Russian missiles delivered to Iran

[foreigner]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has delivered new anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran and will consider further requests by Tehran for defensive weapons, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.

 

"We have supplied the modern short-range anti-aircraft systems TOR-M1 in accordance with our contracts," Ivanov told reporters. "Iran is not under sanctions and if it wants to buy defensive ... equipment for its armed forces then why not?"

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-01-16T121314Z_01_L16260588_RTRUKOC_0_US-RUSSIA-IRAN-MISSILES.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

 

after Patriot missiles delivered to US Client States in western asia.

 

check, mate.

 

simply a marketing plan? If the Rooskie's knock a few F-16s put of the air to demonstrate that their systems work their value could escalate.

 

& use of stealth will take the zionist client state out of the threatened expanded crusade.

 

benefactors: Russia, Iran & TV news companies ..

:bangit: :bangit:

[chuckwoww]

Not check mate. Just another move in the game. Somebody will provoke Iran enough one day...it will be interesting to see how they do it.

[elef]

History repeats itself or who is responsible for the situation in Iran:

 

During World War II, Britain and the USSR invaded Iran from August 25 to September 17, 1941, to stop an Axis-supported coup and secure Iran's petroleum infrastructure. The Allies forced the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom they hoped would be more supportive. In 1951, an eccentric pro-democratic nationalist, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh rose to prominence in Iran and was elected Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, Mossadegh alarmed the West by his nationalization of Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (later British Petroleum, BP) that had controlled the country's oil reserves. In response, Britain immediately embargoed Iran. Soon after, members of the British Intelligence Service invited the United States to join them in covertly overthrowing the democratically-elected Mossadegh. Initially, United States President Harry S. Truman refused, but after Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected the British proposed the plan again. After convincing Eisenhower that Mossadegh was sympathetic to communism (even though he was an avowed anti-communist), the United States agreed to assist Britain in Operation Ajax. President Eisenhower authorized the CIA to take the lead in the operation of overthrowing Mossadegh and supporting a US-friendly monarch.

 

The CIA faced many setbacks, but the covert operation soon went into full swing, conducted from the US Embassy in Tehran under the leadership of Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. Agents were hired to facilitate violence; and, as a result, protests broke out across the nation. Anti- and pro-monarchy protestors violently clashed in the streets, leaving almost three hundred dead. The operation was successful in triggering a coup, and within days, pro-Shah tanks stormed the capital and bombarded the Prime Minister's residence. Mossadegh surrendered, and was arrested on 19 August 1953. He was tried for treason, and sentenced to three years in prison.

 

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's rule became increasingly autocratic in the following years. With strong support from the US and UK, the Shah further modernized Iranian industry, but simultaneously crushed all forms of political opposition with his intelligence agency, SAVAK. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini became an active critic of the Shah's White Revolution and publicly denounced the government. Khomeini, who was popular in religious circles, was arrested and imprisoned for 18 months. After his release in 1964, Khomeini publicly criticized the United States government. The Shah was persuaded to send him into exile by General Hassan Pakravan. Khomeini was sent first to Turkey and then to Iraq. While in exile, he continued to denounce the Shah.

 

wikipedia

[foreigner]

>Not check mate. Just another move in the game.<

 

the knight has blocked the bishops pawn?

[foreigner]

most americans can cite the details of bradjolinas adoptions ..

or the donald's comb over with rosie..

& have not a clue (or a care) about imperialism in western Asia.

[chuckwoww]

Some Americans know a lot about 'missuls' too.

 

Talking of history repeating itself. try this...

 

"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete."

 

http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/1918p/mesopo.html

[Fidel]

Well, while watching Al-Jazeera the other day the hypocrisy of it all sunk in deeper.

 

There was a feature on exiled Iranian Communist Freedom Fighters/Terrorists who are being armed and trained by the US in Iraq and are launching attacks inside Iran in an attempt to destabilize the government.

 

The US has also flooded the Occupied Territories with weapons to fuel the civil war (which they engineered specifically to bring down Hezbollah)and has pledged US$87,000,000 to arm Fatah so they can take on the democratically elected government.

[elef]

Iraq-gate (Gulf War)

 

Iraq-gate (Iraq gate) was a series of scandals involving the US and British support for Saddam Hussein up until the first Gulf War.

 

During the mid to late 1980s amidst the Iran-Iraq war and up to the first Gulf War, the US and Britain provided financial and tactical support to the Iraqi government. Subsequent charges that the American administration had supported Saddam militarily and technologically became known as the "Iraq-gate" scandal.

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