Posted on 01/07/2020 2:27:34 AM PST by SkyPilot
At least 35 people were killed and another 48 injured in a stampede Tuesday that broke out during a funeral procession for the Iranian general killed last week in a U.S.-led airstrike, according to Iranian state media.
The incident occurred in Gen. Qassem Soleimani's hometown of Kerman, in southeastern Iran, according to Iran's state media. The report quoted the head of Iran's emergency medical services, Pirhossein Koulivand, according to the Associated Press.
Iran has promised retaliation on American interests in the Middle East after an airstrike Thursday at Baghdad International Airport killed the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, and five other people.
A procession in Tehran on Monday drew over 1 million people in the Iranian capital for the man viewed as a national hero. The funeral continued into Iran’s holy city of Qom, where another massive crowd turned out, before Soleimani's remains and those of the others killed in the airstrike were brought to a central square in Kerman...
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"Imagine dying in a funeral you were forced to attend."
56 and climbing over the bodies ...
Mmmmmm, no. Why do you think they’re still virgins?
Winning!
LMAO!
They thought he had sex with their goats?
these folks are insane..dont buy the tit for tat..pound em
look like NY sewer rats
aww noo
They cannot get away with even missle launches that do no damage, ask them once, give up all your nuke sites and missles, or your oil burns
What are their burying?
The burning question of the 1950’s was, “Can the AEC [Atomic Energy Commission] make ballistic missiles practical?” The U.S. does not have a single ballistic missile without a nuclear warhead. (Where “ballistic missile” is used to denote rockets, not bullets. Technically, a bullet is a ballistic missile, but that’s not how the term is used.)
After World War II, the question among Allied scientists about the V-2’s wasn’t “How did they do it?” but “Why?” Both sides knew that ballistic missiles were feasible, but neither side ever made a practical ballistic missile. The Germans spent more money on V-Waffen than the U.S. did on the Manhattan Project.
The V-2 was a terror weapon, but not a practical weapon. It had a ballistic error of about 5%, 10 miles error with a 200 mile range. Launched from France, it might hit London. Apparently, the ballistic accuracy of Iranian missiles isn’t much better. The Germans lobed V-2’s at the Lundendorff (Remagen) Bridge without effect. I’d like to see the scatter pattern of missiles around the targets, but the U.S. is probably keeping that close to the vest. Why help the Iranians calibrate their missiles?
LOL! :D
A lot of us were thinking the same thing - lol!
IS that a word?
Nah, we need a *medical* dictionary! If a patient gets difficult, you *qom* him.
I'd bet most any second year EE student could get a handheld GPS system to steer a missile to and appropriately designated target.
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