Posted on 01/09/2010 11:11:56 PM PST by kingattax
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country suffered after invasions during World War II and he will "stand to the end" to get full compensation, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Ahmadinejad said he'd write to U.N. secretary General Ban Ki-moon to ask for compensation for damages caused to Iran during the war, and for use of its territory and resources by allied powers, the Post reported.
"You inflicted lots of damages to the Iranian nation, put your weight on the shoulders [of the Iranian people] and became victors in World War II. You didn't even share the war profits with Iran," Ahmadinejad said.
Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran on August 26, 1941, to secure oil fields and supply lines for the Soviets. The Post notes the Iranians suffered when food, fuel, and other essentials were given to the invading powers.
Ahmadinejad reportedly also warned that Iran may demand similar compensation for the first World War.
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Ahmadinnerjacket needs a 9mm barrel jammed into his f’in piehole, and the trigger pulled with extreme prejudice.
From my keyboard to God’s CPU, ok Lord?
*** BUMP ***
Vendome? Your post # 25 is positively stunning in it’s power, imagery and no-nonsense message.
I take my hat off to you Sir.
WELL said!
This is about Iran, not Iraq.
hehehe...you said “compensation”...
This was an interesting stat, so I just had to look it up.
Looks like we're about 3/4 million active ground force (Army/Marines.) Total active military force of around 1.4 million. "Fit for duty" population of about 120 million.
The oil companies that found, developed and exploited the oil fields in Iran ought to be compensated. Iran would be zero without the Western oil companies.
I think you've nailed it.
He should crap in one hand, and demand in the other and see which one fills up.
The mullahs have nailed this current administration though.
True enough today, but the US mobilized 4 million men over the course of WWII.
Our error was letting Canada fight Nazis for two years before we entered, and recognizing the Vichy-French (Nazis) instead of DeGaulle's Free-France-in-Britain-exile.
IOW, the Ron Paul foreign policy—if you can call that "a policy".
:-\
He should try suing Germany for “Kill the Jews” copyright infringement.
You didn't even share the war profits with Iran," Ahmadinejad said.
What “war profits”?
Funny how wherever the Bolsheviks went, famine soon followed.
Even funnier how there are no movies about it. I guess the famines didn’t involve the right protected groups.
That seems to be a Muslim concept, following in the footsteps of Mohammed...
**This is about Iran, not Iraq.**
Not a Urinal load of difference between the two.. and your brilliant point is/???
Yeah, we did you moron. You were freed from Nazi tyranny - that's the main profit.
OTOH, anyone want to bet against the UN giving him some money?
Oh boy... the shrill Ahmadi-monkey is at it again. It galls me that this ignorant twerp is abusing and rewriting history for some cheap political points (as if they could save his rear), at the same time inciting just as ignorant knee-jerk reactions...
Some background on the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran is in order IMO:
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran 1941 has to rank among the more unneccessary operations of WW2, although control of the Iranian railway, ports and oil facilities certainly was critically important for the war effort.
The problem was that the British and Soviets (well... no surprise) weren’t honest in their position towards Iran. They could (and should) have requested Iran to join the Allies, to grant them the transport infrastructure. Instead they were making vastly exaggerated claims about “German presence” and alleged intransigence of Iran. Far from the propagandist (and still common) picture of Reza Shah as “pro-German”, his regime was targetting malicious German activities just as much as Soviet subversion. Reza Shah was himself a target of venomenous German propaganda and coup-plans, while Iran was giving asylum to Jewish refugees from Germany, in 1939 even making the Jewish refugee Ms. Goldenberg the head of Iran’s foreign trade department. Indeed between 1939 and 1941 Iran repeatedly tried to join Britain and the Allies against the (until 1941) German-Soviet pact, which was justly perceived as a great threat to Iran (as it was to Polands, the Baltic states etc.).
