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Iran claims 97.2 billion dollars reparations from Iraq:
Do the mullahs really think they can collect one dime before being overthrown? Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to add 97.2 billion dollars to its Iraqi debt assessment to cover reparations for the 1980-1988 war between the two states, Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) reports in its latest edition. Quoting "authoritative sources," the industry newsletter said the request, made in a letter sent to the IMF last month, "could not have come at a worse time for Iraq" as it negotiates a reduction in its foreign debt. (Where is all of Saddam's U.N. 'Oil-for-Food'(ooops.. Fraud), billions? Hidden in French banks? According to the IMF, Iraq is saddled with a foreign debt estimated at 120 billion dollars, excluding reparations it owes Kuwait for its 1990 invasion of the emirate and the subsequent Gulf War. Pressure is building among Western creditors to reach an agreement on canceling all or part of the debt by the end of the year. But key creditors in the Group of Seven industrialized nations are at odds over just how much should be forgiven immediately, with France advocating a 50-percent reduction and the United States and Britain urging a cut of 95 percent. Tehran has in the past demanded as much as 1,000 billion dollars in reparations from the regime of ousted president Saddam Hussein. What a bloody joke, plus unbelievable gall! Here are Iran's oil rich Muslim fanatical mullahs paying & training terrorist jihadees to infiltrate into Iraq where they blow up Iraqi oil pipelines & cause general chaos and death. In turn the identical ruling mullahs expect the current Iraqi government, which they are attacking through Iranian trained proxies, to shell out massive amounts of money to Tehran so Tehran can turn around & fund additional terrorists to destroy Iraq's economic infrastructure, using Iraqi money! Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-23 |
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