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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Trevjon   
    writes   
      
   >"banana"  wrote in message   
   >news:uW1z9jAPcNQEFw$0@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   >> On its front page today, the 'Guardian' published a mistranslation of   
   >> Iranian President Ahmadinejad's words, to make it look as though the   
   >> Iranian authorities are planning a nuclear first strike against Israel.   
   >>   
   >> There is an official translation of the speech he made to the Tehran   
   >> international conference on Jerusalem and Palestine. This has been   
   >> circulated by the Iranian news agency IRNA. There is absolutely no way   
   >> that it could have failed to reach the 'Guardian's' news desk.   
      
   >Why do you believe the "official" translation coming out of Iran?   
   >   
   >In the past you have offered a distinct mistrust of anything labelled as   
   >"official"?   
      
   You are missing the point.   
      
   The speech has been officially published both in Farsi and in English.   
      
   Why didn't the UK newspapers use the official version? Do they have   
   reason to believe that it is incorrect, i.e. that Ahmadinejad said   
   something in Farsi, that was misleadingly translated by the Iranian   
   authorities into English? If so, WHY DON'T THEY ACTUALLY COVER THAT   
   STORY? There's no problem with sources, since both the Farsi transcript   
   and the official English translation have been officially published and   
   circulated by the Iranian news agency.   
      
   But NO. They are NOT putting forward that view. Rather, they are   
   presenting an alternative version as if it were the gospel truth.   
   Without saying it's an alternative version.   
      
      
   Where did they get that alternative version?   
      
   Why are they all using exactly the same alternative version?   
      (Or were the 'native' translators in Tehran so silly that they   
      didn't realise that a clumsy attempt to mistranslate would be picked   
      up within about five seconds by the 'expert' linguists in MI6, CIA,   
      and Israel?)   
      
   Do you think there isn't a single central source?   
      
   Why do none of them admit it's different from the official version?   
      
      
      
   Those are the important questions. It is as plain as anything that this   
   is war-mongering pro-Zionist propaganda. It's rather similar to the lies   
   about Iraq's military strength - although obviously the propaganda boys   
   have decided that it's best to portray Iran as aggressive and   
   threatening rather than merely secretly strong.   
      
   If Ahmadinejad said the Israel would soon be 'annihilated' in 'one   
   storm' (i.e. Iran will nuke occupied Palestine), but his officials   
   pretended that he really said that the Zionist regime was like a   
   crumbling and decrepid tree that will blow down in the wind, why aren't   
   the western propagandists making a story out of that?   
      
   What do you believe?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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