Where is the rainforest above located? For the answer see below....
It's in Iran, the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests of Gilan province. Here's a precipitation map of Iran:
More like this
that Iran said, that Israel said, that Cheney said to Oman that the US might attack Iran...
unsourced, unsubstantiated, speculative
but do the Iranians believe it?
Iran is never far from U.S. news headlines. Nuclear threats, unfair elections, captive reporters, a lack of religious freedom, all seem to demand that we do something. But what is to be done?
Iraq denies reports Israeli Jets exercising deployment to Iraqi airfields in preparation for Iran strike...
PS rhetoric is heating up further
Where did you find this picture?
it's on wikipedia, but i think they got it from an iranian gov. tourism site (i've seen it there before).
No tygers
One of the better Metal Gear Solid games was partly set in some area of Southern Russian. It resembled the Amazon.
gav, not anymore :-(
I clicked on the link and discovered that a lovely tree grows there, the Caucasian Wingnut. It doesn't say whether it is left or right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterocarya_fraxinifolia
The influence of the hanging gardens of Babylon, right? They were built for Nebuchadnezzar's wife who missed the greenery of Persia, and I can see why now.