Tribbles?
Now there's an idea!
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.
"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."
As usual, Islamofascists lose in a stand-up fight. They're only good at and murdering and maiming unsuspecting women, men, children and soldiers through subterfuge, without identifying themselves before they fact. They're also good at bluster and bragging. They suck at everything else.
Also the IED making materials that they need... What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...
Correct you are and I wouldn't mind our govt. spending some of my tax money supplying these tribes with weapons to kill Iranian troops for a change.
Do you have any confidence we will?
A while ago I read a report that US, British and Israeli Special Forces were arming and training Iranian Arabs to fight a guerilla insurrection against the mullahs as part of a "death by a thousand cuts" strategy designed to force Tehran to moderate their ways (guerilla war, economic pressure, financing liberal/moderate/pro-west political parties and helping organize student protest groups on university campuses). It's ironic how Tehran's "death by a thousand cuts" strategy against the US in Iraq is being directed right back at them. Good show, keep it up.
Are you going to make me google a map? Is this area up along the Russian border? Maybe Putin is using old contacts to cause trouble.
Well, not quite. We want Bush to arm the tribes and go to war with iran over supplying arms and IEDs. Not just threaten - that's the state department/dem/limited warfare/vietnam/global communist/appeasement/loser approach.
LOL
Awesome. I sincerly hope we are supporting and arming every possible ethnic and polticial opposition in Iran. We have countless oppurtunities to destabilize iran from within.
God Bless every Iranian rising up agaisnt the Islamic regime.
They shall be our boots on the ground.
Nicê map but it doesn't locate Isfahan Or Semirom or Yasooj.
A few special forces teams with some covert air support would be nice.....
You do good work.
War ain't fair. The folks that fight fair in war lose,
Reminds me of a little rag tag bunch in Afghanistan once upon a time.
I would hope that that already is happening nice.
Tribbles?
Now there's an idea!
Well, remember what happened recently in Somalia. Could be something similar, and I suspect that U.S. Spec Ops and CIA are probably there on the ground assisting the tribes in their rebellion. And it is probably is no coincidence that the Stennis strike group just arrived to join the Eisenhower on the scene at the same time trouble has broken out inside Iran. You can almost see the strategy to destabilize and overthrow Nutjob and the Mullahs through external and internal pressure beginning to unfold...
That's hillarious, but I'd probably either end up in jail or dead via an Air Marshal.
Also, has anyone considered that the "Surge," ostensibly to pacify Baghdad, might really be intended to seal off the Iranian border in preparation for what's coming down the road? Seems like a good cover, especially since Petraeus and Fallon admitted to Congress that 20,000+ troops were more than they needed for the job.
Esfahan = Isfahan. Yes,others are missing.:-(
LOL that might provoke ones fellow travelers to make the rest of the flight very uncomfortable for you!
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