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2004-02-01 Iran

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Posted by Mahmoud, the Weasel 2004-02-01 2:44:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Got this feeling that Iran's about to blow. I think its better than 50/50. The Kurds, the Azeris, the Arabs, and a few more like the Baluchis will make a grab for independence. It will get very messy. Iran doesn't have much of a military left after 30 years of Mullah mis-rule.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-1 3:08:17 AM|| 2004-2-1 3:08:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And infidels are sending their legislative delegation to ~~a smoking crater where the Black Hats used to rule~~ ~~Qom~~ Tehran regardless! Allahu Akbar!

Posted by Mahmoud, the Weasel 2004-2-1 3:14:26 AM|| 2004-2-1 3:14:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Iranian mullahs exporting destitute Iranian girls to other Arab countries to be used as sex slaves."

How do the holy warriors justify this? Is it the "JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS" again?

There day is coming.

Posted by AKScott 2004-2-1 4:58:21 AM|| 2004-2-1 4:58:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 BBC is reporting that 100 reformist MPs have resigned.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-1 5:09:34 AM|| 2004-2-1 5:09:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 anyone else think cival war or worse is iminent?

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-1 5:58:51 AM|| 2004-2-1 5:58:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 If Iran blows up it will be like the breakup of Yugoslavia on a timescale a hundred times faster.

I doubt Turkey will stay out, once a greater Kurdistan starts to become a possibility. It remains to be seen what the USA will do. I doubt the Russians will do anything. Nobody else is a player.

Posted by phil_b 2004-2-1 6:21:01 AM|| 2004-2-1 6:21:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll bet the old Pejmaster at pejmanesque.com (sp?) is lapping up every word of this news. How sweet it would be to have Iran reform itself from within! Fantastic news for all of the ex-patriot Iranians in the US and around the world. Freedom and choices are true poison to the mullahs.

Posted by Craig 2004-2-1 11:08:57 AM|| 2004-2-1 11:08:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 We better make damn sure their nukes are either buried under a few hundred thousand tons of rubble, or go in and take them when things go to sh*t. Which means we need better intel than we seem to have been getting. I sure hope some of the SAVAK guys were kept on the payroll.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-2-1 11:38:56 AM|| 2004-2-1 11:38:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 hundred times faster.

I can see worse.... but you think faster?

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-1 11:50:44 AM|| 2004-2-1 11:50:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I would like to see the Mullahcrazy gone but wouldn't count them out. They have lots of paramilitrary assets and their opponents are not united.

Posted by mhw 2004-2-1 1:24:43 PM|| 2004-2-1 1:24:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Anybody know anything about those massacres they listed?

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-1 2:15:35 PM|| 2004-2-1 2:15:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 If Iran blows up it will be like the breakup of Yugoslavia on a timescale a hundred times faster. I doubt Turkey will stay out, once a greater Kurdistan starts to become a possibility. It remains to be seen what the USA will do. I doubt the Russians will do anything. Nobody else is a player.

It'll be Yugoslavia. Not necessarily 100X faster, but a lot uglier. Turkey might get involved because of the Kurds, but don't discount the Russians in this. They've had interests in this area for ages.

Posted by Pappy 2004-2-1 10:28:14 PM|| 2004-2-1 10:28:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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