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Originally posted by TheMindWar
The guy is a total liar. Come on, how in gods name does he know what Iran wants and what they dont want?
Originally posted by MrEcho
The majority of Canadians actually support this guy !!!! We are nothing more than Americans without the warmer climate. What kind of power does Israel have to control these goverments??? Somebody tell me please!!!
Originally posted by brokedown
It is the same old plays out of the same old mind control playbook.
Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction, and they want to use them.
Wait, cross out Iraq, meant to say Iran.
Iran has Weapons of Mass Destruction, and they want to use them.
The really sad part of this is that most people will still buy the lie.
“Fool me once, Shame on You”
“Fool Me Twice , Shame on Me”
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
Harper is beating the war drum and propaganda machine at the same time.
Originally posted by 1nOne
Stephen Harper is clearly a Zionist shill.
It's times like this that I'm ashamed to be Canadian. I'm moving to Quebec LOL
The majority of Canadians actually support this guy !!!!
Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer, is due to implement a major economic plan to privatize its oil refineries in line with its privatization scheme.
Managing-Director of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) Alireza Zeiqami announced that seven of the country's nine oil refineries will be ceded to the private sector by the end of the current Iranian year (March 2012).
"National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company and its subsidiaries will become privatized. At least 11 companies and refineries will cede their shares to the private sector later this year," he stated.
Zeiqami, who is also deputy oil minister, said that domestic and foreign investors can purchase the shares of the refineries through the Privatization Organization of Iran.
Article 44 of the Iranian Constitution stipulates that the country's economic system shall be based on public, cooperative and private sectors.
All large-scale industries, mother industries, foreign trade, large mines, banking, insurance, power supply, dams and large irrigation channels, radio and television, post, telegraph and telephone, aviation, shipping, roads, rails, refineries and the like are public property and under the guidance of the government.
A 2004 amendment to the Article, however, has set in motion a ten-year plan to privatize eighty percent of Iran's state-owned assets.
Definition: Net foreign assets are the sum of foreign assets held by monetary authorities and deposit money banks, less their foreign liabilities. Data are in current local currency.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.
And WHO really has control?
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Tehran and Beijing are in talks about using a barter system to exchange Iranian oil for Chinese goods and services, as US financial sanctions have blocked China from paying at least $20bn for oil imports.
The US sanctions against Iran, which make it extremely difficult to conduct dollar-denominated business, mean that China could owe the oil-rich nation as much as $30bn, according to people familiar with the problem.
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They said the unpaid oil bills had built up over the past two years and the governments, which are in early-stage talks, were looking at how to “offset” the debt.
Some Iranian officials are growing increasingly angry about the inability of the country’s largest oil customers to pay cash, a problem that has contributed to a shortage of hard currency and has hindered the central bank from defending the Iranian rial, which has been sharply devalued over the past month.
China and India together buy about one-third of Iran’s oil, the country’s economic lifeblood. China’s oil imports from Iran have risen 49 per cent this year, according to Reuters.
Originally posted by Rook1545
As an Albertan, I really my vote for someone not PC actually counted. My riding was something like 90% PC. I have written letters to my MP, he parrots exactly what Harpo says. He says that Iran has a ton of UN human rights violations and so should not be trusted, and need to be dealt with severely. Yet when I rebut with facts about China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other countries we defend and trade with, the PC party says that you cannot compare those.
They have their agenda and nothing us little peons can do will change that. 3 more years...
Originally posted by TheMindWar
The guy is a total liar. Come on, how in gods name does he know what Iran wants and what they dont want? Its impossible for him to know whatthey want.
All Iran wants is to be left alone, the certainly dont want to use a nuke, how bloody ridiculas.
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