Thread: Iran

Originally Posted by Fluke

I did google "Hot Iran girls" and this came up.............

Stop it Fluke, you are giving P a stiffie.

Originally Posted by khmen

USA didn't bomb, sabotage or attempt to overthrow the govt of Cambodia in 1980 until 1995, that's a load of bollocks right there.

Care to show a link to all this?

Originally Posted by sabang

Modern Iran (according to the usual suspects)




the Iran you're not supposed to know about..

Always been well known [except for those who want to remain blind] that Iran is obviously the most liberal, progressive, and tolerant Islamic culture within the broader Islamic world....

He can't. The USA has never sanctioned mob seizure of a foreign embassy on US soil. Iran has.

Next lie please

Well, I suppose you could see the place as a bit schizoid- on the one hand you've got those asshole morality police who wanna spoil everyones fun, on the other a modern culture with all the trappings- an underground rock scene, street art, fashion shows, booze (and drugs) are officially illegal, but dead easy to come by.

Everyone that goes there seems to rave about the place- the sights, the food, the famously hospitable & friendly people, and northern Tehran is just like any other hip, affluent, modern city. (The poor folk live elsewhere. ) Frankly, the western sanctions are probably a bonus for the intrepid traveller- Iran is totally unspoilt by mass tourism, yet quite easy to travel to and get around.

Originally Posted by Fluke

Originally Posted by Neverna

Actually the text is in Farsi or Arabic (or some similar language).



The first 2 "letters" are actually numbers - 2 and 7. The letter on the right is a yaa - similar to a Y ( and sometimes i and even a ) in English.


Numbers


Letters: Persian alphabet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




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It quite clearly shows the letters T Y and S and those letters are not in the Persian alphabet

You have a strange way of writing the letter T.





But I'll humour you, Flake. In your opinion, in that image the T Y and S are part of which word? Which language? And which font has that weird T and S thing going on?

It looks like a British car number plate to me

Maybe you should give up while you're behind Flake.

Hashish Next to Homemade Tarts

It is in western Tehran where we find the other kind of café. The house is filled with chairs and tables for patrons. Men and women are sitting together and talking, and sometimes you can spot a face you know. But getting admission was not so simple and required intermediaries.
The house is cozier and more modern than the one in which we had brunch. Headscarves and manteaux are discarded upon arrival. Grass cakes, hashish and marijuana are arranged next to homemade cakes and tarts. Prices vary from $12 to $30.
The walls are decorated with semi-nude pictures of well-known actresses from around the world and there are a few statues made of plaster or wood. Combined, they give you a sense of being in different place.
This “different place” of course has not escaped the notice of the police. Seyed, the proprietor, tells us that there is always a way to keep the police quiet. “Prices go up and down,” he says, “but up to now I have not met a policeman whose silence you cannot buy. When the usual and familiar police agents arrive, they put the money in their pockets and don’t bother the patrons. We exchange greetings and that is the end of it.”
“This place has everything that we don’t have outside,” says Saeed, a frequent customer of the underground cafe world. “Whenever I am tired I come here. Somehow it makes you feel good. Some nights they have concerts for musicians without a permit, and they also arrange shows for painters and photographers. It seems that we are in a different country in the heart of Tehran with its own laws.”
Not everybody is aware that such cafés in Tehran exist. Some spend a lot of money to travel outside the country to enjoy such minimal freedoms.
IranWire | Underground Tehran: Brunch, Tarts, Joints


Amsterdam is so passe'.

Yup, love a good bit of erb our Iranian brothers and sisters

S'pose it doesn't do any harm to be right next door to Afghanistan.

I missed BBC book of the week on Radio 4.
An Iranian story, episode 4 today , not to worry Google is my friend, will tune in and listen to the only other Iranian book I read when a child.
" Ali Barber and the 40 thieves "

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by khmen

USA didn't bomb, sabotage or attempt to overthrow the govt of Cambodia in 1980 until 1995, that's a load of bollocks right there.

Oh really...??
OK - if you're so adamantly sure of this, you can certainly explain how it is a load of bollocks.

Good luck.

How about you tell me what you can prove to the contrary...links or gtfo of here.

I think you'll find the Vietnamese forces who liberated Cambodia from the KR in 1979 were in no way affiliated with the US, who, erm, they'd just spent fucking decades fighting against.

The current regime came into existence as a result of the liberation, and has remained pretty much unchanged ever since.

So, where have the US bombed, sabotaged and tried to overthrow the govt of Cambodia since 1980 through to 1995, precisely?

If they tried they didn't do a very good fucking job of it did they Jeffrey!

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by khmen

USA didn't bomb, sabotage or attempt to overthrow the govt of Cambodia in 1980 until 1995, that's a load of bollocks right there.

Care to show a link to all this?

Just noticed this: A link to all what? A link to the history of Cambodia 1980-1995 and how the US wasn't particularly actively involved in it, how it didn't bomb, sabotage, or attempt to overthrow the govt during that period?

You want me to prove that historical events that didn't happen, didn't happen?

Fucks sake, how about you state something to the contrary, tell me what you think you know, make a statement. Or, you could just infer you actually know something about something when you actually don't, like our village idiot Jeffro?

Originally Posted by khmen

You want me to prove that historical events that didn't happen, didn't happen?

Lots of links for that mate- Carnegie institute is a good one for a start; changing history since 1902.

^ It's amazing how fashions change in tandem all over the world.

yeh, right

i met a couple when i was cycle touring in loas. they were 2 years into a round the world tour, and when i asked them where was the best place so far, they both said iran! just saying like.......

Originally Posted by Neverna

^ It's amazing how fashions change in tandem all over the world.

Ironically you have gangs of Galloway's loyal muslim thugs roaming parts of London terrorising people who don't share their cretinous dress sense.

And why are those brazen hussies not wearing gloves, they should be flogged.

Amazing how some sort out real and not as it applies to apologist/defensive agendas.

How easy it is to be deeply conditioned through historical, anthropological, and sociological manipulation - just as it is with news and affairs of the day.

How nice. A thread about Iran. I was there for 7 months in 1976. Lovely well educated people. Unsurpassed history. Beautiful scenery.

Iran and Turkey stand out as a couple of the best countries I've had the pleasure visiting.

So off you go. You won't regret it.

Iranian Tourism Official Website

I don't know, they all have long noses. The one in the green dress may have a little Thai blood in her.

I reckon the one on the left went commando. Right pair of gristle grabbers on her.

Originally Posted by OhOh

I don't know, they all have long noses. The one in the green dress may have a little Thai blood in her.

Iran? More like , I ran .

Persians are extraordinarily handsome people, as a rule.

This cross-over bloodline - Eurasian, for a better term - can be quite striking throughout the extended region of Central Asian back towards the Balkans and Caucasus areas.....as far southeast as Afghanistan.

Perspectives will vary of course.
Certainly if one is culturally-centric blind.