Iran Hard-Liners Condemn Nobel Committee

[Khephra]

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's powerful hard-liners on Saturday accused the Nobel committee of meddling in the country's internal affairs by awarding the annual peace prize to an Iranian dissident.

Shirin Ebadi won the 2003 prize on Friday for her human rights and democracy activism. She is the first Muslim woman to win the award.

"The prize is a support for secular movements and against the ideals of the 1979 Islamic revolution," said Hamid Reza Taraqi, a former lawmaker and member of the hard-line Islamic Coalition Society.

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee, against its original objectives of promoting peace, has turned into a political tool in the hand of foreigners to interfere in the internal affairs of our country," Taraqi said.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-nobel-hard-liners,0,6999032.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[bemildred]

1. Further making themselves look like fools.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Response to Mr. Taraqi:

Read it and weep, fascist.

[Rex]

3. Good to see other countries have religious wacknuts too

NOT!

[IranianDemocrat]

4. Fuck the right wing hard line fascists.

All of them belong in hell.