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| Iran arming regional 'freedom armies', says top commander |
| 2008-10-27 |
| Iran is arming 'freedom armies' in the Middle East, a military website quoted a top commander of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards as saying on Sunday. "Today, not only our armed forces are self-sufficient but the freedom armies of the region also get part of their weaponary from us," said Hossein Hamedani, the deputy commander of Iran's volunteer Basij militia. His comments appeared on the public relations website of the Revolutionary Guards. Like those of the Revolutionary Guards, commanders of the militia are appointed by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hamedani, whose military rank was not provided, did not elaborate what he meant by 'freedom armies'. But Iran has dubbed Palestinian groups such as Hamas and the hardline Islamic Jihad as well as the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah as 'freedom armies' since all have vowed to fight Tehran's regional arch-foe, Israel. Tehran has always maintained that its support to these groups is merely 'moral' and that it does not provide them with any military means, despite claims to the contrary by Washington. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 I believe they're beginning to 'fess up to the "Special Groups" in Iraq. |
| Posted by: Goober Cluck4803 2008-10-27 12:46 |
| #5 Iran is running out of cash. Unfortunatly their wheat crop was average this year, but the Egyptian blight/mold has made an appearance. This stuff kills wheat and wheat is very important to the Iranians. |
| Posted by: bman 2008-10-27 10:57 |
| #4 Arabian Nightmare U.S. and Iraqi forces regularly capture Iraqis smuggling weapons in from Iran. Over the Summer, nearly 10,000 Iranian weapons were seized from smugglers, usually by American troops. Iran denies any involvement, as there is a lot of smuggling from Iran to Iraq. But many of the captured smugglers admit that they received military training in Iran, as part of a plan to build a pro-Iranian terrorist organization inside Iraq, to be used whenever Iran believes it needs a little more chaos inside its Shia neighbor. ... |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-27 07:43 |
| #3 I sure hope "somebody" is busy arming "freedom armies" in iran too. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-10-27 05:38 |
| #2 If it means freedom from their miserable fucking lives(as in separating them from) - so be it. |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-10-27 04:01 |
| #1 Who exactly are they giving these weapons to? Give them to the wrong folks and heads of state will roll. Must be "freedom armies" outside Iran's border? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-10-27 02:54 |