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Iran’s President has no problems with Jews. After all there are Jews in Iran. At least this is better than homosexuals because according to Ahmadinejad last year there are no homosexuals in Iran.

How ridiculous. The largest group of Jews from Persia are found in Israel and we all know what Iran’s President thinks about Israel. The current Jewish population in Iran is only about 25,000 people.

But, didn’t Ahmadinejad say a few years ago that Israel should be “wiped off the map?”

A good treatise about Jews in Iran and Shi’ite Iran’s Genocidal Jew Hatred can be read at the American Thinker.

Since 1979, the restored Iranian theocracy — in parallel with returning, brutally, their small remnant Jewish community to a state of obsequious dhimmitude, through execution and intimidation — has always focused its obsessive anti-Jewish animus on the autonomous Jewish state of Israel. For current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the destruction of Israel is an openly avowed policy, driven by his eschatological beliefs. Mohammad Hassan Rahimian, representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, summarized this annihilationist eschatology, redolent with Koranic Jew hatred (see Koran 5:82)-which pertains to Jews, generally, not “Zionists”-on November 16, 2006, stating: “The Jew is the most obstinate enemy (Koran 5:82) of the devout. And the main war will determine the destiny of mankind….. The reappearance of the Twelfth Imam will lead to a war between Israel and the Shia.”

The above video is a good summary of the economic crisis and its causes - notably Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Another good treatise is The Global Pool of Money. Here is the link to both the podcast and transcript. You can download a pdf transcript here.

Some other background primer links include:

• Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

• ALMOST ARMAGEDDON - MARKETS WERE 500 TRADES FROM A MELTDOWN

• A Fine Mess

• Before D.C. Gets Our Money, It Owes Us Some Answers

So, the short version answer = GREED.

And, the FBI is now investigating the entire mess while the Congress debates corrective action, including a massive taxpayer financed bailout.

The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush administration, The Associated Press has learned.

Two law enforcement officials said Tuesday the FBI is looking at potential fraud by mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and insurer American International Group Inc. Additionally, a senior law enforcement official said Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. also is under investigation.

The inquiries will focus on the financial institutions and the individuals that ran them, the senior law enforcement official said.