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2010-03-07 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russian pilots to be replaced with Iranians

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Posted by Fred 2010-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 This should end well. /s

Posted by tipover 2010-03-07 00:26|| 2010-03-07 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Good.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-07 06:10|| 2010-03-07 06:10|| Front Page Top

#3 This may mean more than it seems. A country doesn't want foreign pilots when it is at war.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-07 08:50|| 2010-03-07 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Or -- Russia doesn't want it's pilots there in case of war and are withdrawing them but are allowing the Iranians to be the announcers to give them some face-saving.

Posted by Odysseus 2010-03-07 09:55|| 2010-03-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 wow,that will be fun to watch, popcorn?

Posted by Karl Rove 2010-03-07 18:02|| 2010-03-07 18:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Or - the Iranians aren't happy that their S-300 air defense system hasn't been delivered and this is a way of expressing their displeasure.

Posted by Pappy 2010-03-07 18:08|| 2010-03-07 18:08|| Front Page Top

#7 According to StrategyPage, it's all about the S-300 SAMs.
Russian attempts to replace Iran's aging AirBus and Boeing airliner fleet with Russia aircraft has apparently failed. Iran has ordered dozens of Russian pilots (for the Russian airliners Iran does use) to leave the country within two months. Iran is angry that Russia has again said it would deliver the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems Iran has bought and paid for, and then said that, no, the missile systems would not be shipped. Russia has become alarmed at Irans nuclear weapons program, and the aggressiveness and instability of Iranian leadership.

Posted by ed 2010-03-07 18:21|| 2010-03-07 18:21|| Front Page Top

#8 I just got in an extra boxcar-load, Karl. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-07 18:24|| 2010-03-07 18:24|| Front Page Top

#9 "Russia has become alarmed at Irans nuclear weapons program, and the aggressiveness and instability of Iranian leadership."

Why? Russia finally figured out they're a lot closer to Iran than we are?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-03-07 18:26|| 2010-03-07 18:26|| Front Page Top

#10 I think our buddies in the Politburo have finally looked at the wind patterns in the ME and figured out that if Iran cooks off one of their new toys, the nuclear plume from the blast will contaminate a significant chunk of Russia.

Not to mention Iran it self but then if they do that, a war would be easy, the Iranians would all glow in the dark.

No seriously the prevailing winds would blow fallout from a blast in Israel across Jordan, part of the KOSA, Iraq, Syria (we could only hope) and Iran itself.

It's like the guy who catches his wife in bed with another man, and tells them he is committing suicide, and when they laugh he says, well you're next.

Irrationality compounded with religious fanaticism is a witches brew of disaster.

Posted by Karl Rove 2010-03-07 22:05|| 2010-03-07 22:05|| Front Page Top

#11 "Don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows ..."

Posted by lotp 2010-03-07 22:10|| 2010-03-07 22:10|| Front Page Top

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