Iran to Assume Leadership of Bloc That Includes Key U.S. Allies and U.S. Aid Recipients

Cybercast News Service ^ | August 8, 2012 | Patrick Goodenough

[Olog-hai]

At a time when the U.S. is leading efforts to isolate Iran, almost two-thirds of the worlds independent nations including key recipients of U.S. aid and nine of Americas major non-NATO allies belong to a intergovernmental organization that is about to let Tehran set its agenda for the next three years.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is preparing to host the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a grouping of developing nations formed during the Cold War as a supposedly neutral bloc aligned neither with the West nor the Soviet Union. …

Iran has already announced that one of its primary ambitions is to launch an international news agency to promote NAMs agenda. That agenda, according to a 1979 document called the Havana Declaration (the product of the last time Cuba held the chair), is to ensure the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries in their struggle against imperialism, colonialism, apartheid , racism and Zionism and all foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics. …

[Claytonbridge]

Better give them all more money so they’ll love us 8-(

[GOPJ]

Iran's making preparations to start - and win - World War III... We're acting like it's the 1980’s and we're king of the hill... General Petraeus would make an excellent VP...