one where he got rich out of it. Because Khamenei and the Pasdaran are the real powers in Iran since the early 1980s (yes, Khamenei's era as president was a time when the president was powerful), nothing much has changed. Sure, Iran is more moderate now than it was in the war years of circa 1981-1988 but there is no difference between the Rafsanjani, Khatami and Ahmadinejad eras at all. All 3 promised a lot, talked about social, economic and government reform and also promised to end corruption. None of the three delivered their promises.
If Iran is to change, it needs rid of the unelected elements and have a stronger president. Now, there are three forces battling it out in Iran: democratic movement, the clergy and the shadowy military elements like the Pasdaran. The latter are the worst but hopefully the people will overcome and set up a proper country.