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| 'West hatched plots to occupy ME' |
| 2010-10-06 |
[Iran Press TV] Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad has said Western powers have pursued a "hidden agenda to dominate the Middle East region." Addressing people in Gorgan in Iran's northern Golestan province on Tuesday morning, President Ahmadinejad accused the Western powers of "orchestrating different programs and schemes" in order to plunder the region's oil reservoirs. "They [the West] tried to implement their programs through the Israeli regime but they failed. Then they came to the conclusion that they need to occupy our region with hundreds of thousands of military troops to have access to the region's oil in an effort to save their troubled economy," the Iranian chief executive told the crowd. Highlighting the September 11 attacks on US targets in New York in 2001, the Iranian president criticized the US administration for pointing the finger of accusation against Mohammedan nations and the people of the region. President Ahmadinejad raised doubts about the sincerity in the claims of the US government, which he said was used as an excuse to wage two wars against Iraq and Afghanistan. In his recent address to the UN General Assembly in New York, the Iranian chief executive called for the formation of a fact-finding committee to investigate the truth behind the 9/11 attacks. Ahmadinejad's new proposal triggered Washington's outrage, prompting the state to denounce his remarks as hateful and unacceptable. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I think we can get off ME (and Venezuelan) oil anytime we want. Just need to open up drilling here. Drill Here! Drill Now! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-10-06 16:35 |
| #2 This is why I am all for Fusion, better solar and battery technology and other fuel sources. In 50 years or so, we can get off the oil, provide our own energy and tell the ME they can eat all their oil and gas. A decade after the world can get off oil the ME will be a backward, desolate place that no one cares about and the funding for Jihad will die very quickly. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-10-06 16:20 |
| #1 Outside of the oil, who the heck would want it? And, as I recall, the British pretty much had much of it and even they gave it up! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-10-06 07:11 |