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Iran expands military drills to two more nuclear sites in country’s west and center

2025-01-13

[IsraelTimes] Army and paramilitary Revolutionary Guard exercises, initially focused on Natanz enrichment plant, now held at Fordo and Khondab nuclear facilities, state media reports

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has expanded military drills to cover two additional nuclear facilities in the west and center of the country, state media reported on Sunday.

The drills — dubbed Eqtedar, or "might" in Farsi — began last week and are set to continue until mid-March. They involve the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the ideological branch of Iran’s military.

On Tuesday, the IRGC announced the drills were initially focused on the Natanz nuclear enrichment plant in central Iran.

"The exercises are currently being held at the Fordo and Khondab nuclear facilities," in central and western Iran respectively, state TV reported Sunday.

They involve missile and radar units, electronic warfare units, electronic intelligence and reconnaissance command carrying out "offensive and defensive missions," it said.

The drills come after, at the end of October, Israel attacked key military targets in Iran, degrading its air defense and missile production capabilities in retaliation for a massive ballistic missile attack from Tehran on Israel earlier that month.

Iran’s new activities are taking place with the country’s nuclear program under close watch ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
’s return to the White House.

In his first term, Trump pulled the United States out of a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, and he also ordered the killing of an IRGC general in a dronezap in Iraq.

Iran is set to hold nuclear talks with La Belle France, Britannia and Germany on Monday in Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
In January, US news website Axios reported that White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan had presented President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Gave an airbase and billions in military hardware to the Taliban and called it an extraordinary success...
with options for a potential US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities if Tehran moved toward developing an atomic weapon before January 20, when Trump takes office.

Iran’s foreign ministry front man Esmaeil Baqaei criticized the reports, saying threats against the country’s nuclear facilities were "a gross violation of international law."

Iran maintains that its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes and denies any intention to develop atomic weapons.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
Iran, which is sworn to destroy Israel, has in recent years increased its manufacturing of enriched uranium, and it is the only non-nuclear weapons state to possess uranium enriched to 60 percent, the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog said.

That level is well on the way to the 90% required for an atomic bomb and beyond anything needed for a civilian nuclear program.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 IMO, this particular branch of the Arian tree needs to be pruned.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-01-13 01:10

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