Depots of the World: Unite!
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Wednesday July 4, 2007
In an effort to perhaps appease the masses, to say nothing of saving his job, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has turned to another thorn in US foreign policy to help him and his country with their critical shortage of gasoline — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
In meetings held in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday, the visiting Chavez agreed to sell the Middle Eastern nation a unspecified amount of Venezuelan petrol as well as entering into other trade agreements with Iran, cementing the two country’s transatlantic partnership.
Iran’s large dependence on foreign imports of gasoline prompted that county to begin a rationing program last week in advance of anticipated further UN and US sanctions against those countries who are currently helping to fill the tanks of Iranian cars, trucks, and taxi cabs throughout the country.
Attempting to deflect criticism of the program by the Iranian masses, President Ahmadinejad on Monday labeled the program as the beginning of an “economic revolution” and urged his country to suck it up, lest the world see the Iranian leader as the incompetent boob that he is.
President Ahmadinejad, pick up the clue phone, it’s for you.
Venezuela agrees to sell gasoline to Iran: paper — Reuters News Service
Comments
MadMustard, Jul 10, 01:23 PM:
You did a great job with your inaugural video podcast. It seems that CBS and Katie Couric may be on the outs… you never know!
Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!