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So - this captured US drone..
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Is Iran one of those countries that doesn't let women vote ? I can never keep up - should try harder really it's my rule of thumb for splitting the good guys/bad guys
Bit of a mixed bag - voting is universal and many women are in professional employment (I know an Iranian coder, she works and teaches in Iran but occasionally comes over here to conferences and give lectures). There's still a lot of segregation, and the government shut down the country's only women's mag for being too controversial - it was quite political, criticised what it saw as Islam being misused to justift misogyny, and also talked about sex.
Their games industry has loads of restrictions too - they get government grants for promoting Iranian history and Islamic morals. The Sims was huge in Iran, but the sequel was banned as the government realised it allowed the player to indulge in Western corruption (flirting, shameless integration between the sexes, etc). So a studio made an Iranian version of The Sims, that promoted living virtuously.
They also have their equivalents of Call of Duty and Medal of Honour, based on real life events where the US were seen as the aggressors, or Iran as the victors. When people tell her that this is awful propaganda, she just shrugs and ask how it's different to Rambo III (evil soviets) or America's Army (used to encourage people to join the US army).
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Iran is going to glow in the dark quite soon
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Like the sheep in Cumbria?
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Like the sheep in Cumbria?
do they come in keyring form?
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It seems like a bit of a set up.
Americans not happy about glow in the dark bombs Iran are making and now they have broken another weapon they aren't allowed to own keep develop treaty.
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how much will china pay iran for the drone do ya reckon?
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they'll just swap it for some nukes
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I reckon Iran could be win-able compared to most, mainly because it has an actual army that might fight, and therefore be beatable, rather than a rag-tag of idealists with no real co-ordination, and therefore no chance of surendering.
The way it works is that the actual army fights and gets beaten, and then the remnants become a rag-tag of idealists with no real co-ordination, and therefore no chance of surendering.
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You skipped over the important interim step where everyone in uniform is told that they will never, ever hold a government job again (in a quasi-socialist country where the government controls the vast majority of GDP) and should FOAD, instead of being kept in barracks and paid a pittance to keep them under control.
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well this wont help matters
the price of oil has spiked 3% amid unconfirmed rumours that Iran has closed the strategically important straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. One third of the world's sea-borne oil passes through the straits but an Iranian military exercise seems to have resulted in them being blocked.
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I've seen a couple of flying ones recently and they have both been grey. The lost one was allegedly CIA though so they may have different colours in use.
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the price of oil has spiked 3% amid unconfirmed rumours that Iran has closed the strategically important straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. One third of the world's sea-borne oil passes through the straits but an Iranian military exercise seems to have resulted in them being blocked.
Seeing as its international waters then that's highly unlikely
Edit: alright, Oman/Iran split. Stick to the Omani side and you'll be fine.
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Why send a top spec spy plane without planning that it could be shot down and used by Iran or China?
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