Jezebel: Ahmadinejad

Iran's Mixed Messages On Woman's Stoning Sentence

Anna North — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:57:00 EDT

Iran's chief prosecutor says Sakineh Ashtiani could still face stoning for adultery. This contradicts a report that the stoning had been canceled, and President Ahmadinejad's statement that the sentence "was made up." More »

Gag-Worthy Guitar Hero Ad Features Hefner • Semenya To Keep Her Gold

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:40:00 EDT

• Ugh. Could someone please explain why Hugh Hefner is appearing in ads for Guitar Hero 5? Does seeing him in his bathrobe, surrounded by pants-less playmates playing air-guitar actually make anyone want to buy the game? • More »

Ahmadinejad Compares Political Riots To Being Poor Sports

Hortense Smith — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is dismissing the violent protests that broke out as a result of the recent presidential results as a product of high emotion, the same type of sentiments, he says, that happen after "a football match." More »

Riots Break Out In Iran Over The Re-Election Of Ahmadinejad

Hortense Smith — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:35:00 EDT

Protests over the re-election of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have turned violent, as supporters of Mir Hossein Moussavi feel that the results have been fixed by the government and that their voices are not being heard. More »

Ahmadinejad Wins Iranian Presidental Election

Hortense Smith — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:30:00 EDT

The New York Times is reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected by the Iranian people, what Iran's government is calling "a landslide." Ahmadinejad's opponent, Mir Hussein Moussavi, claims the results are false. More »

Hillary And American Sexism…Really Guys? Still?

Moe — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT

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On Sunday, George Will wrote a column arguing that Hillary's loss is its own proof that sexism wasn't the reason she lost. Hmmm, illogical-sounding! And yet compelling nonetheless. Because thanks to TNR I had just read a collection of thirty-something thoughts culled from more than a dozen anonymous emails from Clinton campaign staffers and fundraisers and high-level supporters, and I don't remember "sexism" coming up once. So I hit Ctrl-F, just to make sure. Nope! None for "sexist" or "misogyny-" either! Women are still ticked off about how she was treated, about Sweetiegate and Whoregate, but at the end of the day, whatever, it is not why she lost. And Ahmadinejad is bad, but he is neither Hitler nor Krushchev, and energy independence would be nice, but the $370 billion farm bill that enriches agribusiness only by starving some billions of the world's poor only sounds like a good way to achieve it relative to a trillion dollar war. And so I find myself in the position today of agreeing with George Will and David Brooks and Bob Herbert all at once. Let's get serious, guys! I think we've been frivolous for so long it's finally gotten boring. More »

Republican Lawmakers Are Prudes, Adopt Pantyhose Policy

Jennifer — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:30:00 EDT

We spent this past weekend with two D.C. friends: one who works for a male Democratic senator, one who works for a female Republican senator. And so naturally the topic of weekend conversation veered immediately to the pressing issues preventing the two sides of the aisle from uniting and restoring the country to greatness, specifically, what to wear to work. Our Democrat friend wears Chuck Taylors and jeans to the Russell Building when Congress is in recess, no questions asked. But our Republican pal is not so lucky! Just last week, she was pulled aside by a supervisor and debriefed as to the ins-and-outs of Grand Old Party dressing. Open toe-shoes are a no-go, as are jeans. Heels are mandatory at all times. But most bizarre is the "pantyhose policy." More »

"You Can Deny The Holocaust, But You Can't Deny There Is Something Between Us"

Moe — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:30:17 EDT

"You Know, When You Get To Know Ahmadinejad, It's Sort Of Like What Happens With Spencer Pratt"

Moe — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:00:00 EDT

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Welcome back to "That's So Jane's", a really bad pun we use both as an homage to Jane/Jane's Defence Weekly magazines and as an excuse to blog about something other than celebrities and drinking and fucking and all our stupid little affluent society problems. There's a whole Third World out there! And really, don't take a hot dictator's word for it: They're trying to blow us up. In this edition Anonymous Lobbyist talks to Michael Totten, an independent journalist and foreign-affairs expert whose idea of a great vacation spot is Libya. (Though the wife is nagging him to indulge her this year and go to North Korea.) In other words, he's crazy! This week the two take on A-Jad's hotness versus Blackwater mercenaries' hotness, Afghanistan's drug scene, and just when the fuck we're going to be getting some oil out of this grand Ponzi scheme to liberate Iraq. More »

World Goes Crazy For Crazy Iranian President's Crazyass Speech

Moe — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:30:25 EDT

So the totes hot Jew-hating nukeloving nutso president of Iran spoke at Columbia yesterday, and in the morning's papers there were a few camps of reaction: the ha ha ha, what a deluded tool camp, the EVIL MADMAN LIVESTRONG NEVER FORGET camp, and the "when he wasn't denying the existence of gays or babbling on about the centuries of brotherhood his nation has shared with that country that uh only 20 years back was dumping mustard gas on its ass he actually had some interesting things to say that provided a glimpse into his widespread appeal in the Third World camp. The cool thing about this country is that all three of those camps get to sound off on news channels and blogs and morning papers! More »

Senator Craig Has Never Been Gay, And Other Things That Make So Much Sense

Moe — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:30:18 EDT

Senator Craigslist says that not only is he not gay, he has never been gay, including when he was arrested three months ago and also back in 1982 when he had to deny he was gay on account of all the young boy Congressional pages he'd plied with drugs and alcohol and fucked, which very neatly explains, you see, why he plead guilty.