10 July 2015

The new and smiling Iran: connect the dots


Several links that may need a slight effort to find a connection between them:

Why your next vacation could be in Iran
When you fly to Iran these days the planes are a little more full than before.

Business travelers are making their way to Tehran scoping out opportunities, hoping that sanctions might be lifted soon.

More tourists also appear to be on the planes coming from Frankfurt, Rome, Istanbul and the few other places that have direct flights to Iran.

The Iranian government says it expects a 6.6% rise in the number of tourists for 2015.
U.S. to Award Iran $11.9 Billion Through End of Nuke Talks
The Obama administration on Wednesday paid $490 million in cash assets to Iran and will have released a total of $11.9 billion to the Islamic Republic by the time nuclear talks are scheduled to end in June, according to figures provided by the State Department.
Syria accepts $1 billion in credit from Iran
The President of war-torn Syria has accepted a billion-dollar helping hand from his supporters in Iran.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed a law ratifying a $1 billion credit line from Iran, Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported Wednesday.
Syrian refugee population rises above 4 million, U.N. says
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the violence in their homeland to seek refuge in neighboring countries, the United Nations said Thursday.

The grim numbers make Syria's lengthy civil war the worst crisis that the U.N. refugee agency has had to deal with in nearly 25 years, the organization said.
One, two, three... done?

11 comments:

peterthehungarian said...

Not done Snoopy.

Four...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

OK, you have the rest of the weekend to complete it...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

You are allowed to think, just don't use that additional CPU you got installed. You don't want to open/close any circuits on Shabes...

Dick Stanley said...

Ain't appeasement wonderful? So chic, so fashionable, so... whatever. What it all goes bad, OLB and his pal Lurch will blame the GOP and they, being too polite to argue, will hang their heads in shame.

Dick Stanley said...

Meanwhile, it is said that the Venezualans are running out of toilet paper. Always the first thing to go in a dictatorship for some reason. I've never seen that one explained. I wonder where Argentina stands on that issue, eh?

Dick Stanley said...

He could use that (seersucker?) jacket for a tent though he might find it a little cramped.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I think it has already gone bad. Not that it couldn't get worse.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Probably getting close to a new default, thanks to the wise financial management by Ms Kirchner and her gang.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

One thing for sure - the time spent in Russia didn't affect his girth in any way.

Sennacherib said...

I ran across this, you're probably familiar with it. It does accurately describe why Sennacherib has despised NGO's for at least the last 30yrs.
http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0710fs.html

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yeah: No Good Outfits. Thanks for the link.