Iranians vs US Navy

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US Navy commanders were moments away from firing on Iranian attack ships during a skirmish in the Straits of Hormuz, it has emerged.

A Pentagon spokesman revealed that five Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy boats harrassed and provoked three US ships in the narrow waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf at the weekend.

The Iranian craft came within 200 yards of the US vessels, which were sailing in international waters.

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Hmmm Sunburst missiles versus Phallanx point defense systems

[daviejones]

Nuke them is what I say. What have the Iranians ever given us?

[Spacecadet]

This sort of thing is very common when two nations are not seeing eye to eye.
They're just measuring each other up for size

[chef]

What have the Iranians ever given us?

Accountants (point 9)
"The first accounting tools were found in Iran, belonging to 9000 years ago."

Weight, Money and Measurements (point 5)
"Weight, Money and Measurements were standardized in Persia, for the first time, some 2, 500 years ago"

bricks (point 10)
"The first brick invention took place in Iran"

castles (point 12)
"The architecture of castles originated in Persia thousands of years ago."

plus lots more

linky

[Spacecadet]

oil

that comedian guy who recently had a series on the BBC

half a girl i once dated (she was half iranian and half iraqi and fecking clever than me)

[oracleslave]

oil

(she was half iranian and half iraqi and fliping clever than me)

To be fair thats not saying much.

PS. Ta for the PS3 advise the other day. I made a bloody good decision

[Dow Jones]

Short on wins

A bit like the French - long history of losing wars (ok, once they beat 300 Greeks!) and trying to make amends for it.
Managed to humiliate a bunch of British sailors and a fat bird, however when it comes to US Navy, it's a different proposition. Speedboats ('I'm coming to blow you up') vs frigates (with long-range missiles) - boom-boom!

[Spacecadet]

To be fair thats not saying much.

PS. Ta for the PS3 advise the other day. I made a bloody good decision

she was very very intellectual, both her parents were professors and she was a damn good laugh to boot... And i stupidly decided to get serious with some bint from the office instead

Glad the PS3 worked out, i enjoyed mine this morning, was having trouble sleeping so grabbed the PSP and remote watched a Topgear episode saved on the PS3 from the comfort of my bed

[namnadasht]

Nuke them is what I say. What have the Iranians ever given us?

ebay owner is iranian he used to be computer programmer ...
Shaheen Jafargholi , the little boy in britain got talent is half iranian
the black girl in doctor who tv program, she is half iranian .
one of the google's VP is iranian


see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranians for full list

Business/Technology

* Habib Zargarpour, the famous Iranian-American computer operator that has been candidate for Oscar 2 times"
* Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist, leading telecommunication entrepreneur, and namesake of the X Prize
* Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International.[28]
* Shahram Dabiri, video game producer, lead producer of World of Warcraft
* Ben Fathi, Corporate Vice President of Development, Windows Core Operating System Division Microsoft. [29]
* Vartan Gregorian, President of The Carnegie Corporation of New York.[30]
* Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Google
* Isaac Larian, CEO of MGA Entertainment, manufacturer of Bratz dolls
* Manny Mashouf, founder and Chairman of bebe stores
* David Merage, co-founder of Chef America Inc., manufacturer of Hot Pockets
* Paul Merage, co-founder of Chef America Inc., manufacturer of Hot Pockets
* Sam Nazarian, CEO of the SBE Entertaintment Group
* Farzad Nazem, former CTO of Yahoo!
* Mehrdad Nikoonahad, founder & CEO, Nikoo Technology, Inc.
* Pierre Omidyar, founder of e-Bay (born to Iranian parents).[31]
* Sina Tamaddon, Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Computer.[32]

Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.....

[NickFitz]

Oh great, another two-year-old thread gets resurrected

Cue a bunch of people replying to something somebody doesn't even remember saying on the first Monday afternoon at work after New Year