Iran launched a can of worms into space today — two worms, a mouse and a turtle, really — to die in the cold, cold vacuum of space.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran launched a Kavoshgar-3 rocket, capable of carrying satellites into space.
Contrary to all the crybabies decrying the threat of a belligerent, nuclear-armed Islamic republic, today it became clear that Iran only wants what everyone else in the developed world already has — satellite television.
Iranians, like the rest of us, are goddamn sick and tired of the lousy service and crappy channels offered by their cable companies, and now they’re doing something about it.
It won’t be long now before Iranians stop revolting and start voting — for Iranian Idol. Television, as it has for dozens of countries around the world, will bring peace to Iran. God bless television. GOD BLESS TELEVISION!
http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/02/04/will-obama-play-the-war-card/
Sorry, but this is something I am a bit of an expert on. Satellite TV is offically banned in Iran, even though everyone has it. Sometimes the random gov’t crackdown will occur when a helicopter flies over people’s homes.
This being said, watching a worm, turtle and rat on satellite TV will be far more interesting than the other LA based persian channels that exist today