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Breaking News - Explosions Rock Iran Military Site
AntiMullah ^ | November 18th, 2007 | Alan Peters & Iran Sources

Posted on 11/18/2007 2:43:45 PM PST by FARS

Tuesday/Wednesday, November 13/14 - about 4 a.m. Sources inside and outside Iran.

A series of explosions rocked the Parchin Military Site (where missiles, including "cruise" type missiles, are manufactured) at Varamin south of Tehran.

The Shahab 3, 4 and more recently Shahab 5 solid fuel missiles at the site are hidden in old salt mines in the mountain face in the area, further excavated and furbished for development and manufacture.

The main purpose of this Ministry of Defense site, established by the late Shah's father - Reza Shah Kabir - in the early 1900's and taken over by the IRGC, had been and has been to manufacture ammunition, chemical explosives and more recently short range rocket missiles.

The exacavated salt mines for longer range missile technology have been expanded by the Mullah regime.

More than likely, the explosives, IED's, rockets and similar items of Iranian manufacture showing up in Iraq and Afghanistan were largely produced at Parchin.

(Excerpt) Read more at antimullah.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accident; blog; explosion; haha; incompetence; iran; iraniannukes; iraq; islam; islamofascism; karma; lebanon; lol; missiles; parchin; russia; vergeltungswaffe; workaccident; wot
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To: tje
I don’t believe that the Iranians have anything close to a ‘cruise’ type missle.

Actually, they do. Two or three models. You can metasearch them on Web defense-oriented sites, or right here on FR -- they were discussed in at least one thread.

The Hisbollah thugs test-fired one of the smaller models at Israeli gunboats during their "hostage mini-war" in Lebanon. It worked, they gloated, they promised death and destruction to the United States Navy.

101 posted on 11/19/2007 2:01:36 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: HardStarboard
All that’s somewhat true if you don’t care where they go. Once you add in control and aiming, liquid fueled is the simpler design. (Making a solid fuel that burns consistently and produces much energy is still an issue.)

Solid fuel wins the logistics contest by a couple of dozens laps; it’s Patriots-Bills, with the Bills wearing army shoes.

If you want something for a technology demonstration or to get out the door quickly or to intimidate your neighbors, everyone from Peenemunde to the Huntsville to Taepo-Dong choses liquid fuel. If you want to be in a position to win a large scale war with a formidable adversary, look into solid fuel.

102 posted on 11/19/2007 4:28:29 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: FARS

bttt


103 posted on 11/19/2007 4:33:51 AM PST by Cvengr (Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
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To: HardStarboard

The V1 was a cruise missile.


104 posted on 11/19/2007 4:37:13 AM PST by omega4179 ("Bring me the broomstick of the wicked witch of the west")
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To: FARS

LOLOLOLOLOL!

Thanks for the ping.


105 posted on 11/19/2007 4:52:03 AM PST by melancholy (Beware of Ho Chi Minh's offspring, Ho She Marx , invading the WH.)
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To: tje

I agree.


106 posted on 11/19/2007 4:56:46 AM PST by maineman (BC Eagle fan)
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To: Shadow44
May death come swiftly to those terrorist scumbags, and their Mullah masters.

and may Death linger and savor the taking slowly, while the screams for mercy go unanswered.

107 posted on 11/19/2007 6:45:38 AM PST by concretebob (If liberals aren't traitors, their only defense at this point is they are incredibly stupid)
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To: FARS; BIGLOOK; ASA Vet; Seadog Bytes; SandRat; nutmeg; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Dog; Dog Gone

Time to call in OHSA.

Sounds like the same safe issues facing Syria with their weapons and carriers of Mass Destruction.


108 posted on 11/19/2007 8:10:14 AM PST by Grampa Dave (("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007))
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To: omega4179
>>>The V1 was a cruise missile.<<<

Your right. I was thinking of the V-2.

I corrected myself in the next post.

109 posted on 11/19/2007 10:03:08 AM PST by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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To: FARS

Way to go SpecOps/SAS/CIA/Mossad/Shin Bet, whoever it was that did the dirty work!


