Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "Iran's Supreme Leader: Nuclear Weapons 'A Sin'" video.

  1. Because this is an American news channel, not a turkish History channel.
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  2. Wikipedia says: "An official Iranian statement released on August 9, 2005 at the Vienna meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claimed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons.[2]" Now the important part: "The text of the alleged fatwa has never been released and therefore its existence cannot be confirmed." I think this is one of the reasons it haven't got much media attention, don't you think?
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  3. You think a fatwa from the religious leader of an Islamic theocracy is negligible?
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  4. His position relied on the fact that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. I'm not sure this is true, but I'm pretty sure Hitchens had access to more information than I do. He's met and had conversations with the Ayatolla's little brother Hadi Khamenei, an influential critiziser of the regime. I think he certainly had good reasons for beliving Iran was developing nuclear weapons.
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  5. Ok that was ignorant of me, but still, it's _American_ news. Iran, China, Russia, Israel. All are hot topics. It seem like news coverage is proportional to the foreign nations' arsenal.
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  6. It's funny that Cenk encourages the audience too "look it up", and when I do, I find out that the fatwa was never released. All we got is an assertion.
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