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With an area of 1,648,000 square kilometres (636,000 sq mi), Iran ranks eighteenth in size among the countries of the world. Iran is about one-fifth the size of the continental United States, or slightly larger than the combined area of the western United States (Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and Idaho).
Population 76,923,300 (July 2010 est.) / 70,049,262 according to Iran's 2006 census.
Originally posted by paraphi
reply to post by purplemer
That may be true, but in the last three decades Iran has fermented discord and hatred both as tool for internal repression and foreign policy. Hezbollah for example.
Regards
Originally posted by paraphi
reply to post by purplemer
That may be true, but in the last three decades Iran has fermented discord and hatred both as tool for internal repression and foreign policy. Hezbollah for example.
Regards
Originally posted by purplemer
Iran has not started a war in over one hundred years...
Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
He said Iran is tiny "compared to the Soviet Union", which is true.
they support international terrorists, and they have a very close relationship with North Korea, which is a proxy agent of China. They've been in a proxy war against Israel for a long time. They are in a covert cyber war against the USA from Central and South America.
Originally posted by whyamIhere
Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
He said Iran is tiny "compared to the Soviet Union", which is true.
That's why I wrote the note about context.
It really wasn't my intent to misquote.
I was just really surprised how large Iran really is.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by purplemer
Iran has not started a war in over one hundred years...
They are in proxy wars in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, ... they support international terrorists, and they have a very close relationship with North Korea, which is a proxy agent of China. They've been in a proxy war against Israel for a long time. They are in a covert cyber war against the USA from Central and South America. And no .. the government of Iran isn't some lil' innocent bunch. They give as well as they take.
Starting a war these days isn't a matter of having uniformed troops cross a border with a gun.
It's much more complex than that.
ABC News
Originally posted by bussoboy
reply to post by whyamIhere
Ask how many times has Iran invaded other counteries in the last 100 years and then ask how many counteries has the US invaded in the last one hundred years. (The 1980'2 ware between Iraq and Iran was the work of the US. Iran simply defended itself against a US proxy.)
Then ask how close is Iran to Israel. Answer = ?