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Posted: 3/30/2006 10:27:06 PM EDT

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Strong Quakes Kill at Least 38 in Iran

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Two strong earthquakes flattened villages in western Iran early Friday, killing at least 38 and injuring hundreds, state media reported.

At least 10 tremors rocked the mountainous region throughout the night, state television reported, saying the first one had a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 and struck around 1 a.m. local time.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 5.7 magnitude quake shortly before 5 a.m. local time., followed by a 4.7 magnitude aftershock about 15 minutes later.

The quakes were centered near Boroujerd and Doroud, two industrial cities about 210 miles southwest of Tehran, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Provincial official Ali Barani said the quake flattened several villages.

State television said 38 bodies had been pulled out of destroyed houses in Silakhor, a region north of Doroud.

The broadcast said more than 700 people were injured, most of whom were in bed at the time.

The quake damaged buildings and toppled telephone lines in Doroud, IRNA quoted officials there as saying.

People in Doroud ran into the streets in panic when the first quake hit shortly after midnight. Many spent the remainder of the night outside.

"We are afraid to get back home. I spent the night with my family and guests in open space last night," Doroud resident Mahmoud Chaharmiri told The Associated Press by telephone.

But Chaharmiri said there were no scenes of destruction in Doroud such as those after similar sized quakes in Iran.

In February 2005, a 6.4-magnitude quake in southern Iran killed 612 people and injured more than 1,400.

A magnitude 6.6 quake flattened the historic southeastern city of Bam in the same region in December 2003, killing 26,000 people.

Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. On average, it experiences at least one slight earthquake every day.

Posted: 3/30/2006 10:28:19 PM EDT

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Damed shame...

Posted: 3/30/2006 10:33:29 PM EDT

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Damed shame...

yup, really awful.

Posted: 3/30/2006 10:33:59 PM EDT

[#3]

50 megaton earthquake?

Posted: 3/30/2006 10:35:07 PM EDT

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50 megaton earthquake?

No shit.. either another nuke test, or GWB's fired up the ol' Halliburton GroundPounder 1000™ again.

Posted: 3/30/2006 10:51:24 PM EDT

[#5]

5.7 is not that big at all. Yet it actually kills people in the third world.

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:01:20 PM EDT

[#6]

Did the ground beneath Tehran open up and swallow the city whole?

No?

Damn.

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:04:49 PM EDT

[#7]

That news warms my heart

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:14:55 PM EDT

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50 megaton earthquake?

No shit.. either another nuke test, or GWB's fired up the ol' Halliburton GroundPounder 1000™ again.

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:16:43 PM EDT

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Guess Allah don't want them to have nukes.

Aviator

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:36:09 PM EDT

[#10]

Everytime some natural calamaty hits the west the Iranian 'leader' is on the news saying it's allahs will, wonder what he'lll say about this then...

oh....wait, it's probably The west's fault somehow.

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:39:19 PM EDT

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Guess Allah don't want them to have nukes.

Aviator

Haha, you have a great avatar!!!

Posted: 3/30/2006 11:49:11 PM EDT

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I am not jumping around handing out candy and dancing in the streets yelling "Death to Iran".

That's their schtick.

I think about all the folks who just wish the damned Revolutionary Guard and the religious police would leave them the f*** alone, and just lost everything, including people they loved. There are good people stuck in Iran, and this just made things harder on them.

The "Death to America" crowd can suck my left nut. Wait. Scratch that. I wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:00:26 AM EDT

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You guys dont seem to be aware how pro-American the typical Iraniancitizen is. They know the mullahs are liars and corrupt as hell. They compare what their leaders say about us with what they see with their own eyes on satellite tv and what their relatives living in LA say, and realize who the good guys are.

So dont cheer when average Persians perish in earthquakes.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:04:41 AM EDT

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You guys dont seem to be aware how pro-American the typical Nazi citizen is. They know Hitler is a liar and corrupt as hell. They compare what their leaders say about us with what they hear with their own ears on shortwave radio and what their relatives living in Philadelphia say, and realize who the good guys are.

So dont cheer when average Prussians perish in earthquakes.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:05:48 AM EDT

[#15]

Need to re-zero the Haliburton EQ machine and aim for the nuke sites.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:09:28 AM EDT

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You guys dont seem to be aware how pro-American the typical Nazi citizen is. They know Hitler is a liar and corrupt as hell. They compare what their leaders say about us with what they hear with their own ears on shortwave radio and what their relatives living in Philadelphia say, and realize who the good guys are.

So dont cheer when average Prussians perish in earthquakes.

I'm really serious. The Iranian population in general is very pro-American. It's hard to believe but it's true.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:09:49 AM EDT

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You guys dont seem to be aware how pro-American the typical Iraniancitizen is. They know the mullahs are liars and corrupt as hell. They compare what their leaders say about us with what they see with their own eyes on satellite tv and what their relatives living in LA say, and realize who the good guys are.

So dont cheer when average Persians perish in earthquakes.

This is why we can't win wars anymore....If we had this attitude in WWII, we would've lost.

We were at war with Germany. We didn't worry which Germans were on their side and which ones weren't. We hammered them until they lost the will to fight.

If it goes down with Iran, that is the way to win. To worry about which ones are "good guys" and which ones aren't guarantee defeat. There is no winning of hearts and minds. That is a bullshit war plan put forward by dipshits. There is only destroying hearts and minds until the will to fight is completely stamped out.

This is why we are not gaining decisive victory in Iraq. Insurgents dropping mortars on your postion feom a neighborhood? Flatten the neighborhood. When people are more scared of being carpet bombed for letting insurgents work from their nighborhood, that they are of the insurgents, or their devotion to allah, they will stop letting inurgents operate.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:16:04 AM EDT

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You guys dont seem to be aware how pro-American the typical Nazi citizen is. They know Hitler is a liar and corrupt as hell. They compare what their leaders say about us with what they hear with their own ears on shortwave radio and what their relatives living in Philadelphia say, and realize who the good guys are.

So dont cheer when average Prussians perish in earthquakes.

I'm really serious. The Iranian population in general is very pro-American. It's hard to believe but it's true.

<Walter Cronkite Voice> Day 322 of the Iranian hostage crisis and yes, they are still dancing in the street and burning flags… Looks like Carter is just too right wing for them folks </WCV>

Glass covered self lighting parking lot...

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:17:34 AM EDT

[#19]

It is the will of Allah.

Posted: 3/31/2006 6:19:43 AM EDT

[#20]

It was Bush's fault.

Posted: 3/31/2006 7:02:41 AM EDT

[#21]

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You guys dont seem to be aware how pro-American the typical Nazi citizen is. They know Hitler is a liar and corrupt as hell. They compare what their leaders say about us with what they hear with their own ears on shortwave radio and what their relatives living in Philadelphia say, and realize who the good guys are.

So dont cheer when average Prussians perish in earthquakes.

I'm really serious. The Iranian population in general is very pro-American. It's hard to believe but it's true.

<Walter Cronkite Voice> Day 322 of the Iranian hostage crisis and yes, they are still dancing in the street and burning flags… Looks like Carter is just too right wing for them folks </WCV>

Glass covered self lighting parking lot...

That was 26-27 years ago. The Persians got to find out how life was under an Islamic theocracy. Surprise, it sucks. And they're tired of it.

The sad thing is, Egypt's very similar. Egypt was very liberal and modern 100 years ago. Since then, their politics have been pushing for an Islamic theocracy like Iran's. Bin Laden's XO lead that fight for many years in the 70's. The Egyptians seem hellbent on following Iran's lead, even though the average Iranian doesn't want it any longer.

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