DEBKAfile's Iranian and intelligence sources disclose that Moscow warned Tehran Friday April 17 that Israel was planning to destroy all 140 fighter-bombers concentrated at the Mehr-Abad Air Force base for an air show over Tehran on Iran's Army Day the following day. The entire fleet was accordingly removed to remote bases and the display cancelled.
Heh-heh, even if the Israelis weren't planning, a nice leak to a Soviet Russian agent in Jerusalem sure worked wonders ...
In the first week of April, Tehran announced it would stage its biggest air show ever to dramatize a ceremonial military parade in the capital on April 18. Iran would show the world that it is capable of fighting off an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities. Instead only four aircraft flew over the saluting stand. Iranian media explained that the big show was cancelled due to "bad weather and poor visibility," when in fact Tehran basked in warm and sunny weather.
Moscow had informed the Iranians that its spy satellites ...
... evil Juice spy satellites! ...
... and intelligence sources ...
... that'd be the afore-named Ivan the Weasel ...
... had picked up preparations at Israeli Air Force bases to destroy the 140 warplanes, the bulk of the Iranian air force, on the ground the night before the display, leaving its nuclear sites without aerial defense.
That's assuming that the nuclear sites had an aerial defense in the first place ...
A similar operation wiped out the entire Egyptian air fleet in the early hours of the 1967 war.
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Russia has realized that their blundering has cost them a whole bunch a Middle East dictator allies. Iran being allied with the West during the time of the Shah was truly a fluke in history, and Russia wants to be as tight with them now as they possibly can.
Russia really agonizes over how much support it can dare to offer. It really stuck its neck out for Saddam, a fact not forgotten by the new Iraqi regime, and not in Russia's favor.
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Yup, if I ran Mossad this would present an opportunity to play all sorts of interesting games.
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Are Iran's F-14s and F-4s still flying? Or are they on static display somewhere? I would be really nervous about flying a plane that the only spare parts available for the last 30 years are ones somebody picked up on the black market.
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This would have been sooo funny. Those Juice are such pranksters!
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