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Thank you, JD, for your long post.....very technical! You know history, politics, and dam very well.......your post reminds me of the Three Gorges Dam of China, the largest capacity hydroelectric power station in the world. The Three Gorges Dam generates a lot of electricity, but at the same time, displaced 1 million people, flooded archaelogical sites and disrupted ecosystem. Both hydroelectric power and nuclear power have pros and cons. The bottom line is that Iran is spending $$$ to upgrade its infrastructures: building railway, bridges, and dam. It is way better than giving the free money and weapons to Hamas, Hezbollas, Taliban, and Karzai etc..

Thank you for sharing!

regimes dreams

at least these thuggish idiots have a good imagination.  they can only be advanced on computer screens.  

forget the bridge

the island would be a great place to exile (at least temporarily) all of the regime thugs.

In fact if the left shut their big mouths and 'left' stupidity

this world would be so much better off.A bunch of lying itiots who think they are geniuses,they are a curse to mankind.

At least Sarah doesn't mind drilling

Our own Oil unlike the BRAINLESS left who prefers we buy it from Ahmadinejihad

The cost

How much is this scheme going to cost us? That junky soveit era nuclear plant costed zillions with no end in sight....

i think sarah palin

i think sarah palin consulted ahmadi on the "bridge to nowhere" project.  this project will bring in a lot of money for some people with a good chance that it never will be completed. 

Time to buy..

The plan is a pale imitation of Dubai real estate boom. Mark my word, if these buggers stay, Gheshm will become a mini Dubai say 10 years from now. The real estate price will plummet in no time. Right now is the time to buy in Gheshm...

But then again... with these blood sucking war mongers in control,  it is not inconceivable that they will turn it into a forteress of balistic missiles to further threaten southern shores of the Persian Gulf..

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Hi Yolanda,

Hoover dam is great site to visit. I recall your photo essay a couple of years ago from desert, I wonder if it was the same trip?  But anyway, the Chinese have one solid approach in the international politic's arena -keep a blind eye on domestic affairs of the host country and get the business.  They get the business, take natural resources and with the revenue that Iran makes from oil export it turns around and buys junks from China and Turkey.

Some of the dams in Iran are also bringing misery along with energy. If you travel along the origin of Zayandeh Rood in Iran, you will find fertile land above the dam, but below the dam there are devastation in agriculture because of water being held and rationed to go to Yazd where there is substantial need.  In Esfahan most of the year the river remains dry and only spring and after heavy rain you will find water flowing.  There are lots of agricultural land that have been lost between Esfahan and Yazd.  That is why a nuclear source of energy becomes so important.

But I must add that Chinese are far superior friends than the British. While historically America has helped Iran with food and supplies during the WWI and WWII, the British on the other hand hoarded food that they bought in Iranian markets and secretly exported it to Baku, hence millions of Iranians died of starvation during the years of WWI in Iran. There was an article about the author of the book aout this subject a year ago in this site. I need to buy that book to add it to my "anti-British presence in Iran archive" that I dearly cherish.

We were never hurt by Germans, Japanese, Chinese, but look at our modern history and see what havocs the British brought upon us.  Thank you for giving me this opportunity to remind everyone that Iran can not be freed until we clean it from the tyrants that sell the nation to foreign countries. While everyone constantly blames religion, they fail to remind each other about "vatanforooshan". Thanks

When it comes to destroying Iranian economy and production

and filling Iranian markets  with junks and destroying Sugar, Tea, Wheat,...by sub-standard imports from China, Chinese trust the Sepah. Did I mention cheap Oil?

Chinese Are More Trustworthy!

When it comes to hoarding their money the IR thieves trust the Chinese better!

Another cash generation scheme for the ruling Mafia?

You don't say!

Those good ol boys at Sepah HQ by now have so many of their xmembers in all those giant construction, telecommunication, transportation,...firms, not to mention every single level of the government from Majlis to every ministry, they really feel they have a sufficient bureaucracy to do anything they please, with almost $100.00 a barrel of oil, you can't blame them! I still don't think they're ready for this Tuesday, and the one after, and the...

Bash ta sobh dolatsh bedamd!

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Hi JD,

    The dam can generate electricity and has the potential to become a tourist attraction.......I visited Hoover dam, a pretty popular tourist attraction, not even the biggest in the world............just hope Iran will improve in human rights and stops doing the crazy stuff.......eventually and gradually tourists will come!

China will sign a $2 billion contract to build railway in Iran, news of March 15:

//www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7985812/China-to-build-2bn-railway-for-Iran.html

Wow! It sounds like sanction does not exist!

Yolanda

They are master builders. It was on the news the other day, that it takes one year in China to build a huge and long bridge and it takes two years in this part of CA for a louzy Target building to get completed. I thought it was funny to hear that in local news.

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China singed a $2 billion contract with Iran to build the tallest dam in the world in Lorestan province:

//in.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/idINIndia-55560520110314

The project will start next Persian year!

Chinese will do it

18 months is pretty much standard for Chinese engineers which  I assume have this contract.

This bridge is extremly important for military transportation and installation of heavy equipment in the island of Gheshm and preparation for the potential serious engagements near the Strait of Hormuz. It will most likely end up to be the first bridge to be destroyed also, to cut off vital military supplies. It has no tourism objective. Overall, a good move by Iran.

It is a positive for Iran

  I wish they would involve themselves more with worrying about themselves and minding their own business.They certainly have enough problems without making more for themselves by opening their big mouths and doing their underhand deeds.Like they always do.

18 Months?

This is the type of project that Iran needs but I can't take him serious with that type of leadtime. It just shows that they have not given this a serious thought and may be another cash generation scheme for the ruling Mafia. On the other hand, he may know that they won't be there in 18 months.

Choghok

Nice comments.  That's totally true.

Let me guess, completion date of 2100...! Based on the previous

projects (big fat zero, "0") completed by the IRR! By that time all of you will be in the harp land! How do like them bananas?

badly needed jobs

I do not know what the hidden motive behind the construction of this bridge is, but, no matter, the construction jobs (jobs in general) are badly needed in South East Iran.

Instead of investing in Tehran and other big city metros

I think metro is much more needed for big cities than a bridge to Qeshm that is so small that it can not cope with large number of cars in it any way. But I guess since Ahmaghinejad has a hate relationship with Mr Ghalibaf he is not going to give money to Tehran Metro.

18 months ey

I'll give it a decade 

who wants to go there?

These idiots ape every move by the GCC governments.  They will never have anything like Dubai.  Only cheap knock offs.  What happened to the "Caspian Palm islands"?