Posted on 02/25/2006 12:27:58 PM PST by freedom44
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Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 – Radical Islamist militiamen affiliated to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps staged military exercises in the western suburbs of Tehran on Friday to defend the Iranian capital against “enemy assaults”, a government-run news agency reported.
Some 2,500 members of the paramilitary Bassij took part in Friday morning’s military drills in Qods (Jerusalem) Garrison in Tehran’s Garm-Darreh district.
“In the military exercises, the Bassij forces destroyed the positions of enemy forces who had been ferried to Tehran by helicopters and mopped up the drop zone”, Isca-News reported.
“The Bassij forces accomplished more than 90 percent of their mission”, the report added. Deputy Commander of the Bassij forces in Tehran, Brigadier General Ahmad Zolqadr, attended the rally. Zolqadr’s brother, Mohammad-Baqer, is a top IRGC commander who was recently appointed as Deputy Interior Minister.
While the Revolutionary Guards and the Bassij regularly stage military and security exercises in Tehran and its suburbs, it is the first time that the objective of the war games is to destroy heliborne “enemy forces” in the Iranian capital. The exercises were code-named Imam Hassan Askari, one of the two Shia Imams whose shrine was destroyed this week in Samarra, Iraq.
The Supreme Commander of the IRGC announced on Thursday that God and Muslims would carry out a retaliatory strike against the United States, Britain, and Israel, who he alleged were behind Wednesday’s attack in Samarra.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad each separately announced that the attack on the revered shrine was the work of agents of “the occupiers of Iraq and the Zionists”.
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You don't need to practice so hard boys. Dying is much easier then you think when you face american forces.
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A bunch of rag-tags could easily take on the Iranian military.
Yes, a good report card to the General is always in the making. Therefore, the General can say that the forces are superior warriors. We heard this same rhetoric about Iraqs feared "Republican Guard".
We need to move some Abrams and a small Force upoto the borders, just to help their paranoia....and broadcast that we have evidence that they did the bombing of the Shiite shrine in Samarra....
Won't see it coming, won't hear it til it's too late. You'll just die moocaboocer.
STEALTH. It's an American thing.
Just have em stand still. It's much quicker that way.
That and Tactical Nuclear Weapons!!!
Are the Iranian people close to overthrowing the government yet? I wish they would do it soon so we wouldn't have to take out the nuke plants. I REALLY support all of you, who long for freedom, but I don't know what I could do to help. How many people are against the Mullahs and the government? After the election I was surprised because I never thought so many people would support that jerk who is now the president. It made it look to the world like that many people in Iran really didn't care about Democracy. My BIGGEST fear is that an attack on Iran will unite people who were wanting Democracy against those who attack the nuke plants. It appears to me like that is what the government/mullahs are wanting to do.
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