Iran state media call French first lady prostitute

[MrBig]

Source: Houston Chronicle via Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state media called France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, a "prostitute" on Monday in an unusual attack on the wife of a world leader that shows deep anger over her support for an Iranian woman who faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction.

The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned the stoning sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, which Iran temporarily suspended but did not throw out after an international outcry.

Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, could still face execution by stoning or hanging after a final review of her case, her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian, told The Associated Press Monday.

The Kayhan newspaper, whose editor is a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, described Bruni-Sarkozy as a "prostitute" on Saturday in an article headlined "French prostitutes enter the human rights uproar."


Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/7177852.html

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Wow...what an article, mature, intelligent and well-reasoned response. (In case it isn't obvious :sarcasm:)

[Lightning Count]

1. Iran, where the pecking order is as follows:

Man, goat, dog, woman, rat.

[closeupready]

3. Dogs would be lower than women.

Islam considers dogs to be very, very low. Why muslims with dogs are less common than amongst non-muslims. Aside from that, your list is pretty accurate.

On the topic, wasn't she The Other Woman, and he left his wife to shack up with Carla Bruni? Not that this necessarily makes her anything more than The Other Woman, but if the words were poorly translated, maybe that's what they were saying...?

[Lightning Count]

5. I knew I may have messed up the order. nt.

[Deep13]

2. M. Sarkozy could have said the Iranian official wishes he had a wife as hot as his.

Sexual repression and misogyny go hand in hand.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Carla Bruni performing "Don't Cha".

There's an idea.

[mike r]

4. And it was the French who gave Khomeini asylum and helped him with his revolution

http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/boms200403010935.asp

In 1978, as protests against Shah Pahlavi swept across Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was living in a cozy house in the Parisian suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau, engineering an Islamic revolution that would soon shake the world. Under the watchful eye of the French government, Khomeini met regularly with journalists and actively campaigned for the shah's overthrow. In fact, when Pahlavi finally fled his country in 1979, Khomeini was provided with a chartered Air France flight to Tehran, where he presided over one of the world's most repressive regimes until his death in 1989.

[onehandle]

6. I hope I live to see the educated enlightened Iranian people rise up and take over.

Before we bomb them into the stone age.

[Amonester]

7. Who cares what that murderer thinks?

That said, it's not a reason to bomb bomb bomb the misogynist leader ayatollah country to steal the oil.

[BillH76]

9. Bruni-Sarkozy dismissed rumors of infidelity as 'insignificant'....

Then, according to the article, "rumors died down."

There are some many nice things about the French, and this is one of them.

Imagine what would have happened if Bill Clinton had said that his involvement with Monica Lewinsky was "insignificant."

[roxiejules]

10. Iranian newspaper says Carla "deserves death"

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.1.895104809

A spokesman for the French government on Tuesday condemned recent comments by an Iranian government daily calling France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy "immoral" and a "prostitute" and claiming she "deserved to die."

"The insults in the daily Kayhan and picked up by Iranian websites against several French figures, including Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, are unacceptable," French foreign ministry spokesperson Bernard Valero said, quoted by French public radio RFI's website.

Iranian media were furious last week when Bruni-Sarkozy , the second wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy joined a world outcry protesting the sentencing to death by stoning of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, who has been found guilty of adultery and complicity in her husband’s murder.

The article also had a similar comment about French actress Isabelle Adjani.

[unkachuck]

11. did you notice that....

"The insults in the daily Kayhan and picked up by Iranian websites against several French figures, including Mrs Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, are unacceptable,"

....no where in that statement did the French foreign ministry spokesperson address or refute the 'immoral' or 'prostitute' accusation.... :)