Well… in case you missed international news yesterday (or it was buried by Paris and the ‘roid rage wrestler), Iranians are up in arms in Tehran. Because the Americans oppressed them somehow? Not this time my friends. They are totally pissed, at their own president, because the government gave them two hours notice (yes, two hours) and then implemented rationing of petrol to 3 liters per person per day.
Wait, does this seem odd to anybody but me? They are rationing GASOLINE in the Middle East! Not only the Middle East but in the second largest oil producer in OPEC! And they are rationing it to an amount per day that wouldn’t even get me to work in the morning, let alone home.
Yet somehow, according to big Rudy and a bunch of the other terror-crazy politicians, this country is going to be our next big nuclear threat? I guess I am not scared. Not because they might someday, maybe, make one nuclear weapon and we have thousands, but because they can’t get gasoline in people’s cars when the biggest oil fields in the world are in the backyard. What are they going do, send that nuke over on camel back?
It seems to me from everything I read, including stories from independent western travelers who have visited Iran, that the Iranian people are totally cool. For those who may not be aware, they aren’t even the same branch of Islam as those that causes all the terror problems. So, yes, President However-you-say-it might be a nut job but why are we dragging the rest of Iran into our problems? I think maybe we’re jealous that they are smart enough to WANT to run their country on nuclear power, when we just can’t figure that out ourselves.
Lets all take a deep breathe, and ease up off the poor Iranians for a bit. They all can only travel about 6 miles from home before they will be too far away to get back home on the day’s fuel ration for awhile anyway.
