President Ahmadinejad thrown Shoes

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined the "club" figures of the world has ever thrown shoes. Ahmadinejad was pelted with shoes by an unemployed during a speech in the city of Sari, capital of Mazandaran province, northern Iran, on Monday (12/12/2011).

According to news reported by Mehr news agency in Iran, a man named Rashid (45), newly discharged from a weaving factory, surging forward in a crowd of screaming express complaints about high unemployment in the region.

Once in the front row of the audience, the man took off his shoes and threw toward Ahmadinejad. However, Rashid reportedly boots miss the target.

The man was reportedly arrested immediately apparatus. In the tradition of the Middle East, throwing shoes at someone is one way to insult the most rugged.

According to news agency Xinhua, high unemployment in Iran is caused, among others, economic sanctions by Western countries related to Iran's nuclear program, a variety of industrial equipment is old and less maintenance, as well as the Iranian Government's failure to perform its economic programs. Inflation rate in Iran in the past 12 months was 17 percent.

"The tradition of" throwing shoes to be respected world figures are not originated in 2008 when Muntazer al-Zaidi (30), a journalist of Al-Baghdadiya television station in Iraq, throwing shoes at the time U.S. President George W. Bush, in a conference conference in Baghdad.

Since then, the shoes are also thrown in the direction of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao, Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.



resource:

http://internasional.kompas.com/read/2011/12/13/08313379/Presiden.Ahmadinejad.Dilempari.Sepatu