Iranian Ninjas

[Lucas]

i see a couple sabre in the background...i always wanted to fight a ninja..

[Lucas]

you can tell they are real ninja because of all the brightly colored patches.

[GeneChing]

...now where did that go? I'll search for it later.

Did someone say ninja patches?

[Lucas]

lol those are the same ninja patches you sent me for that one year of ninjastar!!!

[GeneChing]

I found this thread, but it's not the one I was thinking of: Great...when we go into Iran we are going to have to deal with Ninjas.... . The other one was recent and it had video of the Iranian ninjettes.

I'll have to merge all the Iranian Ninja threads together some time.

[Drake]

Real Ultimate Power!

[GeneChing]

Ninjas have rights.

Today at 9:51 AM
Iran’s Female Ninjas Are Suing Reuters
By Alex Klein


An Iranian female Ninja demonstrates her Ninjutsu skills in a martial arts club during a showcase for the media in the city of Karaj, 40 kms west of the capital Tehran, on March 15, 2012. Martial arts has become popular among Iranian women in recent years as more than 3,000 women train in Ninjutsu in private clubs under the supervision of the Islamic republic's Martial Arts Federation. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE

Last month, Reuters came out with a report on Iran's famed female ninjas, who are fighting for sexual equality under the Ayatollah by studying ancient martial arts. There are nearly 3,500 of them. Though the women toss shurikens and deliver crushing roundhouses, it's all for practice and show — they don't actually stalk and kill political targets under the cover of night.

Unfortunately, the Reuters story called the ladies "assassins" and alleged that they would be deployed to kill foreign invaders. Other British news outlets repeated the false claim. Realizing its mistake, Reuters quickly corrected the report, but the peaceful martial artists claim that the damage to their reputation has already been done. They're now suing for defamation of character. As one of them put it:

We are taking legal action because the ladies that train in Ninjutsu first and foremost enjoy it as a sport. It's about working out and staying fit. Reuters has blatantly lied about us.

The women fear that the report, which survives online only in slideshow form, could damage their chances to attend international tournaments.

The Telegraph — which also inaccurately said the women were being trained by the regime to fight Westerners — has footage of the ninjas in action, running up walls, somersaulting across rooms, and swinging swords.

But we Western imperialists have nothing to fear. In fact, considering the Iranian regime's prohibition on many female sports, it's the female ninjas themselves who are walking a fine line.

I merged our Iranian Ninja threads. No need for two anymore.

[Lucas]

gotta love cute kunoichi

[WingChunABQ]

Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/iran-s-...11321868.html#

The one where she's kicking the other while dangling on a rope makes me really happy.

[GeneChing]

This story just keeps getting better and better.

Iran suspends Reuters over female ninjas headline

Tehran asks all 11 staff to hand back press cards after agency describes martial artists as assassins


A ninjutsu practitioner jumps over a sword in a gym in the Iranian city of Karaj. Photograph: Caren Firouz/Reuters

Officials in Tehran have suspended the bureau of the international news agency Reuters after one of its headlines described Iranian female ninjas as assassins.

Iran's ministry of culture and Islamic guidance has also asked all Reuters's 11 staff in Tehran to hand back their press accreditations and stop working for the agency.

Acknowledging its error, Reuters reported that its headline "Thousands of female Ninjas train as Iran's assassins" had been corrected to read "Three thousand women Ninjas train in Iran".

"We acknowledge this error occurred and regard it as a very serious matter. It was promptly corrected the same day it came to our attention," said Reuters's editor-in-chief, Stephen J Adler.

"In addition, we have conducted an internal review and have taken appropriate steps to prevent a recurrence," he added. "Reuters always strives for the highest standards in journalism and our policy is to acknowledge errors honestly and correct them promptly when they occur."

Local agencies reported that a complaint had been made by women ninjas whose activities were shown in a video by the news agency. Reuters pictures of the women training in martial arts were published as a picture gallery by the Guardian.

"A group of female Iranian martial artists have taken legal action against Britain's Reuters news agency for branding them as assassins," Iran's English-language television, Press TV, reported in an article published on its website.

One Iranian female ninja, Khatereh Jalilzadeh, told Press TV: "The lady from Reuters asked me only one question, which had a very obvious answer. I believe that anyone, anywhere in the world, would defend his country if it were attacked ... but she twisted our words to make us look bad and described us as assassins in the headline of her story."

Akbar Faraji, whom Press TV described as the man behind the establishment of Ninjutsu in Iran, said: "We have filed a defamation lawsuit against Reuters and we intend to pursue it as far as necessary because it is a matter of reputation."