However the British, busy with Germany, didn’t want to open a front against the Soviets in Asia and dismissed Iranian offers to join the Allies. When the Nazis and their Arab friends staged the Coup and rebellion in Iraq in spring 1941, Iran was doing it’s part in thwarting the German operations there (refusing any German request of fuel or arms to the Iraqi fascist rebels and even pondering military help for the British). In any case the British knew very well that Iran was not unwilling to cooperate. In fact this was the reason why the Iranian forces were ordered to cease fire after three days. The token brief resistance was merely in order to save face and to show Germany (in case of a potential victory) that Iran was occupied not voluntarily. Once the invasion was underway, Iran was accepting immediately the Allied conditions and successfully got the Allies to sign the Tri-partite treaty in 1942, guaranteeing Iran’s full sovereignity and integrity once the war ended. In 1943 Iran also hosted the Tehran Conference of the Allies.
Indeed it was the US that Iran turned to in order to thwart an Anglo-Soviet invasion. Both Reza Shah and the Iranian minister to the US pleaded to the US to intervene with the British. America was at high esteem for being the “protector of small nations”.
The US presence in Iran since late 1941, was upon request of Mohammed Reza Shah and the Iranian government of the day. Iran eagerly sought US military, police and financial advisors, which they got with the ARMISH, GENMISH (Gendarmerie mission under Norman Schwarzkopf Sr.) and Millspaugh financial mission. The Americans were welcomed as a “third force” to counterbalance the presence of the British and Soviets.
The Shah also offered to contribute troops to fight Germany, however the US (certainly justified) determined that the Iranian army was not yet ready for this task. However Iran joined the Allies in September 1943, and in Summer 1943 fought German agents and their tribal allies around Isfahan, costing 900 Iranian soldier’s lives (100 more than during the Anglo-Soviet invasion).
The US Persian Gulf Command (since 1943) had some very positive aspects for Iran. The Americans vastly extended and improved Iranian ports, railroads and roads... of course in order to facilitate supplies to the Soviets, but eventually to the benefit of Iran as well. Also Iran received US Lend-Lease military equipment and US-British grain supplies, during a shortage. Despite some troubling policies of the British, to their credit they also fought a severe locust plague.
The Soviets of course were as usual aggressive, demanding, expansionist Communist thugs. Fortunately (with much US and some British support) Iran booted the Stalinist Soviets from their territory in 1946.
While the British and Soviets were respectively their usual imperialist-arrogant (often much to the nuissance of the US) and aggressive-expansionist selves, the US work in Iran set the stage for the close US-Iranian alliance until 1979.
Ironically the clepto-clerical mullahs terrorizing Iran and the world, should be most thankful for the Anglo-Soviet invasion... particularly the British.
Why? Because with the abdication and exile of Reza Shah the Great, the mullahs who were for 16 years in hiding, driven from their judicial jobs and largely from the public sphere, emasculated, suppressed and kept under iron secular rule of the 1st Pahlavi reign, now (along with the Soviet-sponsored Communists) came out of the hiding and re-entered (with British prodding, to balance Communism) the public and political world.
The effects of the short-sighted Allied (esp. British) policy and the dramatically weakened central government in Tehran, saved the mullahs from further going down into oblivion. Without the Anglo-Soviet invasion, the mullah scum wouldn’t have had the opportunity and circumstances to re-infiltrate Iranian politics, laying the seeds for the disaster of 1979.
What’s double funny, does he expect RUSSIA (his master and sugar-daddy) to pay up for what the Soviet Union did? Puleeeze.
Anyway, what Ahmadinejad is doing is just another case of pathetic loudmouthing, bizarre grandstanding and screaming for attention in order to distract from the trouble facing the odious islamic regime.
Recommended reading:
Sunrise At Abadan: The British And Soviet Invasion Of Iran, 1941
By Richard A. Stewart (USMC officer and an excellent historian & author)
ISBN: 0275927938
I’d call Ron Paul Foreign.
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