Posted on 12/01/2013 12:48:05 AM PST by Nachum
The key to renewed US-Iran relations: an ancient chalice, according to the LA Times.
An ancient Persian chalice, hewn from silver and featuring a mythical winged creature, had been seized by US Customs officials in 2003. After sitting for over a decade in a Queens, NY warehouse, diplomats decided to use the anitquity as a bargaining chip for talks - as a gesture of friendship to Iran from the US.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Obama sure is desperate to reach some kind of a deal.
Did we also throw in a set of Ginsu Knives? What DIDN’T Iran get in this so-called deal?
Old news and it turns out this exact one is a fake, a commonly reproduced tourist piece.
Everything ancient is Islamic. Moses, Abraham, Gilgamesh, they were all Muslims. So were Jesus and Beethoven./s
Looks Like you’ve got a little Liszt.
Obama bends over and the entire nation takes it up the arse.
Who has a size 12 boot to implant in its proper presidential position?
“After sitting for over a decade in a Queens, NY warehouse,”
Like we were really interested in it. We didn’t even regard it as qualifying as a museum piece.
You know what else happened in antiquity?
The freeking nuking of an area in the pakistan area by another madman in the distant past....
History keep repeating...
Because we keep making the same damn mistakes..
There’s always hope that this vessel works out as well for these Persians mullahs as the Temple Vessels worked for Persian King Belshazzar.
WHAT friendship?! You MORONS!!
I wonder if anyone looked on the bottom to see if it has a “Made in China” stamp?
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