Those Iranians are Just Plain Nuts!
But this is in no way bad news:
LONDON, April 9 (IranMania) - Behruz Gheibi, an official in the Agricultural Jihad Ministry said the production of pistachio would hit 250,000 tons in this Iranian year (started March 21, 2006), MNA reported.
Agricultural Jihad Ministry? Ok maybe this is bad news.
UPDATE:
While doing a search to find out more about the Agricultural Jihad, I found that there is also a Construction Jihad.
In the same article from 2000 I came across this gem:
189 MPs endorsed Mahmoud Hojjati and 55 cast votes against him. 11 remained abstained. He will take over the new Ministry for Agricultural Jihad (Crusade), combining construction jihad and agriculture.
Can you Imagine someone defining Jihad as a Crusade in 2006.