Ayatollah Khamenei reading Wolff's 'Fire and Fury'

[muriel_volestrangler]

On Friday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was pictured in a post on his Instagram feed at the Tehran Book Fair.

Nothing unusual there, but in one image he was seen reading a Persian-language edition of Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury, which claims that life in the White House is chaotic.
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The photo was posted just days after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani appeared to troll the US in the wake of Mr Trump's decision to pull out of the deal.

Link to tweet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44090848

[JI7]

1. i guess this is what the headline about the ayatollah trolling trump was about

the world knows what a dumbfuck trump is

[Chipper Chat]

2. Will trump's next move be to

Withdraw from the UN?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The GOP has been trying to do that since Raygun.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. He was late to the party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_the_United_Nations

The JBS folks were pushing this and some ultra-conservatives pushed this as far back as the '40s.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Well the U.N. wasn't established until 1948

but I know there was opposition to it then given what happened with the League of Nations (in a word, a fiasco) and those who believed it would reduce the U.S.'s power around the world.

But Raygun was probably the first President who spearheaded reducing or eliminating the U.S. contribution of funding towards it.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

11. It's just the rich keeping the poor in line and hoarding resources

While private gunrunners continue to thrive, the world's biggest arms suppliers are the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, and China. They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. IMHO

The "Permanent Representatives" (Security Council) should be a rotating group of countries from within each of the largest populated continents (where Australia would be under an "Asia" group). I.e., one each from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

The current body is very much an artifact of WW2.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. It's politics

Maybe a good idea but a rich and powerful group would find a reason to oppose such a change.

IMHO the current body is an artifact of money. WWI was a bout money; WWII was about fixing what went wrong the first time. With WWII a new age began where the money horizons were greatly expanded.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Well I agree with the below

from a famous movie, which basically summed it up rather nicely -

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. You're correct

As a kid in the early 1960s I remember a neighbor who had a bumper sticker that read "Get the U.S. out of the U.N"

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

16. Maybe you grew up in Cobb County Georgia?

That's where I75 has only a "far right" lane.

[pazzyanne]

5. Shhhh!

Don't give the fake president any ideas. He has enough bad ideas of his own.

[tavernier]

4. This dude should be careful around crowds in his country.

They like to rip the Ayatollahs in pieces, straight out of the coffin.

[zentrum]

6. And Europe too ...

…..is starting to view us with pity and contempt. Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia, and South America will do what they can to move on into the 21st Century together, ignoring and managing this stupid, cruel climate -denying oligarchy.

[BannonsLiver]

9. Spot on

I’ve been fortunate to have traveled internationally fairly frequently. One of the biggest takeaways: America is not the center of everyone’s universe. I find that comforting.

[zentrum]

10. Me too but

…..I'm not wild for authoritarian Russia or China becoming the center either.