Speaking to the state news agency Irna, Mohammad Javad Aqajari, the ministry's head for foreign media, said an investigation had been carried out. "Upon being informed of the biased measure taken by Reuters in its video section, and considering the legal action taken by Iranian women athletes, the ministry decided to suspend all activities of the news agency until thorough investigations are carried out," he said in quotes carried by Press TV.

Some independent observers, however, believe Iranian officials have been angry with Reuters over its coverage of the impacts of western sanctions on the Iranian economy in recent months, and over several reports about the parliamentary elections in March.

Iran has significantly cracked down on foreign media in the country in recent years. Reuters was among a handful of western news agencies still allowed to operate in the country, albeit under intense restrictions, such as a ban on reporting opposition protests. Given the scarcity of western journalists in Tehran, Reuters's coverage has been crucial to the understanding of Iran in the west.

Along with Israel and Eritrea, Iran is one of the countries that jails the most journalists per capita, with at least 42 currently behind bars.

[GeneChing]

The 3 Weirdest Ways Iran's Military Uses Martial Arts


(Reza Dehshiri via WikiMedia Commons)
20 Jun 2019
We Are The Mighty | By Alex Hollings

In the modern world, most nations cultivate a variety of martial arts disciplines within their borders, not as a formal effort of the government, but rather as a byproduct of public interest. Here in the United States, motivated students can find places to study anything from Japanese Karate to Israeli Krav Maga at their local strip mall, so it should come as no surprise that the military has also come to adopt a variety of disciplines into its own approach to martial arts-based combat.

The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, as one example, borrows from no fewer than 17 distinct martial arts disciplines, ranging from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to Kung Fu, to ensure Marines are as capable in hand-to-hand combat as they are with their rifles.

Iran has also placed an emphasis on martial arts for the sake of defense, though like the nation's military apparatus itself, their approach has been heavily informed by their culture, internal politics, and unusual military hierarchy, resulting in less than stellar results.

1. Iran has allegedly forced martial arts instructors to work as assassins


These guys look exactly like the generals that would show up in a movie with that plot. (Mohammad Akhlaghi via WikiMedia Commons)

According to a cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Azerbaijan's Baku Mission that was revealed by WikiLeaks, the Iranian government expects martial arts schools and clubs to serve in the role of "enforcers" when it comes to stemming public dissent, but that's far from the worst that's been pressed upon martial arts instructors.

The wire, which came with the decidedly metal headline of, "IRAN: NINJA BLACK BELT MASTER DETAILS USE OF MARTIAL ARTS CLUBS FOR REPRESSION," goes on to claim that the "ninja black belt master" in question knew of at least one instructor that "was used by the Intelligence service to murder at least six different individuals over the course of several months." These alleged victims were referred to as "young intellectuals" and "pro-democracy activists."

2. The Iranian government built an all-female, 3,500 strong ninja-army



Women in Iran may not enjoy the same rights or parity that can be found in Western nations like the United States, but that's not to say that the Iranian government doesn't occasionally recognize a woman's ability to kick ass for their benefit. Most women may not be allowed to travel outside of their homes without a male escort, but some are trained in Japanese Ninjutsu to become stealthy assassins for their government.

In 2012, 3,500 women were registered to begin their training to become ninjas, according to a segment produced for Iran's state-run media. Some in the United States have opined that Iran permits this training as a means to appease their stifled female population, but it seems more likely that Iran's government believes it has a use for women that can fight.

The video of these women training may seem cheesy, but their form actually looks a lot better than some of Iran's highly trained Special Operations troops…

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3. Iran’s Special Operators were defeated by pottery



Every nation occasionally releases motivational videos of their highly trained troops executing unusual techniques. The U.S. does insertion and extraction demonstrations with special operators at SOFIC in Tampa, Florida each year. Russia releases footage of their troops shooting live rounds at each other, and Iran… well, Iran's special operators can be seen in this video losing a fight to a vase.

In the video, Iranian officials are shown looking on as men that have been referred to by a number of news outlets as Special Operations troops execute a series of dramatic spin kicks and even spinning back-hands to a vase that simply refuses to break.

Eventually, the troops set the intact vase down and bow as their clearly disappointed superiors look on. It wouldn't be fair to say that this demonstration characterizes all of Iran's military martial arts efforts, but if these generals were smart, they probably forgot about the demonstration and went straight to the guy that made that vase to see if he was interested in getting into the tank business.

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