World Challenges for the XXIst century

Ai Larijani is visiting Spain, and the Israeli Embassy in Spain has issued a communiqué about it:

Regarding the visit to Madrid of the President of the Iranian Parliament, Ali Larijani, on Sunday February 8th, the Israeli Embassy in Spain wants to point out the following:

1. Last January 27th, the Shoah’s anniversary, an Iranian official speaker made a communiqué in which they declared the Shoah “a great lie invented by Israel”. That communiqué is related to the repeated statements of the Iranian President who denies repeatedly the Shoah and even organised a congress of deniers of the Shoah.

2. The visitor who arrives in Madrid this Sunday is representing a country who has as a declared objetive to wipe Israel off the map as the President and some other high officials have menaced on several occasions. In this context, Israel sees deeply worried Iranian attempts to acquire nuclear technology for military uses.

3. Iran is the main supplier of weapons and financier of terrorist groups Hamas and Hizbullah, whose objetive is the destruction of Israel. The attacks of both Hamas and Hizbullah against the civil population of Israel have been the motive of the military operations of Israel in Lebanon (2006) and Gaza (2008-2009).

4. Argentinian Judges resolved (october 2006) that Iranian high officials were the responsible of the attack (july 1994) against the building of the Argentinian Jewish Community (AMIA) in which nearly 900 people were killed, and presented an international “search and arrest” order against several high officials and diplomats who were in charge of important posts back in 1994.

5. Finally, according to the last statistics published by Spanish Foreign Business Office, the volumen of weapons’ sales and double use equipments from Spain to Iran has been growing significantly and is now 30 times bigger than the sales of Spain to Israel.

Israel considers that an Iran with nuclear capacity is also a menace for the international stability in general. We can detain the Iranian nuclear program, but it’s only possible with a firm international action, without appeasement, concessions or short time commercial calculations.

I’m interested in the point No. 5. The total amount of these last years of weapons’ sales from Spain to Israel has been of:

• 2006: weapons’ sales to Israel, amount: 441.335 €
• 2007: amount 1.515.934 €
• 2008 (only in the 1st semester): amount: 1.551.933 €

So, If those data are not wrong and Israel knows how to read Spanish statisics (of both conditions I am pretty sure), that means that Spain has sold, under our cosmic leader of the Alliance of Civilizations president Zapatero, 30 times those amounts in weapons and materials of double use (civil and military) to Iran. Hmm, and he said he was a pacifist… What would have happened if he had been a warmonger?

Anyway, it’s curious the total absence of these news in Spanish MSM. He has also met with Javier Solana and some days ago (not surprisingly) has denied the Holocaust:

Larijani was cornered. In his answer he talked about an “overreaction” to the Holocaust. In any case, he said, “That’s a historical matter,” which has “nothing to do with us.” He was “neither for, nor against” the idea that the Holocaust had really occurred, saying it was an “open question.”

He thus delicately danced around a straight denial of the Holocaust, which is illegal in Germany. If Larijani had voiced the well-known opinion of his own president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he could have been arrested.

He also said that democracy can “be different from country to country”. Yeah, sure… the problem is that stupid people tend to be similar from country to country.

He will meet with Zapatero on Feb. 9th. That is, today.

UPDATE: Teheran Times speaks about the visit: Larijani plants olive seedling in Madrid:

Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani on Sunday met International Olive Council secretary-general and planted Iran’s olive tree seedling in Madrid.
The Spanish official briefed Larijani on Spain’s olive export and then the two sides exchanged views on Iran-Spain economic ties.

International Olive Council website.

Olive Oil, ehhh? This is unbelievable… Well, not so much: this is the same paper which run this:

If they do not embrace Islam, we should invite them to pay the jeziya tax and become dhimmis or to make a peace treaty with the Muslims, and we should again call a one-day truce for them to think over our proposal. If after one day they decide to pay the jeziya tax and become dhimmis or to make a peace treaty with the Muslims, we should accept their decision, and again war has been averted.

Hmm, so we are averting war selling them hugh amounts of weapons…

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