Iran builds pearl roundabout monument on disputed island 5, June 2011
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Bahrain, Iran, The Emirates.Tags: Abu Musa, Emirates Abu Musa, Iran Abu Musa, Pearl Rounda Abu Musa, Pearl roundabout
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I can’t believe that I missed this when the story first broke.
Evidently the Iranians have a super sense of high mirth and constructed a fake ‘pearl roundabout’ as a monument to the epicenter of the Bahraini protests, which was subsequently destroyed in Manama. Moreover, not only did they ironically immortalize the roundabout, but they built it on the disputed island of Abu Musa, which the Iranians nabbed from the Emirates in 1971.
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Shame but it’s not the Iranians, it’s the Iranian regime.
Fair point.