Tehran, YJC. The Basij has awarded the EU chair of delegation for Iran relations with its ironic ‘Wet Gunpowder’ award.
"The
Wet Gunpowder award is a cute initiative, because an international official who
reveals the behavior of super-capitalism will be chosen to receive it,” said the commander of the General Armed Forces Staff Hassan Firouzabadi, Basij public relations reports.
He added
that such people do the Islamic Revolution a service with their inimical
behavior.
Providing
comments on this year’s award he said "Based on reports we got from public
opinion polls, Mrs. Cronberg will be the winner of this year’s Wet Gunpowder,
given to her for her inimical behavior in the past year.”
Tarja
Cronberg is the chair of the European Parliament delegation for relations with Iran
and is a member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and its
Subcommittee on Security and Defense.
Recently
she led a parliamentary delegation to Iran and visited some of the country’s
political leaders as well as a number of activists prominently known in
relation with the disputed 09 presidential elections.
Her
latter visit caused a lot of controversy by Iran’s conservative leaders.