Iran Claims Global Supremacy
As Hillary’s past shouldn’t surprise me, Ahmadinejad’s statements shouldn’t either. However, the audacity of this claim is amazing. If China, India, or Russia had said it, I might be able to understand how some metric could possibly make them view themselves as number 1, but not Iran.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Thursday that Iran was the world’s “number one” power, as he launched a bitter new assault on domestic critics he accused of siding with the enemy.
“Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech to families who lost loved ones in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. “Today the name of Iran means a firm punch in the teeth of the powerful and it puts them in their place,” he added in the address broadcast live on state television.
While I am sure that only a small percentage of Iranians actually believe this statement, I feel sorry for those who don’t really understand. It is kind of like Barack Obama’s followers who believe that he is actually the candidate for change.
