Iranian leaders still being douchey

After publicly calling out the United States, Britain, and Canada for “meddling” in their affairs and inciting the protests in Tehran (http://daughterofthehumantornado.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-miss-bloody-coups.html), Iranian officials arrested at least nine employees of the British Embassy last week. Today they released just over half of them.

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Five British Embassy local staff members arrested by Iran have been released, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday. Four others will remain in custody while an investigation continues, said spokesman Hassan Qashqavi. The Foreign Office in London confirmed that "some" staff had been released, but would not say how many. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Sunday protested the arrests, calling them "harassment and intimidation of a kind which is quite unacceptable."Iran's intelligence minister has blamed Western powers for stirring up protests over its disputed presidential election, singling out Britain and saying the British Embassy in Tehran "played a heavy role in the recent disturbances.""The fact that Iran is stable, calm and secure, they're upset with this," Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hosein Mohseni Ejei [Ed. Note: That name must’ve been a bitch to spell out in kindergarten class.]told Iran's government-funded Press TV. The Iranian government has long accused other countries, especially Britain, of "meddling" in its affairs, but has offered no proof any outside forces have been involved in the unrest since the election.On Wednesday, Iranian authorities said they had arrested several foreign nationals, some with British passports, for allegedly helping foment the disturbances. Miliband rejected the allegation on Sunday."The idea that the British Embassy is somehow behind the demonstrations and protests that have been taking place in Tehran in recent weeks is wholly without foundation," he said [Source: cnn.com].

Well, it’s good to see that their paranoid ramblings have escalated to unlawful imprisonment. But, on the brightside, only four people are being held without merit in a region in which whipping the bottom of a prisoner’s feet with steel cables is considered acceptable treatment (more on that here: http://www.iran-e-sabz.org/news/torture.htm). They’ve been calling out America and Obama so much lately, I wonder why they didn’t arrest any American infidels…*rests chin on left fist taps fingers on box of plutonium next to desk*…weird.