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| Syria, Iran, Russia and China plan joint war games, Iranian news agency reports |
| 2012-06-19 |
| Largest joint exercise in Mideast history, reportedly involving troops, tanks, planes and even Russian nuclear subs, set to take place within a month along Syrian coast Iran, Syria, Russia and China are planning the “biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East,” according to an unconfirmed report on the semi-official Iranian news site Fars News. According to the article, the four countries are preparing 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft and 1,000 tanks for the massive joint maneuvers, which are to take place along the Syrian coast within a month. The report states that Russian “atomic submarines and warships, aircraft carriers and mine-clearing destroyers as well as Iranian battleships and submarines will also arrive in Syria” and that Egypt has agreed to let 12 Chinese warships cross the Suez Canal for the exercises. The IDF spokesman’s office called the report a “political matter” and declined to comment. Iran is currently holding talks with six Western powers over the fate of its nuclear program. The talks, said to be held in a tense atmosphere in Moscow, seek to alleviate world concerns that the Islamic Republic is developing nuclear weapons. Syria meanwhile faces international pressure to end a 15-month crackdown on local rebels trying to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad. China and Russia have come to the aid of both countries in recent months at the UN Security Council, vetoing military intervention in Syria and expanded sanctions on Iran. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #5 OTOH DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Deputy Chair, Turkey's Labour Party] ESINOGLU: US CIA [vee Blackwater] RECRUITED 6000 ARABS, AFGHANS, + TURKS TO COMMIT TERRORIST ACTIONS IN SYRIA. Blackwater is now in Turkey??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-06-20 00:01 |
| #4 True or not, I'll bet a dollar to a dog turd that Obean was ready to fold. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-06-19 20:22 |
| #3 "Chinese fire drill." That's very un-PC, EU. We say "ethnic fire drill" now. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-06-19 20:20 |
| #2 Chinese fire drill. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-06-19 14:54 |
| #1 Or maybe not. Russia, Syria deny war games with China, Iran Russian and Syrian officials dismissed as provocation on Tuesday Iranian media reports that Iran, Russia, China and Syria are to conduct joint military exercises in Syria next month. Iran's semi-official Fars News outlet, which has ties to the Iranian government, cited "certain unofficial sources" had confirmed the war games but did not say where those sources were from. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-06-19 14:23 |