So as to make it easier to knock planes out of the sky? From Airwise News, with thanks to Tombeth:
Iran has asked the United States to allow direct flights between the two countries after a break of more than two decades, a senior civil aviation official said on Thursday.The request comes as the United States and its European Union allies are pressing for the Islamic Republic to be reported to the United Nations Security Council where it could face possible sanctions for its nuclear program.
"We sent a letter to the relevant American officials on Wednesday, announcing Iran's willingness to resume direct flights," Nourollah Rezai-Niaraki, head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization, told state television.
He said the decision to make the request was taken by hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad due to demand from the large Iranian community living in the United States.
"They have repeatedly complained about wasting time and losing their baggage on connecting flights," the official said.
Why do we allow anyone to travel to Iran other than on government business?
I guess they also asked for the GPS coordinates for the White House (they weren't right last time), the Empire State Building, Sears Tower, NSA and CIA main buildings.
On a related note, the new Hamas government has requested direct flights to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.
"We wont try to kill your people...trust us."
The only direct flights you'll see from us buddy are of the one way kind when we start the mass deportations. That is if you have any runways still functioning after we bomb your Islamic paradise to smithereens.
Sure as soon as we can Build a Church in Mecca
I will consider it...
"...announcing Iran's willingness to resume direct flights,"
LOL!
Well it all makes sense in the queer and bizarre world of Islamo-fascism, a clear sense of entitlement and " unalienable rights" to fly the "Islamic Airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran" to any place Allah or any mad Mullah wishes to fly to.
Back off, infidel, or else....!
Weighing the relative threats, if you can't get a direct flight to Cuba, you certainly shouldn't be able to get a direct flight to Iran, or for that matter, go there at all.
This is also a classic trait of brinkmanship: hurl insults and/or make ridiculous threats, then make bizarre overtures for contact and goodwill (like the Venezuelan heating oil scheme). Then make more threats.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
"The US State Department agreed to consider the request on the condition that Iranian airlines provide all American passengers with sampling packages of pistachio nuts".
huunhhh? pistachio nuts?
Is it just me, or do these slobbering blowhards seem to be making far too much racket in the form of demands and defiance?
People in hell want ice water and ice cream!!!
LOL There's a damn good reasons those Iranians are in this country..... they'd be dead meat if they went back. Well, let em sweat.
I got the following amusing tidbits from frontline mag this morning.
The political battles are centered around new Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supreme
leader Ali Khamenei originally helped this relatively unknown politician win the presidency
because he thought Ahmadinejad would serve as a counterbalance to the powerful Hashemi
Rafsanjani. But Khamenei got far more than bargained for.
(Just goes to show it's not only Infidels that can get the short end of the stick when trying to use a muslim looney.)
Part of Ahmadinejad's perilous honesty is exposing the Iranian political establishment's
corruption. An initial report from an audit of public finances that the president ordered found
over $100 billion of Iran's oil revenue since the revolution not "properly accounted for."
Ahmadinejad thinks that the mullahs themselves have been compromised. In this regard, Taheri
explains that Ahmadinejad believes "the ruling mullahs have milked the system and, having
become rich, can no longer share the revolutionary aspirations of the poor masses."
($100 billion....not properly accounted for. Whew.)
Observers think it possible that Ahmadinejad could try to replace Khamenei with Mesbah Yazdi.
While there have only been two supreme leaders in Iran's history, Ahmadinejad could make the
switch if he's able to stack the powerful Assembly of Experts with figures loyal to him.
Both Rafsanjani and Khatami have orchestrated a campaign of character assassination against
Ahmadinejad in recent months designed to paint him as a delusional figure who believes that the
Hidden Imam guided him through a September speech before the United Nations.
The mullahs may also have gone beyond character assassination. On January 9, a military plane
crash killed 11 top commanders in Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has been a
key source of support for Ahmadinejad. General Ahmad Kazemi, the commander of IRGC's
ground forces, died in the crash, as did a number of other military notables.
Although an IRGC spokesman blamed bad weather and dilapidated engines, the private
intelligence company Stratfor has noted that while negligent maintenance is "a plausible
explanation for the crash,"
there are several reasons to suspect foul play. One reason is the political context surrounding the crash: Not only was Ahmadinejad's election controversial, but also his recent bomb throwing has "stirred up noticeable hints of dissent within the ruling regime."
Moreover, because the Falcon aircraft that crashed carried some of Iran's top military
commanders, it "would undergo thorough tests for technical issues before flight."
If the plane crash was an act of sabotage, it could be either a product of the "mullah wars" that have been raging between Ahmadinejad and the establishment mullahs, or it could have been
orchestrated by members of the IRGC who are sympathetic with the opposition to the regime.
I say we honor the request for direct flights.
Here's the number they can call to get the process started:
1-800-USAirForce.
I wonder if they will be required to place their suicide belts in their checked luggage. I'm sure they will demand that they be allowed to carry them on board.
The Pistachio Growers' Council of Southern California, if it exists, deserves a good word here. Buy pistachio nuts from California, Infidels, or do without. And let the inhabitants of the Islamic Republic of Iran eat cake -- Iranian pistachio-nut cake, made with Iranian pistachio flour, and whole Iranian pistachio nuts, and a nice Iranian pistachio-based icing on top. Everything green, green, green, the color of envy and Islam, or at least the color that Islam has attempted to arrogate, without so much as a by-your-leave, to itself: the dream of the desert-dweller, envying the inhabitants of the palm-fronded oasis. Let that desert dessert be served, helping after helping, to the OPEC-funded undeserving. Until Ahmadinejad himself turns a ghastly green. Verde que te quiero verde.
