Iranian Official Mocks Netanyahu's UN Speech

A senior Iranian foreign ministry official mocked on Sunday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's over his bomb diagram during his UN speech last week.

Addressing a ceremony in Iran's southern city of Kangan on Sunday, Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates' Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the Fars news agency, “The fake regime of Israel is mocked by everyone in the world today, although such cheap actions of the leaders of the occupying Zionist regime are nothing new.”

He added that the Islamic Republic's dignity and might has angered Israeli regime officials so much that they show such silly reactions.

I'd like your reference on the "second most stable economy" and, after our last conversation, I'm sure you have one.

Government finances and the banking sector seem very solid. There are two problems on the horizon. One is an overheated housing sector. This is mainly confined to Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, and Calgary. Vancouver and Toronto have been "overheated" for 30 years so I guess everything is relative. I have always maintained that foreign buyers are driving those markets, to a large extent.

The other problem is that if our major export market contacts or the Canadian dollar rises too fast demand for our products will decline and the economy will slow. There is a way out of that one, consider the German or Swiss model. Can you imagine the German model with every natural resource imaginable, especially energy? Just like the post war USA. Wait a minute...

I don't have that reference anymore and it was from 2011 - however I did read it in a credible place and I believe Switzerland was rated highest.

I had thought they attributed much of the stability to a (more) regulated banking industry.

At any rate I love Canadians and frequently post the anthem on my facebook page as a tribute.

Have you read this?

I believe you re the reference. “Economic stability” is a highly subjective subject and I was kind of surprised Canada ranked so high. Norway and Sweden would seem to be good candidates, although their economies are much smaller. I tend to think that energy security (access to domestic energy or at least an uninterruptible foreign supply) is a basic prerequisite to economic stability. Canada rates very highly on that score.

Domestic agricultural resources also rate high with me. Canada has a strong agricultural sector. In other words we can feed ourselves and, keep ourselves warm and mobile, and run our factories farms and schools from domestic sources.

Another thing I love about FR. I live in Canada and NEVER read Ottawa Citizen editorials. You don't and are pointing one out to me regarding Canada's Iranian policy. Thanks.

Further to closing the embassy in Teheran. I know that diplomats as possible hostages was always a primary concern. The government really did not make that much of that aspect. After 1979, I have no doubt that the regime over there would have no qualms about taking Canadian diplomats hostage. If they can't get at Americans, they'll take the next best thing.

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