Iguana Scoop from WhatReallyHappened.com

Thanks to the Cosmic Iguana
for noticing this:

IRANIAN MORTARS MADE IN USA?

WRH appears to have blown a hole in the evidence linking Iranian munitions with Iraqi insurgents, and if so, it is a big one:

WRH:

HOW LUCKY FOR THE US MEDIA THAT THIS BOMB SUPPOSEDLY MADE IN IRAN BEARS ENGLISH MARKINGS

Also, Iran gets its weapons, including mortars, from Russia. Russian mortars do NOT use 81MM rounds! They use 82mm.

AND, Modern Iran uses a solar Hijri calendar that is 621 years less than the Western solar calendar, so if this munition were really made in Iran. the date should read 1384 or 1385 (Wikipedia errs in showing it as 1427), rather than 2006! The reason for the uncertainty about those two dates is that the Iranian new year happens in our March. In any event, the numerals should be in Farsi. The letters in the center appear to be "HE". "High Explosive" is a common catagory of mortar shell. But "High Explosive" is English, not Farsi.... [*]

Just so you know here is what Iranian writing and dates should really look like:

Iran Newspaper - صفحه اول - 1385/11/21
روزنامه صبح. وابسته به خبر گزاری جمهوری اسلامی. [*]

I guess BushCo thinks we ARE really stupid.