Ahmadinejad also ordered his commerce minister to study scrapping all trade contacts with European countries whose newspapers published the caricatures, Iranian media reported.
Well jackass, this is what a free press gets you, something obviously lacking in Iran. It would be nice to find a way to pull the plug on the Iranians, but the problem is, even if we and the Europeans stop buying from them completely, and maybe get the Japanese to do so as well (big maybe that) the Chinese will be happy to pick up that slack. A bit of a sticky wicket this one... Widespread Cartoon Protests Under Way - Yahoo! News |