Posted on 05/30/2008 12:00:23 AM PDT by george76
In what appears to be the biggest case of corruption in Iran, and perhaps in the Middle East, the Tehran-based Shahab News reported that the chief auditing office of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has revealed that close to $35 billion of oil income from the financial year 2006-07 is missing.
According to Iranian law, this money should have been paid by the government of President Ahmadinejad into Iran’s central bank. Once there, the government can request the withdrawal of funds for projects, depending upon the approval of the Majlis. However...
This is a serious allegation, as this amount constitutes almost half of Iran’s total oil income for that year.
To make matters worse, this is not the first time since the start of the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that money has been used without the Majlis’ knowledge. One other famous case took place during the 2007-08 financial year...
It would be an understatement to say that President Ahmadinejad had a rocky relationship with the previous Majlis, whose term ended on May 27. Members were so fed up with the president’s efforts to sideline them that they tried to reduce his presidential term on two separate occasions. Although they failed, such an undertaking had never before been attempted in the history of the Islamic Republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
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The regime lining their suitcases, sponsor parties and feasts for Mookie, buying Russo-Chinese secret toys, bribing Democrat Senators, buying new carpets for Ahmadinejad, supplying terrorists with rockets and bombs... 35 billion are quickly spent.
He can’t rise out of a basic well.
Now we know how much they spend on international terrorism.
Ah, it's a mere drop in the bucket of what we have thrown at them. Heck, it's even lower than Sec. Rumsfeld's estimate of the whole war and rebuilding!
This is IRAN. You are thinking IraQ.
argh...I meant, thrown at Iraq, not at THEM! :-)
Halliburton!
I think they are waiting for the Hidden Accountant to balance their books. He’s coming soon, so why bother keeping books before then.
Look for Ahmadinejad to get on a plane to Switzerland soon to reunite with his money.
I was thinking Iran, but the pronoun got messed up when I erased what I originally was going to post....about not counting on the oil revenues covering costs if we go into Iran, based on what we’ve seen in Iraq (recall that’s what we were told would happen there).
Then again, maybe we could all get free Persian rugs. :-)
I'm not sure whether we need their Air Force. ;-)
And yet moslems are SO much more moral and ethical than infidels...has not the prophet decreed their behaviour?
/sarc off
Hell, it’s obvious they overpaid the whores in our Congress and Media....and heavily invested in the campaign of Obama..
I hope its Bush’s fault!
Zionist squirrels stole the money.
Sheesh....they're savin' it!
Where is this oil?
Might be a very good time to administer a severe shock to their economy and see if their govt. can survive it. I know we have to worry about oil prices etc. b/c of domestic pressures of our own, but tightening the economic screws on Iran is about the only alternative left aside from either military strikes or letting them succeed with their nuke programs.
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