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'No country can be wiped off map'
2007-05-20
IranÂ’s foreign minister said on Saturday that no country could be removed from the map, contradicting a previous statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel to be wiped out.
Oh, yeah? Then where's Dahomey?
“Every primary school student knows that it is not possible to remove a country from the map and that is very clear,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told a conference in Jordan when asked about Ahmadinejad’s controversial remarks.
Ha! What happened to Upper Volta? Riddle me dat!
“We are not talking about the invasion of any country,” he said.
Posted by:Fred

#10  Now he says he was talking about Palestine.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-05-20 22:06  

#9  Islam is working rather strenuously to disprove this exact concept in quite a number of different cases.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-05-20 15:10  

#8  IranÂ’s foreign minister said on Saturday that no country could be removed from the map

Oh yes they can, Mr. Foreign Minister. Oh yes they can.
Posted by: gorb   2007-05-20 13:44  

#7  DaHomey be in DaHood.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2007-05-20 10:40  

#6  Actually they can and are wiped off the map. Just look at Africa and wait five minutes. POP. Ohhh, new country. New countries show up all the time and old ones vanish.

I'd be careful though, since the US could reduce Iran into howling barbarism without even bothering to use nukes or put a foot on the ground. Destroy every powerplant, bridge, railhead, oil facility, etc and the country will fall apart real quick.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2007-05-20 10:37  

#5  Not strong on geography in Iran? I've been trying to find Yugoslavia.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-05-20 10:26  

#4  Speaking as a citizen of the Inca Empire I find this line of humor offensive.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-05-20 07:12  

#3  Carthage, Carthage. Damn it, it's got to be somewhere on the map. Look again.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-05-20 00:25  

#2  Check the geography texts used by the Saudi schools and tell me if you can find a map of Israel. Palestine is there, but not Israel. So, they've already wiped Israel off the map or, more likely, never put in on the map in the first place.
Posted by: GK   2007-05-20 00:22  

#1  What happened to Upper Volta? Riddle me dat!

Fassy Burkas took over. (Burkina Faso in their local parlance).
Posted by: twobyfour   2007-05-20 00:20  

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