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2005-07-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Iran Threatens Azerbaijan With Missile, Air, and Artillery Attack

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-16 19:08|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Give us an excuse to hit you Iran, ...PLEASE.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-16 19:16|| 2005-07-16 19:16|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if Iran has assces to picture of Japanese cities taken at teh end of WW2? That moon scape should be instructive for them.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-16 19:28|| 2005-07-16 19:28|| Front Page Top

#3 "How to Win Friends and Influence People, Mad Mullah Style"

Is this where someone sez, "Go ahead, make my day..."?

I'll wager this incessant and incredibly arrogant MM bluff and bluster is wearing very thin with everyone who figures they're in range and wearing a target. Hell, is there anyone they haven't threatened? I'll also wager that we would be happy to assist Azerbaijan with some appropriate materiel. Further, any one of these spear-rattling tantrums could get out of hand...

Some people just don't know when to STFU.

Posted by .com 2005-07-16 19:30|| 2005-07-16 19:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Coincidentally I wrote a (unpublished) novel located in this area with a scenario not too different to this. This is the key phrase - support by Baku of separatist moods in Iranian Azerbaijan. You can divide the border into 4 sections going from East to West. A narrow lowland strip only a few Ks wide suitable for large scale troop movements, then impassible mountains, then semidesert with a large river on the border and difficult to access from both sides, then an Armenian controlled Western section. The reality is that the narrow strip of lowland is a chokepoint where aircraft/missiles could take out bridges over the rivers that run west to east.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-16 19:38|| 2005-07-16 19:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Some more geopolitical titbits for you. While a large slice of Northern Iran is Azeri populated, perhaps as many 25 milion. The southern section of that narrow lowland strip has a large ethnic Persian (farsi speaking) population - probably a majority. The ajacent Caspian Sea is disputed and is believed to contain very large amounts of oil.

The Iranians aint stupid. They would advance 50 to 100 Ks and stop and then try to annex the area, through a referendum or similar. The Armenian defacto annexation of western Azerbaijan, which the world has done nothing about is the example the Iranians will follow.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-16 20:05|| 2005-07-16 20:05|| Front Page Top

#6 When your army fights Iraq to a draw after 8 long years, I'd be disinclined to engage in such chest thumping. Then again, I'm in relatively better control of my faculties then these assclowns seem to be.

Posted by Raj 2005-07-16 20:19|| 2005-07-16 20:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, a lot of their bravado, I think, can be traced to back in the days of the Shah, when the US tried to boost their morale as the first line of defense against the Soviet Union. Combine that with their own home-grown desire for "a place in the sun", like Japan had, prior to WWII, and their egos start writing checks their military can't cash.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-16 21:31|| 2005-07-16 21:31|| Front Page Top

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