110 posted on 11/19/2007 12:28:05 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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To: HardStarboard

This article is a must read, in light of Iran and Hizb’allas fascination with Vergeltungswaffe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergeltungswaffe


111 posted on 11/19/2007 2:15:12 PM PST by omega4179 ("Bring me the broomstick of the wicked witch of the west")
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

it could be something from the sky too.


112 posted on 11/19/2007 3:38:11 PM PST by omega4179 ("Bring me the broomstick of the wicked witch of the west")
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To: devolve; FARS

Wow, nightmare story indeed!!


113 posted on 11/19/2007 7:34:34 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: FARS

LOL!


114 posted on 11/19/2007 7:38:03 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: FARS

thanks FARS for the ping / update.

Report: Series of explosions rip through Iranian military site
Haaretz.com | 11-15-07 | Yossi Melman
Posted on 11/15/2007 3:50:57 PM EST by dynachrome
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926324/posts


115 posted on 11/19/2007 7:48:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Sunday, November 18, 2007"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv; All; 1035rep; 1curiousmind; 4woodenboats; 2ndDivisionVet; 5Madman2; 68skylark; ...

Something about Parchin was posted but not the details that AntiMullah got through contacts and which became a “detailed” REAL breaking news.

Easy enough for Haaritz to say “a fire happened” and not provide or even have the details of what it was all about. Including a one kilometer radius series of explosions and fires! That’s not a simple fire story that’s a major detail that makes the breaking news.

I should have perhaps called it Expanded/Breaking News as what was posted on Antimullah was original information and thus breaking news that was nowhere else previously and still is not anywhere else.

cheers and thanks for your great pings.


116 posted on 11/19/2007 10:57:52 PM PST by FARS ( Good Thoughts (lead to) Good Words, (which together) lead to Good Deeds)
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To: lentulusgracchus

They’ve had these big “silkworm” missiles since I was back in the gulf in the 80’s...

‘Bout 2200 lbs. of HE that would have blown my destroyer in half if it ever hit us...

And those gomers targeted us every single time we went through the straights of Hormuz...

We had guys on dedicated sectors on the radars watching every sweep of the coastline, because we barely had but about 10 seconds to aquire, designate, handoff to the missile guys and loose a SM-1 to intercept...

I think thats where I got all my premature grey hair from doing all of that back then...

It sucked!


117 posted on 11/19/2007 11:06:03 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: stevie_d_64
Yeah, the "Silkworm" is the old Russian SS-N-2 "Styx", a.k.a. "Samlet" when deployed in a shore battery. "Bar Lock" was the shore batteries' FC radar, iirc from going through the NAVSTIC "red books" (SECRET LIMDIS NOFORN etc. etc.).

I don't recall what the Sovs used as FC radar afloat.

They let the Egyptians have some deployed on "Komar"-type patrol boats, and they took on and destroyed the "Eilat", an old "Z"-class, ex-Royal Navy DD, WW II vintage. Someone told me the "Eilat" was dead after the first hit, but the Egyptians got four hits with four weapons. Everyone was impressed. That was the closing episode of the Six-Day War.

Saddam's troops managed to launch a "Silkworm" at one of our BB's during the Gulf War, but a big British County-class DD in the screen intercepted it with a Sea Dart, got an official thank-you and attaboy. Those SS-N-2's had an armored warhead and a lo-hi-lo mission profile; the armoring was a little unusual, made them unwieldy but very hard to stop after they nosed over and went supersonic and active-homing in the terminal phase. That's the reason for the high approach, so they could accelerate into the target. Nasty attitude.

The Iranians' domestic designs have been considerably smaller and owe more to the "Harpoon"-type cruise missile, and even smaller weapons in the "Penguin" class. The weapon they used on the Izzies last year was one of the latter.

118 posted on 11/20/2007 12:11:47 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: FARS
"a one kilometer radius series of explosions and fires!"

I think this should be under "Hot and Explosive News."

119 posted on 11/20/2007 1:45:16 AM PST by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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To: omega4179

Combination of both, I’d suspect, with operators on the ground doing laser guided targeting and post-strike recon.


120 posted on 11/20/2007 3:44:57 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (“We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!” --Duncan Hunter)
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