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Iran's Revolutionary Guards hold war games
2008-07-08
TEHERAN - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards began military manoeuvres on Monday, news agencies said, the same day the US Navy said it was carrying out an exercise in the Gulf.
You play games, we conduct exercises ...
The war games were conducted by missile units of the Guards' naval and air forces, the Fars and Mehr news agencies said. They said the exercises, which began a few hours ago, were aimed at improving combat readiness and capability.

The reports did not give details of where the exercise was taking place. The Guards often conduct manoeuvres in the Gulf.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Nuclearizing Iran doesn't want nor needs war agz the US-Israel right now, whereas the Militants need to save resources to rebuild locally in ME plus espec for new destabilizations in Central Asia.

*2008-2010 > Many Perts are anticipating Iran to detonate an indigenous test nuke NLT 2010. Tehran's worse fear is likely that one or more Militant Groups inside Iraq or Lebanon will do something asinine agz US-Israeli interests = high-profile/value targets to induce a major attack or war agz Iran. AS LONG AS THE USA STAYS PUT IN IRAQ-AFGHANIS = CONTAINS ITSELF, ANDOR EVEN UNILATERALLY DOWNSIZES ALA A POTUS OBAMA ADMIN, TEHRAN BELIEVES IT WILL STILL GET ITS DESIRED NUKES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-07-08 21:38  

#4  Stratego?
Posted by: jds   2008-07-08 16:08  

#3  "They are every bit as professional ......"
OyVey is right. I'll believe this when I see it.

As far as I can tell the Iranians have a marked similarity in professionalism to the Saddam era Iraqis.....(aka none).
Posted by: AlanC   2008-07-08 11:58  

#2  We all get some visceral pleasure from downplaying these guys as "assclowns," but they could be a very serious problem for our Navy and world commerce once they set their collective, though distorted, minds to it. They are every bit as professional and determined, in their own right, as our military assets, and must be treated with a wariness similar to that which we would use with a stray pit bull...
Posted by: OyVey1   2008-07-08 11:11  

#1  Beer run?
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-07-08 10:02  

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