<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ef65aef-4f55-413f-a677-e1e65fb97cdc/2218721D-C6EB-4027-ADD2-6E5E8ACE6C7B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/12/defense-firms-see-growth-in-mideast/" href="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/12/defense-firms-see-growth-in-mideast/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.irannewsdigest.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/11/12/defense-firms-see-growth-in-mideast/"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704402404574529223311321660.html"><IMG align="left" src="http://www.IranNewsDigest.com/images/newslogo/WSJ.gif" /></A><SPAN>IND:  Unfortunately, the WSJ doesn’t include an excellent chart that accompanied this article in the paper on page B2 in its website.  This chart can feed the appetite of conspiracy theorists who claim that the US needs to exaggerate the threat of Iran in order to sell more military goods to the oil rich Arab states in the Persian Gulf.  But at the same time it undermines their arguments because conspiracy theorists often include Iran’s military expenditures as part of their reasoning.  The chart shows Iran’s military expenditure at around $6 billion/yr versus the Saudis alone at around $33 billion/yr.  Moreover, Iran buys most of its military goods from Russia, China, N. Korea, etc. and not from American or Western European companies. </SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2218721D-C6EB-4027-ADD2-6E5E8ACE6C7B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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