A 12-year old Iranian boy registered for their presidential election, but his application was turned down.
I found his campaign promises amusing:
Mozouni said he would ban computer games and raise wages of male parents so that mothers do not have to work.
Mozouni has also promised to pass a law that lets women have jobs only if they have had babies for at least five years.
He said he would also negotiate with US President Barack Obama to buy Hawaii Islands and move Israelis there so that Palestinians can live peacefully in their lands.
When asked if he knew what yellow cake — a substance used for nuclear fuel — was, Mozouni said, “A president does not have to know everything.”
I’m really surprised they didn’t let him run — he sounds like an ideal candidate for over there.
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Marginally more sane than the current one, I think!
I like the size of his ears, he listens.
“A president does not have to know everything”
hmm. Sounds familiar and more… local.
“buy Hawaii Islands and move Israelis there”
I don’t know. According to Jewish punk musician, Atom (and his package) Israel could be picked up with a giant crane and softly placed in Wyoming (where, apparently, it would thrive real well) [from the song "Avenger"]
For many of us Hawaii IS the promised land.
Exactly what I was thinking. Atom’s a prophet.
just give the Israelis Florida.
“Hawaii Islands” don’t need 2 million more people. He also might want to ask Israelis how they feel about his plan. The humidity is worse than he apparently realizes. Big centipedes too.
The current Iranian president have suggested that that the US will give Israel a place in Alaska which sounded like a great idea to me (no one heard of Sarah Palin at the time) but Hawaii dosn’t sound that bad either.
Also, my friend Steve would only be a 5-hour flight away then. And who wants that.
I think it’s a naive but savvy plan for a 12-year-old. Let’s offer Hawaii to them, and they have only themselves to blame for not moving to essentially paradise on Earth. Nothing is stopping anyone in Israel from emigrating to the U.S. currently, so that’s a big flaw in the scheme. Why doesn’t he try to buy Hawaii so the Palestinians can move there, it’s not good enough for them? His ideas seem of the kind of platform someone running for class president would come up with. Free ice cream in the cafeteria, shorter school days, fire all the mean teachers, etc.
Why doesn’t he try to buy Hawaii so the Palestinians can move there, it’s not good enough for them?
Because he’s realized the whole “Promised Land” thing is a bullshit excuse to kill each other over what essentially amounts to a desert. And he’d be laughing all the way to Hawaii because the Palestine’s will be stuck with sand.
Israel used to be a swamp, and for the record they did ask if any Arabic nation wanted to claim it, while it was still a swamp. None took them up on it. Of course, billions of US dollars later, when Israel was converted into the most fertile and productive place in the Middle East, then a whole bunch of Arab nations decided that they actually did want it after all. Don’t fall into the trap of assuming that Israel are always the bad guys out there. They are sometimes, but not always.
Citation needed.
Yes, please.
So, the entire area or a very substantial area, including the important centers like Jerusalem were a swamp? Or what? This sounds crazy, really.
The only time the Israelis would have had the power to do this is after they wrested control of the area. Just how believable is it that they would turn around and give it back just so long as anyone asked?
Also, you are ignoring mid-twentieth century world politics.
Are you kidding? I suppose the inhabitants -yes, most muslims- couldn’t say a word against giving their lands to israelians. Could them?
Swamp or desert, there were people leaving there.
Lol – Read the history of Israel! The people who were there were subjects of the Ottoman empire and when in 1917, that got destroyed by WW1 they became subjects of Great Britain under a mandate from the League of Nations. “Palestine” as a nation simply did not exist. There was no such country. When British rule was overthrown in (what was to become) Israel, it was by a Jewish uprising – Not Arab Muslim, Jewish.
oops, *leaving=living
lol
Nothing new imho: It sounds like the usual islamic wisdom to me
I still don’t really understand why we didn’t just give the Jews Germany.
Because the Germans have better weapons than the Palestinians.
I bet the Israelis were really disappointed he didn’t get in, that sounded like a pretty sweet deal for them. I wish someone would try and exile the atheists to a tropical island…
No, no, too many mosquitoes and diseases!
[says the person who actually lives in a tropical land]
Since when is siberia a tropical land?
By the way, an atheist nation could be… interesting -from a sociological point of view.
Ah, but see, while my screen name is Siberia, I am actually from Brazil. That’s irony for you.
Haha… I thought you grabbed this from The Onion. Makes it even funnier that it is actually a real story.
This makes me shiver with pride to be half iranian. Thank allah I was born in the US.
I always love hearing what kids have to say. He at least sounds like he’s trying to be positive instead of insisting on nuking Israel and the US off the map and enforcing Sharia Law (aka massive human rights violations) on women…
Yes, I suppose it’s a step in the right direction…
Again, this is propaganda BS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel#.22Wiped_off_the_map.22_or_.22Vanish_from_the_pages_of_time.22_translation
Iran is not invading any country, as opposite as US and Israel, both with nukes.
On the contrary, Iran was attacked by Iraq (supported by US and EU) and bombed by Israel (but IDF hit only strategical targets).
So who should fear who?
Can you blame Iran if it seems that the only way to avoid being attacked is still good ol’ Mutual Assured Destruction?
I loathe Iran theocracy as much as anyone else, but this is no reason to play “we’re sooo good they’re sooo evil!”
I was not aware of that.
ummm, which way are you stepping again??
If he were a nine year old girl, he could be the first lady of Iran.
He sounds like a great “core values” Republican candidate: Palin Mozouni ’12!