Iranian War Plans

[Marvin Blank]

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121704_iran_fight.shtml

This is an article that discusses the preparations Iran is making in anticipation of an American invasion. It gets a little long winded at times, but it's only about a five minute read.

I found it on a far-left conspiracy theory type website, so obviously it's got a VERY slanted (and somewhat naive) outlook, but the article is still worth reading, especially the parts concerning their preperations for guerilla warfare.

A couple of gems.......

A week-long combined air and ground maneuver has just concluded in five of the southern and western provinces of Iran, mesmerizing foreign observers, who have described as "spectacular" the massive display of high-tech, mobile operations, including rapid-deployment forces relying on squadrons of helicopters, air lifts, missiles, as well as hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of well-coordinated personnel using live munitions.

Iran's counter-psychological warfare, on the other hand, seeks to take advantage of the "death-fearing" American soldiers who typically lack a strong motivation to fight wars not necessarily in defense of the homeland.

imposing the draft would mean enlisting many dissatisfied young soldiers amenable to be influenced by Iran's own psychological warfare focusing on the lack of motivation and "cognitive dissonance" of soldiers ill-doctrinated to President George W Bush's "doctrine of preemption", not to mention a proxy war for the sake of Israel.

This aside, already, Iranians today consider themselves subjected to the machinations of similar psychological warfare, whereby, to give an example, the US cleverly seeks to capitalize on the discontent of the (unemployed) youth by officially shedding crocodile tears, as discerned from a recent interview of the outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The ruse of power, however, is that it is often blind to the opposite momentum that it generates, as has been the case of the Cuban people's half a century of heroics vis-à-vis a ruthless regime of economic blockade,

[Team Sergeant]

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121704_iran_fight.shtml

This is an article that discusses the preparations Iran is making in anticipation of an American invasion.

Why would anyone in their right mind consider placing American Soldiers on Iranian soil?

It's not going to happen.

Now I can see the US destroying all their military capability, which would entail approximately 1 sortie of B-2’s.

Luxembourg is more of a military threat then Iran. ;)

TS

[The Reaper]

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121704_iran_fight.shtml

A week-long combined air and ground maneuver has just concluded in five of the southern and western provinces of Iran, mesmerizing foreign observers, who have described as "spectacular" the massive display of high-tech, mobile operations, including rapid-deployment forces relying on squadrons of helicopters, air lifts, missiles, as well as hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of well-coordinated personnel using live munitions.




Yeah, IIRC, the Iraqi forces looked a lot like that before 1991.

Stirring the pot and trolling is all the author of that piece is doing.

TR

[Marvin Blank]

Yeah, one of the first things I noticed was how they described how "foreign observers" were amazed by the Iranian tactics and hardware. I'm guessing that the "observers" were a bunch of Arab journalists and Syrian officers. Amazing them probably entails having some "Iranian Commandos" jump out of a helicopter and run an obstacle course.

[lrd]

More on Iran.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16800

[vivelamorte]

More on Iran.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16800

Good read. Accusing this kind of radical islam got Theo van Gogh killed.

Submission (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2655656?htv=12)

The author of that text, by the way, is this guy:

"Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, is the author of After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran’s Foreign Policy (Westview Press) and "Iran’s Foreign Policy Since 9/11", Brown’s Journal of World Affairs, co-authored with former deputy foreign minister Abbas Maleki, No 2, 2003. He teaches political science at Tehran University."

http://www.selvesandothers.org/view2045.html

"Biography: Kaveh L. Afrasiabi is an Iranian-born Muslim, who holds a Ph.D. in political science from Boston University. He has completed post-doctoral studies at Harvard University and UC Berkeley, and he has collaborated with the UN Program on Dialogue Among Civilizations. Kaveh is author of several books and numerous articles, including After Khomeini (Westview), Dialogue of Theologies As Dialogue of Civilizations (Global Scholarly Press, forthcoming),"Communicative theory and theology," Harvard Theological Review, and many articles in the New York Times, Telos, Brown's Journal of World Affairs,UN Chronicle, Middle East Journal, International Herald Tribune, and the San Francisco Chronicle."

http://www.szirine.com/authors.php?aid=18

What else can one expect from someone who's teaching political science at Tehran University? A two-sided view?

[ghuinness]

Russia signs some deal with syria (http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42595) last week and now this....

http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/03/stories/2005020300991500.htm

Russia to launch spy satellites for Iran

By Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW, FEB. 2. Russia will launch two spy and one telecommunications satellites for Iran in what may be a sign of strengthening strategic tie-up between the two countries.

The Russian military space forces this year will place two Iranian remote earth-probe (reconnaissance) satellites to geo-stationary orbits, a Russian business daily reported today. The satellites, Italian-built Mesbah and indigenous Sinah-1 will be lifted by the Russian Kosmos-3M booster from the Russian military space port, Plisetsk, in the second quarter of 2005, the Kommersant daily reported.

Russia will also build and launch a geo-stationary telecom satellite, Zohreh (Venus), for Iran under a $132-million deal signed earlier this week in Teheran. Moscow will also help the Islamic Republic in setting up two ground control stations and train local personnel.

Unlike the Zohreh contract, the deal for the launch of the two spy satellites, named Mesbah and Sinah-1, has not been made public. However, the Prime Minister, Mikhail Fradkov, signed a directive last month permitting the Russian Defence Ministry to launch "scientific" satellites for several countries, including two for Iran. The orbiting of two spy satellites will enable Iran to monitor the Persian Gulf and the territory of Israel for possible threats to its security.

Expansion

The expansion of the Russian-Iranian cooperation into space is bound to enrage the United States. Washington has been pushing Moscow — in vain so far — to freeze the construction of a nuclear power station in Bushehr.

A day after Russia and Iran signed the satellite deal, the U.S. Undersecretary of State, John Bolton, said Israel could shortly deliver a strike at Iranian nuclear facilities and did not rule out any U.S. options regarding on Iran.

[Spartan359]

Marvin Blank Yeah, one of the first things I noticed was how they described how "foreign observers" were amazed by the Iranian tactics and hardware. I'm guessing that the "observers" were a bunch of Arab journalists and Syrian officers. Amazing them probably entails having some "Iranian Commandos" jump out of a helicopter and run an obstacle course.


What the hell is an Iranian Commando????? :D Must be a soldier who isn't dependant upon his camel.

[magician]

I have no problem with this.

In fact, I consider it nothing more than an opportunity to spoof the satellite, and control what it relays down to its control station by technical means.

I hope that the Mullahs waste more money sending these things up, and that the Russians charge them an arm and a leg.

If it were up to me, they would be watching an endless loop of Shoah or Schindler's List from this thing. It would be the most expensive DVD player in history.

It is probably a good thing that it is not up to me.

:)