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International

News from Iran, 2025.

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Naderi Pomegranate harvest time in Badroud, Isfahan Province, early November 2025. The Naderi is considered to be among the top five most popular varieties of pomegranates in Iran.  Video via Fars News, 08NOV2025:

If sanctions on Iran are so punishing why is Iran cracking down on people smuggling household products into Iran?  On 30OCT2025, officials in Afghanistan agreed to work with Iran in reducing smuggling of commercial items into Iran.  One of the first steps is that Afghan official say they will replace missing border markers and update existing border signs.  This video report (released 09NOV2025) is ostensibly about ‘respecting the authority’ of the border police in Kerman Province.  It is clear that this is about people who were arrested trying to smuggle products, everything from big-rig trucks, cars, computers, motorcycles, stereos, kitchen appliances to guns, into Iran:

Pardis is a city in Pardis County, Tehran Province, Iran. Pardis County is experiencing exponential growth, economic and population, and as a result healthcare services have been struggling to keep up. In September, a new helicopter landing pad was unveiled. It is being used to bring critical patients to the Pardis hospital. Officials admitted there have been delays but did not elaborate. The life-flight helicopter is based on the Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm/Kawasaki BK-117 developed during the Cold War. Modern versions are also known as Eurocopter EC145, and Airbus Helicopters H145.  Video report via Fars News Agency, 16SEP2025:

New hi-tech passenger car for train on the Bandar Abbas to Mashhad and Tehran route. Each hi-tech car holds 40 people and the service runs once per week, for religious pilgrimages.  Video published 16SEP2025:

Iranian wildlife caught on camera, eastern Hormozgan Province. Video via Morteza Aryanejad, posted 14SEP2025:

In February 2025, during wargame Zolfaqar 1403 (conducted along Iran’s Gulf of Oman/Indian Ocean Makran coastline), Iran’s new Russian designed Yakovlev 130 (Yak-130) successfully shot down a target drone with a heat seeking missile. I added music to this PressTV video:

Related ‘Yak-130’: United Arab Emirates buys Chinese L-15! Just another JL-10/Yak-130?

Megalithic Shahr Yeri/Shahar Yeri, Ardabil, Iran, an 8-thousand year old Kurgan cemetery? The Farsi narration audio, in this Fars News Agency video report,  is being overpowered by the music soundtrack:

Near Peer Wars: What is Sejil?

U.S. Space Force confirms Iran’s ballistic missile program is formidable! Beware of System Delta-84!

Idaho, U.S.

BSU joins forces with USACE, it’s about water!

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“This system has lost its channel-forming flows. Without seasonal inundation, we’re seeing a decline in riparian vegetation like black cottonwood forests and an overall loss of biodiversity.”-Marve Griffith, USACE Walla Walla District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Boise state University (BSU) are joining forces to tackle the dying Barber Pool Conservation Area (BPCA), which is part of the Boise River system.

The claim is that the BPCA has lost its ‘natural seasonal inundation’ due to the never ending Boise Metro Area construction of buildings and infrastructure upstream. Also, non-regulated human traffic through the BPCA: “Right now, it’s a warren of little trails. If we establish good, maintained pathways, people will use them, and it’ll reduce erosion and protect wildlife.”-Alan Crockett, local taxpayer

The result is that Barber Pool is not recharging, and that plant and animal biodiversity is rapidly disappearing.  The project is not only about restoring the Barber Pool area, but, by expanding the wetland it could also lower the current level of the floodplain.

On 20NOV2024, the USACE and BSU conducted a ‘Public Scoping’ meeting at the Barber Park Education and Events Center, a fancy way a saying they collected comments about the project from concerned taxpaying citizens.

USACE video report by Marcy Sanchez:

The efforts to restore the BPCA are part of the decades old (Cold War era) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

USACE Barber Pool project.

2024: Idaho wants to shutdown 500-thousand acres of farmland?

2023: Just revealed, Idaho got $26million in federal funding for clean-er water?

Idaho

13th SAC Show: 1928 Studebaker Potato-Maker?

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Actually, it is the image of a potato which was first used on an Idaho license plate in 1928. 

 It turns out that Idaho was the first U.S. state to issue license plates with cute slogans. (Don’t tell anybody, but there are a lot of Idahoans who dislike potatoes, especially on their license plates!)

Some sources say the first potatoes were grown by a Christian missionary in the Lapwai area of what would become North Idaho, as early as 1830!  However, those were not the famous Idaho potatoes everybody now expects to come out of The Gem State. 

The famous Idaho potato is actually the Russet-Burbank, developed by a guy named Luther Burbank starting in 1872.  In 1914, the University of Idaho began experiments with growing Russet-Burbanks. Those type of potatoes grew well in Idaho’s pumice based dirt, but soon other states began growing them and selling them as ‘Idaho Potatoes’!  Legal actions took care of that scam. 

Walkaround video:

According to the Idaho Historical Society, the big new crops for 1928 were mint and green peas! 

My youtube ‘short’ video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KdoDjgj1Be4

On 08JUN2024, the Senior Activity Center (SAC) held its yearly OLDIES ROD & CUSTOM SHOW & FUNDRAISER in the Old Town area (Historic Downtown) of Pocatello, Idaho.

13th SAC Show: 1932 FORD ROADSTER WITH CHEVY 383!

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