[wvns] Iran: 'We will rub their noses in the dirt'
Iran: 'We will rub their noses in the dirt'
October 20 2007
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20071020132419506C880304
Tehran - Iran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11 000 rockets at
enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched
military action against the Islamic republic.
"In the first minute of an invasion by the enemy, 11 000 rockets and
cannons would be fired at enemy bases," said a brigadier general in
the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi.
"This volume and speed of firing would continue," added Chaharbaghi,
who is commander of artillery and missiles of the Guards' ground
forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
The United States has never ruled out attacking Iran to end its
defiance over the controversial Iranian nuclear programme, which the
US alleges is aimed at making nuclear weapons but Iran insists is
entirely peaceful.
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IAEA delegation to visit Tehran
Thu, 18 Oct 2007
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=27648§ionid=351020104
An International Atomic Energy Agency delegation will visit Tehran for
talks on outstanding issues regarding the P1 and P2 centrifuges.
The IAEA team's visit to Tehran, which will take place Friday, October
19 is part of a modality plan agreed upon by Iran and the IAEA.
Following the talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani
and IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA has called on
Tehran to answer the remaining questions about the P-1 and P-2
centrifuges.
Under the modality plan, the next meeting between the representatives
of the two sides will be held on November 22, 2007.
The IAEA has declared that if it receives answers on the outstanding
ambiguities in Iran's nuclear program; the country's dossier could
return to its normal course.
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SAS raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners
Michael Smith
The Sunday Times
October 21, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2691726.ece
BRITISH special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent
months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard's Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have
disclosed.
There have been at least half a dozen intense firefights between the
SAS and arms smugglers, a mixture of Iranians and Shi'ite militiamen.
The unreported fighting straddles the border between Iran and Iraq and
has also involved the Iranian military firing mortars into Iraq. UK
commanders are concerned that Iran is using a militia ceasefire to
step up arms supplies in preparation for an offensive against their
base at Basra airport.
An SAS squadron is carrying out operations along the Iranian border in
Maysan and Basra provinces with other special forces, the Australian
SAS and American special-operations troops.
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They are patrolling the border, ambushing arms smugglers bringing in
surface-to-air missiles and components for roadside bombs. "Last
month, they were involved in six significant contacts, which killed 17
smugglers and recovered weapons, explosives and missiles," a source
said. It was not clear if any of the dead were Iranian.
Last week, Bob Ainsworth, the armed forces minister, said the Ministry
of Defence was unable to say whether British troops had killed or
captured any Iranians in Iraq. The ministry declined to comment, but
privately officials insisted British troops never carry out hot
pursuit across the border.
There have been persistent reports of American special-operations
missions inside Iran preparing for a possible attack. But the sources
said British troops were solely stopping arms smuggling.
The fighting comes amid an increase in US and British intelligence
operations against Iran. Britain's forces have more than 70 Farsi
experts monitoring Iranian communications, and the intelligence is
shared with the United States.
Seven American U2 spy planes have passed through RAF Fairford in
Gloucestershire this year on their way to Akrotiri in Cyprus or
Al-Dhafra in Abu Dhabi, the bases for flights over Iran.
The Al-Quds force has been increasing its arms supplies to both the
Shi'ite militias in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Officially,
Britain has been careful not to blame the Iranian government.
But senior British officials have confirmed to The Sunday Times that
it would not happen without the backing of the Iranian leadership.
They pointed out that Gen Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Al-Quds
force, has direct access to Ayatollah Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran
Liam Fox, the Conservative defence spokesman, said: "Increasingly Iran
poses a direct threat to our armed forces and our wider interests ...
they are playing a very dangerous game."
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Ahmadinejad: West is "Zionism's captive"
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/217426
AhmadinejadIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressing the World
Qods (Jerusalem) Day ralliers and Friday prayers worshipers, said
Zionism is a political party that has taken captive western states and
nations. "There is also a second idea which says western powers and
statesmen have founded Zionism themselves and they are directing the
Zionist game," he said.
"According to this idea," the president said, "The Zionist party is,
as a matter of fact, these heads of western powers who are playing
their role behind the curtain, but they have invented something dubbed
as 'Zionism andoppressed jews'.
Addressing the western powers, Ahmadinejad said," I ask you, which one
is the real Zionist? Are you captives or you are lying and you are the
axis of Zionism?"
He added, "This is a serious question, if the Zionists control you, we
and the other free nations are ready to help you to make yourself free
from this criminal party's captivity and rescue your nations."
Ahmadinejad told western officials, "If you are behind the curtain,
declare it. I am asking those governments, who support the Zionists to
declare their position. But in any case they should know that they are
responsible and are partners of the Zionist regime's crimes."
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