Ahmadinejad demands WWII reparations from Allied powers

Right after the US pays Britain reparations for loss of colonies... crazy dumbass

I would agree that the Allies pay Iran compensation for their invasion in 1941, but which war is he talking about. I don't remember any war in 1941. This is a fiction of the Iranians. I have seen some of the obvious faked photos the Iranians displayed. Anyway, if there was a war, the Jews should pay the compensation. They were probably the initiators of the war.

Mahmud knows full well that the great majority of his own people in his own country would like to draw and quarter him. Here he attempts to divert the hatred the Iranian citizens have toward him to a straw man called ?WWII Meanies? instead. Won?t work Mahmud. Your own people will see right through this. They are much smarter than you take them for.

Before you say anything here explore, other ways you sound like a bag full of air.Poland got plenty of compensation from Germany, and the Holocaust survives where not only Jews who where in concentration camps.The Jews where also Polish citizen as you didn't know, Only the communist took it and never past it on to they citizen, it went to the Soviet Union, the Jews got they compo after they left Poland thrown out by the Communists.So much for yours knowledge of Polish History.

First pay the compensation to the Jews of Iran who where deported after thousands of years of they egsistance i Persia to Israel with nothing but a clause on they back, and everything they own was confiscated by the gov of Iran? Big mouth no brain as usual.Thinking is not his best side.

there was a prediction by a famous person that I was a skeptic to it, but it looks like it my be the true. There it goes: The III world war will start by the man in turban (Iran?), the Eagle (USA) and the Bear (Russia) will get together and it will take a long time and the turbans will be destroyed, I hope ones and for all for the humanity of the world.

This is good news and other nations should follow suit... The people of Gaza and Lebanon should get compensation from Israel for having their neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Israel and the USA should compensate the Iraqis for reducing their country to rubble too. and hurry up about it....

I wonder what the weather is like on this guy's planet

This guy should go on the comedy tour! What a clown!

for imaginary suffering with imaginary reparation so why to pay twice? It's time Russians demand reparations from Iran too because without Iranian oil, Nazi military power would be ineffective and it is highly possible that Hitler wouldn't attack Soviet Union at all. Only Iranian greed permitted Hitler to go ahead and attack USSR so they too should be hold responsible for crimes and suffering they helped to nurture by supplying much needed oil to Nazi killing machine.

Your posts try to put a positive spin on the damning fact that Iran was helping Nazi Germany by blocking British aid to the Soviet Union and by cutting off British access to oil, a vital war material. Who was the Shah aiming to sell his oil to if not Britain, his traditional customer? Obviously Nazi Germany, which was very short of oil and had its people working as engineers on Iranian roads and railways. August 1941 was one of the most desperate times of the war for the Allies with the German invaders occupying almost the whole of Europe, bombing Britain and closing in on both Moscow and Leningrad. It is understandable that the Shah thought it was in his interest to throw in his lot with Hitler at that point. Neither the British nor the Soviets would have wasted their armies on an invasion of Iran at such a time for any other reason.

honesty in research strange that hitler and stalin believed in social research, and supported Intellectual Institution to generate a new sociology only honesty was suppressed all crooked human research practiced by the state founded scientists shamefully serve the barbaric rulers when will intelligent people deny service to the barbaric tyrants probably never i am reading the interviews with Gene Sharp www.ieinstein.org let us all practice violence free politics..

i would think that it were easy to display the blunt truth on barbaric inhumane killers the iranian mullahs, ayatollahs, their political servants, the wealthy mafia bosses in iran face no such challenges i can not take those barbarians seriously can you, or anybody?

haha this guy is hilarious! Plus i believe he is serious about this demand. His attitude towards the West is priceless. I mean he will never bow to them, especially to the imperialism of the US.

by supporting the opposition. They owe us now. They can repay us by finishing the job of throwing the election cheater out of office.

Iran was neutral at the outbreak of the war. With Russia in the north and Brits on east and west, It was simply a weak nation trying to survive this horrific european war. At no point, can Iran be considered a member of the axis powers. If jews can get reparations from germany (as they should), and france can get reparations from germany after WWI, and african americans can demand reparations from the U.S. govt., why not Iran?

seriously why is anyone listening to this madman ?

I think he raised the issue to have people question why Israel still receives reparations from the current democratic government in Germany decades after hitler !!! If Israel is eligible for compensation, then other nations might be. I think Poland and other countries should also step forward.

I guess reparations would be due if Iranians were taken from their homes during the night and never seen again. Otherwise this was a war which cost 70 million lives and destroyed and damaged property in all four corners of the earth without any special contribution from Iran to help defeat fascism. The Shah was on the wrong side and was put in prison by the allies for being a dangerous ally of the Nazis so unfortunately Iran does not qualify.

