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| Explosions in Iranian port were 'mine-sweeping operations' |
| 2007-01-12 |
| via www.Lucianne.com Three explosions which Thursday shook the southwestern Iranian port of Khorramshahr were caused by mine-sweeping operations, a local official told the Fars news agency. Quite possibly he's telling the truth. Perhaps even so much as a 50% possibility. Khorramshahr's district governor Mohammad-Alii Shirnai told Fars that owing to the expansion of the operations, the sound of the explosions was quite strong and shook some buildings in the city. Following the initial Fars report, there had been speculation of renewed sabotage acts in in Khorramshahr, located in the Khuzestan province bordering Iraq. There had been several bombings in the recent years in the Khuzestan province by Iranian-Arab separatists. Seven Iranian-Arabs from the provincial capital Ahvaz are reportedly to be executed in connection with sabotage acts in 2006 and efforts to topple the Islamic system. And there's the other 50% or so possibility. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Agreed, probably old, low-tech stuff. Our guys would attach some device about the size of a pack of gum directly to the bottom of a ship that would rip its hull open worse than a bite from Godzilla. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-12 08:32 |
| #4 Wait, the explosions were in Khorramshahr? Wasn't that the city on the Shatt al-Arab which was the scene of most of the fighting in the first year of the Iran-Iraq War? It might actually have been UXO, mines or lost artillery shells or something. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2007-01-12 08:13 |
| #3 Three of ours? He-he! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-01-12 07:19 |
| #2 Does oil go through that port? If so they may be getting desperate to bump up the price of oil. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-01-12 01:57 |
| #1 Mine sweeping, eh? I see no reason why we shouldn't engage in a little tit-for-tat in Iran. Sowing a little mayhem and destruction would be good practice for the Seal teams. You know they want it. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-01-12 00:32 |