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Iran canceled air show when Russia warned Israel planned to destroy all 140 warplanes
DEBKAfile ^ | April 24, 2009 | DEBKAfile

Posted on 04/24/2009 8:08:42 AM PDT by pelican001

DEBKAfile's Iranian and intelligence sources disclose that Moscow warned Tehran Friday April 17 that Israel was planning to destroy all 140 fighter-bombers concentrated at the Mehr-Abad Air Force base for an air show over Tehran on Iran's Army Day the following day. The entire fleet was accordingly removed to remote bases and the display cancelled.

In the first week of April, Tehran announced it would stage its biggest air show ever to dramatize a ceremonial military parade in the capital on April 18. Iran would show the world that it is capable of fighting off an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities. Instead only four aircraft flew over the saluting stand. Iranian media explained that the big show was cancelled due to "bad weather and poor visibility," when in fact Tehran basked in warm and sunny weather.

Moscow had informed the Iranians that its spy satellites and intelligence sources had picked up preparations at Israeli Air Force bases to destroy the 140 warplanes, the bulk of the Iranian air force, on the ground the night before the display, leaving its nuclear sites without aerial defense. A similar operation wiped out the entire Egyptian air fleet in the early hours of the 1967 war.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: debka; globaljihad; iaf; iran; iraq; islam; israel; itsjustdebka; nuclear; russia
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To: pelican001

Would have been one hell of an airshow by the IAF....


21 posted on 04/24/2009 8:24:38 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: massgopguy

The only safe place for an Iranian fighter is buried in the sand..ala Iraq. They sure won’t be safe on the ground or in the air.


22 posted on 04/24/2009 8:25:09 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: massgopguy

"OK, the Iranians are now on DOUBLE secret probation."


23 posted on 04/24/2009 8:26:18 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: pelican001

More likely the Iranians canceled the air show when they realised they have 140 planes and only ten pilots capable of flying them.


24 posted on 04/24/2009 8:31:54 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: AppyPappy

25 posted on 04/24/2009 8:35:15 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: pelican001; a fool in paradise

DEBKA knows everything!


26 posted on 04/24/2009 8:37:26 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: pelican001

>>>and (2) that there are effective spies for Russia/Iran within the IDF.

Probably so but such preparations would have been visible by spy satellite, watching the flight lines, bomb trains, etc. Adding two and two.


27 posted on 04/24/2009 8:55:49 AM PDT by tlb
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To: ontap

Wow. They have made some serious advances!

Can’t get a gun or missile lock on balsa!

Maybe they can get a quote on some RAF mosquitoes!


28 posted on 04/24/2009 8:57:09 AM PDT by ILikeBourbon
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To: pelican001
If this is true

Come on. It's Debka. What are the odds of that?

29 posted on 04/24/2009 8:57:59 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Revolting cat!

That’s where Baghdad Bob is working...


30 posted on 04/24/2009 9:01:31 AM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: KarlInOhio

Hmm... Israelis have payday loan outlets outside their bases
too?


31 posted on 04/24/2009 9:10:28 AM PDT by rahbert
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To: pelican001

“that there are effective spies for Russia/Iran within the IDF”

My future county has lots of russian immigrants.


32 posted on 04/24/2009 9:11:50 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: ILikeBourbon

Inexpensive and stealthy too. Best of both worlds!!


33 posted on 04/24/2009 9:12:32 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: AppyPappy
Russia called later and asked Iran if their refrigerator was running.

LOL!!!

34 posted on 04/24/2009 9:12:45 AM PDT by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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To: pelican001
"(2) that there are effective spies for Russia/Iran within the IDF."

Don't forget about the traitors who are now running the USA.

35 posted on 04/24/2009 9:12:59 AM PDT by lormand
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To: snowrip
Buy the shirt:


36 posted on 04/24/2009 9:14:27 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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To: ontap
Of course, with the rubber band power plant, you've got about 20 seconds of flight time and no ordinance capability.

The WWII Mosquito would be more practical.

:)

37 posted on 04/24/2009 9:17:12 AM PDT by ILikeBourbon
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To: pelican001

The basic facts seem to be true, if you google for “April 18 air show Iran.”

Several credible sources say that a massive air show was scheduled. And I can’t read Iranian, but one blog that links to the Iranian site reports that it says that the show was cancelled because of bad weather.

http://uskowioniran.blogspot.com/2009/04/iriaf-air-show-cancelled.html

I don’t know what the weather in Iran was on the 18th, but maybe someone could check that.

I agree that Debka is unreliable, but sometimes they seem to hear inside rumors. So this is at least POSSIBLE.

Or, who knows, maybe it was Gates and Obama who spotted the Israeli preparations and warned Iran. I wouldn’t put it past them.


38 posted on 04/24/2009 9:17:35 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ILikeBourbon

Planes has got to posses the ability to be built domestically.


39 posted on 04/24/2009 9:21:08 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Moonman62
If this is true, It's DEBKA. It's not true.

Dear Penthouse - you're not going to believe this, but...
40 posted on 04/24/2009 9:26:56 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (We've gone from Jefferson to the Jeffersons)
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