The high performance aircraft coming in from the coast would light up the Syrian air defenses like a Christmas tree, but all pointing towards the coast. While this was taking place, a much slower and heavier aircraft would enter via Iraq, carrying one or more bunker busters.
But it is unlikely that Israel has such an aircraft, that could overfly Iraqi airspace with little notice. It would have been much easier for the US to provide both aircraft and bombs.
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But what of the trace uranium found in the soil samples? Israel must have planted that, said Assad. After all, he said, Syria aspires for a nuclear-free Middle East.
Uh, huh! Caught red-handed and even the Germans know the truth. This(Hadley) predates the American airspace hand-off to Iraq and were probably allowed Iraqi airspace and support and any coastal planes decoys. Unfortunately, any future cooperation cannot be expected with this Admin. Why the Norks' nukes are still standing is beyond me, tho.
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Might need the Norks to do a 'proof of principle' field test of the deep perpetrator bunker buster with an induced sympathetic reaction to 'burn' the material stored so it will look like another 3rd world accident when playing with nasty stuff.
Large stretches of the Iranian capital erupted in chaos and violence today as antigovernment protesters and security forces clashed on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy by radical students.
Amateur videotape also purported to show small, boisterous demonstrations in the Caspian Sea city of Rasht, the southwestern city of Ahvaz and the eastern city of Mashhad.
For the first time in months, there were also credible reports and video footage of a sizable demonstration on the campus of the main university in the northwestern city of Tabriz, the capital of Iran's ethnic Azeri region and historically a hotbed of political activity.
As dusk settled, protesters in Tehran continued to gather in the streets and prepare for what they predicted would be a long night of clashes with security forces stationed at main squares around the capital.
"I was beaten up by a baton so badly that one policeman begged his colleague to have pity on me and stop beating me," said one protester, a 54-year-old mother of three who asked that her name not be published. "But I am not scared. I will keep protesting until the end."
Today's demonstration did not appear to be as large as the huge marches that erupted after the disputed June 12 reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But the protest, the largest in six weeks, struck at one of the ideological pillars of the Islamic Republic by showing that a sizable chunk of Iranians disagree with hard-liners' anti-American agenda
Though the demonstration stemmed from the contested election, America's tangled 56-year relationship with Iran took center stage.
As Ahmadinejad's allies blasted U.S. foreign policy during an official rally attended by tens of thousands of schoolchildren bused in the for the event and government supporters, a leading reformist cleric and architect of the Islamic Revolution issued a provocative statement describing the storming of the U.S. mission in Tehran as a mistake.
"Considering the negative repercussions and the high sensitivity which was created among the American people and which still exists, it was not the right thing to do," Ayatollah Hossein Montazeri said in a statement posted to his website.
And as thousands of government supporters and schoolchildren draped in Iranian flags chanted, "Death to America," opposition protesters warned the Obama administration -- which is seeking to engage Iran to defuse a confrontation over Tehran's nuclear program -- that now's not the time for a deal.
"Obama, Obama!" the protesters chanted, according to footage posted on the Internet. "Either you're with them, or with us."
Throughout the day, videotape, photographs and witness accounts surfaced of violent confrontations between paramilitary forces controlled by the hard-line Revolutionary Guard and unarmed demonstrators across the capital. Reformist websites reported the arrests of numerous protesters.
Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets and attempted to surround demonstrators to prevent them from forming large gatherings. Protesters chanted, "Death to the dictator" and "Russia is the den of espionage," playing on the official description of the former U.S. Embassy compound as a "den of espionage."
Moscow is an ally of the Islamic Republic.
Video footage showed black-clad riot police accompanied by plainclothes Basiji militiamen beating protesters with clubs and storming into apartment buildings where they had sought refuge. One witness said he saw soldiers collapsing from tear gas fired at demonstrators, who tried to ward off the effects of the gas by setting trash fires.
Students at Tehran's restive colleges poured into the streets, reformist news websites reported, in defiance of security forces stationed at campus entrances. One witness spotted crowds of more than 2,000 in several Tehran locations. The crowd cheered as opposition presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi arrived at 7th of Tir Square to attend the rally.
Traditionally, the anniversary of the embassy takeover is used by the government to whip up anti-American furor, which buses in students at public grammar schools to participate. State television showed thousands of mostly schoolchildren carrying placards and chanting, "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" near the site of the former embassy. The building was turned into a museum in the years after the takeover and subsequent detention of U.S. personnel as hostages severed ties between Tehran and Washington.
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Obama could care less if Freedom is betrayed. He regards it as not his problem. He wants to "talk" to the Ayatollahs. He's a lover.
As to the people who only want their freedom? Obama's silence is loud and clear. If he will do it to them, he will do it to you as well.
He's in it for #1. And you dont count. He's a "mouth", he wont fight for American values.
He will abandon the men who fight for this country, and sell them down the river. The American people made a big mistake electing this clown.
We have three more years of this to look forward to...three long years. But we took an Oath to defend the Constitution and play it by the book.
Three long years. What will Afghanistan be like three years from now with no leadership in America? Where would Iraq be now without Petraeus and Bush's steadiness? The Dhimmis wanted to up-tail and run. Remember?
If America gets hit again like 911? What about the Constitution then?
Barry is completely unprepared for the job. Three long years. The American people made a BIG mistake.
But every man in Afghanistan who winds up as guts in a bloody sack will know Barry plays a lot of Golf and wants real bad to MAKE you pay for what he has to sell to you whether. you .want. it. or. not.
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Problem is, to him the Constitution is a mere inconvenience. So those of us who swore an oath have an obligation to stand up against his ideologue stupidity.
The shame of it all is he is incapable of learning. He will leave the office without learning a damn thing.
Precious Persians, do not look at Obama for anything. He is useless for all of US.
Tehran has dismissed claims that a container intercepted by Israel was carrying 'hundreds of kilograms of Iranian-made arms' to Lebanon.
In remarks that instantly became the focus of Western media outlets, Israeli military sources said they found a large cache of weapons when they stormed a Lebanon-bound ship on Tuesday.
The sources added that the ship, which is currently being unloaded in Israel, was Iranian and the weaponry was destined for the Hezbollah resistance movement either in Lebanon or Syria.
"We found dozens of containers, with hundreds of tons of arms bound for Hezbollah from Iran," Israel's deputy naval commander, Rani Ben Yehuda, told reporters on Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem on Wednesday, dismissed the allegations out of hand.
His remarks were backed by Muallem, who asserted that contrary to Israeli claims, "the ship was not carrying Iranian-made weaponry for Syria or Lebanon," but was in fact carrying Syrian-made items for consumption in Iran.
"Unfortunately a number of pirates disrupt business activities and frequenting of the ships, these pirates sometimes act in the name of [Iranians]," said the Syrian Foreign Minister.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Belgian Ambassador to Tehran over the mysterious death of an Iranian national in a Belgian prison.
"The Islamic Republic condemns the killing of Mr. Mamiani-Asl in the Leuven prison and demands an explanation," said the Director of Iranian Affairs at the Foreign Ministry in a meeting with Belgian Ambassador Philippe Colyn.
According to a recent report by Radio Netherlands, an Iranian inmate was killed by a group of prison wardens at midnight on Friday.
Colyn expressed his deepest regret over the incident and promised to relay the Iranian government's concern to the Belgian authorities.
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Deaths of Iranian citizens in Iranian prisons are, of course, a different matter, right?
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Large stretches of the Iranian capital erupted in chaos and violence today as antigovernment protesters and security forces clashed on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy by radical students.
