Posted on 12/11/2006 11:29:55 PM PST by Biscuit85
Iran pledges $250m aid to Palestine
DUBAI: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Iran had pledged about $250 million (BD95m) in financial aid to Palestinians in 2007 to help ease an economic crisis caused by a Western aid boycott.
"My visit to Tehran has achieved direct financial support with a sum of about a quarter billion dollars," he said after a visit to Iran in a tour of Islamic nations.
"They offered a number of projects that represent direct financial support to the Palestinian government and people," he told Al Arabiya television in remarks aired yesterday.
The overall sum included $120 million in direct funds to the Palestinian government.
He said the Iranian government also pledged to pay the salaries of 100,000 state employees for six months at the rate of $100 a month and to pay a
similar amount to 3,000 fishermen over the same period.
Last month a Palestinian minister said Iran had donated $120 million to the Palestinian Hamas-led government and said it was ready to give more.
I'm sure all the hordes of starving unemployed Iranians are thrilled at this news.
Maybe Hugo Chavez can pitch in and give them heating oil ... oh wait, that's his program here in the US.
aid...a code word to buy more weapons for the terrorists....
and the world/UN allows this.....
and the lib/dems state...."its for the children"
The Opec Mullah dictatorship always has mega-millions for jihad/terrorism.
Iranians aren't starving poor. The GDP per capita is $8400 which is on par with Eastern European countries like Bulgaria.
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