The enemy of our enemy is our friend

[Smokin Joe]

Anyone guess (or know) where this picture was taken?

[ludermor]

They do realise they are using a hunger striker to advertise a cafe?

[armaghniac]

There is a Bobby Sands street in Tehran.

Your man with the cafe will probably show "Hunger" on the big screen.

[Smokin Joe]

There is a Bobby Sands street in Tehran.

Your man with the cafe will probably show "Hunger" on the big screen.

Tehran it is.

[5 Sams]

There is a Bobby Sands street in Tehran.
Your man with the cafe will probably show "Hunger" on the big screen.

There sure is...I have been there. Very close to the British Embassy...

[corn02]

Pretty certain that the British embassy use to be on the strett but moved because of the name?

[youngfella]

There is a Bobby Sands street in Tehran.
Your man with the cafe will probably show "Hunger" on the big screen.

There sure is...I have been there. Very close to the British Embassy...

infidels have defaced our sign posts with western symbols!

[Evil Genius]

Anyone guess (or know) where this picture was taken?

Please Sir, me Sir, pick me, I know this one, Sir:





Apparently it is in the Darband area of Tehran.

Tbf, the cafe seems to take its name from the street, which was renamed in honour of Sands by the Iranian Government, as a gesture of solidarity with their Revolutionary Brothers in Ireland etc.

As such, the cafe owner has more of an excuse than e.g. those foine Oirish Patriots in Noraid in NJ, who came out with the following tasteful tribute:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/14/northernireland.henrymcdonald

As the unknown Shankill Road graffiti artist once declared, in a rare moment of Hunnish wit:
"We'll never forget you, Jimmy Sands!"  

[lynchbhoy]

Anyone guess (or know) where this picture was taken?

Please Sir, me Sir, pick me, I know this one, Sir:





Apparently it is in the Darband area of Tehran.

Tbf, the cafe seems to take its name from the street, which was renamed in honour of Sands by the Iranian Government, as a gesture of solidarity with their Revolutionary Brothers in Ireland etc.

As such, the cafe owner has more of an excuse than e.g. those foine Oirish Patriots in Noraid in NJ, who came out with the following tasteful tribute:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/14/northernireland.henrymcdonald

As the unknown Shankill Road graffiti artist once declared, in a rare moment of Hunnish wit:
"We'll never forget you, Jimmy Sands!"  

getting soundbiites from orawe is like getting gregory cambell to issue comment on behalf of the GAA  !
O'Hara is unhappy because the INLA people were never included by noraid before.
Noraid were a great group in the times that no one else had the bottle to stand up and help the victimised nationalist community.

anyhow, sure commemorative plates are not supposed to be used to eat food from....or does the orange half of the six counties regularly have their spam and beans lifted off lizzie windsor (saxen-gottberg etc) every 6pm unwittingly ! 

[Zapatista]

I think the embassy is still in the corner of the same street. AFAIK they switched the enterance to the embassy from Bobby Sands street to the adjoining street.

As I understood it, during the Hungerstrike as a form of protest Iranian gathered outside the embassy and put Bobby Sands name on all the signs so his name could always be seen by those entering and leaving the embassy. Rather than have the signs removed the Irainian officals just renamed the street.

I'd say like everting else it is no more than the name of a street at this stage. I don't expect the Irianian think about it to much and I'd say the Brits couldn't care less.

[Evil Genius]

anyhow, sure commemorative plates are not supposed to be used to eat food from....or does the orange half of the six counties regularly have their spam and beans lifted off lizzie windsor (saxen-gottberg etc) every 6pm unwittingly ! 

Ah right, so a Hunger Strikers Commemorative Dinner Plate is (ahem) tasteful, after all. Righto so, my Order is winging its way to NJ via Cyberspace as we speak.

P.S. When was Her Majesty on Hunger Strike? Did I miss something? You'd have thought it would have been in the papers...

[ildanach]

the street was previously known as winton churchill st. but it was changed in 1981.

[Evil Genius]

Pretty certain that the British embassy use to be on the strett but moved because of the name?

Not so. Apparently the Iranians named a street running behind/alongside? the British Embassy after Sands, in order to p1ss them off. However, those invidious Brits just ignored it*.
Whereas the naming of a Tehran street after the guy who assassinated Anwar Sadat continues to prevent the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran, it seems.


* - Which would make sense, since if they moved the Embassy to another location (something which could cost millions, btw), there would be nothing to stop the Iranians from renaming the new street address, either.

[lynchbhoy]

anyhow, sure commemorative plates are not supposed to be used to eat food from....or does the orange half of the six counties regularly have their spam and beans lifted off lizzie windsor (saxen-gottberg etc) every 6pm unwittingly ! 

Ah right, so a Hunger Strikers Commemorative Dinner Plate is (ahem) tasteful, after all. Righto so, my Order is winging its way to NJ via Cyberspace as we speak.

P.S. When was Her Majesty on Hunger Strike? Did I miss something? You'd have thought it would have been in the papers...

not much of a comeback was it !
neither funny or intelligent.
No surprise there !

[nifan]

Commemorative Dinner plates are for aul women anyway.
They are generally tacky, no matter what is being commemorated.