Posted on 11/17/2011 8:35:54 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The death toll in Saturday's explosion at military base outside of Tehran rose to 36 on Thursday, according to Iranian media figures assembled by Agence France Presse on Thursday. The number is more than twice the revised figure reported by the Revolutionary Guards after the story broke on Saturday.
AFP based its figures on the names of the victims, one of whom was General Hassan Moqaddam of the Guards' missile programme. Iran originally said the blast was an accident, but later jumped on a bandwagon of sources blaming Israel for the explosion.
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It is not I only oppose the regime having nukes. It is that I view having the mullahs’ regime in charge in Iran as a threat to the security & stability of the ME region, if the world. The same goes for any regime or gov’t, which, thru their actions, might bring instability to the region.
if the world = if not the world
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