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Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's jet put on standby (for evacuation to Russia)
Radio Netherlands Worldwide ^ | 29 December 2009 - 7:46 pm | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Posted on 12/30/2009 12:20:51 AM PST by BP2



photo: Ayatollah Khamenei (left) en Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) (EPA)

Reports from Iran indicate that the Supreme National Security Council has ordered a complete check-up of the jet which is on standby to fly Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei and his family to Russia should the situation in Iran spiral out of control. The order, to the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard Corps, was dated on Sunday, 27 December. A fax containing the order was sent to Dutch-based Shahrzad News.


 
In Iran, tens of thousands of pro-government supporters took to the streets on Tuesday, calling for leaders of the opposition to be punished. They say the opposition is to blame for the protests during the Shiite festival of Ashura in which eight people are reported to have been killed by riot police.
 
Opposition supporters launched the demonstrations following the death of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri a critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The protests were crushed by the authorities and the opposition is now calling for the government to apologise for the excessive violence used by the police.
 
President Ahmadinejad says the United States, Great Britain and Israel are behind the protests. The British ambassador in Tehran has been summoned by the Iranian authorities. The Revolutionary Guard says the foreign media and Iran's enemies are waging a psychological war aimed at bringing down the legitimate Iranian government.
 
Some Iranian MPs are calling for demonstrators to be sentenced to death. Various opposition figures have been arrested including the sister of Nobel peace prize laureate Schirin Ebadi.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; khamenei; middleeast; obama
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To: F15Eagle

>Russia is the new safe haven for islamic mullahs?

Russia will be majority Muslim by 2015.

So, yes.


41 posted on 12/30/2009 2:16:47 AM PST by ROTB (Public Option vs. Insurance: Armed men at my door demanding payment vs a "bill")
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To: bushpilot1
>King Leonidas would disagree with your statement.
42 posted on 12/30/2009 2:19:03 AM PST by ROTB (Public Option vs. Insurance: Armed men at my door demanding payment vs a "bill")
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To: DTogo

My thoughts exactly. If this were to happen in the US, we’d see a mass departure of government bueaucrats.


43 posted on 12/30/2009 2:21:18 AM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Constantine XI Palaeologus

Herodotus says that Leonidas’ head was cut off by Xerxes’ order and his body crucified.


44 posted on 12/30/2009 2:22:27 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: BlackVeil; Hexenhammer; element92
Such news needs to be confirmed.

Totally agree.

The Iranian opposition group, the MEK, constantly fabricate false stories. That “copy of a letter” looks like one of their productions.

MeK was on the side of IRI around 1979 - just to bring down the Shah's gov't - Masoud Rajavi was its main leader then.

But, IRI executed many of them after Khomeini officially took power in Iran in 1979, and thereafter many MeK members were killed during Iran-Iraq war of 8 yrs in the 1980’s. Many by Khomeini's (IRI) troops.

I wouldn’t be surprised if MeK, some of them, at least, jumped ship AGAIN to side with Mullahs or infiltrated by mullahs’ agents and their extensions, in recent years.

MeK has always been an Islamic Marxist (left wing) group – just take a good look at its more recent leader “Maryam Rajavi", she wears the hejab too. Though, she is a Leftist Islamist, not Right wing Islamist. Hopefully people prefer neither.

MeK loathe the “in power” Mullahs’ Regime.

Next to peaceful protesters in Iran, at the moment, I’d say IRI fears nothing more than MeK.

45 posted on 12/30/2009 2:24:34 AM PST by odds
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To: Sarajevo
If this were to happen in the US, we’d see a mass departure of government bueaucrats.

If??

When !!

46 posted on 12/30/2009 2:25:07 AM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: ROTB

Free republic should adopt the words of King Leonidas..when the Persians asked him to lay down their arms..He replied..”Come and take them”.


47 posted on 12/30/2009 2:25:47 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: MestaMachine; All

Got it without the elderly

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html

PLEASE EMAIl us at info@antimullah.com with any info you get - even rumors. these may connect with other stuff we have, rather like the above.

PLease spread the word and the Email address. It takes time for me to get onto Freep mail. Emails come and announce themselves .

These days it is no longer a matter of credits but of warnings and survival. We have put everything in our lives aside these days. I have not been out of the house in five days and my eyes grow weak after a dozen or more hours on the Internet every day.

YOur help is appreciated.

cheers

cheers


48 posted on 12/30/2009 2:26:32 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: F15Eagle; All

large number of the senior clerics attended Lumumba University in Moscow

cheers


49 posted on 12/30/2009 2:28:49 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: Constantine XI Palaeologus

Persia was never a world power.


50 posted on 12/30/2009 2:29:48 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

I rate the Persians higher than the Greeks of antiquity and today


51 posted on 12/30/2009 2:30:32 AM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: Ancient Drive

It’s the other one Khamenei. Khomeini is dead (1989)


52 posted on 12/30/2009 2:30:51 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: BP2

It’s justa nuther ISOLATED incident and no further concern should be taken. (So sayeth Barrak the Magic Nobel Peace Prize President)


53 posted on 12/30/2009 2:30:51 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: BlackVeil; All

Genuine. He has had a plane on stand-by for months. Do a search on http://antimullah.com for details

There is plenty of in depth info at that site.


54 posted on 12/30/2009 2:33:30 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: caww

He has gone to ground and disappeared. we cannot pinpoint him. Best estimate is he is in a military barracks of his Bassiji, Arab mercenaries from Arab countries who happily kill non-Arab Iranians. And will protect him for money.

Read articles on http://antimullah.com


55 posted on 12/30/2009 2:38:27 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: caww

renewed at first possible safe opportunity


56 posted on 12/30/2009 2:40:01 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: odds; All

other than their jumping ship and linking to the Mullahs, you provide a good analysis.

Khomeini killed 30,000 of them in prison after arresting them in droves.

I have decent MEK contacts I have not yet used. They understand we are on the same side until the regime they also do not like, falls. After that we could be enemies or political adversaries. They have agreed with me on this.

The enemy of my enemy is my (temporary) friend.


57 posted on 12/30/2009 2:47:20 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: bushpilot1; All

Never a power? Does being a huge Empire ruled by Kings of Kings not count? Check your history

cheers


58 posted on 12/30/2009 2:49:58 AM PST by FARS (Be well, be happy and THRIVE!)
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To: FARS
other than their jumping ship and linking to the Mullahs, you provide a good analysis.

Thanks Fars.

To be precise, I said:

"I wouldn’t be surprised if MeK, some of them, at least, jumped ship AGAIN to side with Mullahs or infiltrated by mullahs’ agents and their extensions, in recent years."

I don't think we can ignore the possibility that "some MeK members" may have jumped ship over to the Mullahs. Nor the possibility of Mullah inflitration. I'm sure you would agree that mullahs' agents, at least, try to infiltrate various opposition groups.

59 posted on 12/30/2009 3:02:59 AM PST by odds
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To: BP2

Now is the time Obamarx needs to be out pushing freedom and democracy. this may be our one shot to topple the suicidal death cult of Islamic fanatics that are running Iran. The young Persian population is crying (and dying) to be free from their tyranny. If the United States of America does not loudly champion their cause we could regret it very soon and it is likely that millions will die. Obamarx has a chance to truly make history...

But as Charles Krauthammer said on Monday night, “This is a moment in history, and he’s missing it.”


60 posted on 12/30/2009 3:18:59 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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