Iran Asks: How Long Can Debt-Laden US Remain World Power?

JPost Reports: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted the impending downfall  of the “US empire,” blaming the collapse on a combination of the  country’s massive debt and its loss of legitimacy within the  international community, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported  Thursday.

“How long can a government with a $16,000 trillion  foreign debt remain a world power?” he asked at a press conference with  Kuwaiti media personnel. “The Americans have injected their paper wealth into the world economy and today the aftermaths and negative effects of their pseudo-wealth have plagued them.”

He added: “An empire, or a government, remains in power so long as the people under its power  support it, but today the Americans have acted in a way that the world  nations do not like them at all, and therefore, their international  legitimacy is annihilated.”

Ahmadinejad also predicted that the  West would soon drop their alliance with the “Zionist regime,” saying  that Westerners and US politicians are increasingly “at a loss” as to  why Israel exists.