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I'll give him a dinar.....just to quit whining.
did you just weeeeeeee?.....thats almost as bad as woot......lol
I hold cash...but like anything else, everything has pros and cons.
Hope your 95th birthday is soon.....lol.
if I go there....it will be as always.....well armed......lol
found this blurb on another forum ...but it brings up a nice point.....especially since the CBI did not run an auction today and did not set a rate(first time I ever seen that)
The fact of the matter is this ... while we have a lot of fun trying to guess the RV exchange rate ... the only folks that have any idea are those in the CBI and IMF. A lot of numbers have been tossed about but we really have only three definitive "hints" (as far as I'm aware):
1. the SafeDinar "oopsie" from last April of $5.26;
2. the Scheme Arrangement between Rafidain Bank and its creditors, where in Appendix 5 we can find the proposed exchange rate between Iraq and its creditors to be .3038 ... this is a RATIO, NOT an absolute (BTW, .3038 translates to $3.29163); and
3. the recent statements by al-Shabibi where he said the the GOI/CBI "aspire in the near future to the return of Iraqi dinar to what it was in the seventies and the beginning eighties against the dollar". (My data only goes back to 1985, but the exchange rate then was 3.24557 SDR ... which translates into $5.30 today , but it dropped in 1988 to 2.32407 SDR or $3.79655 in 9 April 08 USD.)
Only the IMF knows for sure.
from the press conference today....thoughts?
Charles P. Ries, Crocker's deputy for economic policy in Baghdad, said in an e-mail that both the Iraqi constitution and Iraq's arrangement with the International Monetary Fund prohibit spending the nation's reserves. The amount in Iraq's accounts, he said, is not "abnormally high to back up the dinar, given the size of the economy and their dependence on a single commodity for most of export revenues."
in a big way.....LOL
I know it's not the CBI.....but Market Browser is quoting IQD
at 1175 and Yahoo Finance is quoting 1180.....interesting to say the least!
No thnx....been to Gitmo and I don't recall leaving anything I need to go back and get.....
just received this e-mail.....found it kinda humorous for some reason:
KNOW ANYONE?
HOTEL MANAGEMENT. Client seeks qualified individual for a full time permanent assignment to manage the bachelor housing contract at the US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in hotel management or MBA.
Five years experience administering appropriated and/or non-appropriated funds.
One year’s experience handling reservation systems.
Two years experience in inventory management.
Beginning salary about $85,000 DOQ. Overseas tax benefit, RELO paid, housing provided.
thnx penny.....appreciate it!
Thnx....that stuff makes my head hurt
anyone got a link to the story about Iran shelling Iraq?....still haven't found it
time to "unleash the hounds"......past due IMO
Maybe he'll take the whole lot of em quail hunting.....
Time of purchase(proven by receipt)goes into if it will be considered short or long term investment. If you purchased in country (military or contractor) your orders should suffice,
check with you accountant......
On 28 June 2004, Iraq was declared sovereign. The coalition did not, however, turn over functional sovereignty to Iraqis on the very matters that Arabs, conscious of a legacy of colonialism, consider to be essential to sovereignty: borders, internal security, internal political order and legal system, and economic policies. This was a wise decision. Still, "sovereignty" and "independence" have quite freighted connotations in Arab political parlance. As long as the coalition continues, in the words of Secretary of State Colin Powell, to "borrow" Iraq's sovereignty, the "true" colonialist intent of the U.S. "occupation" will appear proven to Arabs in and out of Iraq.[1]
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/...lmoniAug04.asp
courtesy of BBDentman@IIF
Concur ....Thnx Stocks
Iraq vows to block oil contracts signed by Kurds
Sat Mar 8, 6:13 AM ET
Baghdad will block any contracts signed by foreign oil companies with Iraqi Kurdish regional authorities, Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein Chahristani said on Saturday.
"All contracts will be handled by the central government," he told a joint press conference in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart Hilmi Guler.
"No contracts signed by any regions in Iraq will be recognised by the government of Iraq. Companies will not be allowed to work on Iraqi territory unless their contract is approved by the central government in Baghdad."
The government in Baghdad and authorities in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq have been at loggerheads over the issue for months.
