Tehran, Iran – An Iranian military commander said Sunday that the protests spreading from New York’s Wall Street to other U.S. cities are the beginning of an “American Spring,” likening them to the uprisings that toppled Arab autocrats in the Middle East.
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Gen. Masoud Jazayeri of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the protests against corporate greed and the gap between rich and poor are a revolution in the making that will topple what he called the Western capitalist system.
The Occupy Wall Street movement started in New York City last month and is spreading to other parts of the country. The loosely affiliated movement is peacefully protesting the power of the financial and political sectors.
Jazayeri said President Barack Obama’s election promises of change have reached a dead end.
“The failure of the U.S. president to resolve the Wall Street crisis will turn this economic movement into a political and social movement protesting the very structure of the U.S. government,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Jazayeri as saying Sunday.
“A revolution and a comprehensive movement against corruption in the U.S. is in the making. The last phase will be the collapse of the Western capitalist system,” he said, according to IRNA.
This tells us whose behind all this.
the Arabs should topple the OIL BARONS of Saudis, Iran, UAE, Bahrain etc etc
Reply to #1 : yes Iran is behind the wall street protests.
Reply to #2 : The only reason there are oil barons is because of The West. Go look it up everything we do is for oil and minerals. Even American troops in Afghanistan today are protecting Opium. Get with it.
In real life I am the calmest sanest person you can imagine. Yet I can tell you they are right. We are being taken advantage of by an upper class that works in finance related positions and mostly non Jews. If any sane person knew the facts of how we bail out firms while they continue awarding huge, undeserved bonuses, golden parachutes and similar. Why does my tax money (and yes, I pay taxes) go to pay bonuses at GM and loans to an insolvent Solyndra?
So said the general with a spring in his feet and a foot in his mouth.
Can’t even get their seasons right. We’ve just begun Fall not Spring. Just pray they don’t mix up the red and green buttons on the nuclear reactor. I say let them make all these bold predictions about the great USA but just be held accountable to them when they don’t pan out.
Leave it to the wicked Tehran government to compare Blood Lust (the arab-spring movements) with Paper lust (Occupy movements).
I think more than anything else these “protesters” need Irish Spring…
The haftora of shabbos chol ha’moed succos is getting scarier and scarier.