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Reports: Rouhani Home with US 'Gift' of Silver Griffin
breitbart.com ^ | 9/28/13 | afp

Posted on 09/28/2013 12:34:59 PM PDT by ColdOne

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Here’s one more sign of a thaw in U.S.-Iranian relations: A 2,700-year-old silver drinking cup, looted from a cave in Iran and seized by U.S. Customs officials a decade ago, was returned to Iran this week. Its value is estimated at a million dollars or more.

The ceremonial drinking vessel from the 7th century B.C., cast in the shape of a winged griffin, has been sitting in a warehouse in New York for years. And for years, U.S. officials have been saying they couldn’t return it to Iran until relations between Washington and Tehran were normalized. “This piece can’t go back,” the New York Post quoted James McAndrew, senior special agent in charge of cultural property for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as saying in 2010.

On Wednesday, the piece went back.

“It is considered the premier griffin of antiquity, a gift of the Iranian people to the world, and the United States is pleased to return it to the people of Iran,” the U.S. State Department said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/archaeo-diplomacy-us-gives-million-dollar-cup-back-iran-8C11281668


21 posted on 09/28/2013 12:56:27 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Hey! Everything belongs to the king, and anyone who says otherwise must be targeted by the IRS!


22 posted on 09/28/2013 12:56:45 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Irenic

Thanks for that info and link.


23 posted on 09/28/2013 12:58:45 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne

obama not only negotiates with terrorists, he gives them gifts!


24 posted on 09/28/2013 1:01:22 PM PDT by matt1234 (The NRA: Redefining "Too big to fail.")
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To: ColdOne
Leftwing statists hate their own countrymen with whom they happen to have policy differences far, far more than they do foreign peoples who wish us dead.

Because those foreign enemies pose no immediate threat to their political power.

Its sick, but indicative of tyrants down through the ages.

Obama is a pure leftwing statist.

25 posted on 09/28/2013 1:01:29 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: BarnacleCenturion

On second thought, it's UGLY and who wants to drink anything out of a griffin's buttocks. The creature has a what the heck look on him so who knows what hussein had stuffed in it.

26 posted on 09/28/2013 1:02:04 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Just remember...It was an 8 minute call and took two translators at the least plus delays for real time.

They said nothing.

27 posted on 09/28/2013 1:18:01 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ColdOne

Obama is GIVING AWAY ALL OF OUR MONEY TO OUR ENEMIES!!!!


28 posted on 09/28/2013 1:25:49 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Are we to really believe a phone call took place between the 2? Obama got snubbed at the UN why would Ruboni speak to him later?


29 posted on 09/28/2013 1:28:30 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne
And who called who??

This is a joke. Russia must be laughing their _ _ _ off.

30 posted on 09/28/2013 1:35:19 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ColdOne

I would send them a full chamber pot.

Meanwhile, don’t we have some claims against Iran still pending? Seems to me that item should have been sold with the proceeds put on the debt.


31 posted on 09/28/2013 1:36:05 PM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: ColdOne

The muslims will want to destroy it as it came from the Persian culture before they invaded it.

Obama probably knows it will be destroyed.


32 posted on 09/28/2013 1:40:19 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: bkopto

WAS THIS ARTIFACT HIS TO GIVE AWAY????

I WANT TO KNOW THAT AS WELL...WILL CONTACT MY CONGRESS PERSON ON MONDAY...


33 posted on 09/28/2013 1:41:00 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: Chewbarkah

Don’t forget the other problem with Obama: not only is he an arrogant pathological narcissist, he’s not very bright. So it probably never even occurred to him to consider what islamists think about pre-Islamic art (hint: they don’t like it).


34 posted on 09/28/2013 1:53:04 PM PDT by livius
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To: ColdOne

Seized by customs officials in 2003, why the hell wasn’t it sold and the proceeds used to offset legal claims against Iran?


35 posted on 09/28/2013 1:58:20 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: bgill

I’m betting it’s not a cup but an oil lamp.
How the heck would three people drink out of it,straws?


36 posted on 09/28/2013 2:01:02 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: thesearethetimes...

0 courts our enemies, and shuns our allies

Perhaps you haven’t noticed - we are the enemy.


37 posted on 09/28/2013 2:08:38 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks ColdOne.
...a 7th century BC silver Persian drinking cup in the shape of a winged Griffin... worth more than a million dollars.

38 posted on 09/28/2013 2:20:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
The ipod will have Loral missile data on it.

-PJ

39 posted on 09/28/2013 2:21:14 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“And who called who??”

News brief this a.m. on Fox radio stated that the mullah required the imposter to call him. My guess is that the mullah never picked up the phone.


40 posted on 09/28/2013 2:22:49 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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