Iranian navy Rear Adm. Shahram Irani declared that his country has “property rights” in Antarctica, particularly the South Pole, in a newly surfaced video.
“With regard to the South Pole, we have property rights there, and they belong to the public,” Irani said in the video of a television broadcast from last fall.
He added, “Our plan is to raise the flag there, inshallah. It is not only military work but also scientific work that needs to be carried out.”
Inshallah is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
I remember before going to Morocco with the military being taught some customs. Inshallah was a funny one to us, because it was suggested its use had a bit of a double meaning. Kinda like “Are you going to get out there and tackle the weeds today? You said you’d do it yesterday.”. And the appropriate response would be “Inshallah,” which essentially meant yeah, but probably no.
It sounds like that’s implicitly “Well if God literally comes down and personally commands me (if God wills) then yeah, but if not then probably no”
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I’m wondering if he actually said the rest in English or if the author didn’t want to translate the one word because it’s so heavily associated with Islam? I’m leaning towards the latter and it’s weirding me out halp
God willing has a different hit in english. I have heard people leave it untranslated.
Inshallah 🙏
This is now my favorite potential cause of WW3.
Who the hell had “Iran colonizes Antarctica” on their bingo board?!
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Military base in -80°. Uh huh.
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Decades is a little optimistic there…
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A point way out of time and space. Like Dr. Who.
If it totally melts the amount of trapped methane will release will be enough to kill everything on earth. So I don’t think it’ll be a major problem we’ll have to deal with.
Also if the temperature rises by over 100° in a decade in the Antarctic presumably even the temprate zones will be hotter than the surface of mercury.
Death by Giant Fart
That would be a pretty wet desert.
Right, but it still needs to not be an ocean.
By the time the treaty lapses global warming will ‘help’ with that
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
(Wipes eyes)
(takes breath)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I hope they overlap with Argentinas claim so they can do Falklands but with Iran.
"Inshallah, the Antarctic Treaty will ‘expire’ in 2042. Might as well take a free claim now to hopefully make it permanent by then.
I declare ownership!
I mean, it works for bankruptcy right?
Iran are going to be so pissed when they find out
Lol my guess is Rear Adm. Shahram is trolling and want to trigger the imperialists. Whenever I see the partitioning of Antarctica I think “what the fuck”
If Iran wants to do a scientific mission that’s great.
Bless your heart, sweet summer child.
Is that real or did he smonk too many leaves? Wth…
Maybe they got the idea from Putin when he said Russia still has ownership of Alaska
But do you have a flag?
Well, if you don’t have a flag, then you can’t have a country. Those are the rules… that I just made up!
Cake or death!
Ok
Do they know its cold there?
