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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s gamble, is it paying off?
2019-09-27
The view from Egypt.
[AlAhram] How long can Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
expect to succeed in its plans to dominate the Middle East.

Worn down by eight years of fighting with the Iraqi army and the incredibly high toll this was taking in lives lost, Iran’s revolutionary government accepted an UN-brokered ceasefire in July 1988 that ended one of the bloodiest wars in the Middle East.
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  ^ You're right (cut that out, dammit!). I should've left Hollywood out of it.
Posted by: Cuban Empire   2019-09-27 23:36  

#6  Please google "Empire"
Posted by: European Conservative   2019-09-27 23:20  

#5  "And we were doing what in Angola and Hollywood, chopping liver?"
Posted by: Cuban Empire   2019-09-27 23:16  

#4  I vote one last blast going down in nuclear flames.
What's the pool?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-09-27 16:55  

#3  Or Cambodia?

Or Venezuela?

Or Zimbabwe?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-09-27 15:20  

#2  Or china
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-09-27 07:45  

#1  The last of such "ideological empires," and probably the most famous, was that of Nazi Germany

What about Soviet Union?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-09-27 01:13  

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