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| Iran conducts largest exercise ever |
| 2004-12-06 |
| Iran has launched what officials termed its largest military exercise ever. Officials said the Iran Army began the exercise on Dec. 3 in western Iran near the border with Iraq. They said the aim of the exercise was to demonstrate ground force capabilities and weaponry in an effort to deter any attack from the United States. U.S. officials said the administration wants to increase defense and security cooperation with Saudi Arabia which is regarded as the key to the U.S.-led war against Al Qaida and the containment of Iran in the region, according to the current edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com. The exercise tested a range of indigenous missiles, rockets, armored personnel carriers, main battle tanks and unmanned aerial vehicles developed over the last decade. Officials said many of these weapons and platforms were introduced into service over the last two years, Middle East Newsline reported Officials said the exercise included 10 infantry divisions as well as artillery, missile and electronic warfare units. They said the air force was providing support for ground units as part of a demonstration of the interoperability between the services. The exercise also contained seven brigades and three air transport units. Four artillery units also participated in the exercise, which covered an area of 100,000 square kilometers in the provinces of Islam, Hamadan, Kermanshah, Khozstan and Lorestan. During the live fire exercise, Iranian infantry troops fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in an effort to block a mock ground invasion from Iraq. The air force was said to have transported equipment as well as carried out attacks in support of the ground forces. In Manama, Iran and its Gulf Cooperation Council neighbors discussed a new regional security regime. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi told a Gulf security conference in the Bahraini capital on Sunday that what he termed "a collective security project" would ban its members from "signing unilateral agreements with outside powers that may threaten, directly or indirectly the security of other countries." "The new regional organization would combat all sorts of terrorism and violence," Kharazi said in a message read at the conference. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #11 pappy - I already tried in sensitively-worded email....good luck |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-06 11:00:53 PM |
| #10 Pragmatically, US Battlespace/MilTech Dominance Mr. Mendiola - ever think of breaking your comments into, short, easily readable paragraphs without the all-caps wording? Just a question from a former editor who keeps trying to figure out what you're trying to say... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-12-06 10:55:17 PM |
| #9 Moab in Farsi is "Oh SH&T!" There would not be enough of the Iranian army to send home to Mom, let alone deliver to allan and his 72 virgin circus. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-12-06 9:54:20 PM |
| #8 Moab in Farsi is "Oh SH&T!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-06 9:49:51 PM |
| #7 I, for one, am PROUD of the Iranian military for putting on such a display! I think we need a group photo to commemorate the occaision! That's it...squeeze in a little closer...PERFECT, now everyone say "MOAB" |
| Posted by: Justrand 2004-12-06 9:41:55 PM |
| #6 Pragmatically, US Battlespace/MilTech Dominance + AYMMETRIC WARFARE > America's enemies need GROUPS OR MASSES OF ARMIES, GOVTS, NATIONS or REGIONS just to achieve warfighting PARITY/ SUFFICIENCY/ECONOMIES against US Milfors. Think of the Mullahs and NorKor as part of the Clintons DIALECTIC "CENTRISM" and "THIRD WAY" , aka THIRD -PARTY OR TERTIARY ALIBISTS in jurisprudence-based lawyerspeak, committing crimes by using the law or working with the law, not against it, sub i.e committing a crime(s) by not committing a crime(s). Thus INTERNAT/GLOBAL WAR FOR SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM/OWG = MERITORIOUS DEFENSE AGAINST US [and only US] IMPERIALISM, AGGRESSION, AND "FASCISM" even though under Clintonism every American and GOP-DEM is a "FASCIST" DESERVING OF DESTRUCTION, iff only surreally!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2004-12-06 9:33:43 PM |
| #5 In war the Revolut Guards and collusory military units will suffer the same fate as Saddam's forces - their real plan to wage static guerilla war like Saddam's loyalists while using the anti-America UNO and LeftMedias to do damage, ala "NO WMDS IN IRAN". Post-Kerry the Left is still out to discredit and "justify" Socialism and OWG upon the USA, even iff it means putting the lives of millions of American citizens and warriors at risk of injury or death vv regional war(s) and new terror attacks. They are now promo themselves not only as the "NEW GOP/RIGHT", or the "REAL GOP/RIGHT", but as the PARTY OF REASON, FAIRNESS, AND JUSTICE, like your old school teachers reviewing and grading your homework, threatening you to either redo your work, shape up, or your parents will be called for conference, needing to do this or that. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2004-12-06 9:21:20 PM |
| #4 Now would be a good time for the US to attack, think of how confusing and then demoralizing it would be to their armed forces to be wiped out in hours. |
| Posted by: ZoGg 2004-12-06 9:18:25 PM |
| #3 Iranian infantry troops fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in an effort to block a mock ground invasion from Iraq. How did they simulate the B-52's arclightin' their sorry asses? |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-12-06 9:13:05 PM |
| #2 WW-II Forces, meet WW-IV Forces. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-06 9:11:31 PM |
| #1 largest movement ever? Wait'll they try the "national duck and cover day" exercise |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-12-06 9:10:46 PM |