Sheba Medical Centre
Melanie Phillips
Shariah Finance Watch
Australian Islamist Monitor - MultiFaith
West Australian Friends of Israel
Why Israel is at war
Lozowick Blog
NeoZionoid The NeoZionoiZeoN blog
Blank pages of the age
Silent Runnings
Jewish Issues watchdog
Discover more about Israel advocacy
Zionists the creation of Israel
Dissecting the Left
Paula says
Perspectives on Israel - Zionists
Zionism & Israel Information Center
Zionism educational seminars
Christian dhimmitude
Forum on Mideast
Israel Blog - documents terror war against Israelis
Zionism on the web
RECOMMENDED: newsback News discussion community
RSS Feed software from CarP
International law, Arab-Israeli conflict
Think-Israel
The Big Lies
Shmloozing with terrorists
IDF ON YOUTUBE
Israel's contributions to the world
MEMRI
Mark Durie Blog
The latest good news from Israel...new inventions, cures, advances.
support defenders of Israel
The Gaza War 2014
The 2014 Gaza Conflict Factual and Legal Aspects
To get maximum benefit from the ICJS website Register now. Select the topics which interest you.
Media in Tehran claiming that Egyptian president's speech at Non-Aligned Movement summit distorted by simultaneous translator in bid to fit in with Islamic Republic's position
The Iranian interpreter translated Morsi's criticism of Assad's regime as statement's in support of Assad: "There is a crisis in Syria and we must support the ruling regime in Syria," he said, in complete contrast to Morsi's negative statements. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi received a warm welcome in Tehran on Thursday but it would seem that his historic speech at the Non-Aligned Movement summit may not have been the same speech heard by the Islamic Republic's citizens on national television and radio stations.
Iranian media claimed Thursday that official stations were deceiving home viewers by tampering with the translation of Morsi's speech into Persian.
According to the reports, the simultaneous interpreter adapted Morsi's speech to fit in with the Iranian regime's rhetoric – according to which Assad's regime in Syria should not be criticized.
Iran's official TV network was creative in their protest against Morsi's statements on the bloodshed carried out by Assad's regime by simply refusing to translate his statements on the subject. Syria is Iran's ally.
One website specializing in coverage of Iran's conservative media wrote that "in an unprecedented action, the interpreter falsified part of Morsi's speech declining to translate Morsi's severe attack on the Syrian president's regime."
He then went on to add: "It would be appropriate if reforms in Syria were renewed and that there is no external interference that is our stance."
Some Iranian media published Morsi's distorted speech - namely Jahan News and Asriran sites which deliberately highlighted parts of the speech without referring to the most important statement concerning Morsi's stance on the situation in Syria.
When Morsi went on to discuss events in Arab states where the Arab Spring played a part, the translator exchanged the word Syria with Bahrain.
In an interview with the Al Arabiya.net website Iranian media activist Ameed Maqdam Maqdam said he heard "Bahrain" mentioned three times in the Persian translation.
He added that the Persian interpreter "looked confused which means he was intent on inserting some expressions in Morsi's speech and deliberately used "Al Sahwa Al Islamiya" (Islamic Awakening) instead of Arab Spring.
"This would have never happened if he hadn't received orders from higher authorities to do so," he said. This is a blunt falsification of an official live speech delivered by a president to the world in Arabic.
Maqdam noted that this falsification doesn't reflect the Iranian leadership's interest in the real content of Morsi's speech. It was aimed more at the local consumption, to deceive the Iranian public opinion and making Iranians believe that Arab revolutions, particularly in Egypt, are consistent with Iran's official discourse.
Iranian media also confirmed changes to speeches delivered by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN General Assembly President Nasser Abdul Aziz on the Syrian crisis.
Original piece is http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4275363,00.html
It appears to be a constant phenomenom with some powers that be, sinister as it is. I recall a Baptism Register unlawfully altered, removing all conection between a father and child a blunt falsification of official records to fit with public image.
Posted
by Lynne Newington on 2012-09-03 00:16:33 GMT