That’s the only thing I can conclude after seeing two recent reports on the website of the Iranian regime’s English-language TV station.
According to one report:
Iran’s interior minister has downplayed the European Union’s new sanctions against the country, saying the new embargo will backfire on Europe’s troubled economy.
“The sanctions [imposed] by the European Union will not affect Iran and will further deteriorate the economic condition of the European countries,” Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar told the reporters on Tuesday in Moscow.
“We do not mind the implementation of sanctions by Europe because we have constantly faced such sanctions in the past 30 years,” he said on the sidelines of his meeting with Victor Ivanov, who heads the Federal Narcotics Service of Russia.
The Iranian minister explained how the West’s pressure on the Islamic Republic has inspired the Iranian nation to achieve modern technology among its other goals.
But in another report, Press TV informs us:
The Iranian foreign ministry has summoned Denmark’s Ambassador to Tehran over the new round of oil sanctions the European Union has imposed against the Islamic Republic.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Asghar Khaji on Tuesday met with Christian Hugard, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, to protest at the fresh anti-Iran move.
On Monday, the foreign ministers of the 27-member body agreed to ban oil imports from Iran, a major OPEC member, to the EU and freeze the assets of the Iranian Central Bank across the European bloc.
So based on the first report– that the EU sanctions will harm Europe rather than Iran– it appears Press TV misunderstood the reason for summoning the Danish ambassador.
Obviously what they meant to report is that the deputy foreign minister met with the ambassador to thank the EU for banning for oil imports, explaining that the action will not hurt Iran in the least and will only inspire the country to achieve more modern technology.
I assume they’ll post a correction shortly.
(Hat tip: EA WorldView)
