Iranian weavers have created what they claim is the world's largest handmade carpet, a soccer-field-sized red-and-green colossus bound for an Abu Dhabi mosque and valued at $5.8 million. But Iranians are setting their sights even higher:
[Jalaleddin Bassam, the head of Iran's state carpet company,] said the carpet was an important commission for Iran's carpet-making industry, and said it could lead to further orders.
"Iran is in talks to make similar carpets for Oman and other Gulf countries," he told Agence France-Presse.
Link - via Fortean Times
Glad to see they have their priorities straight.
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Hey, it is better than chopping people's heads off or financing terrorism. "Build rugs, not A-bombs!"
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If certain powers have their way, we may see some true 'carpet bombing' soon.
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Kalel: dude... excellent punning --- I wish I thought of it! Yes, keep your fingers crossed... maybe we will get to see them reduced to a smouldering ash heap. How well they control their mischief may depend on who wins the US Presidential election next year.
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Sorry Pixelman, your rug is in another castle.
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What... are they making a carpet to cover all of Oman? It is a small country...
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Perhaps they are weaving this as a cover for their nuclear facilities....
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