In November the minister announced he had cancelled around 15 oil contracts signed by the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan.
In response, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzan insisted the contracts would be honoured, saying "nobody can cancel contracts signed by Kurdistan", as his government approved the signature of seven more oil contracts.
The autonomous Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq has signed 15 exploration and export contracts with 20 international companies since it passed its own oil law last August, infuriating the Baghdad government.
Chahristani has repeatedly said he considers the contracts "illegal".
He has threatened the companies concerned that they would not in future have the chance to work with the Iraqi government, threats which have so far have not been carried out.
Very Nice Stockings!!!!!
"Turkey receives Talbani as Kurdish leader, not Iraq's president"
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"Turkey receives Talbani as Kurdish leader, not Iraq's president"
Mar 9, 2008, 14:10 GMT
Baghdad - Kurdish newspapers Sunday condemned as 'improper' the reception of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani in Turkey, where he was officially welcomed without the Iraqi national anthem being played or a red carpet being laid on.
Talabani was received by the Turkish president Abdullah Gul and his prime minister as a Kurdish leader, not as the president of Iraq, the Kurdish Hawlaty newspaper said.
It added that Turkish army leaders did not welcome Talabani to the country, which prompted Gul to describe the visit as a 'working visit' not a state one.
Another Kurdish paper called Holier said that the official ceremony to receive Talabani did not meet the common etiquette standards applied to welcoming presidents of states.
Talabani began an official visit to Ankara Friday, a week after the end of a major Turkish offensive aimed at Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
During his visit, he promised Turkish leaders that he would take action against the banned Kurdish Workers Party
The battle against the PKK required closer co-ordination between Ankara, Washington and Baghdad, Talabani said Saturday.
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Economics: symposia on the draft law of the new securities
During the month of March
Baghdad - morning
In the context of promoting discussions on the draft law of the new securities have decided to hold two seminars in this regard in order to take advantage of the views and proposals involved. "Said Chairman of the securities in Iraq, Mr. Abdul Razzak Al Saadi, following his return
From Amman after his participation and the Iraqi delegation at the high-level symposium held between the Securities Commission in Iraq and the Securities Commission in Jordan.
He explained that these seminars aim to complete the discussions regarding the new law and inform concerned vocabulary and objectives of the law.
The first symposium included an invitation Gentlemen brokerage companies and owners of the companies registered in the Iraq market for securities of the presentation and discussion of the draft law paragraphs.
With The Second Symposium invite representatives of Messrs. Chambers and their relationship with the Registrar of Companies and the Central Bank and the Office of Financial Supervision and income tax, universities and experts in this field.
The second symposium will address "Alastendr" global and international standards bodies used in the laws of developed countries and the possibility reflected in the draft of the new law. It is useful to note that the month of March, which is being held two symposiums continue with a symposium Oman will be the date for the start accelerating towards law and delivered by the Court of transmission to take legal codification of the way for discussion and legislation by the competent authorities, where he is expected to be the end of the current year 2008 for approval.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani hit Baghdad
(Voice of Iraq) - 08-03-2008
PUKmedia Baghdad 21:04:39 2008-03-08
Having concluded Iraqi President Jalal Talabani visit historical and important visit to the Turkish capital Ankara, and his meetings with Turkish officials, including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish President Abdullah Gul, arrived in the evening today, Saturday, President Talabani and his accompanying delegation to the capital Baghdad.
The Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived yesterday afternoon Friday to Ankara airport at the head of a high-level delegation composed of Messrs. Finance Minister Baqir Jabr Al-Zubaidi, the Iraqi oil minister Hussein Shahrastani and Minister of Industry and Minerals Fawzi Hariri and Minister of Water Resources, Dr. Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, the President of the Court of the presidency Naseer Ani, Dr. Skinner and the spokesman of the Iraqi government, and Adnan Delimy President of the Iraqi Accord Front, and a number of other Iraqi officials
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Being married to Hillary...I'm not surprised Bill has problems with figuring out the definition of sex.....she fits in the "there ain't enough beer" category with me.
