Iran is the size of Alaska and has more people than Britain or France.

[XemaSab]

That is all. :)

[AlCzervik]

1. and the topography is totally different.

[XemaSab]

2. The CIA doesn't rank countries in terms of nasty, arid ruggedness

:P

[alittlelark]

4. Iran is a beautiful country - Imagine the US squished down 70%

It is truly a beautiful diverse environment w/ fascinating ppl. My best friend grew up there.

[XemaSab]

6. I'm sure it's a beautiful country to visit or live in

But as a country to fight a war in.... notsomuch.

[AlCzervik]

8. my bil is from Tehran and my sister went back with him twice, she said

she was totally surprised by how beautiful many parts of it were.

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Congress has been invaded by San Francisco!!!

And you worry about Iran being like Alaska??

Terra! Terra! :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[alittlelark]

7. As a 'circa de San Franciscan' all I can say is....

CONservatives- you have met your day of reckoning!!!! Science and REALITY are forcing their way into your warped view of reality. Silicon Valley (my home base) is actively looking into ways to distort your children's views on the world....(hint - it's the INTERNETS!) Reality - it's a scary thing.

[Skink]

5. Yeah but they just wanna have fun........

and Nuculer power.:beer:

[XemaSab]

9. And Negro Modelo

:beer:

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. ATTENTION ALL: Rent the movie "Grass" (documentary set in Iran)

to learn about the mountains on the Iran-Iraq border and the people
(I think it was the Luri people) who still live there.

Much of the movie consists of entire villages climbing 10,000-ft peaks, barefoot, with their livestock in tow, hoisting them up with ropes, fording ice-cold raging rivers on inflatable rafts made out of animal skins, bearing their children on the side of the glacier, in order to reach the grazing area on the other side of the mountain (hence the title of the movie);

there being no passes, the entire village had been making this journey twice a year for thousands of years.

These are the people you would be fighting.

there being no passes, you would be fighting them largely on foot.

You may need to search it out on VHS, it was made in the 1920s.

It was the first documentary directed by a woman.