$12.6 million worth, apparently:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080708/ap_on_go_ot/iran_buying_american
The standard unit of this is the straw. The cheapest straws run for around $12, good ones are in the $25-40 range, and they apparently run up to $200.
A straw is half a mililiter. A teaspoon is 5 mililters, and a (fluid) ounce is a bit less than 30. So, 60 or so straws to a (fluid) ounce makes even the cheapest bull semen more expensive than gold. There's probably a reason for that ... but I don't wanna' know.
Anyway, this site does conversions between units, and says that a barrel has 158,987 mililiters is it.
That puts the price of a barrel of bull semen at some $3,800,000 for the cheap stuff, $8-12 million for the good stuff, and just under $65 million for the cream of the crop.
America sent more cigarettes to Iran — at least $158 million worth under Bush — than any other product.
Bär wrote:McCain beat you to that joke, Duck.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cindy McCain's jab to her husband's back came a second too late Tuesday to keep him from making a wisecrack about the health impact of Iran's main import from the United States: cigarettes.
"Maybe that's a way of killing them," McCain told reporters, smiling as he waited for a cheesesteak sandwich at the Primanti Brothers restaurant. His wife, sitting next to him at the counter, poked his back without looking up.
Taking a more serious tone, McCain said, "I'd like to look into" details of exports to Iran. "This is the first that I've heard about it," he said.
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