Ah, the nerve: As the latest distraction from its flourishing nuclear program — for which Iran answered the expired deadline from the international community with an ultimatum of its own — and from the continued violence against pro-democracy demonstrators, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now wants World War II reparations. You read that correctly. More:

“Meanwhile, the hardline president has ordered the formation of a team to study the damages the country suffered from the 1941 Allied invasion, in order to demand compensation.

Ahmadinejad said Iran suffered immensely after it was invaded by Britain and the Soviet Union during World War II despite its declared neutrality and was never compensated.

‘A team has been assigned to calculate all the damages [inflicted on Iran] in the Second World War. This will be an invoice they [Allies powers] must pay to the Iranian nation,’ he said, in remarks broadcast live on state television Saturday.

Ahmadinejad didn’t elaborate on the details, but he had earlier said he would write to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to ask that Iran be compensated for the damages caused to its people during the war and for the use of its territory and resources by Allied powers.

Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran on August 26, 1941, in a move codenamed Operation Countenance, to secure oil fields and ensure supply lines for the Soviets fighting Axis forces.

Food, fuel and other essentials were scarce amid mounting inflation and there was great hardship for the Iranian people as the needs of invading powers were given priority.

‘You inflicted lots of damages to the Iranian nation, put your weight on the shoulders [of the Iranian people] and became victors in World War II. You didn’t even share the war profits with Iran,’ Ahmadinejad said. ‘If I say today that we will take full compensation… know that we will stand to the end and will take it.’”

The great irony, of course, is that this comes from the self-made poster child for WWII revisionists, the guy who’s proud of his Holocaust denial and delights in calling the murder of six million Jews a “lie” at every opportunity.

But, gee, he doesn’t just want WWII reparations: He wants World War I compensation, too. My my.

Also, the latest WWII revisionist: Oliver Stone. Hitler is a “scapegoat” and Stalin is misunderstood. And I just threw up a bit in my mouth.

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