Posted on 05/30/2008 12:00:23 AM PDT by george76
In what appears to be the biggest case of corruption in Iran, and perhaps in the Middle East, the Tehran-based Shahab News reported that the chief auditing office of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has revealed that close to $35 billion of oil income from the financial year 2006-07 is missing.
According to Iranian law, this money should have been paid by the government of President Ahmadinejad into Iran’s central bank. Once there, the government can request the withdrawal of funds for projects, depending upon the approval of the Majlis. However...
This is a serious allegation, as this amount constitutes almost half of Iran’s total oil income for that year.
To make matters worse, this is not the first time since the start of the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that money has been used without the Majlis’ knowledge. One other famous case took place during the 2007-08 financial year...
It would be an understatement to say that President Ahmadinejad had a rocky relationship with the previous Majlis, whose term ended on May 27. Members were so fed up with the president’s efforts to sideline them that they tried to reduce his presidential term on two separate occasions. Although they failed, such an undertaking had never before been attempted in the history of the Islamic Republic.
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Which won’t be good. They might replace him with “reformists” who make kissy-face with the West, call for diplomacy and negotiations in a non-provocative way, but the objectives remain the same. Good cop, bad cop show. Ahmadinejad is an eye-opener to the West, although the libs of course refuse to acknowledge the truth. A “moderate” Islamofascist will achieve a nuclear Iran by he sneaky easy way of deluding the West.
Obama did receive a LOT of money........... Oh let’s not go there. The Dem party did receive a lot of money..never mind.
Oddly was first thought I had as well.
If true, appears that these islam nutjobs are in it for the money, not the religion.
It was used to buy nuclear WMD equipment.
I just had one of my clients come back from Iran and they just paid off the properties I helped them purchase. MMMMMM
“I was thinking Iran,”
Yeah,right.
Just the Hidden Iman claiming what is rightfully his.
Hmmm.... I wonder how much of that money was used to arm Iranian trained terrorists — OOPS, I mean “Iraqi Insurgents”. I’m guessing a lot of the other money went to Russia for help with their nuclear program, along with a good portion to North Korea (heck, why not just add China in while we’re at it - seriously).
The day will come when all of this backfires and the truth will be known by the WORLD about Iran and their allies. That day can’t come soon enough, IMHO.
Exactly.
It has been a near tradition for centuries in the Arab Mid-East. Look at what Yassar did to the Palis money.
Can you say secret Swiss account?
Agreed. There has got to be a plan in all of this for it to even make it into the papers...
Everyone knows that Hidden Imams need hidden bank accounts. Either that or perhaps the Mahdi has stuffed the cash down a well or something. Supporting 72 undead wives and saving up for global thermonuclear war don’t come cheap you know.
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