"We live in freedom — people can speak and vote accordingly," Merkel said. She stressed that her job is Online Cigarettes Store USA to serve everyone in Germany — "so the assumption that I should take care primarily of the interests of eastern Germans is wrong but, if you follow it, it of course leads to disappointment." AfD has sought to claim the mantle of the 1989 rebellion against communist rule, urging eastern voters in recent election posters to "complete" that uprising. In an apparent reference to some regional AfD leaders' western origins, Merkel said: "What really isn't OK from my point of view is when people with west German biographies go to the east and claim that our state actually isn't better than East Germany." To understand what Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is saying, you have to translate him twice: first from Arabic to English,Newport Cigarettes Shop then from politesse to plain-speak. In the first translation, a key passage from his Friday sermon in the holy city of Karbala went like this: “No person or group, no side with a particular view, no regional or international actor may seize the will of the Iraqi people and impose its will on them.”
The second translation: “Back off, Khamenei!”
That is how it would have sounded to Sistani’s audience in Karbala, where it was read out for the ailing octogenarian Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes by an aide; in the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, where a bloody crackdown on largely peaceful protesters has taken more than 200 lives; in the Iraqi parliament, where lawmakers are negotiating a response to the demonstrations; and in Tehran, where Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been struggling to respond to the rising anti-Iran sentiment that undergirds uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon.
Khamenei has unleashed Iran’s proxies in the streets — Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Shiite militias in Iraq — to intimidate the protesters. He has also dispatched his chief enforcer, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Qassem Soleimani, to the Iraqi parliament, to rally Shiite parties behind the feckless Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi.