Saturday, 17 March 2012

The Latest from Iran (17 March): Ahmadinejad All-is-Well Alert

0750 GMT: Compare and Contrast. An Iranian military commander, interviewed by State news agency IRNA: "Iran is ready to export its military knowledge to friends and allied countries."

Press TV highlights the response of Iraq's Nuri al-Maliki about claims of that export of "military knowledge": "Iraqi Prime Minister dismisses reports by a US daily (see Friday's Syria and Beyond Live Coverage) on the shipment of Iran's aid cargo to crisis-hit Syria, stressing that all items dispatched to Damascus through Iraq were humanitarian goods."

0730 GMT: Inflation may be above 30% and unemployment may defy the President's predictions that all in Iran will have a job by the end of his term. Allegations of mismanagement and missing money from the Government budget may bedevil the system. Corruption, such as the $2.6 billion bank embezzlement, may be a bit of a bother.

But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unfazed. This morning he inaugurated 4000 housing units in Tehran and declared that every applicant will have a resolution of his/her situation by next March.


from EA WorldView: EA Iran

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