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.