By DemocracyRules
h/t AFP
Iran has high unemployment, inflation around 25%, ubiquitous poverty, and massive subjugation of its people. Women are treated with bestial inhumanity.
Ahmadinejad has had an epiphany -- kill millions of Iranians. "If we want to build the country, maintain our dignity and solve economic problems, we need the culture of martyrdom... [it's] a quick and shortcut way to reach the summit of salvation." (Mehr news)
Iran has about 70 million people and if millions died, Ahmadinejad seems to think that would be a good thing. After all, if the unemployed were dead, they wouldn't be unemployed anymore! Traffic congestion would decline, housing would be easier to obtain, demand for food and consumer goods would decline, it would be great. Also the dead wouldn't vote against him in the next election. Ingenious, it kills millions of birds with one stone!
He said this one day after the former economy minister Davoud Danesh Jaafari criticized Ahmadinejad for his irrational economic policies. Last Wednesday Jaafari said, "During my time, there was no positive attitude towards previous experiences or experienced people and there was no plan for the future... Most of the scientific economic concepts like the effect of liquidity on inflation were put in question..."
Last year Ahmadinejad reduced bank interest rates to 12 percent, triggering a sudden demand for loans which has further exacerbated inflation.
Pshaw, says Ahmadinejad. "When we insisted on cutting bank interest rates some objected and said this is not scientific, but we tell them that if they are not men of justice, they had better clear the way and leave..."
I think Ahmadinejad already has an idea that if he bombs Israel, they will help him with his mass martyrdom project.
I doubt he will hold a referendum on his plans.
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