Iran gives Bush the Heisman on official humanitarian mission

[BaliBabyDoc]

CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States does not plan to send a government-sponsored aid mission to Bam after Iranian leadership asked that the visit be held "in abeyance," a State Department spokesman said Friday.

Title edit for accuracy.

 

[heartsurgeon]

From the BBC:

Aid workers from the US have already joined the effort to help survivors, in the first official representation by Americans since Washington cut ties with Iran after the 1979 revolution.

An 80-strong US team has started setting up a field hospital - the first to operate since Bam's own two hospitals were flattened in the earthquake.

USAid spokesman Dewy Perks told the BBC it was an honour to be helping the people of Iran on behalf of the US Government. It was "not about politics, it's about humanitarian relief," he said.

Iranian President Mohammed Khatami welcomed US participation in the aid effort.

why are you ao negative?

 

[tnitsuj]

I think they just said that now would not be a good time. They didn't say screw off or anything of the kind. This earthquake may be a blessing in disguise for both countries. It gives them both a face saving way of improving relations.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

On a positive note . . . Bush shot some birds during the holiday.

 

[syzygy]

Originally posted by: heartsurgeon
From the BBC:

Aid workers from the US have already joined the effort to help survivors, in the first official representation by Americans since Washington cut ties with Iran after the 1979 revolution.

An 80-strong US team has started setting up a field hospital - the first to operate since Bam's own two hospitals were flattened in the earthquake.

USAid spokesman Dewy Perks told the BBC it was an honour to be helping the people of Iran on behalf of the US Government. It was "not about politics, it's about humanitarian relief," he said.

Iranian President Mohammed Khatami welcomed US participation in the aid effort.

why are you ao negative?

assume the irrational and you will have answered your own question about the original poster's modus operandi.

 

[syzygy]

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
I think they just said that now would not be a good time. They didn't say screw off or anything of the kind. This earthquake may be a blessing in disguise for both countries. It gives them both a face saving way of improving relations.

you mean from these loving iranian mullahs who've reinstituted public torture to clamp down on the liberalizing elements
represented by khatami's popularity ? uh, no. what happened between turkey and greece a couple of years ago will assuredly
not happen here given these savages' sick interest in petty politics.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Damn floaters . . .

 

[0roo0roo]

more on iran. sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Islamic Republic of Iran for holding up the tshirt of a friend.

check out the photo gallery for students tortured, public executions

the way they've suppressed, tortured, killed reformist students is disgusting

torture, killing of journalist for contact with reform students

sending in fanatics into student dorms to massacre students...imprisoning, torturing, killing journalists.. no tienamen square equiv, why? they are that much better at killing and torturing students then even china.

its a police state that spends on nuclear weapons when its had quakes time and time again...ignoring fundamental infrastructure improvements to pay for weapons. last big quake was what? 1990? tens of thousands dead then too.