Iran has been one of the few influential countries to play along with Salmond’s untiring drive for both national and personal aggrandizement. The SNP, for its part, is prepared to overlook the Islamic Republic’s unattractive political features. After the trip, the party’s trade spokesperson, Tasmina Sheikh-Ahmed (who is one of 191 female MPs in the British House of Commons) even asserted that the allegedly unsatisfactory record of the British government on women’s rights merited comparison to the Iranian government’s.
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