Meanwhile, in Iran...

Meanwhile, in Iran...#22294

By Samanfur - Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:18 am

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:18 am #22294

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri on their way to an airport to leave the country, according to their lawyer, via Reuters.

Last edited by Samanfur on Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:34 am, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22295

By Malcolm Armsteen - Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:19 am

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:19 am #22295

Fantastic news.

The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22305

By Watchman - Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:51 am

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:51 am #22305

Indeed……please, please, please, hopefully someone will stop the cretin making any statement

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Well, I don't know, but I've been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of going down
Tired of myself, tired of this town

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22307

By Boiler - Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:12 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:12 pm #22307

Which particular cretin? Johnson or Instagram Liz?

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22309

By Samanfur - Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:14 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:14 pm #22309

Boiler wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:12 pm Which particular cretin? Johnson or Instagram Liz?

Yes.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22312

By Boiler - Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:10 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:10 pm #22312

Nuff said.

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22314

By Samanfur - Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:31 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:31 pm #22314

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22320

By Malcolm Armsteen - Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:48 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:48 pm #22320

Bloody good.

And, for once, well done Liz Truss.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22321

By Abernathy - Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:52 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:52 pm #22321

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:48 pm
And, for once, well done Liz Truss.

Stopped clock, etc etc I note she is still speaking like a robot . Will no-one think of the cheese ?

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22323

By Watchman - Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:31 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:31 pm #22323

George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, also thinks Boris Johnson deserves some credit for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of going down
Tired of myself, tired of this town

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22324

By Abernathy - Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:37 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:37 pm #22324

Watchman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:31 pm George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, also thinks Boris Johnson deserves some credit for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

What for - for keeping the fuck out of it after previously having made Nazanin’s situation measurably worse with his lazy, clod-hopping intervention as Foreign Sec?

No. Johnson deserves no fucking credit for anything.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22326

By Boiler - Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:59 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:59 pm #22326

Osborne can go boil his head.

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22327

By The All New KevS - Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:01 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:01 pm #22327

Yeah, credit where it's due, sounds like Liz Truss basically said, "Oh FFS, just pay the bloody thing and let's get her out of there", and set the wheels in motion.

Which begs the question why her predecessors did not.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22331

By Malcolm Armsteen - Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:50 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:50 pm #22331

Watchman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:31 pm George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, also thinks Boris Johnson deserves some credit for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

That's because he's a cunt.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22332

By Malcolm Armsteen - Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:51 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:51 pm #22332

The All New KevS wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:01 pm Yeah, credit where it's due, sounds like Liz Truss basically said, "Oh FFS, just pay the bloody thing and let's get her out of there", and set the wheels in motion.

Which begs the question why her predecessors did not.

Because Surgical Liz out-bollocks Ricky Sunshine?

The moneychangers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22334

By satnav - Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:31 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:31 pm #22334

I think the timing has more to do with our need for cheaper oil. Iran is one of the worlds biggest exporters of crude oil so it make sense to build bridges with the regime.

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Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22336

By Cyclist - Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:54 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:54 pm #22336

It makes sense if you're a government which doesn't really give a fuck about climate change and only says nice things about green issues to shut the hairies up. And your interest in Human Rights extends as far as "if it's not happening to me I don't care".

I can see it making sense to Johnson & Co plc.

Sod it!

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22337

By Crabcakes - Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:00 pm

- Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:00 pm #22337

Abernathy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:37 pm
Watchman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:31 pm George Osborne, the former Tory chancellor, also thinks Boris Johnson deserves some credit for the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
What for - for keeping the fuck out of it after previously having made Nazanin’s situation measurably worse with his lazy, clod-hopping intervention as Foreign Sec?

No. Johnson deserves no fucking credit for anything.

Now let's be fair. He can have a tiny, tiny medal for his contribution - but only if he collects it at the same time as he picks up his wardrobe-sized, cast iron cock-shaped award engraved 'for services to making the plight of political detainees worse by being a stupid cunt'.

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22361

By kreuzberger - Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:18 am

- Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:18 am #22361

She is just leaving German airspace and being handed over to French ATC.

Godspeed, ma'am, Godspeed.

Re: Meanwhile, in Iran...#22371

By Nigredo - Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:24 am

- Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:24 am #22371

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60775180

He said Gabriella had picked out which toys to show her mother when the plane landed, and that one of the first things he would do was make his wife a cup of tea.

This has got me in tear-streaked bits

And there but for fortune may go you or I