In Iraq if you assault a foreign leader this way you wind up in jail for nine months (with good behavior) of a possible sentence of three years. In Iran, you face the death penalty for throwing your shoes at Imadinnerjacket. Also, it's uncertain whether there will even be a trial. The only good that might come is this quote from an American analyst
And also to be fair if that Iraqi had thrown his shoe at Saddam the Iraqi would've been tortured and then probably fed to a lion or wood chipper after watching his whole family get raped repeatedly and killed. And the area where he lived would be smacked down cause if one guy wants to throw a shoe what are his neighbors thinking?
Shoe tossing? Gonna need a bit more detail here. Did Rashid Shahbandi gently heave his flip-flops in president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's general direction or did he bean him with a pair of steel-toed Doc Martins?
Doesn't matter in that culture. It's one of the ultimate insults whether they are flip flops or combats boots. Yes, even the combat boots Imadinnerjob's mother wears.
the Warden threw a bedroom slipper at our big fat boy cat for sharpening his claws on the carpet a few weeks back. He retalliated by abducting our phone bill, dismembering it, and leaving pieces of it all over the house "to send a message". (He's a master of the double entendre, that one.) The Warden and I have been holding talks over sanctions ever since.
