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Iran Paves Itself

By Callimachus | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Environment, The World

You’ll be reading a lot about Iran this week. So much that perhaps you’ll miss this lovely item:

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have taken the extraordinary step of cutting down thousands of trees in Teheran to prevent United Nations inspectors from finding traces of enriched uranium from a top-secret nuclear plant.

… Recent tests in the area by scientists working for the Atomic Energy Agency of Iran (AEOI) showed unusually high concentrations of uranium contamination in the leaves and branches of trees surrounding the site. The scientists unanimously recommended that preparations should be made in case IAEA inspectors decided to conduct further visits.

The order to cut down the trees was given by Mohamed Baker Khalibaf, the mayor of Teheran, who is close to President Mahmoud Ahmadnijehad. The official explanation for the destruction of the trees was to create a national park.

Suuuuure.

One could say many things in response to this sad footnote in a looming catastrophe. Personally I like the response reported by Trent Telenko:

The Ents shall hear of this!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 7th, 2006 and is filed under Bad Decisions, Environment, The World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Iran Paves Itself”

  1. cakreiz Says:
    March 7th, 2006 at 9:16 am

    I haven’t seen a great deal of discussion of Iran’s nuclear aspirations on leftist blogs. Apparently, ignoring the situation will disarm it. A crafty strategy indeed.

  2. Mike The Actuary’s Musings » 2006 » March » 07 Says:
    March 7th, 2006 at 10:14 am

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  3. GN Says:
    March 7th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    We are the most technically advanced nation on earth … let’s drop trees on them.

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