Posted on 04/15/2006 8:10:36 PM PDT by Flavius
IRAN has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike at British and American targets if the nation’s nuclear sites are attacked. According to Iranian officials, 40,000 trained suicide bombers are ready for action.
The main force, named the Special Unit of Martyr Seekers in the Revolutionary Guards, was first seen last month when members marched in a military parade, dressed in olive-green uniforms with explosive packs around their waists and detonators held high.
Dr Hassan Abbasi, head of the Centre for Doctrinal Strategic Studies in the Revolutionary Guards, said in a speech that 29 western targets had been identified: “We are ready to attack American and British sensitive points if they attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.” He added that some of them were “quite close” to the Iranian border in Iraq.
In a tape recording heard by The Sunday Times, Abbasi warned the would-be martyrs to “pay close attention to wily England” and vowed that “Britain’s demise is on our agenda”.
At a recruiting station in Tehran recently, volunteers for the force had to show their birth certificates, give proof of their address and tick a box stating whether they would prefer to attack American targets in Iraq or Israeli targets.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned last Friday that Israel was heading towards “annihilation”. He was speaking at a Tehran conference on Palestinian rights aimed at promoting Iran as a new Middle Eastern superpower.
According to western intelligence documents leaked to The Sunday Times, the Revolutionary Guards are in charge of a secret nuclear weapons programme designed to evade the scrutiny of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
One of the leaked reports, dating from February this year, confirms that President George W Bush is preparing to strike Iran. “If the problem is not resolved in some way, he intends to act before leaving office because it would be ‘unfair’ to leave the task of destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities to a new president,” the document says.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, a former spokesman for National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an opposition group, said a secret, parallel military programme was under way. According to sources inside Iran, the Revolutionary Guards were constructing underground sites that could be activated if Iran’s known nuclear facilities were destroyed.
The NCRI is the political wing of the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq, which is deemed a terrorist organisation in Britain and America. However, much of its information is considered to be “absolutely credible” by western intelligence sources after Jafarzadeh revealed the existence of the Natanz plant in 2002.
Within the past year, 14 large and several smaller projects have been created, according to Jafarzadeh. Several are designed to be nuclear factories; others are for the storage of weapons, he claimed.
Additional reporting: Safa Haeri
To say it in the most civil way I can:This government in Iran needs its ass kicked hard.
/rant off
I look at all these statements coming from Iran and I just can't help but think of the little kid in the school yard making treats...
I believe that's "making threats..."
Ouch! Sorry...
Treats? What kind of school did you go to? =)
Amazing what a little "h" can do.
I know...my face is red as -ell right now.
Hey all you Revolutionary Guard Guys, most of us Amuricans hang out at a place in New York called the United Nations. But, please don't bomb that, we use that as a place to make our films about your culture being bad and we use that as a place to plan wars against your country. We'd be really unhappy if you bombed our United Nations headquarters in New York City.
Let me know if you need the address.
"My God the rhetoric is on overkill. Do the Iranians know something that the average American does not know? I have never heard such complete paranoia coming out of one little hook-nosed bastard in my life."
Kim Jong Il is writing Oddjob's copy for him.
SHHh!! Don't tell them that oure secret headquarters is in New York City at the place called the "UN". If they found out, they would know just where to bomb to really really hurt us! Shhh!
Oh, puleez! 40,000??? I think not. Though I would believe a dozen or so who trained right here in the well protected closed borders of the USA.
Turbanate them..
How exactly does one 'train' a suicide bomber?
"OK Achmed, now you just walk over there and push that button."
"This button?
"Yes, that button. Just push it."
"You mean like BOOOM!"
Instructor: "Next!"
L
That wasn't a rant, just the truth.
Is it me or does this sound really stupid?
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