Actually there are several idioms colloquially that also describes the following situation:
Iran offers nuclear technology to Gulf nations-TV
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Kuwaiti envoy that Iran was ready to share its nuclear know-how with other countries in the region, state television reported on Saturday.
Alarmed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Israel’s presumed nuclear arms stockpile, Saudi Arabia and fellow Gulf Arab states recently announced plans to set up their own nuclear energy programme for peaceful purposes.
Iran, which faces possible U.N. Security Council sanctions for failing to heed demands it halt nuclear fuel work, says it has no intention of making atomic bombs and has in the past offered to share its technology with other countries.
“Iran is ready to give its valuable experiences and achievements in peaceful nuclear technology to the countries of the region,” Ahmadinejad told Mohammad Dhaifullah Sharar, a special envoy of Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.
Television also quoted Ahmadinejad as welcoming the decision of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to acquire peaceful nuclear technology.
The GCC, which groups Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, announced its wish to produce nuclear energy in a statement issued at the close of its last summit in Riyadh last week.
Reuters
No disrespect at all to the Iranian people and their scientists, Iran has been known throughout the age for their sciences and literature. That – to me – does not cover nuclear technology, especially that they themselves only have the Russians of Chernobyl fame to “help them” build their facility!
I would hope that our beloved leaders would just say thanks but no thanks!
Onto those colloquial gems describing this situation:
- The cross-eyed to a blind man is a pasha
- The luckless has fallen on the hopeless!
I’m sure you can add quite a few more.. it seems every culture suffers from this type of megalomania.
Comments
Getting scarier all the time in your part of the world. The elections in Iran this weekend will show just how strong Mahmud Ahmadinejad really is.
Between our latest deal with India and the Russians helping Iran we sure are blowing it with Nuclear Technology. I’ve seen the Trinity site, looked down through the water at the glow of a early reactor at Oak Ridge and lived at Minot AFB surrounded by B-52’s and Minuteman Missiles during the Cuban missile crisis and they all scare me silly.
Got my fingers crossed that the Islamist recognize the God doesn’t like Nukes.
I wonder what Iran would be like if Operation Ajax never happened.