Posted on 08/03/2009 5:13:02 AM PDT by Schnucki
As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in for his second term in office today, Iranian opposition groups have intensified their attacks against the regime in protest at the controversial election result.
In the latest incident, a leading opposition group is being blamed for blowing up a key railway bridge at Ahwaz in southern Iran. The bridge, which is used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to transport military supplies, was destroyed in the early hours of Saturday morning. According to reports now reaching the West, Iranian security officials immediately sealed off the area to prevent onlookers seeing the extent of the damage.
A leading Iranian dissident group called the Abu Bakr forces is being blamed for the attack, which has severely disrupted one of the country’s main freight rail links with Bandar Imam Khomeini sea port.
The attack was timed to coincide with the Islamic regime’s decision to put on trial hundreds of anti-government protesters at the weekend as part of the government’s continuing efforts to suppress all opposition to Mr Ahmadinejad’s re-election in June. Although many Iranians believe the election result was rigged, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, has accepted the result which means his favoured candidate will now serve a second term in office.
Mr Ahmadinejad’s re-election is certainly bad news for the West, which had hoped that a change of leader might result in Iran pursuing a more constructive dialogue over its controversial nuclear programme. But with Mr Ahmadinejad now set to serve another four year term, the prospects of the crisis being resolved anytime soon are remote indeed.
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ALREADY WAR
blowing up a bridge is something that’s never done
except in a war situation.
If this escalates, it will be up to Zero to “take sides”.
It will be interesting to see how and if his continual bet-hedging
comes to define his “foreign policy”.
ALREADY WAR
blowing up a bridge is something that’s never done
except in a war situation.
If this escalates, it will be up to Zero to “take sides”.
It will be interesting to see how and if his bet-hedging
comes to define his “foreign policy”.
It looks like outside help is bring C4 to the masses there.
President Ahmadinejad will blame Israel.
Or America, or both.
Hmmmmmm? Commando strike? Possible rail route to deliver nuke material? It would be nice if it was the Persians trying to take back their country from the Arabs that Khomeini brought into the country. Too early to predict, but it shouldn’t be a problem to bring explosives into the country that were captured outside of the country. I’m sure the Kurds have a stake in this too.
Ahvaz has a large population of arabs and separatist supporters. This has been a ‘trouble spot’ for quite some time.
Good details. And the name of that group suggests that they are Sunni fundamentalists - possible Saudi links.
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