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2011-11-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran explosion at Revolutionary Guards military base
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Posted by Fred 2011-11-12 09:28|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Lawmaker Parviz Soroori ruled out sabotage."No sabotage was involved in this incident. It has nothing to do with politics," Soroori was quoted as saying by the parliament's website, icana.ir.

Heh. Whatever you say, buddy...
Posted by The MOSSAD 2011-11-12 10:46||   2011-11-12 10:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The blast occurred when weapons were being moved inside a Revolutionary Guards depot...
Making room for the Pak nukes?
Posted by Skidmark 2011-11-12 11:23||   2011-11-12 11:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet they were using Russian arms storage protocols, which amounts to "put everything in a big pile and somebody will sort it out."

Worked real well at the Northern Sea Fleet depot in Riga. Our satellites at first thought a small nuke had gone off.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-12 12:08||   2011-11-12 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 After being revised upward to 27, the death toll is now set at 17 with 15 injured. Link
Posted by trailing wife 2011-11-12 13:33||   2011-11-12 13:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe they got some of the dodgy detonators we sold to the taliban...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-11-12 13:41||   2011-11-12 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Now you know why they shouldn't be allowed to have nukes.
Posted by Daffy Bucket4045 2011-11-12 13:41||   2011-11-12 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Debka is now saying that they were attempting to mount a nuclear warhead on a SHAHAB-3 missile.

There are several other interesting tidbits in the article.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-12 14:45||   2011-11-12 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 ...Inshallah munitions maintenance will do it every time.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-11-12 16:00||   2011-11-12 16:00|| Front Page Top

#9 MKP?
Posted by newc 2011-11-12 16:47||   2011-11-12 16:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Brig. Hassan Moghadam, head of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) missile development and sections of its nuclear program, was killed in one of the two consecutive explosions that hit two IRGC bases 46 kilometers west of Tehran Saturday, Nov. 12.

well, one would suspect a release of specific radioactive material in such an explosion. I hope we are monitoring for it
Posted by Frank G 2011-11-12 16:50||   2011-11-12 16:50|| Front Page Top

#11 I've been suggesting for a while that what is really needed is for Iran to have a serious nuclear accident, in which a lot of Iranians are burned and killed, because the average Iranian on the street just does not have a concept of what nuclear weapons can do.

Explosions like these would be the perfect cover for someone to pump a whole bunch of nasty isotopes into the air in a metro area. And they would be long gone before they would be implicated.

This teaches us (the Iranians) that if you bluff and bluster about nuclear weapons and dirty bombs, you may very well get a taste of your own medicine. When westerners "play hurt", they mean it.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-12 18:10||   2011-11-12 18:10|| Front Page Top

#12 If they were fueling a rocket, could well have been a dronezap.

Explosions at 2 separate bases is a hell of a coincidence.
Posted by phil_b 2011-11-12 18:18||   2011-11-12 18:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Bah, it wasn't a nuclear accident. Nuclear accidents don't go BOOOOOOM. They go "fzzt" and spew radiation everywhere. Wishful thinking.
Posted by gromky 2011-11-12 18:19||   2011-11-12 18:19|| Front Page Top

#14 video
Posted by phil_b 2011-11-12 18:28||   2011-11-12 18:28|| Front Page Top

#15 I agree the white could is a large liquid fuel rocket explosion but mounting a miniature nuke is a Debkagasm.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-11-12 20:27||   2011-11-12 20:27|| Front Page Top

#16  The base is home to the Fifth Raad Missile Brigade, which oversees Iran’s medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missile.

Among those killed was Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam, who held a rank parallel to brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards. He is credited with the development of Iran’s missiles.
Posted by Water Modem 2011-11-12 20:46||   2011-11-12 20:46|| Front Page Top

#17 gromky: A nuke warhead of the type they would put on a SHAHAB-3 has a LOT of high explosive on it, and can give off a pretty impressive non-nuclear boom on its own.

All that would be needed to set one off is probably poor grounding. I wouldn't put it past the spooks to incorporate some component with the ability to generate a milli-amperage overload. Just as likely, the Iranians built a device that did it by itself.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-12 22:10||   2011-11-12 22:10|| Front Page Top

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