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2012-01-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran: Britain could send military reinforcements to Gulf

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Posted by tipper 2012-01-24 07:15|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Once Iran gets sorted lets not forget Pakistan and Saudi Arabia the home of Jihad.

Posted by Thumper Jones5052 2012-01-24 08:29|| 2012-01-24 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The deployment defied explicit Iranian threats to close the waterway.

Am I the only one who read that as defiled?

Posted by gorb 2012-01-24 14:16|| 2012-01-24 14:16|| Front Page Top

#3 ION TOPIX > ALGERIA: AL-QAEDA PLOT TO ATTACK US, WESTERN SHIPS IN MED [Mediterranean] FOILED.

versus

* SAME > IN CASE OF WAR ON IRAN, RUSSIA [plans] TO INTRUDE IN GEORGIA. Moscow already prepping its Milfors in Caspian + Black Seas, + Abkhazia + Armenia, for potential trouble.

* SAME > RUSSIA AND IRAN - UNEASY NEIGHBORS SINCE THE 16th CENTURY.

Persia, now Iran, never liked Russian tsarist dominance of the Caspian, nor Russian control of northern Iran until 1946.

DISAGREE WID ARTIC THAT AS THAT RUSSIA APPEARS TO BE DISAPEARING FROM ITS HISTORICAL lINKAGES AS POST-SHAH IRAN EXERCISES AMBITIOUS REGIONAL MANIFEST DESTINY???

* SAME > EXPERTS: IRAN BRINKMANSHIP WAR STRATEGY TO DETER OR STOP US [US-Israel-UK-Other].

Iran prepping for possib WORST-CASE SCENARIOS = US-LED GROUND WAR VEE INTERNATIONAL "GREAT STATES/POWERS" MILPOL CONFRONTATIONISM.

Lest we fergit, IRAN MULLAHS > US-IRAN GROUND WAR = "VIETNAM II" FOR THE US-ALLIES.

IOW, IIUC ala Vietnam War the Mullahs are planning to fight "People's/Guerilla War" despite US, etal. control or mil presence in most or all of Iran proper, + ATTACK SAME FROM ACROSS THE BORDERS VEE IRAN EQUIVALENT OF "HO CHIN MINH TRAILS" + LIKE??? NO PRO-US REPEAT OF "AFPAK" SCENARIO DUE TO PROXIMITY OF RUSSIA + CHINA [SCO-CSTO].

versus

* MEMRI > ON TWITTER, JIHADISTS GROUPS CALL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF ISLAMIC CALIPHATE IN PAKISTAN, admonishing "sincere" PAK Army-Mil + other Security forces, elements to join their cause.

POST-ABBOTTABAD, ANTI-DRONE, NUCLEAR-ARMED PAKISTAN ASCRIBED AS A "GLASS" THINGY THAT CAN PRESEN SHATTER VERY EASILY IN FAVOR OF JIHADISTS = HARD/BAD BOYZ.

Right up Tehran's alley.

Iran = Moscow's BFF, Pakistan = Beijing's BFF.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-24 21:41|| 2012-01-24 21:41|| Front Page Top

#4 ION TOPIX > ALGERIA: AL-QAEDA PLOT TO ATTACK US, WESTERN SHIPS IN MED [Mediterranean] FOILED.

versus

* SAME > IN CASE OF WAR ON IRAN, RUSSIA [plans] TO INTRUDE IN GEORGIA. Moscow already prepping its Milfors in Caspian + Black Seas, + Abkhazia + Armenia, for potential trouble.

* SAME > RUSSIA AND IRAN - UNEASY NEIGHBORS SINCE THE 16th CENTURY.

Persia, now Iran, never liked Russian tsarist dominance of the Caspian, nor Russian control of northern Iran until 1946.

DISAGREE WID ARTIC THAT AS THAT RUSSIA APPEARS TO BE DISAPEARING FROM ITS HISTORICAL lINKAGES AS POST-SHAH IRAN EXERCISES AMBITIOUS REGIONAL MANIFEST DESTINY???

* SAME > EXPERTS: IRAN BRINKMANSHIP WAR STRATEGY TO DETER OR STOP US [US-Israel-UK-Other].

Iran prepping for possib WORST-CASE SCENARIOS = US-LED GROUND WAR VEE INTERNATIONAL "GREAT STATES/POWERS" MILPOL CONFRONTATIONISM.

Lest we fergit, IRAN MULLAHS > US-IRAN GROUND WAR = "VIETNAM II" FOR THE US-ALLIES.

IOW, IIUC ala Vietnam War the Mullahs are planning to fight "People's/Guerilla War" despite US, etal. control or mil presence in most or all of Iran proper, + ATTACK SAME FROM ACROSS THE BORDERS VEE IRAN EQUIVALENT OF "HO CHIN MINH TRAILS" + LIKE??? NO PRO-US REPEAT OF "AFPAK" SCENARIO DUE TO PROXIMITY OF RUSSIA + CHINA [SCO-CSTO].

versus

* MEMRI > ON TWITTER, JIHADISTS GROUPS CALL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF ISLAMIC CALIPHATE IN PAKISTAN, admonishing "sincere" PAK Army-Mil + other Security forces, elements to join their cause.

POST-ABBOTTABAD, ANTI-DRONE, NUCLEAR-ARMED PAKISTAN ASCRIBED AS A "GLASS" THINGY THAT CAN PRESEN SHATTER VERY EASILY IN FAVOR OF JIHADISTS = HARD/BAD BOYZ.

Right up Tehran's alley.

Iran = Moscow's BFF, Pakistan = Beijing's BFF.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-24 21:46|| 2012-01-24 21:46|| Front Page Top

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