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02-06-2006, 09:13 PM
IRAN: HARDLINE NEWS AGENCY BLASTS ITALIAN DAILY
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Tehran, 6 Feb. (AKI) - The hardline Fars news agency, close to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday launched a harsh attack on the Turin-based daily La Stampa - which is controlled by the Agnelli family, owner of the Fiat automobile empire. Fars called the paper a "Zionist organ" and heavily criticised its decison to publish some of the Danish-originated cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammed that have recently triggered a crisis in Muslim-Western relations after their appearance in dozen newspapers worldwide.
"Since the Zionists laid their hands on Italy's largest industrial group, even Italy's foreign policy towards Iran has changed, and has become pro-Zionist. If Fiat continues with its anti-Iranian, pro-Zionist policies, the agency warns, we don't rule out a boycott of Italian cars, not only in Iran but in in the rest of the Islamic world," said Fars.
Last November, more than 100 university students marked the anniversary of the late Edoardo Agnelli's death in 2000. According to a recently resuscitated and embellished Iranian 'urban myth', Agnelli heir Edoardo's death was 'a Zionist plot' to rob him of his inheritance because he had 'converted to Islam'. He had keen interest in religion.
Iranian state television also broadcast a 'documentary' about him, which accredited the thesis of a 'Zionist plot' to kill Edoardo in order to lay hands on the Fiat wealth. The programme was also shown on the Sahar satellite channel, translated into Russian, English, Arabic, Urdu and Azeri.
Italy - one of Iran's biggest trading partners - and Tehran have been at loggerheads since Ahmadinejad's comments last November that Israel should be "wiped off the map". The Italian government immediately summoned Iran's ambassador to protest, while Tehran did likewise when a pro-Israel demonstration was organised outside the Iranian embassy in Rome by another Italian daily, Il Foglio. Two Italian government ministers attended the candlelit rally, which drew support form across the political spectrum, as well as from Italy's Jewish community.
The author of the 'Zionist plot' theory regarding Fiat and Edoardo's death is Ghadiri Abianeh, an architect who studied in Florence and served briefly at the Iranian embassy in Rome, just after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Abianeh says that Edoardo, whom he claims was a "friend", confided to him shortly before his death "that he had learnt about a plot to eliminate him and pass it off as suicide, with the aim of opening the path for the takeover by Zionists of the management of Fiat.
Edoardo, parked his car on a high bridge near Turin on 15 November, 2000, and threw himself to his death, at the age of 46. With past drug problems and a history of depression, he had long been excluded from any business role in Fiat.
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Tehran, 6 Feb. (AKI) - The hardline Fars news agency, close to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday launched a harsh attack on the Turin-based daily La Stampa - which is controlled by the Agnelli family, owner of the Fiat automobile empire. Fars called the paper a "Zionist organ" and heavily criticised its decison to publish some of the Danish-originated cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammed that have recently triggered a crisis in Muslim-Western relations after their appearance in dozen newspapers worldwide.
"Since the Zionists laid their hands on Italy's largest industrial group, even Italy's foreign policy towards Iran has changed, and has become pro-Zionist. If Fiat continues with its anti-Iranian, pro-Zionist policies, the agency warns, we don't rule out a boycott of Italian cars, not only in Iran but in in the rest of the Islamic world," said Fars.
Last November, more than 100 university students marked the anniversary of the late Edoardo Agnelli's death in 2000. According to a recently resuscitated and embellished Iranian 'urban myth', Agnelli heir Edoardo's death was 'a Zionist plot' to rob him of his inheritance because he had 'converted to Islam'. He had keen interest in religion.
Iranian state television also broadcast a 'documentary' about him, which accredited the thesis of a 'Zionist plot' to kill Edoardo in order to lay hands on the Fiat wealth. The programme was also shown on the Sahar satellite channel, translated into Russian, English, Arabic, Urdu and Azeri.
Italy - one of Iran's biggest trading partners - and Tehran have been at loggerheads since Ahmadinejad's comments last November that Israel should be "wiped off the map". The Italian government immediately summoned Iran's ambassador to protest, while Tehran did likewise when a pro-Israel demonstration was organised outside the Iranian embassy in Rome by another Italian daily, Il Foglio. Two Italian government ministers attended the candlelit rally, which drew support form across the political spectrum, as well as from Italy's Jewish community.
The author of the 'Zionist plot' theory regarding Fiat and Edoardo's death is Ghadiri Abianeh, an architect who studied in Florence and served briefly at the Iranian embassy in Rome, just after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Abianeh says that Edoardo, whom he claims was a "friend", confided to him shortly before his death "that he had learnt about a plot to eliminate him and pass it off as suicide, with the aim of opening the path for the takeover by Zionists of the management of Fiat.
Edoardo, parked his car on a high bridge near Turin on 15 November, 2000, and threw himself to his death, at the age of 46. With past drug problems and a history of depression, he had long been excluded from any business role in Fiat.
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