| So many delicious, salty tears! |
| But only their clients trust Iran, and none of them have money. |
...Iran's
moderatepresident, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man...
on Thursday urged Moslem nations to deepen financial and trade cooperation to fight what he described as US economic hegemony, using an Islamic conference in Malaysia as a platform to decry American sanctions against his country.
| Ya know... if you gave up your nuclear bomb program, President Trump’s America would ease up. And it’ll be President Trump’s America until 2025. |
| Whereas Iran uses fake revolutionaries and real jihadis, funded by drug trafficking, to domineer and bully. |
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan,the abbreviation
IRGCis a cognate form of
Stürmabteilung (or SA),the term
Supreme Guideis a cognate form of either
Shahor
Führeror maybe both, and they hate
has been gripped by violent protests since last month amid anger over a sharp hike in gasoline prices following US sanctions after Washington withdrew last year from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. There has been a wave of arrests in Iran and rights group
Rouhani said the US sought to cripple Iran with the "heaviest sanctions" but the country’s economy is on the mend and moving away from reliance on oil.
| Betcha it’s not nearly as lucrative, though. Thank goodness Iran has the cocaine trade to fill in the gaps, managed by Hezbollah and the IRGC, kinda like North Korea’s white juche. |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and host Malaysia.
Rouhani suggested the creation of a special banking and financial mechanism among Moslem nations, using local currencies for trade and giving each other trade privileges to deepen linkages.
| Like that will ever happen in a low trust, winner take all, honour/shame culture. |
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, Afghanistan and other Moslem nations. But if Moslem countries harness their collective strength, they could confront such problems, he said.
| True. If only they could. Even mostly non-Arab Iran can’t manage it under the Mad Mullahs — it isn’t realistic to expect more from Arab countries. |
| Dream big, I guess... |
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, which snubbed the meeting because it was not held under the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Saudi Arabia and Iran are bitter rivals. Pakistain also withdrew from the conference in a move to assuage its ally, Saudi Arabia.
| ...which of course annoyed Pakistan's other ally, Iran. Oh well. |
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
launched a veiled criticism against the OIC, telling the conference that the platform that brings the Moslem world together was besieged by a "lack of implementation."
| Unexpectedly. |
| So, so true. Well summarized. |
| ...and impoverishing themselves. It’s a lifestyle choice when you’re as untrustworthy as your neighbours. |
| Ooooooh — look at him being all diplomatic and stuff. The Jerusalem Post adds: |
In welcoming remarks, Mahathir said the Kuala Lumpur Summit was meant to understand why Islam, the Muslims and their countries were "in a state of crisis, helpless and unworthy of this great religion."
Mahathir said the summit, which will end on Saturday, should address the world's perceptions of Islam, the rise of Islamophobia, the decline of the Islamic civilisation and reforms in governance needed by Muslim nations.