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I didn't highlight it to demean any party. Moreover, I'm not the author of the text either. I only highlighted the most controversial or more Pakistan-tied statements which I found in the article.

Massive Leak of Documents Show Faltering Afghan War, Duplicity by Pakistan The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has given three news organizations a trove of over 90,000 records of events and intelligence reports covering six years that provide a grim assessment of the U.S. war in...

Sorry for the late reply. I am not a frequent visitor to this website. Paris by all accounts is an expensive city-- both in terms of services and housing. For a simplistic example, you can expect to pay more in Paris for a hair cut then in other parts of France. That being said, Lyon is not...

That is quiet interesting indeed. Your choice of subjects serve no links with one another other and that is rather unusual for me concerning education. I do though understand the reasoning behind your choices given that I am of much varied interests myself. I do wish you the best in your...

Why would Iran be in deepsh*t when it is less dependent on it's oil reserves than neighboring Persian Gulf states and has the most developed and varied industrial base of them all. The belief that Iran is only what it is because of oil reserves is a popular yet false one. Oil was only discovered...

The fact of that matter is, the residents of Parachinar were replying in kind to what they were facing themselves from militant Wahabi elements . Iranian involvement came as a result of targeting of Iranians specifically. Also, I have noticed that people on this forum have very wrong notions...

I do not see how Iran is exporting any revolution at present. Also, how is Iran treating the GCC countries as it's provinces when the situation is actually in reverse with some member states, such as UAE, claiming Iranian territories and the Saudi King stating that "Iran has not right to exist"...

.... I'm honestly thinking of leaving this place.

Actually this is a misunderstanding on your part concerning Iranian Farsi-based naming conventions of its vessels. The English language naming conventions or those used by say, NATO, are not the same as in the Persian language and this is due primarily to a lack of exact word translations. The...

The original IrAn-140 passenger-liner program was made with cooperation with Ukraine with Russian technical assistance. The military suited applications (maritime patrol version, troop transport version etc..) are of Iranian design alone and utilize Iranian-developed features. Also, the deal was...

The entire existence of the above mentioned mystery submarine projects are based on the model displays alone as far as open media sources are concerned. The project is long term in the sense that it's existence provides the assumption that these are longer-term aspirations for there is no...

Yes, I do know they are the same tongue and are in fact differing dialects at their best with the primary difference in phonology alone supplemented by some very minor verbal adjustments. I use the term for explanatory purposes only. The term "Dari" has been purposely promoted by the government...

Velayat in Farsi/Persian means governance and when put in political-geographical terms a governorate. It is an Arabic-derived word with the root, wilayah or "under governance" Ahamadinejad is neither responsible nor does name Iranian vessels. The term Velayat as explained above has nothing...

In terms of purchased-technologies then yes indeed. In terms of possessing indigenous technologies utilized by local and varied military-industrial base, then no.

I see what you a driving at here. Firstly, it would be very difficult for any country other than Iran to recruit Iranians for religious purposes, and rather impossible for any other state if the recruitment has a Shi'ah notion to it. Also, given the very minor demographics of Shi'a adherents...

I'm also a linguist and my studies largely center around Persian and it's variants (Irani, Dari, Tajiki etc.). As such I have some interest in languages that share ties with Persian such as Urdu, Pashto and Baluchi etc. My basic interest in Urdu was poetry alone. Learning the language became...

Indeed. I wasn't referring to the Dari portion but only to the Iranian Farsi/Persian one. Chetori is Iranian Farsi/Persian of course. It is an informal greetings and that is all I was saying. Also, whilst I'm not a native Dari speaker but I too can converse in Dari thanks to a little help in...

You aren't exactly correct. Chetori is informal still. Also it would be "Khub-e" and not "Khub-i." Similarly it is "Koja ast" and not "Kojai." As for Urdu, if a Persian/Farsi connection has to be made, it can be termed as a highly Persian-ised (in terms of vocabulary) version of colloquial...

Old Persian and Sanskrit have been proven to have similar roots by academics. This however does not mean that Sanskrit was the tongue of Iran and then was later abandoned by Iranians for another Iranian tongue, Middle-Persian/ Farsi. The older tongue was Avestan Persian. The only tongue Iranians...

I believe you are being confused between two different stories. The injured and dead were Iranian civilians. Also, to me, the attack on a place of religious worship is terrorism (and inhuman) regardless of the occupation of worshipers or their religious affiliation. Deliberate attack on...