im sorry, it is actually higher than 20,000

they are now saying it could be up to 40,000, but 20,000 is the current estimate. again, keeping your people safe from earthquakes is important...but obviously less important for Iran than its military.

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In Iran, quakes of more than magnitude 5 usually kill people because most buildings are not built to withstand earthquakes, although the country sits on several major fault lines and temblors are frequent. Iran has a history of earthquakes that kill thousands of people, including one of magnitude 7.3 that killed about 50,000 people in northwest Iran in 1990.

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Originally posted by Dopey I was being sarcastic. I know it's hard for you to pick up on that because you don't know english too well. 20,000 is now the death toll. When will Iran start worrying more about the basic safeties of their own people than what the US government is doing?? Obviously they didn't learn when 50,000 people died a decade ago. So sad.

Were you dropped on your empty head when you were born?

Grow the fuck up and understand that EARTHQUAKES CANNOT BE PREDICTED!!!!!!!! DONT BLAME GOVERNMENTS FOR CAUSING EARTHQUAKES...

And you werent being sarcastic about that mud hut thing, becuase youve proved your idiocy in your posts before, so it gives us reason to believe you genuinely feel that Iranians living in huts are being mistreated by their governments' irresponsibility in giving them "basic safeties" as you eloquently put it.

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Originally posted by Cyrus King Were you dropped on your empty head when you were born? Grow the fuck up and understand that EARTHQUAKES CANNOT BE PREDICTED!!!!!!!! DONT BLAME GOVERNMENTS FOR CAUSING EARTHQUAKES... And you werent being sarcastic about that mud hut thing, becuase youve proved your idiocy in your posts before, so it gives us reason to believe you genuinely feel that Iranians living in huts are being mistreated by their governments' irresponsibility in giving them "basic safeties" as you eloquently put it.

I never said the government caused the earthquakes. Maybe you have trouble understanding the english language?

MORE PEOPLE DIED IN IRAN YESTERDAY THAN FIVE TIMES THE CASUALTY NUMBERS IN IRAQ EARLIER THIS YEAR. This could have been prevented if structures in Iran were built to withstand trembles, as they should be seeing that the Iranian people live on major fault lines. Instead, money is spent on other things. That's all I was saying. But thanks for trying to disprove my points with such harsh language and accusations. It merely proves that you are clinging on to verbal assualts as your main argument.

And trying to say that I think Iranians live in mud huts is just stupid. Just because you cannot understand obvious sarcasm in the English language, doesn't mean that I am uneducated. Please site my idiocy in previous posts.

Iran does support Hezbollah and has active mass weapons research programs. This money could have easily been spent on building code legislature and modernization. Even if it saved five lives, it would have been the better investment for the people of Iran.

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in this mass hysteria you guys have forgotten the main point of the topic... that a weaker earthquake in iran has killed over 10,000 people when only 2 people died in california from a stronger one...

the point is a valid one. this is obviously not the first time Iran has suffered from earthquakes - they have a long, sad history of it. I dont know how the government has been dealing with the situation but when 10,000 people have died clearly something is wrong. I wouldnt be suprised if the collapsed houses are rebuilt on the same weak foundations.

drug_tito has some good points about military funding but surely it cant be unreasonable to spend on stabilizing current structures. Im not an engineer - maybe you have to demolish the building and re-erect it on sounder foundations - but its foolish to dismiss these things by saying Iran is a poor country.

ps: as for the mud hut thing... a quick glance at pictures from google will leave you hardpressed to find mud huts

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Originally posted by Psygnosis Your a fucking idiot! Iran does not support terrorism...stop watching the bullshit on TV, it's fucked up your head.

sorry....its just so damn funny

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Originally posted by razmataz in this mass hysteria you guys have forgotten the main point of the topic... that a weaker earthquake in iran has killed over 10,000 people when only 2 people died in california from a stronger one...

it's closer to 40,000 they are now estimating. it's is sad that things like this go practically unnoticed in comparison with major military campaigns even though they clame so many more lives.

the bottom line is that things could have been done to prepare the Iranian people for this situation. I repeat my previous statement.

Even if only five people were saved because of funding otherwise destined for Hezbollah or military research, that would have been the better investment for the Iranian people.

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Originally posted by Cyrus King Were you dropped on your empty head when you were born? Grow the fuck up and understand that EARTHQUAKES CANNOT BE PREDICTED!!!!!!!! DONT BLAME GOVERNMENTS FOR CAUSING EARTHQUAKES... And you werent being sarcastic about that mud hut thing, becuase youve proved your idiocy in your posts before, so it gives us reason to believe you genuinely feel that Iranians living in huts are being mistreated by their governments' irresponsibility in giving them "basic safeties" as you eloquently put it.

why are you such an angry person?

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Originally posted by TuanAnh213 why are you such an angry person?

My mom pissed me off when i wrote that.
Im really not an angry person... only stupid people make me angry... and Dopey's idiot remarks were somewhat fuel to the fire.

And im sick of his stupid responses "maybe you dont understand the english language" as a means of defending his points...

Anyway, hes a noob,, and its normal for them to act like this

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Originally posted by Cyrus King My mom pissed me off when i wrote that. Im really not an angry person... only stupid people make me angry... and Dopey's idiot remarks were somewhat fuel to the fire. And im sick of his stupid responses "maybe you dont understand the english language" as a means of defending his points... Anyway, hes a noob,, and its normal for them to act like this

and i'm sick of your nerrow mind.

and in your posts you havn't realy commented on Dopey's points, rather than on the subject itself and on little-not-the-main-point-of-the-argument remarks like "mud huts". he says one thing and you write a stupid angry answer that is not connected to his points.

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In case nobody noticed, the reason all those structures collapsed was that the city was some sort of an ancient historical monument. So the mud (actually brick) houses were there for a reason, not because Iranian government didn't want to build more advanced housing.

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