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IRAN PREPARES NEW MISSILE TESTS
adnkronos (Italy) ^ | August 18, 2006

Posted on 08/18/2006 10:22:01 AM PDT by HAL9000

Tehran, 18 August (AKI) - Iranian state television has announced that Iran will begin new missile tests on Saturday in five different border regions including along the frontier with Afghanistan. The tests - which will last five days - appear to be a show of strength staged to impress ethnic minorities living in Iran's Kurdistan, Baluchistan and Khorasan provinces

"These manoeuvres serve to re-elavorate the defence doctrine of our nation," said General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, of the Pasdaran revolutionary guards who will be conducting the tests.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 22august; 27rajab; august22; iran; irannukes; missiles; missiletests; mushroomcloud; proliferation
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1 posted on 08/18/2006 10:22:03 AM PDT by HAL9000
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2 posted on 08/18/2006 10:24:03 AM PDT by evets (08-22-06)
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To: HAL9000

Test last 5 days...........


3 posted on 08/18/2006 10:24:07 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Got towel?)
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To: HAL9000

Lock and load, George.


4 posted on 08/18/2006 10:24:41 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: HAL9000

The plot thickens


5 posted on 08/18/2006 10:25:17 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: HAL9000

"re-elavorate" - Huh?


6 posted on 08/18/2006 10:25:57 AM PDT by TheSpaceCoyote
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To: HAL9000

Air strikes. Now. Ground invasion soon. If someone acts like he is about to nuke you and says he intends to nuke you and says the holocaust didn't happen but should, it is insane to wait around for the UN to "take action."


7 posted on 08/18/2006 10:27:43 AM PDT by Starrgaizr
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To: evets

8 posted on 08/18/2006 10:28:03 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: HAL9000
The tests - which will last five days

Starting on the 19th lasting 5 days...seems to me that brings us back to the date of Aug 22nd and what Iran plans for that particular day.

9 posted on 08/18/2006 10:28:03 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: HAL9000
Sure, do a receipt test on this:


10 posted on 08/18/2006 10:28:40 AM PDT by SmithL (The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
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To: TheSpaceCoyote

"re-elavorate" - Huh?


I think they meant re-evaporate.


11 posted on 08/18/2006 10:28:43 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: dawn53

Hm...that would put the 22nd on the fourth day.


12 posted on 08/18/2006 10:29:01 AM PDT by The Blitherer (You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
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To: HAL9000

If this is Ahmadinejad's "surprise" then I'm distinctly underwhelmed. Even the North Koreans can hit the ocean with their rockets, at least most of the time. Armageddon it ain't.


13 posted on 08/18/2006 10:30:32 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: HAL9000

This fits in perfectly with the nationwide, full scale military "exercises" Iran is already doing.

It is exactly what Imanutjob would be doing if he intended to start a war sometime in the next five days.

Does this have anything to do with the Iranian predictions about a bright light in the sky over Israel? Perhaps a little after midnight the night of August 21/22?


14 posted on 08/18/2006 10:31:16 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: HAL9000

Iran has a death wish. They wont be happy till someone blows them to hell.


15 posted on 08/18/2006 10:31:27 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Starrgaizr
Air strikes. Now. Ground invasion soon. If someone acts like he is about to nuke you and says he intends to nuke you and says the holocaust didn't happen but should, it is insane to wait around for the UN to "take action."

Patriots, Arrows, THAAD, etc. are hopefully in place, so that those missiles aren't as much of a threat.

After they're taken out, then launch the counterstrikes. Solves the "ambiguity problem" (i.e., knowing who fired first), and with the political climate in DC these days, that matters.

16 posted on 08/18/2006 10:31:37 AM PDT by r9etb
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re-elavorate the defence doctrine

Means to hang out the wash, or let it air out, or let it be seen again.

17 posted on 08/18/2006 10:31:40 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: HAL9000

I don't know much about military strategy, but if Iran is launching test missiles, would it be more difficult to tell if in the middle of these tests they launch a missle at Israel?


18 posted on 08/18/2006 10:31:56 AM PDT by The Blitherer (You were given the choice between war & dishonor. You chose dishonor & you will have war. -Churchill)
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To: HAL9000
Taken in tandem with this story http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685459/posts it appears that the nutjob and his mad mullahs are definitely up to something big.
19 posted on 08/18/2006 10:34:20 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: EternalHope

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20 posted on 08/18/2006 10:35:06 AM PDT by patton (LGOPs = head toward the noise, kill anyone not dressed like you.)
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