AP: Iran on Wednesday said 18 members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard were killed in an explosion that struck the force's base in the country's west a day earlier.
The state IRNA news agency said 14 other Guard troops were wounded in Tuesday's blast in the city of Khoramabad, some 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Tehran. The injured were taken to hospitals in Khoramabad.
The report said the blast was caused by a fire that had reached the ammunition storage area, but there was no word on what had ignited the blaze. In their first reports of the blast late Tuesday, most Iranian media said the explosion was an accident.
Although Khoramabad has not seen violence recently, it is geographically close to Kurdish-populated areas that have been the scene in recent months of several attacks by Kurds disgruntled with the central government.
Iran is battling armed militant and separatist movements in the remote southeast along the border with Pakistan and in the far northwest along the border with Iraq.
On Sept. 12, a blast at a military parade in Mahabad, near Iraq, killed 12 people and prompted a cross-border retaliatory raid by Iranian forces. They blamed the attack on Kurdish separatists and followers of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Tehran has accused the U.S. and Britain of provoking ethnic unrest to undermine Iran's security, charges both Washington and London have denied. >>>
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Mola: Don't be so naive ..
by Iran Paidar 1st on Wed Oct 13, 2010 08:32 PM PDTFirst of all, there was no foreign intervention in this explosion. If there was any, IRI would have immediately claimed so. I suspect that there was some military experiment gone wrong. Now, they are saying that a fire reached the ammo depot.
Do we know for certain?
by AMIR1973 on Wed Oct 13, 2010 06:11 PM PDTDo we know for certain what the cause of the blast was? The attached article reads:
The report said the blast was caused by a fire that had reached the ammunition storage area, but there was no word on what had ignited the blaze. In their first reports of the blast late Tuesday, most Iranian media said the explosion was an accident.
Perhaps the West-residing IRI Groupies like Mola Nasrallah need to take a breath first before offering their imbecilic theories about the Forces of Evil behind the blast. The IRI has some of the most dismal automobile and airline safety records. We've seen what happened to Bam after a 6.6 earthquake -- there is a pervasive environment of incompetence, stupidity, corruption, criminality, and carelessness in this regime. Clearly, the moronic animals who run the IRI have a lousy record on safety precautions. Perhaps this explosion was an accident, like the report says (though, of course, the IRI lies through its teeth and some scepticism is warranted regarding their claims). The bottom line is we don't know for certain.
Twisted Logic!
by Immortal Guard on Wed Oct 13, 2010 05:52 PM PDTKilling a few revolutionary guards here and there doesn't really do much. They can replenish their ranks faster than it takes to bury the dead! This is a system based on fostering a culture of martyrdom. These killings pale in comparison to the human wave attacks where they used teenagers to clear the minefields.
On a separate note this reminds me of the attitude of Henry Kissinger who during the Iran-Iraq war has been quoted as saying things like, 'too bad they both can't lose' and 'I hope they kill each other'! (Here you can find the quote:)
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Now Simorgh555 you sound quite hysteric. When you play one too many people against each other and throw them on each others' throats you better pray they don't wake up and don't trace it back to the source because once they do you are going to get it from them all at once. Your "dual containment policy" is going then to come back to haunt you and backfire enormously!
They need to blow up rahbar e an gelab
by statira on Wed Oct 13, 2010 05:44 PM PDTand the fatty pasdar behind him.
And then
by Mola Nasredeen on Wed Oct 13, 2010 02:14 PM PDTYou go back to Iran and live happily ever after. What a bunch of BS!
good
by Simorgh5555 on Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:36 PM PDTI reluctantly welcome this attack.
I am much against any ethnic separatists as much as I hate the Islamic Republic. The Islamic Republic must be de-stabilised and attacked on all fronts.
I very much hope that secular democratic forces opposed to the regime will be encouraged by this attack and initiate their own attacks on the Basij and the Revolutionary Guard.
This attack shows that the Islamic Republic is vulnerable. All remainign Basijis and Revolutionary Guard members should be encuraged to defect and join the resistance movement against the regime.
Any attack by the scum separatists will be responded to by the terrorists in Tehran but that is good. Let them enter into a war of attrition until both are worn out thus killing two birds with one stone. Yes, kind of dual containment policy similar to that of Iraq and Iran in the 1980s but in a microcosm.
This will then create a power vacume and the Iranian resistance movement will take power.
Once the Islamic Republic is close to collapse then we should deal firmly with any Kurdish, Baluch, Azari separatists and carpet bomb Pakistan and Azarbaijan if we have to.
Death to all Islamists and Sepratissts....but let them kill each other off first.
Rest in peices
by Parthianshot91 on Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:04 AM PDTHopefully all the american trailer trash troops and basiji islamist idiots kill themself off, what do we lose out of this? Nothing. god bless the people who fight for Iran, these revolutionary militia men fight for allaH U AKBAR, I'm so glad they died ;)
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This is how they're trying to bring democracy to Iran
by Mola Nasredeen on Wed Oct 13, 2010 08:19 AM PDTBombs start to blow up, military personel and civilians being killed and structures destroyed. Good luck!
death is always sad
by mahmoudg on Wed Oct 13, 2010 07:01 AM PDTbut look at it this way. Better the Basij and guardsmen than innocent civilians (in the thousands). These brainwashed poor souls would have killed thousands, had they been unleashed on the civilian population. In the hopes that the rest of the remaining few thousand would come to their senses and abandon their support for this demonic regime.