Why is Iran on the list of "58 Places to go in 2008" ??

[Nikki Stone1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/travel/09where.html


18. IRAN

What Axis of Evil? Upscale tour operators are tiptoeing into Iran next year, offering trips that explore the ancient country's Persian treasures and olive-green desert plains. Next spring, the luxury cruise liner Silversea will make stops in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on its Dubai to Dubai cruise. And California-based Distant Horizons (www.distant-horizons.com) is organizing two 18-day trips that start in Tehran and then weave through the once-forbidden countryside, including stops in Shiraz and Isfahan. Prices start at $5,390 per person.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Is Afghanistan on that list?

That's somewhere I've always wanted to go. I probably won't get a chance. :(

[shadowknows69]

2. Because it won't be there in 2009?

[krkaufman]

4. Exactly!! Get them Persian rugs, before there ain't no Persia no more. n/t

[AlCzervik]

3. No idea but Prague is on the list and i'm actually going there in March, yay.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. But we haven't threatened to invade Prague.....yet

Didn't Mohammed Atta have his fateful meeting with Iraqi intelligence in Prague? (At least that is what the floated story said.)

[mainer]

6. I would love to go. I'm not scared of the Iranians.

I'm more scared I'll get killed by U.S. bombers.

[madinmaryland]

7. It's on Bush and Cheney's list.

Well at least the invasion list!

[Nikki Stone1]

8. I think California is also on that list....

and that has me scared.