Iran officially declared its neutrality in the war, like the swiss did. There were Germans living and working in Iran, like there were in Switzerland. Iran was invaded and Switzerland wasn't. Is there any wonder Iranians are suspicious of Western intentions? History has shown them that other countries will invade them to use their resources and they will have to sit and helplessly watch.

you know it all,you know soooo much what do you do reading haaretz with us common folk.Don't insult your own inteligence,their is no comparison what so ever to the sistematic slauter of human being that was done by the german nazis to any other pogrom or ethnic masacare that ever occured.even the turks were not close when they murdered a million armenians.i am not impressed at all of your knowledge in history, neigther should you.

The Jews were victims of genoicde and slave labour. That is what they were compensated for. Hadn't realized Irananians were also victims of that. Actually, Iran should be paying Jews compensation, along with Pals. Both Iranians and Pals were allies of Hitler. Just for the record, for the most part, the property taken from Jews has not been compensated for.

"The allies invaded Iran to remove the Shah who was collaborating with the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union. It is Iran who should pay reparations!" - Realist And less than a decade later, the USA and UK overthrew a democracy to put the Shah back on the throne. There is a common thread in both actions you are overlooking. Oil. The goals were to secure control of Iranian Oil and open a supply corridor to the Soviet Union not subject to attacks by German U-Boats, surface raiders and aircraft. Most important to Britain which, engineered the joint British-Soviet invasion of Iran, was control over the output of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company's refinery in Abadan, a crucial source of supply for Britain. The secondary concern was control of the Trans-Iranian Railway. Iran was neutral and after it refused to expel all Germans and allow the Trans-Iran railway to be used by the Brits and Soviets both nations launched a joint invasion in Summer, 1941. Learn some REAL history kid.

I've been annoyed about that whole "Battle of Hastings" episode for years. And let's not forget about Caesar's Conquest of the Gauls. We can employ a few thousand lawyers and idiot politicians for years over this one.

Actually Reza Shah convinced the Nazis to stay away from Persian Jews and spare them. Iran also issued thousands of Iranian passports for Eastern European Jews and saved their lives - many transitioned via Iran to Israel. Ever heard of Tehran Children? Look it up. Reza shah was a pretty tough military guy who didn't bow to the 'allies' thus his removal and replacing with the wuss of the king his son was. Also strategically, Iran was the bridge between the East and West and with a developed and functioning railway system that connected to the Ruskies was too much of a gem to ignore during wartime. AN is an a** to even bring it up now, however every Iranian knows that Iran was invaded and occupied during both WWs which doesn't sit that well with us. Lastly, for you to ask for reparation, when did you thank any Persian at any point in time for the multiple of times that they saved your people's lives and now you want then to pay for someone else's psychosis? PREPOSTEROUS!!LOL

Maureen hope you are sweating your ring off today,just one thing if the allies had not gone through Iran their would have been a mass genocide of the Iranian Jews there. Jews who had lived there from before Christianity and Islam.There was a thriving Jewish community there that is all gone there are only a small amount of opressed Jews there now.Oh and before you come back and tell me all about Iranian Jews i have many friends who were forced from Iran Jewish and Christian (Armenian).I would love to be able to rescue the remaining Jews from the oppresive regime there they suffere in silence.I wonder if you know of the executions of Jews there on trumped up charges.Tortured hanged in public then their bodies defiled by the masses why because they are Jews and good honest people nothing more and nothing less.I hate with a passion all the deniers to this as they have no place in a civilised world.No where are your protests to the way they have and are treated or are you too biased to care

Given all the space his lunatic ideas take up in our newspapers and everything he does to pullute the air waves, I want him to pay for all that.

The swastika (Buddhist/Janist/Aryan symbol of well being and good fortune) was already in Iran long before Hitler adopted the swastika. Cheers.

as it is a religion that was expanded by the sword, killing everyone who opposed it. So calculating damages done by muslim world to other nations, Iran shouls pay something around USD 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000,00 Does he have all this money ?

It was Iranian oil then and it is Iranian oil now! Britain and America screwed around in Iran until the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was overthrown! US/Anglo coalition partners continue the foreign anti democracy campaign, world wide, to this day! Bloody hypocrites! Now, talking about ousting elected leaders of nations, who ousted John F. Kennedy - the same lot who want to bomb Iran today?

The Sahara is littered with unexploded ordinance left over from WWII allied and German powers that till today , are expoding under unsuspecting innocent Bedouins who are maimed. The Wset came and had their battles on top of other people who did not want any part of this stupid lolonial war . Whay should not they ask for reparations???? It is only right and just . Or at least ask the allies to come and take the death and destruction they left behind with them ....

