The Tehran Times, one Iran’s many mullah-controlled fake news services, is bragging about how well things are going between France and Iran:

[Iran’s ambassador to France] noted that France is currently Iran’s fourth or fifth partner in Europe and that Iran, which was formerly France’s thirty ninth economic partner has become its eleventh economic partner over the recent years.

Isn’t that sweet? It’s just like in high school, when the sociopathic mulleted loner in the RATT T-shirt started going out with a rich fat girl whom no one really liked, but who had a long-standing reputation as being very accommodating to aggressive men who treated her badly. You just knew that this was a love made to last.

One of the rich fat girl’s former boyfriends ended up with a nuclear weapons program and a staunch ally at the UN negotiating table.

I deserve it when he hits me!

I expect Iran will push for nothing less. Remember this tight economic and cultural relationship–or interdependency– when it comes time to do something about Iran’s nuclear program (umm, that would be last month) and France starts complaining.

(Chirac and Saddam picture from www.raidonthesun.com, the promotional site for a ripping yarn about blowing up Saddam’s reactor in 1982.)