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| Russia, Iran, S300s, Ukraine and Georgia |
| 2008-09-02 |
| September 1, 2008: The government insists that it has not bought S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missile systems from Russia. This despite many reports coming out of Iran over the last year about preparations (training of operators and building of bases) for these systems. Now Russia has offered to not deliver S-300s to Iran if NATO membership is refused for Ukraine and Georgia. This despite Iran's enthusiastic backing of the Russian dismemberment of Georgia via an invasion and occupation last month. September 2, 2008: The governments growing closeness with leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had led to hundreds of Iranian intelligence and special warfare (terrorism) operatives being dispatched to South America. It was only a decade ago that such Iranian operations were shut down there, in the wake of terror attacks against Jews in Argentina. One truck bomb attack in 1994 killed 85 Argentinians, most of them Jewish. This horrified people throughout the region, and the backlash caused Iranian diplomats and terrorism operatives to run for cover. But with Venezuela as a safe, and hospitable, base, Iranian death squads are again up and running in South America. |
| Posted by:ed |