“They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.”

—  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Commenting on the weak U.S. Dollar at the OPEC Summit, 18 November 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7101050.stm. <br class="br">2007

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