Mahmoud Ahmadinejad founded the Iranian Tunneling Association in 1998

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9 points·blasdel··6 comments

Never knew the guy was in to Lisp either.

Is that a joke, or does any source actually suggest that? If so, links?

The standard response on posting non-hn political or entertainment stuff seems to be that X,Y or Z is a hacker of sorts, so I guess the fact that this is posted implies our Iranian head-of-state must be a hacker too.

HN being rather lisp centric I figure that must be the reason ;)

Think of it as my roundabout way of saying that I think this is not hacker news in any way that I can understand.

See this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1035952 for a prime example.

> Iranian officials say years of veiled bombing threats prompted their country to exercise its “sovereign right” to protect its nuclear facilities by hiding them underground.

Sounds far from unreasonable to me.

Man, this article reads like Mossad ordered up some war drum beating.

Except Iran isn't a sovereign nation, it's just a patch of soil run, in practice, by a bunch of unelected mullah-thugs. The doctrine of sovereign rights should be restricted to democracies. The mullahs have no more sovereign right to the territory they happen to control than the Crips or Bloods.

The CIA disagrees with you:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

You may not like them (I certainly don't) but they're a sovereign nation as much as any other.

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