Questions about Iraq

[QuickneutronU235]

SheytanElkebir, what's the Linguistic meaning of m3'edi?

[Persi]

Originally Posted by QuickneutronU235

SheytanElkebir, what's the Linguistic meaning of m3'edi?

[elusive]

we've been through this lol

[QuickneutronU235]

you misunderstood the question.

He explained who are Me3dan, and the explanation is correct, but he hasn't given us the linguistic significance of m3'edi(المعنى اللغوي).

[Persi]

m3'edi means va7ed aghbar ghabi

[BigDreamer]

great >< , there goes the entire discussion on the last page down the toilet lol

[elusive]

lol no we have! ><

[Ali - Iraq]

Hey guys i have thought about why the progress in south Iraq is slow contrary to north Iraq. I mean there are security in South Iraq despite in the middle.

Another question is ; When i was in Iraq a lot of people told me that the government are stealing peoples oil money and so on. If they do so then why does the citizens not react by doing demonstrations?

[Basrawii]

Originally Posted by Ali - Iraq

Hey guys i have thought about why the progress in south Iraq is slow contrary to north Iraq. I mean there are security in South Iraq despite in the middle.

Another question is ; When i was in Iraq a lot of people told me that the government are stealing peoples oil money and so on. If they do so then why does the citizens not react by doing demonstrations?

I love your questions, very innocent!. Don't get me wrong here brother. But, you see everyone knows the government steals from the people's oil money but no one moves around simply because the same people whose money is getting stolen, are the ones who voted for the thieves!

You see people in south Iraq, got a new kind of drug! it is not opium or heroin, it is called RELIGION! I am not atheist or communist or secularist but I think the statehood should be put a side from religion.

[Ksharp1Fan]

I fully agree with you. But I'm pretty sure that wanting religion to be separated from the government makes you a secularist.

[Spin Cycle]

Whenever I see videos or pictures of Iraq, there is always dust on the streets. This is not the case with the Gulf states which are much cleaner. What is the reason for this?

[elusive]

Originally Posted by Spin Cycle

Whenever I see videos or pictures of Iraq, there is always dust on the streets. This is not the case with the Gulf states which are much cleaner. What is the reason for this?

desertification of the iraqi landscape...before there used to be more palm trees and that kept major sand storms under control. Iraq and Iran are cooperating together to plant more palm trees to prevent these dust storms hitting major cities like Baghdad, Tehran etc.

[Spin Cycle]

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[Spin Cycle]

Originally Posted by elusive

desertification of the iraqi landscape...before there used to be more palm trees and that kept major sand storms under control. Iraq and Iran are cooperating together to plant more palm trees to prevent these dust storms hitting major cities like Baghdad, Tehran etc.

Interesting. Thanks.

Don't recall seeing any palm trees when I was last in Tehran (though it's not the kind of thing I would have noticed back then anyway). Presumably they are imported - palm trees wouldn't naturally exist in Tehran would they (bit too cold I would guess).

[BigDreamer]

no the palm trees are being planted in Iraq (but co-sponsored by both countries)

this is just one of many efforts that are going on.. the ministry of agriculture has another separate initiative to increase palm trees, currently we have 21 million palm trees.. they want them to increase to over 30 million (as once was the case).

[elusive]

no the sandstorms are from the iraqi desert which also affect cities in iran

[elusive]

Originally Posted by BigDreamer

no the palm trees are being planted in Iraq (but co-sponsored by both countries)

this is just one of many efforts that are going on.. the ministry of agriculture has another separate initiative to increase palm trees, currently we have 21 million palm trees.. they want them to increase to over 30 million (as once was the case).

it's sad to hear about the iraqi date industry struggling...iraqi dates are the best!

[Basrawii]

1- Iraqi dates were the best. You should see all those honey like tasting Saudi gigantic dates now! amazing thing done with genetics, something we should start doing in Iraq, we unfortunately, still using old traditional methods in plantation of Palm trees. Countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia are far very involved in such modern techniques.

Btw, you guys are sure Iran and Iraq are cooperating on the plantation projects? Never heard of that before.

2- Regarding sand storms, on my latest visit to Basra, I came from Dubai by Emirates, the whole trip was amazing with blue skies and golden deserts seen from below when reaching Kuwait. But the moment we stepped into Iraq, heat outside the window flamed, I wouldn't touch the window! really hot! and outside u can see all those kinds of sandy winds. Not mentioning, those turbulence pushing the plane in the opposite direction that made a women scream and me throwing up!

For the first time in my life on Air Planes, I threw up! Down in the airport, everything is covered with dust, the whole roads taking u away from the place are covered with sand, dust gets through the windows of the airport, and the management as I was told got fed up with cleaning it daily then having to do it again and again, so instead they wait for it to pile up to sweep it away!

Emirates uses an AirBus A330 which is considerably bigger than the A320 used by Gulf Air when they used to operate Iraq before. So imagine how strong those winds are!

[elusive]

A top Iranian environment official said on Monday Tehran and Baghdad will jointly pay $1.2 billion in a project to reduce the number of sand dunes in a bid to cut the number of sandstorms from Iraq.

"In order to reduce gravel levels we have signed an agreement with a foreign company worth $1.2 billion to cover a million hectares (2.47 million acres) of Iraqi soil in the next five years," the official IRNA news agency quoted the head of Iran's Environmental Protection Organisation as saying.

The name of the foreign firm was not given.

"This initiative began with 500 hectares and in our negotiations (with Iraq) it was decided to either use fossil materials (petroleum products) or biological ones to stabilise the dunes," Mohammad Javad Mohammadi-Zadeh added.

Media and some local officials have blamed sandstorms on countries west of the Islamic republic, particularly Iraq which has been hit by desertification and deforestation because of dam construction and declining agriculture.

In mid-April, 20 of Iran's 31 provinces had to close schools and government offices, and flights to and from some western cities were cancelled because of sandstorms mostly originating in neighbouring Iraq.

The problem of sandstorms from Iraq has been blamed on two decades of on-off wars, with officials there saying the number of palm trees has fallen by two thirds from around 36 million to just 12 million.

In September 2010, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Qatar and Turkey signed an accord in Tehran aimed at tackling the sandstorms problem over the next five years.

(c) 2011 AFP

[IraqiPlan_et]

Originally Posted by BigDreamer

no the palm trees are being planted in Iraq (but co-sponsored by both countries)

this is just one of many efforts that are going on.. the ministry of agriculture has another separate initiative to increase palm trees, currently we have 21 million palm trees.. they want them to increase to over 30 million (as once was the case).

Actually to 40 million