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Iran bringing “many divers, sophisticated technology” to Gulf of Mexico
LauraMansfield.com ^ | 10-24-05 | Laura Mansfield

Posted on 10/24/2005 10:19:58 AM PDT by AmericaUnite

Iran bringing “many divers, sophisticated technology” to Gulf of Mexico

by Laura Mansfield

Earlier this year, a top Iranian General made the following boast: “Iran is the biggest military power in the region (with) 10 million volunteers for martyrdom operations ... to turn Iran into a terrible nightmare for the United States,” General Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, deputy commander of Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards, told the Kayhan newspaper.

This summer, the BBC reported an ad in an Iranian publication has calling for volunteers for "martyrdom operations" against the enemies of Islam. The ad was published by an institute managed by one of Iran's most conservative and radical clerics, Ayatollah Masbah Yazdi, who has declared his support for Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. It recruits men and women to enlist with the "Martyrdom Lovers' Headquarters".

So I find it more than a little ironic that the same country that is actively recruiting volunteers to conduct suicide missions against United States and US interests, and is opening bragging about it, has now been granted a base of operations in the Gulf of Mexico, within easy striking distance of America’s Gulf Coast.

The Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company is expected to begin shortly a major $90 million dollar project laying pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says it will be laying 36-inch pipes 60-70 meters under water.

The company expects to be handing the rest of the $400 million dollar project as well.

According to a press release on IRNA, “The Gulf of Mexico project will help the Iranian company gain valuable experiences given the large presence of European and American companies in the area.”

The press release also states that the “project will need many divers and sophisticated technology.”

Is anyone in our government paying attention here?

A country which has made one threat after another against the US for over two and a half decades, is now being provided in essence a base of operations in the Gulf of Mexico, within striking distance of much of the US oil supply.

They will have carte blanche to bring in divers, submersibles, and highly sophisticated technical equipment. Since they will be in essence subcontractors for the Mexican oil industry, they will most likely be able to circumvent export controls for many types of hardware and software that would not normally be eligible for export to Iran.

Hello? Is anyone listening?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: divers; gulf; iran; iranian; irna; mexico; oil; suicidebombers
Did NAFTA allow this? We wouldn't let the USSR keep nukes in Cuba. Terrorist in the gulf have to be stopped.
1 posted on 10/24/2005 10:20:00 AM PDT by AmericaUnite
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To: AmericaUnite

So little time, so many countries to nuke.


2 posted on 10/24/2005 10:23:04 AM PDT by hang 'em (hang'em's 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Give Good Advice to the RAT Party.)
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To: AmericaUnite
"Martyrdom Lovers' Headquarters".

Is that like the tunnel of love...?

3 posted on 10/24/2005 10:24:18 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: AmericaUnite

SPIES


4 posted on 10/24/2005 10:31:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: hang 'em

Sounds like a back yard skeet shoot to me.


5 posted on 10/24/2005 10:31:50 AM PDT by i.l.e. (Tagline - this space for sale....)
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To: AmericaUnite
Saboteurs
6 posted on 10/24/2005 10:32:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: AmericaUnite
"“Iran is the biggest military power in the region (with) 10 million volunteers for martyrdom operations..."

Careful what you wish for, fellas...
7 posted on 10/24/2005 10:33:41 AM PDT by LIConFem (A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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To: BenLurkin

Good thing we have armed dolphins for just this reason.


8 posted on 10/24/2005 10:33:58 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: AmericaUnite

Well in Texas we have a saying...

"1 Riot... 1 Ranger"

So I guess we could modify this a bit

"10 million Martyrs... 1 Nuke"


9 posted on 10/24/2005 10:36:52 AM PDT by Syntyr
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To: AmericaUnite
Is anyone in our government paying attention here?

Why of course!

I'm sure there were a number of our "elected elite" who were paid their proper tribute to look the other way...........

10 posted on 10/24/2005 10:37:38 AM PDT by WhiteGuy (Vote for gridlock)
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To: AmericaUnite
"..10 million volunteers for martyrdom.."

Heck, why don't we just martyr them all at once?


11 posted on 10/24/2005 10:44:32 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: AmericaUnite

A Bump that everyone should read.


12 posted on 10/24/2005 11:01:13 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: Cindy
Remember this scuba diver pic that Daleel posted a couple years ago?


13 posted on 10/24/2005 11:15:11 AM PDT by LayoutGuru2 (Know the difference between honoring diversity and honoring perversity? No? You must be a liberal!)
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To: LayoutGuru2

ping for later


14 posted on 10/24/2005 12:06:13 PM PDT by vrwc0915 (I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against al)
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To: AmericaUnite
What sort of a American suicidal company would hire an Iranian construction company to work in US territorial waters?

Not an American company? An even more interesting question...

15 posted on 10/24/2005 12:09:17 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: Publius6961
Gulf Coast Freepers need to look into these:

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as69-e.htm

16 posted on 10/24/2005 12:39:29 PM PDT by vrwc0915 (I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against al)
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To: AmericaUnite

The Mexican gov. owns the oil companies. Sounds to me like their in cahoots with the Iranians. This is relly bad news.


17 posted on 10/24/2005 12:46:15 PM PDT by wolfcreek
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OFF TOPIC...

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=35957&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

"Mexico planning VW Bora production in Kerman"

Sunday, September 25, 2005 - ©2005 IranMania.com
Related Pictures


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON, September 25 (IranMania) - Iran and Mexico are planning to cooperate on the production of a high quality but expensive Volkswagen car, said the Mexican ambassador.

According to ILNA, Luis Ortiz Monasterio further said on the sidelines of the Third International Exhibition on Transportation, Development and Urban Services that the Bora, which has all the capabilities of a Golf hatchback plus a boot, is a popular car in Mexico and will be produced in Iran from 2006.

Mexico has been cooperating with the giant German carmaker for the past 40 years,? he said, adding that since automotive industries in Iran and Mexico are at the same level, Bora production in Iran is considered by both sides as an exchange of technology.

He put bilateral trade transactions between Tehran and Mexico City at $60 million, stressing that the Mexican Embassy in Tehran is trying to boost this figure."


18 posted on 10/24/2005 1:44:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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