[blam]

"And getting subs into the Persian Gulf = well, that might be rather interesting."

I'm thinking the Persian Gulf is to shallow for submarines.

The Persian Gulf completely dried up during the Ice Age.

[SaveFerris]

Good question - Iran is huge - I remember Bandar Abbas is really far south. I’ll have to take a look at the map again.

The sheer size of Iran was a surprise first time I looked at it.

[PIF]

The Persian Gulf completely dried up during the Ice Age.

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The Persian Gulf did not exist before the end of the Ice Age, after which global warming caused by a one mile wide comet strike melted the 2 mile thick glaciers causing sea level to rise 400 feet.