Don't Travel To Iraq / Iran? Nooo Really? !

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50991778
Who in their right mind would set foot in any of these anyway?

[KARL]

I have never been to Iraq but would not mind going, although reports on present conditions are not encouraging. I have spent something under a decade in total in Iran in principally two periods some 25 years apart, including two years plus before the revolution plus right through it. I would leap at an opportunity to revisit Iran - extremely nice people (nicer than quite a few closer to home) and a very interesting country, climate and culture.

[Peter Pedant]

// full of ornate suicide vests (used once only), historical bomb craters and many bullet holes of interest.//

oi ! the bullet strikes on the pillars the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland ( Dublin ) arae listed objaaaayze
( cant be filled in) and date of course from 1916

oh and whilst I am at it
you recollect the feeft column ? the one that took Madree' ?
Madree was taken by Franco 1936 and the route was thro the medical school (*)- and there are bullet strikes on the buildings there too.

it is to your right as you face the royal palace in Madree

has anyone realised - tish lows are a phrase used by Trump - 'all these shot-hole republics - not nice, not nice at all'
and the audience made vomiting noises .....

[ichkeria]

Indeed David Iran is a beautiful and diverse country but badly served by its rulers.

[Peter Pedant]

// I have spent something under a decade in total in Iran in principally two periods some 25 years apart, including two years plus before the revolution plus right through it.//

vay eenteresting - up the side of a building they were trying to burn last night was "kila kila amerika" - is that Farsi for "debt to amereeka!"
( arabic I agree is not related is: al moot lil amerika)
and secondly.....
the times obit today says the dead general had "khilib" - understated charisma. If it is a loan word , khilaab in arabic is 'captivating, fascinating, fallacious, deceitful'
any ideas - is it a mistranslation ?

30% of farsi words are arabic loan words - altho Farsi is an indoeuropean language ....

yes you are right - AB's charactistic is that comments like "shot hole republics where diarrhoea is a way of life", alternate with other more intellectual er fare - no - - - other material on a higher plane ......

[Peter Pedant]

baqqa - misread I thought you wrote 25 y in Iran oops
sozza

[douglas9401]

You carry a remarkable amount of information, Pedro.