Posted on 12/03/2013 8:04:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged his successor, Hassan Rouhani, to a debate intended to defend his eight-year record in office, reports the British Telegraph.
In his first political intervention since stepping down last August, the former president expressed outrage at a recent televised speech in which Rouhani took aim at Ahmadinejad’s stewardship of Iran’s economy.
Rouhani said that his predecessor had presided over “unprecedented stagflation” in an address made to mark his own administration's first 100 days at the helm.
During Ahmadinejad’s presidency, Iran’s currency plummeted to an all-time low as the country faced a growing shortage of foreign cash because of international sanctions. …
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Will they “debate” as muslims, AK47’s at thirty paces or suicide vests?
“When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off w her head
Remember what the Dormouse said”
Will the “loser” be hung from a crane?
> Ahmadinejad has challenged his successor, Hassan Rouhani, to a debate intended to defend his eight-year record in office
Thanks Olog-hai. If it’s a scheduled event, they’ll both be in the same place at the same time. I bring that up for no reason whatsoever.
Blame it on the 12th Imam. The state of the economy wouldn’t have mattered if he had shown up on Ahmadinejad’s watch.
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