Swiss Foreign Minister Dons Hijab, Tosses Iran An Economic Lifeline

One explanation for this picture is that Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey agrees with Hirsi Ali and was just being a little extra cautious. Another interpretation is that Switzerland decided to punctuate their financial service to a wannabe Islamic empire with a nice little symbolic gesture of dhimmitude:
Iran and Switzerland on Monday signed a major agreement for Iranian gas exports to a Swiss company, in a rare energy deal between Tehran and the West as their nuclear showdown drags on. "Today we witnessed the signing of a gas contract between the two countries," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced at a joint news conference with his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey. Financial details were not disclosed but the contract between Iran's state gas firm and Switzerland's Elektrizitaets-Gesellschaft (EGL) Laufenburg reportedly envisages Iran supplying 194 trillion cubic feet of gas annually from 2011. Calmy-Rey said the deal was in full compliance with UN Security Council resolutions imposed against Iran for its failure to suspend uranium enrichment, a potential nuclear weapons-making process... The US has also protested the gas deal. "We have conveyed to the Swiss that major new oil and gas deals with Iran send precisely the wrong message at a time when Iran continues to defy UN Security Council resolutions," the US embassy in Bern said in a statement.
You might remember Calmy-Rey as the woman who invited Ahmadinejad to a Geneva conference so he could discuss "various perceptions of the Holocaust. That deal failed when people pointed out that it was kind of disgusting. This time around Switzerland managed to summon up sufficient cravenness to save the economy of a country seeking to murder millions of Jews.
Speaking of which - rumor has it that this deal was almost delayed too. When the Swiss dusted off their standard forms for underwriting genocidal lunatics they discovered - to their embarrassment - that no one had bothered to translate them out of the original German. So that presumably took a couple days.
References:
* Video: Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues with Alan Colmes about Islam [Hot Air]
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - Ahmadinejad Secretly A Pervert? [MR]
* Iranian-Swiss gas deal irks Israel [YNet]
* Swiss President Invites Iran To Offer "Various Perceptions Of the Holocaust" At Conference [MR]
Previously:
* Red Cross Not So Sure About This "Jews Joining Them" Thing
* Memo to World - Israel Not Occupying Gaza Any More. Please Stop Using That Excuse.
* Israeli Magen David Adom has to Get Approval - From Palestinian Red Crescent





