Posted on 11/10/2019 9:41:51 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani... attacked the oil minister and demanded to know where $700 million in funds have gone, and slammed the judiciary and the Central Bank over a separate $2 billion corruption case... This included money that an Iranian businessman named Babak Zanjani had been accused of withholding from the oil ministry.
IOW, the fascist terrorists occupying Iran are upset that the proceeds of commerce aren't running through their own fingers.
[Zanjani] was sentenced to death in 2016. But he has still been meeting with important politicians, allegedly. Radio Farda notes Zanjani was a middleman, selling Iranian oil through front companies, mainly affiliated with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in the years when international sanctions banned Iran oil exports and banking relations, during hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term, 2009-2013.
IOW, Rouhani had better watch his mouth. Gang war!
He wants audits to look for another $947 million case as well... The strong language by Rouhani was greeted with surprise at Tasnim, Fars and other news outlets in Iran. It is a rare admission of cracks among the regime members. Fars News called the speech a "big-bang moment." ...Iran's Press TV in English didn't report on his allegations, focusing instead on Rouhani saying that a new oil field had been found that has 53 billion barrels of reserves.
Iranian news outlets, that's adorable.
It also appears to point to the fact that the IRGC has continued to siphon resources from the state for its policies abroad... the allegations that the octopus-like IRGC is sponging up resources in Iraq and Iran and leaving average people with nothing. More than 300 protesters have been killed and thousands injured in Iraq's mostly Shi'ite south and in Baghdad. This is a challenge to Iran's role in Iraq. IRGC Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani has been in Iraq to suppress the protests.
As I've often said, the thing about muzzie civil wars is, everyone wins.
It now seems that the larger picture could be also a jibe at the era of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
...the US Department of Treasury sanctioned IRGC commander Mohammad Bagheri, Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi, and Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Raisi ran against Rouhani for president and lost, and Rouhani has been in power since 2013. Raisi gave a speech 12 days ago, highlighting the issue of corruption and arguing that it was not a partisan issue. It may be that Rouhani's speech was a response to the powerful judiciary head. If so, it is interesting he chose to do so days after the US sanctioned Raisi.
What a weird coincidence. Thanks LTGM.
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