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

[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.

[redgolum]

The big question is if the new boss will be worse.

[redgolum]

Depends on the definition.

For the time, they were a huge power. But they didn’t have carrier fleets to project influence all over the world.

[pnh102]

Leonidas and his Spartans were the lunatic jihadis of their day.

This is madness!

[BlackVeil]

Thank you for your insights. I agree that the regime no doubt has agents in the MEK - who are in any case an evil group with no mass support in Iran.

[depressed in 06]

If this were to happen in the US, we’d see a mass departure of government bureaucrats.

This should be the policy of the next American President. Read Bill Gertz book "The Failure Factory." Fire those you can. Move those you can't to Vermont in a secure compound with no phones, no visitors and nothing to do. Require them to be in their cubical 40 hours, if not, then, fire them for cause.

[ladyvet]

This can’t be true. I checked all the news stations and the top story is how tired Bambi is. /sarc

[doria253]

you are 100% correct ! Putin pulling all these strings- just wants oil prices higher so he has $$ to build a sub missle that wont explode when it takes off!

[wolfcreek]

Gotta suspect that has more to do with an impending strike rather than a revolution.

[RoadGumby]

Hey F15Eagle, nice tagline. I’ve seen it for a long time, finally checked out and read the verses. One Believer to another - “Thank you.”

[omega4179]

Spartans threw premie or deformed babies to the wolves they where hardly any better than persians.

[RetSignman]

You can bet that if the regime in Iran falls, obama won’t wait three days to comment.

He will be on television within minutes proclaiming his success in the regime change.

[SeattleBruce]

Russia is the new safe haven for islamic mullahs?
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Russia and the nearest radical feminist conference...oh Bush isn’t prez any longer...

Gotta love islamo-terror, and their weird bed buddies.

[SeattleBruce]

Maybe Jimmy Carter will offer him a room and bath at the peanut farm.
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Right. SCHMO!

[ponygirl]

On the contrary, he’ll probably do what he did in the Honduras situation... demand they return the Communist to his position of power and threaten sanctions.

[GraceG]

>> Get rid of these Islamic cockroaches and bring back the great Persian civilization. The Persians are intelligent people and need to kill and dispose of their Muslim overlords. Those fat overstuffed Islamic dung beetles <<

I wouldn’t mind seeing a resurgence of Zoroastrianism in Iran.

[BP2]

I think so too. Things are ratcheting up even more for the protesters. Just today a Khamenei spokesman said "protesters are enemies of God that should be executed under Sharia law."

Seeing that Israel's resources to bomb Iran are very limited, they would likely hit important hubs, like infrastructure nodes of communications and utilities, as well as the senior leadership that supports Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Because when you get down to it, the Ayatollah always has the final say in Iran.

[dusttoyou]

Unless my history is way off, the russians have almost always been on the wrong side of what’s right.

[rbmillerjr]

Telling that the leader of the “islamic revolution”, doesn’t want to fight for “allah”.

He orchestrates jihadist martyrs all over the world, but he will flee and hide with his masters in Russia.

[NCC-1701]

"Well.....bye."