Posted on 02/17/2019 11:51:39 PM PST by Cronos
Iran's parliament speaker has said that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was "planned and carried out from inside Pakistan.”
In the remarks carried by the state-run IRNA news agency on February 17, Ali Larijani said that Pakistan should answer for its involvement in the attack.
The comments come as Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Pakistani ambassador on February 17 to protest the assault, one of the deadliest attacks on Iranian security forces in years.
Islamabad condemned the bombing but has not commented on Tehran’s allegations.
The IRGC says a suicide bomber on February 13 drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a bus that was transporting troops in Sistan-Baluchistan Province.
A militant Sunni Muslim separatist group called Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sistan-Baluchistan is a volatile area near Iran's borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan where militant groups and drug smugglers frequently operate.
The province is populated mainly by Sunni Muslim ethnic Baluchis.
Tehran has repeatedly accused the United States, Israel, and U.S. ally Saudi Arabia of backing Sunni militia groups that carry out attacks against Iranian security forces, charges those countries have denied.
Well I guess that “Death to America” meme is still good, right?
Did You Know Baluchistan Was Once Home To The World’s Largest Mammal... The Beast of Baluchistan
https://www.parhlo.com/baluchistan-was-once-home-to-the-worlds-largest-mammal/
The Blue Whale is the largest ANIMAL that ever lived. It’s a mammal.
Oh please Islamic state Iran provoke Islamic state Pakistan into a nuclear war where Iran will be wiped out...please, oh pretty please!
I’ll sell popcorn for the Iran (Shiite) versus Pakistan (Sunni) coming war. It’s gonna be great.
I’m an “elite” chess player. :)
Don’t know how to play well at all but as long as I’m playing against a child who’s not a prodigy, no one can prove I’m NOT elite.
Put them up against US Marines to answer the question once and for all.
Political reliability. They occupy a similar position as the SS did in Nazi Germany, a political armed force independent of the military. The IRGC, and the Quds Force, it’s special ops component, are instrumental to both the mullahs domestic hold on power and projecting power abroad.
The Quds Force in particular is tactically very competent, they have been Iran’s key contribution to maintaining Assad’s hold on power in Syria. There support was critical to allowing Assad to survive until Russia decided to commit troops and win Assad’s war for him.
They’re elite compared to Iran’s regular army, which may not be saying much.
I remember reading in early 1991 that Iraq had the 4th biggest army in the world. How did that work out? :)
I blame Jussie Smollett! ;-)
Give both sides bacon. Everything’s better with it.
In a straight up fight against a equivalent U.S. Army or Marine force, the IRGC would lose, eventually. Individual IRGC troops are decently trained, and as tactically skilled as anyone else. But they resemble the WWII Japanese in that they lack effective armor, airpower, and mobile artillery.
In the offense, This would lead them to fanatically die in large numbers, but in the defense, they can and will make you bleed and use lots of artillery and air-strikes to root them out and kill them.
They trained the Iraqis who rocketed and mortared me across eastern Iraq during my last two deployments. They are fiendishly inventive in the use of IEDs, rockets, and mortars. However above the small unit level, their leadership is uneven, with some very good leaders, but also some politically reliable hacks as well. They took significant casualties (higher than they should have) in Syria against the various insurgents there.
Pakistan? Sure. By CIA or Mossad in Pakistan, maybe. The Pats probably thought it was their idea.
Air power, if used correctly, would take away that ability to mass in numbers. Of course, we haven’t used close air support like that since that highway outside Basra.
“...an attack that killed 27 members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was “planned and carried out from inside Pakistan.” ...”
Gee... that’s a shame... /s
Hmmm.....
Wow, everybody jumping on the Blame Pakistan Express.
I guess Bibi’s little war-party was not that convincing.
-——they lack effective armor, airpower, and mobile artillery——
——and use lots of artillery and air-strikes to root them out and kill them.-—
the two statements appear contradictory
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