Posted on 09/28/2013 11:06:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The United States returned to Iran a 2,700-year-old silver drinking cup, looted from a cave in Iran and seized by US Customs officials a decade ago, NBC news reported.
The cup is valued at a million dollars at least. …
The cup, cast in the shape of a winged griffin, has been stored in a New York warehouse, since authorities seized it from an art dealer who was arrested trying to sell it. For years, US officials have been saying they couldn’t return it to Iran until diplomatic ties with Tehran were normalized. …
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It’s ugly as heck, probably cursed. Let ‘em have it. I wonder if they’d consider taking Mooshie?
Did you catch that last sentence I quoted?
That cup, we don’t need.
Of course. A bureaucrat is lying about not being able to return it, and Obastard has been trying to “normalize” with the most abnormal country on Earth.
Obviously Bush’s fault since he was president when Customs seized it.
Of course this was just some low level warehouse worker that decided to send it back. I’m sure El Presidente had no knowledge of any of this, and the fact that it happened right after Hussein phoned his new found friend Hassan is just coincidence.
Of course what he really wanted to give him was an iPod with his speeches, but he had given his last one to Queen Elizabeth.
Oh, they dug up Helen Thomas and sent her home?
They found out it was made of plutonium. Iran NEEDS that stuff...
The art piece is not important.
Why do Democrats swoon and turn into mush when these atrocious leaders play meaningless footsy with them?
Rouhani is going to take Bambi to the rendering plant.
Murderous autocrats are the heroes of the Dems. How can they not be on the proverbial Cloud Nine when their heroes pay the slightest bit of attention to them?
And Iran probably quickly destroyed the 2700 year old archaeological piece because it was way to old to be a Muslim artifact. It was an infidels art piece.
.....”until diplomatic ties with Tehran were normalized”....
Watching the Old Testament prophecy unfold is a lot more obvious today than yesterday and it is as fascinating as it is frightening. There is no way out of this that I can see. WE are not in control in any way, shape, or form.
Longest freaking sandwich in the history of the world.
Gee maybe they can return to us Amir Hekmati.
Hope they put a bug in it.
Update- apparently this is a fraudulent artifact, and the Regime knew (or should have known) this and gave it to Iran anyway. ————— http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/ancient-artifact-obama-gave-iran-is-a-fake-from-1999/
Thanks for the update.
It’s the symbolism of sending this thing back that was the big to-do here, not the authenticity, anyhow.
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