Hmmm, Direct Flights from Iran to the US...

[bjbarron]

Iran wants direct flights to the US....

"We sent a letter to the relevant American officials on Wednesday, announcing Iran's willingness to resume direct flights," Nourollah Rezai-Niaraki, head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization, told state television.

He said the decision to make the request was taken by hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad due to demand from the large Iranian community living in the United States.

"They have repeatedly complained about wasting time and losing their baggage on connecting flights," the official said.

...words fail me.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Why don't we send them to France instead?

 

[Maxwell]

Depends on whos buying tickets to fly here.
Students and people we can influence is one thing, suicide bombers or radicals comming to cause chaos is something else.

If their getting on a plane in a second nation, then connecting here anyway, theres not that much of a difference unless your screening at both stops.

 

[Manedwolf]

Iran wants direct flights to the US....

"We sent a letter to the relevant American officials on Wednesday, announcing Iran's willingness to resume direct flights," Nourollah Rezai-Niaraki, head of Iran's Civil Aviation Organization, told state television.

He said the decision to make the request was taken by hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad due to demand from the large Iranian community living in the United States.

"They have repeatedly complained about wasting time and losing their baggage on connecting flights," the official said.

...words fail me.

"Little Boy", the Hiroshima gun-type uranium collision bomb, weighed about 10,000lbs. You could expect a similar device to weigh about the same, or less with newer materials. If they build a bomb, that'd be the easiest to build. The tech is sixty years old and well understood, it's robust and reliable, if not the most powerful...it sure did a number on Hiroshima!

An old 1970's-80's vintage 727-100 or 200's cargo capacity is 20,000lbs max. There are thousands of them flying for small-operation cargo outfits that sometimes just have one or two, or contract them from someone else. They're cheap and there's lots more on the market.

Can you say "Airburst"?

 

[wmenorr67]

Tell them no but if they continue with their Nuc program we can arrange some direct flights from the US.

 

[TrapperReady]

"Little Boy", the Hiroshima gun-type uranium collision bomb, weighed about 10,000lbs. You could expect a similar device to weigh about the same, or less with newer materials.

Man, if you could get a retro-styled A-bomb tricked out in carbon fiber... Skunkabilly would be ALL over that.

Do you think Milt Sparks makes a VM2 large enough?