Posted on 09/22/2005 3:17:41 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
LONDON, September 22 (IranMania) - EU military attaches walked out in protest at a parade in Tehran Thursday after ballistic missiles were rolled past carrying vitriolic anti-US and Israeli slogans, diplomats told AFP.
"There was a common position among the European Union members that, if the military parade included any slogans that attacked our allies, we would leave," said a diplomat.
"The military attaches from the embassies of France, Italy, Greece and Poland were present at the parade, and when they saw the slogans they promptly left," said another diplomat.
At the parade, Iran showed off six of its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missiles sporting banners reading "Death to America", "We will crush America under our feet", "Death to Israel" and "Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth".
"They may be just slogans, but for us they are unacceptable," one of the diplomats said.
The military event was held just south of Tehran to mark the start of "Sacred Defence Week", dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of Iranians killed after the forces of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein invaded in It also coincided with mounting tensions between Iran and the EU over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Well as long as the French didn't wave the white flag while walking out, then it's a start. It looks like the entire NATO alliance takes the Iranian threat very seriously. Fischer of Germany made an interesting remark the other day about Iran when he said, "we don't want this nuclear issue to reach a fatal conclusion." That may have been a reference to a NATO military strike on Iran if Iran insists on developing nuclear weapons. Whether the Europeans are bluffing...we'll just have to wait and see.
Just remember that these are the same guys who could do no better than a draw against Saddam and the vaunted Republican Guard.
I almost disagree!
Given the situation, I would say Iranians were much better against Saddam's forces.
Iraq had all the support needed to win the war while Iranians were completely left alone! But Iraqis couldn't make it though!
I think Iran would fold up like a cheap tent just like the Iraqi army did.
Couldn't we just go in and kick their butts and then leave?
Those guys look like a bunch of clowns.
Couldn't we just go in and kick their butts and then leave?
I am in favor of a small scale military strike against Mullahs' stronghold but it might also push back our efforts to bring a real democracy to a country where most people are unhappy with the current regime.
I guess we should arm those students in Iran and let them fight their own war
I'm no psychologist, but all those big, shiny, long, tubular missiles leads me to think they may have some, er, "manhood issues."
Gee, just like the parades that Saddam used to have. LOL!
Those guys just don't look tough with the white gloves and white boots. That looks like a uniform Michael Jackson would wear. They look like canon fodder for the 4th ID.
I believe it was 1979.
LOL.
Ezekial Chapters 38 and 39.
I've always wondered, do people willingly turn-out for weaponry parades?
No... They are ordered to join in these shameful parades in Iran and if they don't obey, well, God knows what may happen to them!
Walking out. Yeah, that will show 'em.
BTW, when did Ringo take over in Iran?
It was funny then and it's funny now. Good one ...
last june?
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