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Iran militia to form human chain protest
The Age ^ | 11-17-05
Posted on 11/16/2005 11:58:53 AM PST by markedmannerf
Iran's volunteer Islamic militiamen are vowing to form a human chain
along the length of the country's borders as a show of force against
international pressure on Tehran's atomic program.
Iran faces referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions
after failing to convince the world its nuclear fuel program is intended
for power stations rather than warheads.
Mohammad Hejazi, head of the volunteer basij militia, swore he had
enough people to girdle the country.
"Nine million basij will form a human chain around Iran on November
26 in support of the country's right to peaceful nuclear energy," he
told state television.
He said the chain would run to about 8,700km and added President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would attend the ceremony.
Hejazi gave no account of how Iran's rickety transport networks would
move nine million people to Iran's often highly inaccessible borders.
Iran's conservative leadership says as many as 11 million of its 68
million people are loyal basij militia members, but the numbers are
impossible to verify.
(Excerpt) Read more at theage.com.au ...
Nine million?
That should be quite the sight.
"Nine million basij will form a human chain around Iran on November 26 in support of the country's right to peaceful nuclear energy,"
Peaceful? That's a laugh. They are so full of it.