Iraq's parliament faces big challenges revisiting delayed laws, speaker says
Published: March 8, 2008
Big challenges are ahead of Iraq's parliament when it resumes work March 18 and revisits controversial measures including an oil and gas law and a bill to set up provincial elections, Iraq's parliament speaker said Saturday.
A measure aimed at regulating foreign investment in Iraq's underdeveloped oil sector, and distributing its revenues among the nation's Sunni and Shiite Arab communities and the large Kurdish minority, has been bogged down in parliament since February 2007.
The provincial elections law was approved by parliament last month but was rejected by Iraq's presidential council.
"The biggest challenge ahead of us is the provincial elections law," Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said at a news conference in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.
In February, Iraq's parliament passed the provincial elections measure along with other two key pieces of legislation: one that allots US$48 billion (€30 billion) for 2008 spending and another that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody.
The three measures were bundled together for one vote to satisfy the demands of minority Kurds who feared they might be double-crossed on their stand that the budget allot 17 percent to their semiautonomous regional government in the north.
Later, Iraq's three-member presidential council approved the 2008 budget and the amnesty law but rejected the provincial elections measure and sent it back to parliament. The presidential council is composed of President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, Shiite Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi.
The provincial elections, which were initially scheduled for Oct. 1, would devolve power to some degree from the national government and have been seen as an important step in U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts.
Abdul-Mahdi, a senior official in the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, the country's largest Shiite party, rejected the measure and was supported by the Kurds.
The sticking point was control of the provincial governor's offices.
A provision in the measure allows the Iraqi prime minister to fire a provincial governor, but Abdul-Mahdi's bloc wants that power to rest with the provincial councils, or legislatures, where his party has a strong base of support around the country.
"We do need a serious stance to deal with the next challenge," al-Mashhadani said Saturday.
He urged an "ideal solution," which would be pass the law again as it is, and then follow it with another one that recommends amendments to its disputed provisions "in order not to agitate a political storm and avoid any political tensions."
"We are seeking ... a unified stance to go forward together in the right direction," said al-Mashhadani, a Sunni.
It took weeks of wrangling for the Iraqi parliament to pass the three measures the presidential council reviewed. Even then, al-Mashhadani had to break an 82-82 tie to get the deal through on the last day before the legislature took a five-week break.
The elections measure was only the second of 18 benchmarks set by the Bush administration to achieve national reconciliation.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/...q-Politics.php
Political first: financial establish a moratorium retroactive salary tax
Prepared a plan for the development of the law of retirement
Baghdad Tarek Al-Araji
Suspended by the Ministry of Finance work Pension tax assessed on the salaries of staff for ongoing service retroactive to contribute to the support of their salaries with the ministry is seeking to open banks in many countries of the world to provide its services to the Iraqis
Living where to be twinned with banks linked to global resolutions of the United Nations Special punishing some countries where Iraq was not seeking to financial dealings with them. Said Mohammed Hariri Director of the Office of the Minister of Finance told the (morning): The retirement law headquarters before Parliament in connection with implementation What is only a first step towards improving the living condition of the segment of retirees and will be followed by other steps to redress the constitutionality more from now noting that the increase in the salaries of this segment does not meet the needs covered when compared to the high prices of foodstuffs and oil derivatives, and others. added that theministry had prepared a plan for development of the law of retirement and the stages of advancement by retirees in the event of the evolution of the security and economic situations, which will be reflected positively on increasing returns material for the country. Hariri affirmed that a new salary, which includes new staff fails to their financial and adopted a method to increase their allocations ministry and to stop the tax scheme, which was deducted them retroactively as of 2008/1/1 kind of upgrading their living and support their salaries and the additional amounts that theMinistry has prepared a plan for the opening of economic and financial cooperation with all nations of the world through the twinning of banks and financial exchanges, the ministry is seeking to open a number of banks in most countries in the world to offer its services to Iraqis except those facing economic and financial problems, according to the resolutions of the United Nations because Iraq was keen to implement these decisions. revealed Director of the Office of the Minister of Finance that there is a trend in some provinces to convert palaces belonging to the flagship tourist to the places where museums were already formed committees to update coordination with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and governors in addition to the Ministry Financial noting that there is a defect in some governorates still exploited by multinational forces on property belonging to the State which has been exploited by some political parties and figures reported Hariri that there is a specialist began to address these abuses, as already succeeded in raising some other abuses which direction lift all excesses. between the properties tyrant Saddam and his family other confiscated in accordance with the law and was supposed to be sold at auction and obtained the direction of this took until counting is complete. explained that the ministry is also pursuing money Saddam and his family and his aides in the banks global funds, returning it to the Iraqi people It has succeeded in Asthsal part of the assessment was the latest amount of three million dollars deposited in a bank Germany. Hariri disclosed that Iraq will be on March (11) at the meetings of the OPEC Fund in Vienna to contribute to the support of projects to be set up in poor countries, especially Iraq and member of the President This fund.
