Friday, May 04, 2012

Mullah's Persian nationalism

Ahmet from Tunisia sent me this:  "Asad, no wonder they are tolerating this : "Iranian nationalists responded joyfully. Anti-Arab gags dominated comedy programmes on state radio, while astonishment was expressed in parliament and in the newspapers at the cheek of the “little sheikhs” to the south, their confected country barely four decades old, daring to address the heirs of Cyrus the Great. If the people of Iran’s southernmost province all blew at once across the Gulf, one wag remarked, “the wind would carry the Emirates away.”"  Of course, Arab oil and gas regime respond with their own form of chauvinistic nationalism against Iranians.