Iran begins air-defense drills to protect nuclear sites
Los Angeles Times / Borzou Daragahi
22-Nov-2009 (4 comments)

Reporting from Beirut - Iran today launched what it described as its biggest air- defense drill ever with the aim of preparing to protect the country's nuclear sites from possible airstrikes as international talks to resolve the long stalemate over the nation's atomic research program falter.

Meanwhile, domestic opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi continued to put pressure on the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, praising protesters for turning an annual march against the U.S. into an anti-government rally met with a violent response by throngs of security forces.

"What we saw in the streets was a huge campaign against the people," he said in an interview posted to his website. "Throughout the history of the revolution, I had never seen such a scene and such deployment of so many forces. [It] showed how they fear this movement and what grandeur it possesses."

Mousavi has been the figurehead of a grass-roots opposition movement that sprang out of Iran's disputed June 12 election, in which he was declared the runner-up. Analysts say the ongoing crisis of domestic political authority has complicated international efforts to forge a diplomatic compromise with Iran over its nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at eventually producing weapons.

The tussle over what Tehran insists is a civilian nuclear program has become wedded to Iran's domestic factional battles. Both hardliners and moderates ... >>>

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Shah Ghollam

That is

by Shah Ghollam on

As much as I hate to say this, but the defenses of the IRI will collapse withing hours if not days.  My only hope that they can in the least hold off more than 100 hours (which was the record set by Saddam's army) before it collapsew like a paper tiger in front of the American infantry forces (and help from the flyboys).  But since IRI is comprised of Arabs trying to rape and pillage the good Persian Nation once again perhaps even 100 hours would be stretching it. I would not be fearful of these empty rhetorics and basesless manuevers.  The Islamic Republic and with it Islam are on their dying days in Iran.

That is a heck of a tall wish list for demise of Iran and Iranians.

Rest assured, unlike some of those ex-pat Iranians who are totally defeated before any war even begins, there will be an impressive numbers who will engage Iran's enemies with much vigor and patriotism to surprise the world, again!!!! This time Iran will reach its enemies far from its borders to a devastating effect.

 


mahmoudg

agreed, little substance

by mahmoudg on

As much as I hate to say this, but the defenses of the IRI will collapse withing hours if not days.  My only hope that they can in the least hold off more than 100 hours (which was the record set by Saddam's army) before it collapsew like a paper tiger in front of the American infantry forces (and help from the flyboys).  But since IRI is comprised of Arabs trying to rape and pillage the good Persian Nation once again perhaps even 100 hours would be stretching it. I would not be fearful of these empty rhetorics and basesless manuevers.  The Islamic Republic and with it Islam are on their dying days in Iran.


benross

I agree Sag Koochooloo, and

by benross on

I agree Sag Koochooloo, and it fits the pattern of IRI behaviour from its conception. I might have missed a period that this pattern was suspended, but nothing out of 'ordinary' is happening here -by IRI standards- to me.

But I wouldn't qualify it as a 'fraction' of the government such as revolutionary guards. We have fallen in to this trap of 'good guys bad guys' time and time again, and I would say not even because IRI wanted to divert our attention, but because we wanted to be diverted, to forget what a monster we have created 30 years ago.


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