Monday, January 25, 2010

Iranian Official Calls Obama the "N" Word

Clearly, Obama's election has not led to a post-racial Iran.
From Tehran Bureau:

Mohammad Javad Larijani criticized the policies adopted by U.S. President Barack Obama and referred to him using a racial epithet.

"When Barack Obama was sworn into office he talked of verbally engaging Iran," the U.C. Berkeley graduate was quoted as saying. "What has changed is that today this [the equivalent of the N-word in Farsi] talks of regime change in Iran."
In a Saturday meeting at the Islamic Engineers Society, Larijani said, "I am not a racist, but I must respond to this man [Obama] in some way."
Larijani was educated at UC-Berkeley. He must have learned his racism there.

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