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SGS was proof of that......
Activating Ahdab's Field Investment Contract
Kut, 06 March 2008 (Al-Sabaah)
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Wassit governor Hamad al-T'arfa, emphasized that, the province activated with oil ministry the investment project of Ahdab field in Kut.
He added that they performed discussions last week in Amman between the oil ministry and one of the Chinese company which would start pulling out the oil from Ahdab field, pointing that the province granted the Chinese company to offer the secure for them.
Worth mentioning that, the old contract were canceled since it were as (a common contract) which could donating a share from the oil to the Chinese company, while the new contract were to provide for donating mounts of the money for the pulling out company or donating quantities of the oil according to the ruling price.
Iraqi planning to exploit the gas wealth
05 March 2008 (Iraq Business Journal)
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Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussein Al-Shahrastani, said that the Commissioner of Energy in the European Union, Andrias Bebalgus, assured him in their meeting in Brussels recently that the Union wishes Iraq to play a full role in building the Arab gas pipeline, which goes to Europe, via a linking it to Nabucco pipeline, which will transfer gas through Turkey to Western Europe from the Caspian Sea starting in 2011.
He said during a press conference that the company "Royal Dutch Shell" made a presentation to develop natural gas resources in Iraq, saying that Baghdad had given priority to the development of gas in the south, mainly due to the high demand for gas in the world, and that the region could provide Europe with large amounts of it, .
Sources revealed that Iraq is losing about $7 billion annually due to the burning of natural gas since 1927 when oil was discovered in Iraq for the first time. Iraq has about 6.3 trillion cubic meters of certain natural gas, making about %2 of the world reserves and %6 of the Arabian Gulf reserve; the proportion of gas associated to oil is %70 while free gas forms %30.
As Iraq is not a producer and exporter of gas now, the age of its reserve is estimated by 750 years while Saudi reserve is sufficient for 110 years, the Iranian for 350 years, Qatar reserve for 380 years and the Bahrain for 12 years, according to confirmed studies in this regard.
Abduljabar Abboud Al-Halfi, the expert at the University of Basrah, said in a study that the global demand for gas is increasing from 195 billion cubic meters per day in 1995 to 2400 billion cubic meters in 2007, and is expected to reach 3100 billion in 2010. The study pointed out that the producing countries are racing to extend pipelines transporting gas across regions and nations for long-term contracts for the sale of gas, as is now happening in Qatar and other Asian countries and between Iran, China, India and Pakistan, between Algeria and Europe, between Norway and France, the Russia - Europe gas line, as well as the transfer of gas by medium and large tankers.
that would be real nice if it was....lol
I remember when I first got into this(11/03)
only hoped for a penny to a nickle RV, with
the info we've seen recently who knows?
Baghdad - Iraq votes 06 / 03 / 2008 at 15:54:36
Decreased demand for the dollar in the purchase of the Central Bank of Iraq auction on the sale and purchase of the dollar at the end of meetings this week to auction, Thursday, recording a total volume of demand reached 51 million and 175 thousand dollars, compared with 116 million and 175 thousand dollars in the meeting, Wednesday.
The special bulletin ERA Central Bank of Iraq for the sale and purchase of the dollar, the demand distributed at 24 million and 175 thousand dollars in cash, while the remaining $ 27 million of the request in the form of remittances outside the country covered by the bank fully stable exchange rate of the meeting of 20 consecutive capacity of 1210 dinars to the dollar, While he did not make the ten banks participating in the auction offers to sell the dollar to auction.
