Posted on 02/02/2007 11:31:07 PM PST by FARS
Reports from Inside Iran
Armed revolt by Bakhtiari, Lor and Ghashghai tribes against the Islamic Regime has reportedly flared up.
Yesterday, freedom seeking tribal fighters in the Isfahan and surrounding provinces and region began fighting local Islamic Regime forces and freeing their villages and townships from the Islamic Regime's control.
The Semirom area, which is on the Ghashghai tribal migrations route, apparently saw heavy fighting and more clashes occurred in between Isfahan Province and Yassooj further south, which is the center of the Boyer-Ahmadi tribal territory.
Local fighters from the various tribes, confronted Islamic Regime paramilitary forces – the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) and the Bassij (suppression forces consisting today mostly of Arab mercenaries though originally using naïve, susceptible provincials to swell their ranks).
Heavy ground battles between the tribal fighters and Islamic Regime forces reportedly resulted in heavy casualties left behind by the government troops. Specially at a point around Yassooj and in the Province of Fars which was labeled the Red Line which was not to crossed by the Regime forces.
In hand to hand combat, the local combatants managed to put to flight the government forces who were armed to the teeth, but had to retreat. Thousands of tribesmen took part and managed to free several villages and townships of the Isfahan Province and surrounding areas from the Islamic Regime's control.
Much of the conflict stems from the Islamic Regime's on-going efforts to disarm the tribes and put religious leaders in charge of them instead of their traditional Khans.
To restore morale among the Regime paramilitary forces, who had had to retreat in the face of tough resistance, leaving large numbers of Islamic Regime dead and wounded in the confrontations, the Martyrs Foundation of the Regime announced that all those killed would be added to the rolls of the Martyrs and their families would receive financial aid and support.
As so often in the past, the Regime sent in troops to take revenge on the families of the tribesmen but were repulsed by the internally tough charactered tribal warriors.
The mountainous terrain and the stiff resistance put up by the tribes prevented government militias from penetrating into Bakhtiari and Ghashghai tribal areas. After one their Khans had been treacherously killed by the Regime in the past, that tribe caught the spy who had been responsible, cut him in half with a chain saw and dumped his severed body on the doorstep of a local enforcement office of the Regime.
The tribes have blocked off the road from Shahreza to Semirom with check points and searched all vehicles, specially those carrying persons from Isfahan or Yassooj. Only residents were allowed into the towns and villages.
The tribes hope that their uprising will spread south to Shiraz and Masjid Soleiman (Khuzestan oil province) and even become a national one across the country.
Towns from Semirom to Isfahan , which is only 140 kilometers away in the Ghashghai held area and all townships for about 60 kilometers toward Isfahan are in the hands of the Bakhtiari tribes. The Islamic Regime has never had much control of this area.
When the Islamic Revolution of Khomeini took place back in 1979, the "hanging judge" ayatollah Khalkhali, who loved to torture cats to death for entertainment, went city to city to execute people but when he arrived in this tribal region, the residents attacked his convoy and sent him fleeing for his life but he managed to escape to go on killing.
In trying to cover up what is going on, the Islamic Regime has accused the conflict of being a discord started by a band of drug smugglers and described the participants as thugs and unsavory elements from Sistan and Baluchistan moving through the tribal region as part of their smuggling operation. And confronting the Islamic Regime's anti-drug smuggling authorities.
Meanwhile, in Sistan and Baluchistan the Jondollah movement continues to clash regularly with the Islamic Regime.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Regime, has increasingly more and more fires to put out and this adds to them. If the tribes were the only challenge and the Islamic Regime came down on them with full military power, the tribes would lose.
However, the Regime has to keep their military in reserve for anti-American reasons, so the effect of the tribal insurrection exceeds normally expected parameters.
Well I hope we can send them some soon! We owe some serious payback to Iran's leaders!
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Well...Ramadamadingdong Pajamapants MooHAMed has got some problems...
At least something is happening!!
Note timing. Coincides with the arrival of our final naval task force vessel in the Persian Gulf region.
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ROFLMAO
"Read my lips: there are no American special forces members in the Semirom region of Iran."
Ask them where they want us to drop the weapons they need.
Remember that other Iranian revolt that was quashed a few months ago?
I hope this one gets more traction.
Hopes up but not high.
Thanks for the news article.
Ears up Wolf
Thanks FARS.
Read my lips: there are no American special forces members in the Semirom region of Iran."
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Maybe Mitch Rapp is there as well!
There is likely a 99 percent chance that some CIA toad is sitting there with these tribes and advising them. For the Iranian government...they have to squash this quicky or other regions will get bold ideas...and you just can't have that in Iran.
It does not help that USS Eisenhower is getting there, along with USS Stennis. In another report, USS Reagan is joining them, too.
Add the surge of anywhere from 20K to 48K American troops. U.S. may be stretching Iran's forces really thin.
Now what would Chia Head in Pyongyang make out of this development?
TANKS for the thread,,,Maybe the Bombs will start fallin'.
and ours......
There was another FR thread earlier today about Kurd freedom fighters going from northern Iraq into Iran to recruit their fellow Kurds to resistance. Perhaps someone can find it and post the link here (I don't know how to do that being new to computers.)
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