It's a threat and a declaration of intent.
Ahmadinejad and his pals are laughing at the U.S.A. and Israel.
Why are these guys suddenly so cocky?
Do they already have the bomb?
Did Pakistan or Russia supply a nuclear weapon.
Their scorn is palpable.
Has anyone here ever listened to a two-year old, how they will ask mummy and daddy for something extraordinary, maybe a tap-dancing elephant, and when they're refused they'll tell mummy and daddy that they don't like them? Am I going nuts or does this sound vaguely familiar to the present situation? Only in this case it doesn't sound cute, only ridiculous.
When are these people going to grow up? Their foreign policy is built like a house of cards, glued together with the spittle of their frothing religious leaders. Let them learn to play nicely in the sandbox first, before making any agreements of this kind.
So they can deliver a nuclear warhead in the belly of an Iranair passenger plane?
Too many Clint Eastwood lines come swimmingly to mind.
I am sure someone in the US will start to whine about how unfair it is that Iranians can't take direct flights to their homeland. Jimmy Can't-See-The-Forest-For-The-Trees Carter comes to mind as a prime candidate.
"My Granny, What big Teeth you have!"
"The better to EAT you with" said teh big bad wolf....
Yea, lets put a nice big Welcome matt on the plane...Martyrs Welcome....
No...absolutely not.
I called my congresswoman's office and asked that question: are they going to allow it? And said I am against it given their stated intent to destroy the United States.
"Iran Wants Direct Flights To US". And people in Hell want ice water. So what? Can anyone else think of a better way to bring a nuclear device into the US than on a supposedly civilian commercial flight?? Keep Iran out of the US!
All these death threats are metaphors. 9/11? Those mass murders were but allegorical enactments of Moslem anger at Wetern attacks on the Islam.
You dudes need to give President Mahmoud a break here. Me, if a guy's named Mahmoud, well, I'm probably gonna trust him.
When pigs fly!!! (Or have they started to already?)
"So they can deliver a nuclear warhead in the belly of an Iranair passenger plane?"
Bingo.
This will save all the trouble of that pesky delivery system. Just ask the infidels to let you send it direct.
Unfortunately, there will be people who see this as Iran extending an olive branch of a sort, and will facilitate their demands eagerly.
I wish fervently the above was hyperbole.
Posted by Hulegu Khan:
"So they can deliver a nuclear warhead in the belly of an Iranair passenger plane?"
There is no doubt about it. Multiple city targets within minutes of each other.
If this approved then I am moving out of that city!
I'm sure all the Iranian pilots have gone through the "I wanna learn how to take off, but not to land" aviation school.
Shall we make this a measure of America's flirtation with societal suicide? If no one honors this with even a response, we still have time. If approved, time's almost up.
verything green, green, green, the color of envy and Islam, or at least the color that Islam has attempted to arrogate, without so much as a by-your-leave, to itself:\\
the above post forgot to equate the colour green is was borrowed from the "environmental wackos".. green seems to attack the loony left! Green has officially been hijacked by Iranians mullahs, muslim PA etc.
Sure as soon as we can Fly a bunch of Southern Baptist Preachers into Mecca for an Evangalism conference..
With a focus on Saving the Muslims..
One minute they're talking about wiping out Isreal, or at least putting it in an "eternal coma", and the next they're worrying about lost luggage.
I am simply speechless. I don't want to be, but I just......
Well, the intent of this request is now clear after having read one of the posts above.
How can the Islamic Death Cult be expected to fund intricate martyrdom operations in the infidel lands when 100 billion dollars of oil money has come up missing?
We need to HELP the cultists in their days of financial need by removing from their path the security roadblocks that make suicide operations so gosh darn expensive!
It is our sacred duty as dhimmists-in-waiting to facilitate movement of bombers through our airspace and into our cities. Terrorists have rights too, ya know.
Hold on, the ACLU is returning my call...Im going to get this problem cleared up.
LOL. Reading JW'rs comments is 90% of the fun.
What exactly is the purpose of the chief Iranian nuthead? Suppose he's actually not as crazy as he is, and that he expected the U.S. reaction---complete ridicule. Why did he say it (assuming he's not crazy)? Is he putting a show before the Muslims of the world, to depict himself and Islam as the poor victims? As if to say, "Look, poor me and you, we just want affordable nuclear energy, direct flights to the U.S. like other nations, to be treated like equal, and instead look how the evil West treats us?" Is that supposed to generate solidarity among the Muslims, in preparation for a future grand alliance of Muslims headed by this modern-day Hitler, against the West?
What's going on in his crazy head?
"What's going on in his crazy head?"
He is mocking the U.S.A. and Israel.
By asking for direct flights to the U.S. and Israel he is pointing out the far advanced dhimmitude of the West.
He might even be half expecting his requests to be accepted.
I'm sure he and his pals were howling with laughter as they made these requests.
Who says Islam has no sense of humor?
Whenever the humor involves mass death, Muslims are the proverbial barrel of laughs.
He is also declaring his intention of eventually getting nuclear weapons into the U.S.A. and Israel.
And he is aware that most Westerners will not get the joke.