He said the Yasiri, one dealing with the auction of the Independent News Agency (Voices of Iraq) that "the demand for procurement has generally declined because of lower orders exclusively, a situation expected in the opening and closing sessions of the auction in a week where the demand for low orders on Sunday and Thursday, more than the remaining days. "
Yasiri, and added that "monetary demand was at the top levels throughout the current year for two reasons, the first being on Thursday on payment of merchants The second reason the lack of movement in the market for two weeks, which makes trading more."
Meanwhile, the economic expert, Dr. Amita Abbas that "the natural decline the request that hearings auction must be experiencing declines and rising relying on the immediate need of the market."
He added that "the stability of the exchange rate of several meetings give reassurance for the domestic market, and that the bank must continue to stick to install exchange rates at least another week to make the situation more secure stability and to ensure the elimination of any final attempt unnatural before speculators may appear at any moment to break stability in the market, especially with the appropriate solutions any future auction or disrupt the local stock exchanges. "
For his part, an economic expert and industrial Sadiq Abdul Razzaq that "proceeds transactions weekly recorded by the market this week registered an upward performance, and demand rates increased during the beginning of March as had been expected in advance of the performance of the auction"?
He added that "the coming months are expected to witness a growth in the volume of demand and increase the cash available cover by the Central Bank and to increase the tools that are controlled by monetary policy, local and subject to greater control because of growing imports from Iraq oil sales and the availability of large amounts of foreign exchange earnings, which is Higher revenues in the history of the Central Bank of Iraq, and certainly would have positive effects on the balance of government spending and stimulate relatively to the local private sector. "
He explained Uday Shabib's banking office in Baghdad that "the exchange rate has maintained constant for the fourth day at 1215 dinars buying and selling of 1225 dinars small transactions, and a rise in the price of a simple commercial sale of large transactions by 1222 dinars compared with the exchange rate of 1221 dinars yesterday."
He attributed Shabib high price simply to the "growing demand for purchase on Thursday to reimburse merchants."
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but the key is....How much are they gonna make per barrel?
under the Saddam law they wasn't making very much, hence why they
need a new HCL.....and stop paying us exorbitant fees for refining it.
gm....thnx for the invite Stocks......
Iraqi cabinet gives green light to oil ministry to sign oil deals
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Published: March 5, 2008
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BAGHDAD: Iraq's cabinet has given the green light to the Oil Ministry to sign agreements with international oil companies to help increase the nation's crude output, a ministry official said Wednesday.
The two-year deals, known as technical support agreements, or TSAs, are designed to develop five producing fields to add 500,000 barrels per day to the country's current 2.4 million barrels per day output.
Last December, Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB), BP PLC (BP), ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM) and Chevron Corp. (CVX) submitted technical and financial proposals for the five oil fields and received counterproposals from the Iraqi side.
In January, representatives from the companies and from Iraq met again in Amman, Jordan, and they will hold the third round of discussions later this month, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to release information.
In Vienna, Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said that Iraq intends to compensate these companies with crude oil rather than in cash, the Dow Jones Newswires reported on Wednesday.
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Speaking to reporters as he arrived for a meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, al-Shahristani said the Oil Ministry was still working on the compensation details with the Development Fund of Iraq, controlled by the U.S. and the U.N.
According to the Oil Ministry official, BP will submit a proposal for the Rumaila oil field, Chevron for West Qurna stage 1, Exxon for Zubair, and Shell for Missan and Kirkuk.
Iraq's average production was 2.4 million barrels per day in January while exports stood at an average of 1.92 million barrels per day. December's exports averaged 1.81 million barrels per day.
In dire need of expertise from international oil companies to achieve the Oil Ministry's target of 3 million barrels per day by the end of 2008, Iraq has been relying on a Saddam Hussein-era natural resources law until Parliament approves a new oil law to regulate the international oil companies' work and share Iraq's oil resources among the country's Shiites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds.
More than 70 international firms met the ministry's deadline of Feb. 18 to compete for tenders to help develop Iraq's oil reserves, seen as vital to providing the funds to rebuild the shattered country.
Iraq has not said what fields it will tender, or on what terms, but the service and extraction contracts on offer are seen as a stopgap until the oil law is passed, and will not provide the long-term involvement big oil companies want.
