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IRAN PREPARES NEW MISSILE TESTS
adnkronos (Italy) ^ | August 18, 2006

Posted on 08/18/2006 10:22:01 AM PDT by HAL9000

Tehran, 18 August (AKI) - Iranian state television has announced that Iran will begin new missile tests on Saturday in five different border regions including along the frontier with Afghanistan. The tests - which will last five days - appear to be a show of strength staged to impress ethnic minorities living in Iran's Kurdistan, Baluchistan and Khorasan provinces

"These manoeuvres serve to re-elavorate the defence doctrine of our nation," said General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, of the Pasdaran revolutionary guards who will be conducting the tests.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 22august; 27rajab; august22; iran; irannukes; missiles; missiletests; mushroomcloud; proliferation
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To: Lazamataz

I hope the big news on 22 Aug is that Murkowski won the R primary in Alaska. But, I have checked the dog food and there is enough to keep the mutt fat and happy until I run out of Spam.


41 posted on 08/18/2006 11:05:27 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: Loyolas Mattman
Are you saying that you think the moves have happened (and we just don't know about it) or that they haven't happened and they should?

I'm saying that DC isn't blind (except to Mexican invaders)! I have no doubts that we have intel to keep us from being caught off guard! This isn't Pearl Harbor, and the eyes see better now!

42 posted on 08/18/2006 11:05:38 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: StructuredChaos

Interesting thought, but why go through all that? Why wouldn't they just let loose with a first-strike? I don't think they give a rat's about what the UN thinks.

I have this terrible feeling that Israel isn't the only target - God protect our guys and girls pressed in the middle of this...


43 posted on 08/18/2006 11:08:11 AM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: StructuredChaos
Could be. But in that case, the best response on our part is to be prepared for Iranian first strikes, but otherwise do nothing except to respond overwhelmingly after the first strike is swatted away.

If the first strike never comes, we're doing fine. If it does, we're doing better.

Which of course does nothing to preclude significant parallel activity on the part of those forces about whom we will never hear....

44 posted on 08/18/2006 11:09:27 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: pageonetoo

Vision is one thing, hand-eye coordination is another.


45 posted on 08/18/2006 11:09:49 AM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: WakeUpAndVote

August 18.

5 Days

August 18, 19, 20, 21, 22!!!!!!

Isn't something big supposed to happen on August 22?


46 posted on 08/18/2006 11:10:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("If you liked what Liberal Leadership did for Israel, you'll LOVE what it can do for America!")
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To: Loyolas Mattman
Interesting thought, but why go through all that? Why wouldn't they just let loose with a first-strike? I don't think they give a rat's about what the UN thinks.

But they know that the NYT and its faithful readers care about what the UN thinks, and that's the charm of trying to provoke us (or Israel) into a first strike.

47 posted on 08/18/2006 11:11:14 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Loyolas Mattman

Large scale military exercises in the border areas populated with "ethnic minorities" coinciding with the government ordered smashing of satellite TV dishes in the urban areas - something very evil is coming down the pike, that's for sure.


48 posted on 08/18/2006 11:13:47 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: Loyolas Mattman
It's all a matter of perspective...


49 posted on 08/18/2006 11:14:10 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: r9etb

Yeah, but they can only play the innocent victim of a first strike for so long.

If they detinate a nuke, even the NYT and the UN will have to give them the tisk, tisk.

The world is down on us because we didn't find the smoking gun WMD's in Iraq - there would be no doubt that an attack on Iran was justified if they use a WMD, even if in alleged "self-defense."


50 posted on 08/18/2006 11:17:32 AM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: r9etb
nOpe sorry. He's muttley.

51 posted on 08/18/2006 11:18:37 AM PDT by kinghorse (I calls them like I sees them)
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To: lightingguy

"Now Iran is doing missile tests" ping...


52 posted on 08/18/2006 11:19:06 AM PDT by agrace
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To: Lazamataz

"He means to deliver chemical / biological -- or even nuclear -- weapons on Israel."

You know, this Lebanese incident may have been a trial balloon to see if Israel and the US would ascede to UN demands for a ceasefire.

The fact that Israel gave in so readily might be what Iran was looking for. If they launch and they know that Israel has a good chance of intercepting whatever they toss at them, they are figuring that Israel, with US pressure wouldn't launch a counterattack. This is probably why oil prices were inflated by Irans playing around with the nuke issue.

Everytime Iran calls for war, prices go up. The impact on the world economy should Israel launch a counterstrike would be devestating. So there would be pressure on Israel not to do anything and the UN would call for sanctions on Israel.

With Olmert in office, this scenario is feasible and a no lose for Iran. If I was in the lunatics shoes, I would launch.



53 posted on 08/18/2006 11:19:41 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("If you liked what Liberal Leadership did for Israel, you'll LOVE what it can do for America!")
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To: Billthedrill
If this is Ahmadinejad's "surprise" then I'm distinctly underwhelmed. Even the North Koreans can hit the ocean with their rockets, at least most of the time.

LOL. North Korea was actually lucky - I read that one of their missiles was aiming for waters near Hawaii. Imagine how ballistic (pun intended) we might have gone if that had happened.

54 posted on 08/18/2006 11:19:57 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Loyolas Mattman
It's all a matter of perspective...

Vs.


55 posted on 08/18/2006 11:20:55 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: Zack Nguyen

Hmmmm, haven't heard about the "UFO" that buzzed Hilo yesterday in a couple of hours...


56 posted on 08/18/2006 11:21:31 AM PDT by Loyolas Mattman
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To: Loyolas Mattman

"Interesting thought, but why go through all that? Why wouldn't they just let loose with a first-strike? I don't think they give a rat's about what the UN thinks. "

Iran has nothing to lose by tossing a few hundred missiles at Israel. The world knows that a retaliatory strike on Iran would have devestating consequences for the world economy.

Iran is banking on that and hopes that the US will force Israel not to strike back. Makes that drilling in Alaska vote a big deal. If I was a Republican congressman, right now I would be retabling the ANWR vote.

Let the RATS stew on that for awhile. If they cry political maneuvering, then vote against it.


57 posted on 08/18/2006 11:24:40 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("If you liked what Liberal Leadership did for Israel, you'll LOVE what it can do for America!")
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To: pageonetoo

Ask Japan and Germany about winners and losers in war :)


58 posted on 08/18/2006 11:24:44 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: agrace

Around Aug 22 ping.


59 posted on 08/18/2006 11:26:07 AM PDT by tdewey10 (Can we please take out Iran's nuclear capability before they start using it?)
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To: conservativepoet

see #55


60 posted on 08/18/2006 11:26:23 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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