Chaka Khan.....
Posted on 02/02/2007 11:31:07 PM PST by FARS
Reports from Inside Iran
Armed revolt by Bakhtiari, Lor and Ghashghai tribes against the Islamic Regime has reportedly flared up.
Yesterday, freedom seeking tribal fighters in the Isfahan and surrounding provinces and region began fighting local Islamic Regime forces and freeing their villages and townships from the Islamic Regime's control.
The Semirom area, which is on the Ghashghai tribal migrations route, apparently saw heavy fighting and more clashes occurred in between Isfahan Province and Yassooj further south, which is the center of the Boyer-Ahmadi tribal territory.
Local fighters from the various tribes, confronted Islamic Regime paramilitary forces – the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) and the Bassij (suppression forces consisting today mostly of Arab mercenaries though originally using naïve, susceptible provincials to swell their ranks).
Heavy ground battles between the tribal fighters and Islamic Regime forces reportedly resulted in heavy casualties left behind by the government troops. Specially at a point around Yassooj and in the Province of Fars which was labeled the Red Line which was not to crossed by the Regime forces.
In hand to hand combat, the local combatants managed to put to flight the government forces who were armed to the teeth, but had to retreat. Thousands of tribesmen took part and managed to free several villages and townships of the Isfahan Province and surrounding areas from the Islamic Regime's control.
Much of the conflict stems from the Islamic Regime's on-going efforts to disarm the tribes and put religious leaders in charge of them instead of their traditional Khans.
To restore morale among the Regime paramilitary forces, who had had to retreat in the face of tough resistance, leaving large numbers of Islamic Regime dead and wounded in the confrontations, the Martyrs Foundation of the Regime announced that all those killed would be added to the rolls of the Martyrs and their families would receive financial aid and support.
As so often in the past, the Regime sent in troops to take revenge on the families of the tribesmen but were repulsed by the internally tough charactered tribal warriors.
The mountainous terrain and the stiff resistance put up by the tribes prevented government militias from penetrating into Bakhtiari and Ghashghai tribal areas. After one their Khans had been treacherously killed by the Regime in the past, that tribe caught the spy who had been responsible, cut him in half with a chain saw and dumped his severed body on the doorstep of a local enforcement office of the Regime.
The tribes have blocked off the road from Shahreza to Semirom with check points and searched all vehicles, specially those carrying persons from Isfahan or Yassooj. Only residents were allowed into the towns and villages.
The tribes hope that their uprising will spread south to Shiraz and Masjid Soleiman (Khuzestan oil province) and even become a national one across the country.
Towns from Semirom to Isfahan , which is only 140 kilometers away in the Ghashghai held area and all townships for about 60 kilometers toward Isfahan are in the hands of the Bakhtiari tribes. The Islamic Regime has never had much control of this area.
When the Islamic Revolution of Khomeini took place back in 1979, the "hanging judge" ayatollah Khalkhali, who loved to torture cats to death for entertainment, went city to city to execute people but when he arrived in this tribal region, the residents attacked his convoy and sent him fleeing for his life but he managed to escape to go on killing.
In trying to cover up what is going on, the Islamic Regime has accused the conflict of being a discord started by a band of drug smugglers and described the participants as thugs and unsavory elements from Sistan and Baluchistan moving through the tribal region as part of their smuggling operation. And confronting the Islamic Regime's anti-drug smuggling authorities.
Meanwhile, in Sistan and Baluchistan the Jondollah movement continues to clash regularly with the Islamic Regime.
These same shahistas continuously use this forum to tell us that the iranians deeply love the US and that the revolution has begun (there must be twenty threads declaring that in the last four years). This in spite of the fact that there seems to be no shortage of iranians who cross the border to their historical enemy's country to kill our troops. They also clamor for the current reza to be installed in a restoration of a dynasty that never existed.
Twice in globally televised speeches Bush has told the iranians directly that if they stand we will stand with them; nothing has happened except for the above mentioned glut of iranians entering Iraq to kill our people.
The world would be better off with a radical change in iran but rewriting history and swearing to assertions that are contradicted by the facts on the ground will not help that happen. Neither will representing tribal drug lords as revolutionary heroes.
Is there anything in the MSM about this? If not - why?
Honest question - not sarcasm.
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Common courtesy to ping one whom you address.
My statement stands. I am interested solely in America's interest. You propogandize for iran. You cast aspersions of the personal kind but do not refute with sources anything that I posted about the cowardly shah, the coup that put him in power or the numerous non-iranian sources I provided that detail the drug trafficking and the related violence in those provinces.
Thanks for that map. Where did you get it? Such kinds of information might contain the seeds of a solution I'm working on.
"Until all Muslims who are not terrorist take up arms against the lunatics, all Muslims will remain under suspicion to me."
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Moderate Muslim is just another name for a "backslidden" Muslim.
Thanks for the ping.
I despise the Mullahs. But I've got a lot of relatives in N. Teheran, Isfahan, Karachi, and Najaf.
Yet, for the first time in my life, I actually think the Mullahs are doing the right thing by supporting the Shia in Iraq.
Last thing we can afford is a Wahabbi state next door. Frankly, I hate the Wahabbi more than any other people on Earth.
No E. Don't have any maps showing all the Iranian pipelines.
Thanks for the ping!
Chaka Khan.....
Can't provide a source, stole it off a FReeper!
Many maps of the area available here...
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iran.html
see Ethnoreligious distribution on this site.
You deserve no special courtesy when you postulate what you do without adequate information and try to mislead everyone.
Then you have the gall to say I, not you, propagandize for Iran? Are you quite in your right mind? I take you to task for posting pro-Mullah talking points and you accuse ME of propaganda for Iran? How weird can you get?
Something went a little off in your head but according to friends who have observed your posts in the past, that is not so strange activity for you.
And I do not wish to keep your posts solely to you nor my replies solely to you when you go out of your way to mislead everyone on FR. They deserve to know and judge for themselves.
As they say you cannot hide yourself on top of a camel by bending over. You have made ourtrageous statements that only favor the Mullahs and I have taken you to task for this in the past and you oblige me to do so again in a public forum for everyone to see.
I'm not letting you get away with your disinformation that misleads FReepers.
Get your facts straight and I will respect your privilege to spout but not the nonsense you have been providiing as fact. Specially the tribal revolt, where MY information is from absolute sources while yours repeats Regime cover up statements. As if they were facts instead of misleading misdirection.
This is South Central and Central Iran
Will do. Already have thembut need time to read them
The information came in Persian and Alan translated it and used resources and sources to confirm it. Have been too busy on FR to see what-if anything others are saying.
Alan of AntiMullah has sources the MSM does not have and often breaks stories on a global exclusive basis. Long before the wire services catch up.
Your feelings are understandable but my mindset is the removal of the Mullahs in Iran totally, not partially. What they do in Iraq that might support your thinking is still outside the scope of my philosophy. Meanwhile, I do not attack your thinking and emotions.
http://maps.nationmaster.com/country/ir/1
more maps.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873496/posts
if there's anything about Iraq/Maps you need, this is the post!
Thanks for the info. Interesting!
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As my posts cite, the sources are our own CIA after Action Reports from 1953 regarding the coup that installed the bogus shah via Operation Ajax. Anyone can check it out and read for himself. You offer nothing but invective andobfuscation.
My sources regarding the drug lords whom you call rebels are not (as you lie) the mullahs, the sources as I cited in the posts are the US government and US based, highly respected think tanks that explore terrorism everywhere, not just in iran. The single source you cite is your own website, the one you started the same time that you started posting here.
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