Ahmadinejad shores up support in Bolivia, Venezuela - Yahoo! News UK


I heard it was a billion to Bolivia...humm, I wonder what some of his own Iranian citizens are wondering regards this largesse...

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I expected something like this. Although, it does make sense for Ahmadinjad to try to get revenues wherever he can, so that funding of his nuclear weapons program can continue. He probably weighed the costs of this investment to possible future revenues and goodwill from an unstable region.

However, this is an event that provides further support that the current UN is fundamentally ineffective in controlling important policies with respect to curtailing any escalation of war or weaponry.

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I am an American. That's the way most of us put it, just matter of factly. They are plain words, those four: you could write them on your thumbnail, or sweep them clear across this bright autumn sky. But remember too, that they are more than just words. They are a way of life. So whenever you speak them, speak them firmly, speak them proudly, speak them gratefully. I am an American. ...a tradition

[quote=Si modo;1080189"]I expected something like this. Although, it does make sense for Ahmadinjad to try to get revenues wherever he can, so that funding of his nuclear weapons program can continue. He probably weighed the costs of this investment to possible future revenues and goodwill from an unstable region."

Excerpt "Associated Press"

Back home after a tour of the U.S. and Latin America, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the hostile reception he received at Columbia University failed to damage Iran's image and instead hurt America's prestige abroad.

University President Lee Bollinger said before an Ahmadinejad speech at his university that the hard-line leader exhibited "all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator" who was "brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated" for his denials of the Holocaust.

Ahmadinejad, who appeared shaken and irate but did not reciprocate the insult, said that the world had witnessed "the greatness of the Iranian nation" in the face of "insults" by its American host.

"With the grace of God, the Columbia University issue revealed their aggressive and mean-spirited image. ... It backfired. What happened was exactly opposite of what their shallow minds had presumed," Ahmadinejad said late Friday in comments broadcast Saturday on state television. "I believe they made a big mistake. ... They sacrificed the prestige of their whole system."

The harsh reception boosted Ahmadinejad's image at home during a time of high tensions with Washington over U.S. allegations that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and supplying Iraq's Shiite militias with deadly weapons that have killed U.S. troops. Iran denies both claims.

After Ahmadinejad told world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York that his country would defy attempts to impose new sanctions by "arrogant powers" seeking to curb its nuclear program, accusing them of lying and imposing illegal penalties on his country.

Iran and the U.S. have not had diplomatic ties since Iranian students took American diplomats hostage in Tehran following the 1979 overthrow of U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Iranians have a long list of grievances against the United States, including a CIA-backed coup in 1953 that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and put Pahlavi back on the throne.

More recently, there are fears in Iran that either the U.S. or Israel will carry out a military strike against it - something Iranian officials have said would provoke retaliation against Israeli or U.S. bases in the region.

Washington has said it is addressing the situation through diplomacy but refuses to rule out the use of military action.

Si modo, "..his nuclear weapons program" --- where this came from, may I ask? You talk like it's a common knowledge. Please, I really want not to be left the last one brought up to date...So, if you could supply a link to any source, be it Washington Post or Murdoch fortune teller analisys, it all will suffice, please. Thank you in advance.