By Wink Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad loves conspiracies. Like many bigots, he says the Holocaust never happened. He has also purported that 9/11 was not really an Al-Qaeda plan, but that the U.S. government orchestrated it. This view has really ticked off some people. Among them, Al-Qaeda. Yep, Al-Qaeda is mad at Iran, and they are [...]
By Wink Do you sometimes wonder about Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Is he the cruel ruthless dictator we have painted him to be? Probably. Is he a puppet for the Muslim Clerics of Iran, notably Ayatollah Khameini? Well, he certainly has been. But maybe now, after all this time, he is developing a little backbone. [...]
By Wink In a recent Wall Street Journal I saw a photo of the Tehran Stock Exchange. Let me say that slowly……. Tehran…..Stock…..Exchange. If you are like me, the idea of a ‘Tehran Stock Exchange’ might strike you as a strange concept. I assumed Iran had a mostly sand-based economy and, if there was a [...]
By Wink What do ruthless dictators and theocrats fear the most? Guns? Nope. They fear an educated citizenry, and they fear the ballot box. A few decades back Iran was overthrown by religious zealots, and they still run it today. They are not good at paperwork, or dealing with foreign dignitaries, so they installed a [...]
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