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Arabs don't like to carry coins due to the way they dress, they carry money belts as it is......
Canada?
Ahmadinejad: Iraqi nation treading path to progress Tehran, March 1, IRNA
Iran-Iraq-Ahmadinejad
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Saturday that the Iraqi nation has chosen the path to progress vigilantly and strongly.
Addressing a press conference prior to his Iraq visit, President Ahmadinejad said regional people should help one another and try to solve their problems.
Iran and Iraq share closer bonds compared to other regional nations, said Ahmadinejad, adding that the Iranian and Iraqi nations have had top level cultural and religious relations.
He went on to say that he hoped his Sunday visit to Iraq will help bolster mutual ties.
The president said the Iraqi nation should wisely, vigilantly and firmly tread the path to progress despite the ongoing pressures.
The Iraqi nation is a great nation, having a rich culture and civilization and efficient workforce, being capable of solving its problems without foreign help, added the Iranian president.
He said there has been no discord among Iraqi Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and Turkmens throughout history before the country's occupation.
He added that the Iraqi nation's strength will benefit all regional nations and noted, "We think insecurity, dissension and violence in Iraq are the result of the plots of occupation forces because there had been no such differences at all prior to the country's occupation.
The ongoing bloodshed, that has been claiming lives of Iraqi children, has been imposed on the Iraqi nation."
The president noted that the occupiers use ongoing insecurity in Iraq as a pretext to continue occupation.
"We believe that the Iraqi nation is capable of maintaining security and running their own affairs themselves. Anybody feeling pity for the Iraqi nation is advised to help the nation materialize their wishes," he added.
As for Americans' claim that Iran intervenes in Iraq's internal affairs, Ahmadinejad said, "Iran's relations with regional states are too close and influential. Of course Iran has not gained the influence through such measures as military presence in the region as Americans did. We believe regional nations are mature enough to run their country themselves without any need to foreigners. It is an habit of the Americans to blame others whenever they fail and come across with difficulty."
Emphasizing that the Iranian nation has close ties with Iraqi Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites, Ahmadinejad said, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has always invited all Iraqi social and ethnic groups to unity and convergence because Tehran considers security in Iraq as its own. That's because Iran will suffer the most from insecurity in Iraq."
He said occupiers consider a powerful and independent Iraq as being detrimental to their interests, thus accusing Iran of meddling in the country's internal affairs.
"Iran does not need to interfere in Iraq and is a friend to all groups there. Isn't it ridiculous that those having 160,000 soldiers in Iraq are accusing us of interference?" questioned the president.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Ahmadinejad said Iran and Iraq need to expand mutual political, cultural and economic cooperation. "We cannot establish ties based on others' views. We announced readiness to negotiate with Americans solely to help the Iraqi nation. So, it is not important for us what others think. What's of importance is that the Iraqi nation will be able to regain their position in the region and the world."
Asked about a possible US military strike on Iran, Ahmadinejad said, "I think it is unlikely to happen. The US has not been victorious in any battle. Contrary to hues and cries, the US army is not so much powerful because politicians do not let the army remain strong. Even if it is powerful, I think it will be unlikely for them to go into another war with the Iranian nation. So, we are not worried."
He said that if the US or any other power decides to encounter the Iranian nation once again, the nation will give a crushing response to them as it has already announced.
The best option for Americans is to have friendly and honorable ties with regional nations and Iraq is a scene for testing the US government's sincerity, he added.
He expressed confidence that the Iraqi nation will overcome problems sooner or later, adding that in that case, the countries hich have declined to help the Iraqi nation under difficult and tough conditions will become regretful.
"So, I recommend regional nations to have closer ties with one another and try to solve their problems. Of course, some countries have been under pressure and had it not been for the great powers' pressures, they would have definitely assisted the Iraqi nation," he added.
To a question about Iran's economic relations with Iraq, Ahmadinejad said economic cooperation between the two sides are at a favorable level and Iran tries to address the Iraqi nation's needs as much as it can.
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/lin...7696171353.htm
guess I stepped right into that on....LMAO
Anybody got still have the link for Market Browser that as posted here a few weeks ago?