Iranian navy Rear Adm. Shahram Irani declared that his country has “property rights” in Antarctica, particularly the South Pole, in a newly surfaced video.

“With regard to the South Pole, we have property rights there, and they belong to the public,” Irani said in the video of a television broadcast from last fall.

He added, “Our plan is to raise the flag there, inshallah. It is not only military work but also scientific work that needs to be carried out.”

  • clif
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    Inshallah is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

    • @Dozzi92
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      I remember before going to Morocco with the military being taught some customs. Inshallah was a funny one to us, because it was suggested its use had a bit of a double meaning. Kinda like “Are you going to get out there and tackle the weeds today? You said you’d do it yesterday.”. And the appropriate response would be “Inshallah,” which essentially meant yeah, but probably no.

      • @Archer
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        It sounds like that’s implicitly “Well if God literally comes down and personally commands me (if God wills) then yeah, but if not then probably no”

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    • @kofe
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      I’m wondering if he actually said the rest in English or if the author didn’t want to translate the one word because it’s so heavily associated with Islam? I’m leaning towards the latter and it’s weirding me out halp

      • @afraid_of_zombies
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        94 months ago

        God willing has a different hit in english. I have heard people leave it untranslated.

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      • Echo Dot
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        104 months ago

        If it totally melts the amount of trapped methane will release will be enough to kill everything on earth. So I don’t think it’ll be a major problem we’ll have to deal with.

        Also if the temperature rises by over 100° in a decade in the Antarctic presumably even the temprate zones will be hotter than the surface of mercury.

      • @jaybone
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        24 months ago

        That would be a pretty wet desert.

    • @mods_are_assholes
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      34 months ago

      By the time the treaty lapses global warming will ‘help’ with that

  • cosmictrickster
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    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    (Wipes eyes)

    (takes breath)

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • @MataVatnik
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    194 months ago

    I hope they overlap with Argentinas claim so they can do Falklands but with Iran.

  • @[email protected]
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    194 months ago

    "Inshallah, the Antarctic Treaty will ‘expire’ in 2042. Might as well take a free claim now to hopefully make it permanent by then.

    • @SuckMyWang
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      14 months ago

      Iran are going to be so pissed when they find out

  • @[email protected]
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    134 months ago

    Lol my guess is Rear Adm. Shahram is trolling and want to trigger the imperialists. Whenever I see the partitioning of Antarctica I think “what the fuck”

    If Iran wants to do a scientific mission that’s great.

    • @guacupado
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      44 months ago

      Bless your heart, sweet summer child.

    • @DontTreadOnBigfoot
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      104 months ago

      Well, if you don’t have a flag, then you can’t have a country. Those are the rules… that I just made up!

      • GladiusB
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        34 months ago

        Cake or death!

  • @Agent641
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    44 months ago

    Do they know its cold there?