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IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad denounced capitalism yesterday during a speech at the University of Havana on the third leg of a trip to highlight friendships with his Latin American allies, most of them thorns in Washington’s side.
Ahmadinejad held a private meeting later with President Raul Castro and was expected to meet with Fidel Castro. In all, he planned to spend less than 24 hours on the island before flying to Ecuador.
At the university, the Iranian leader railed against the United States and its allies and said heartless capitalism is the root cause of war.
“Thankfully we are already witnessing that the capitalist system is in decay,” Ahmadinejad said. “On various stages it has come to a dead end — politically, economically and culturally.”
“You see that when it lacks logic, they turn to weapons to kill and destroy,” he added.
Ahmadinejad, who received an honorary doctorate from the university, did not take questions or talk about a bombing earlier on Wednesday in Tehran that killed a nuclear scientist working at Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility.
Iran’s government blamed the killing on Israel, the US and Britain. The US denied involvement.
The Iranian leader spoke warmly of his Cuban hosts, describing the relationship of the two countries as “solidarity between two revolutionary peoples,” although the two revolutions couldn’t have been more different.
Iran’s ushered in a religious Islamic government, while Communist Cuba under Fidel Castro was officially atheist for decades.
Nevertheless, Iran and Cuba found common cause in standing up to Washington. Fidel Castro, who is retired, has repeatedly warned that a confrontation pitting the US and Israel against Iran could result in a nuclear exchange.
Ahmadinejad began his Latin America tour shortly after Washington imposed tougher sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program. He previously visited Venezuela and Nicaragua.
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That’s crazy imagine bringing our dail back early from their two month holidays to deal with one of the biggest issues since the banking crash, what’s the rush ??? Poor TD’s are busy living highlife while we are all back working after our two week holiday.
@The Observer: just because they aren’t in the Dail doesn’t mean they are on holidays!
@Louise Tracey: fool
@Louise Tracey: heard thar sh1fe before
@Louise Tracey: I’m sick of listening to that load of bo!!0+
@Louise Tracey: your so naive
@Louise Tracey: You’re probably partially right. Some are on holidays (e.g., Spanish beach) and some are on holidays (back from Spain and catching up on constituency work for part of the working day). I may not agree with much of what TDs say or do, but you don’t get elected in the first place if you’re the type to relax all summer.
@Louise Tracey: Right what does it mean then ?
“seriously considering”? Wow that’s really taking the bull by the horns. Impressed!
@Shelly Levine: The man is good for nothing.
The budget should be postponed until after Brexit is sorted so the Dept of Finance will have some idea of what kind of future to plan for.
i hope they remember where it is
To be seen to be doing something
Such a patriotic thing to do by our overpaid wasters of politicians. There is no way these frauds should be off all summer especially given the many crises facing the country.
Kids in national school have less time off than these muppets!
@Bull McCabe: kids in school must learn in order to be taxed.
Is Boris stating he is unable to fulfill angela merkel’s challenge , an alternative to the backstop? There is a surprise.
I don’t think that people really understand how politics work. TD’s might get 2 months “holidays” but in reality, they are still working in their own constituencies during that time. I know that my local TD is still in the office while the Dail is off and is following up on issues relating to the people of his area.
Anyway, the Dail is really only a talking shop if we are honest about it. The Government has a majority, aided and abetted by a compliant FF. All they do in the Dail is bring in legislation, sit there while the other sides mouth off, vote on an inevitable outcome and head off to the bar.
Personally I’d prefer my local TD’s to be in their constituency offices making phone calls and sorting things out rather than sitting in a near-empty chamber asking a preset question and getting a prewritten answer that could have been sent by email.
@CBD HeavenSent: What are you doing, this comments section is for giving out about the government, take your well-informed logic elsewhere please.
@Cynical: he’d rather TDs sit in their constituency office while the clock is ticking for a No deal, yep makes alot of sense to some people I guess?
@Ich bin brendan: Dail should be open even most of them are pushing pencils around sheets of paper or in Leo’s case, getting his ego in check.
@CBD HeavenSent: “Making phone calls and sorting things out … !!!” The less time they have to sort out their bi-annual pay rises the better.
@CBD HeavenSent: TDs are elected, and paid, to deal with national and not local issues which is the job of councillors l.
exactly the response the British were hoping for …
Politics need to be radicaly changed
Coming back early to do what exactly?
@Johnny Comelately: more of the whatever-they-talked-about-but-didn’t-do-anything-about the last time…
Seriously consider. What a shower of lazy gurriers.
Consider = Nope
They will most likely sanction overtime for themselves…
Irish government come back early while UK delay coming back after summer. Goes to show the madness is alive and well.
They’ll think about it, laugh it off and continue in their merry way.
The face of Pascal more like pastille or he just chewed a wasp
@Joseph Molloy: The wasp chewing comment must be strictly reserved for Arlene.
Ah God bless them…
The GFA gave Ireland no say or influence over NI.. These events just prove that Ireland is powerless when it comes to Britain’s treatment of this island.
Not much has changed and we are back to pre GFA situation..
@Tim McCormack29: And the Troubles Begin.
Boris needs to be ashamed of himself..
Our hard working TDs having to give up some of their holiday time to sit and talk about setting up a committee to look into why the British Parliament is being shut down to accommodate a no deal Brexit ..
What a load of Crap…Boris said from day one he was going for Brexit his way and that was it ..so bringing back our Muppets will not change anything ..they need to get their heads out of each others backsides and get used to a NO DEAL BREXIT
Well done to Coveney and our politicians. Unprecedented stuff going on at the moment and they are doing a good job. We should not take our democracy for granted.
@On the Up: Irish democracy consists of The F.F. party who facilitated in the economic destruction of this country now keeping in power the blueshirts who endorsed the gangsterism of the banks .
They need to get back right now and plan for a no deal. Are they stupid or what.
They don’t want to face up to the obvious. Heads in sand. Where is the leadership in this country.
Sorely disappointed I am .
Most of them don’t have a clue anyway. There just gombeen men who will do what they’re instructed.
Boris is wiping the floor with pur clowbs ha ha ha , No hard boarder yeah right ha ha ha
I think you will find the commitment wasn’t made bozo
Boris ‘the ostrich’ Johnson. Lets all bury our heads in the sand chaps.
One way to make a problem bigger, normally people who do this are destroyed in the end?
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