OUR WONDERFUL NEW ALLY – AT 11:54 A.M. ET:  This story will undoubtedly stimulate many readers to rush to their phones to book vacation flights to Tehran.  From the Jerusalem Post: 

NEW YORK -- The people of Iran "lose sleep" over the prospect of Western culture permeating their society, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday in a message on Twitter.

Khamenei, who has cautiously endorsed the nuclear agreement, said that "Zionists and Americans’ enmity toward the Islamic Revolution" of 1979 "has not declined and our officials must not forget this fact."

"Tactics of hostility and detriment might have changed and been revised, but all authorities must beware of playing role in enemy’s plots," he said. "Under any circumstances," he continued, Iran's leadership must "take clear Revolutionary stances and frankly express Imam’s principles and Revolutionary positions against enemies."

Iran's leadership, including Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, have increased their use of Twitter in recent months to spread their positions on the nuclear issue. Twitter is formally blocked in Iran, but several journalists from Iran's state-run media are allowed accounts, and many Iranian citizens have found loopholes to secure access.

On July 13, Rouhani's Twitter account broke news that a nuclear deal had been reached one day before it was formally announced. Khamenei's account has increased its activity since the deal was signed.

"Economic woes won’t cause anxiety, but cultural problems agitate one to lose sleep over them," Khamenei said on Wednesday. "All countries pay attention to cultural products; so, if some products contradict principles and basics, they must be banned with no shame."

COMMENT:  This won't bother European businessmen a bit, and you be sure that some of our American colleagues will soon be in Tehran, toasting the revolution. 

As Lenin said, capitalists would sell the Soviet Union the rope with which it would hang the capitalists.  Same principle applies to Tehran.

August 26, 2015