While in fact invasion forces destroy and pillage the land of your ancestors the left behind war machine destroyed or buried for years hurts the modern day peoples? What if each Iranian family member got to purchase a 1/2 inch of oil pipeline making it theirs by rights with a percentage going to schools, food, and medical facilities. This would create a stability life line for your people. Then all of their life they would be protected in medical need paid by their oil standard ounces. Are you going to use the financial for clean up. Are you going to create libraries as you speak to the world as I am sitting right now safe and secure. Rankoo-Karoon

ON another note education rights and medical rights were being blocked for certain womens groups. Have you thought of girls only classes with educated woman teacher. In a hospital a woman was left sitting for delivery as her husband blocked another man from touching her. Do we have united womans groups who can become modern OBGYN doctors to keep the women from being touched by men.Not that men obstetricians are bad but I would have felt more comfortable being delivered of my daughter by a woman who would know my needs.The doctor for sleep during the c section saved my life being a man but I hear them. WE are in a unified nations of many beliefs called Israel. Maybe all men for the boys classes. Do we have men to teach boys and men how to be men on a day to day basis.In South Africa they combine in unified prayer like in the movie Faith Like Potatoes.Not Christ teachings or Mohammeds teachings but in unified prayer and maybe teachings and talks on how to be a man to look up to.Rankoo

Persia changed its name to IRAN,showing Hitler that they also were Aryans.So Ahma should not whine about compensations

'Documentations of these acts must be collated and published.' They are. It's not a secret. Those who are claiming otherwise are merely displaying their ignorance.

'Nice try Ahmadinejad, but of all of the countries caught up in WW II, Iran managed to get through it all relatively unscathed. ' The informed historian speaks.

'...this man is so far out in left field, he must be living in the land of the lost. if he had a tought in his brain it would die of loneliness...' While I won't stand behind Ahmadinejad's sanity in general, as noted, he's largely got his facts straight in this case. You, on the other hand, appear to be totally unaware of what took place. And yet you self-righteously announce that he doesn't have a 'tought[ [sic] in his brain. There's nothing quite as irritating as certainty based on ignorance.

'... for the Great Wall. Maybe the Incas should bill Spain for all those problems created in the name of Isabella...' You forgot Jews billing Germany. As it happens, the events Ahmadinejad is referring to occurred at the same time as that.

The Russians seized the entire 1943 wheat crop in the north, causing a famine that killed half a million people or thereabouts. As to 'collaborating with the Nazis,' that would be a bit of an overstatement. Iran merely refused to break ties. I'd say the invasion was a reasonable precaution -- but it's inaccurate to paint Iran as part of the Axis.

and robbed during WWII? Documentations of these acts must be collated and published.

Ahmadinejad wants reparations and I want a new Porsche - looks like we're 0 for 2.

This man and his countries religious leaders are a joke. Ignore the fool and annilate them if the strike us.

Iran was an ally of Nazi Germany, they should be paying reparations to the Allies for the cost of the invasion!! And what profits of war? Europe was destroyed and needed massive amounts of aid

We need to hurt these people. Embargoing their oil would be a good place to start. They'll have nothing left to sell but nuts.

he is only trying to divert attention from his domestic problems like high unemployment,high inflation ,lack of freedom and recent unrest by making that statement,but he should know that no one is paying him even if he wins specially his ally Putin!

those who deny the harm west caused to iran during ww2 have no clue about the history. by the way, the jews still get compensation from germany. why not iran?

The Russians will absolutely LOVE IT!!!!!

- so it is fair for others to raise the question. Whether Iran deserves reparations should be examined. There must be a good cause. For example, if Iran was attacked because it fought alongside the Axis would not make them a eligible for reparations.

So Iran would have sided with the Axis Powers if it weren't for the Allied "invasion"? Give me a break! If it weren't for the Allies defending Iran during WW II, the swastika would be flying over Tehran today and all of her precious oil would have been shipped to Nazi Germany. Nice try Ahmadinejad, but of all of the countries caught up in WW II, Iran managed to get through it all relatively unscathed. I do not recall any WW II battles on Persian soil. Iran owes the Allies a "thank you" for that one and not a bill. How many times can Ahmadinejad make a complete fool out of himself?

So much for freindship, this aught to be interesting. Look out Ahmad as the Russians have no fear of international reprisals. Its also obvious that Iran is playing a hand in the uprising in the russian country.

"If Jewish survivors can get compensation then why not Iran." ...and Germans of course.

this man is so far out in left field, he must be living in the land of the lost. if he had a tought in his brain it would die of loneliness.

He knows he and his regime are unpopular and he's desperately seeking issues to divert attention from that.

Reverse the Islamic revolution and pay compensation for all the terror victims and maybe the west will look into the matter.

He shouldn't try to piss of Russia. That country is very sensitive when it comes to WWII.

since Iran is a sponsor of islamic terror.

... for the Great Wall. Maybe the Incas should bill Spain for all those problems created in the name of Isabella.

His insanity towards the west and Jews is out of control. I hope the Iranian people end his regime before he ruins whatever is left of their country.

Why stop at half-crazy?

The allies invaded Iran to remove the Shah who was collaborating with the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union. It is Iran who should pay reparations!