Kremlin in disbelief at US ‘insult’ of late Iranian president

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"Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has expressed disbelief at comments by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, following the #death of former Iranian president #Ebrahim #Raisi in a helicopter crash.

The top US diplomat claimed the Iranian people are “better off” without Raisi, during a grilling by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over his department's reaction to the deadly accident on Sunday."

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Kremlin in disbelief at US ‘insult’ of late Iranian president

The US claim that Iranians are better off with their president dead seems insulting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said

Japan Times: Jail time and tougher penalties for online insults come into effect in Japan.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/07/national/crime-legal/online-insults/

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Jail time and tougher penalties for online insults come into effect in Japan

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and others had opposed the revision, arguing that it could stifle legitimate criticism of politicians and public officials.

A quotation by Asimov, Isaac

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, “I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn’t that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?”

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-American author, polymath, biochemist

I, Asimov, ch. 73 “Letters” (1979)

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WIST - Asimov, Isaac | I, Asimov, ch. 73 "Letters" (1979)

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can...