So the White Trash in the White House stated today that Iran’s Military Budget is up more than 40%.
I would get it if he made things up that we can’t disprove, but about 5 seconds of googling and there is the truth and the lie exposed. Does he not know we can read?
You seem to lie as often as you breath. Iran's budget grew as a result of you and your crew of warmongers getting the presidency (nor sure you actually won…). And it's your buddies the Saudis that spend 5x as much on arms than does Iran! pic.twitter.com/03PoE2ucT1
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) May 12, 2018
The fact is, Iran’s military budget has gone from $12B in 2016 to $14B in 2017 (source). So Trita Parsi’s chart above is also somewhat misleading, but it does compare Iran to Saudi Arabia, for contrast.
Did you know that in 2014 (the last data I could find), the Iranian cabinet had more members with Ph.D. degrees from U.S. universities than Barack Obama’s cabinet? In fact, Iran had more holders of American Ph.D.s in its presidential cabinet than France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Spain—combined.
Here is more information and links.
Should this make us think again about Iran?
But more importantly, it should make us think about Trump – who seems to just make stuff up.