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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: BP2

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


81 posted on 12/30/2009 4:22:03 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: bushpilot1

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.


82 posted on 12/30/2009 4:30:44 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: SeeSharp
Leonidas and his Spartans were the lunatic jihadis of their day.

This is madness!

83 posted on 12/30/2009 4:47:47 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: odds

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.


84 posted on 12/30/2009 4:53:32 AM PST by BlackVeil
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To: DTogo
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.

85 posted on 12/30/2009 4:53:41 AM PST by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
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To: BP2

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


86 posted on 12/30/2009 5:04:38 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: SolidWood

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!


87 posted on 12/30/2009 5:11:00 AM PST by doria253
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To: BP2

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


88 posted on 12/30/2009 5:24:55 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: F15Eagle

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.”


89 posted on 12/30/2009 5:39:54 AM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: ROTB

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


90 posted on 12/30/2009 5:55:32 AM PST by omega4179 (Marco2010)
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To: BP2

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.


91 posted on 12/30/2009 6:07:59 AM PST by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: F15Eagle

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.


92 posted on 12/30/2009 6:53:32 AM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

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


93 posted on 12/30/2009 6:54:43 AM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: RetSignman

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.


94 posted on 12/30/2009 7:36:17 AM PST by ponygirl ("Actum est de republica." -"It is all over with the republic.")
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To: dennisw

>> 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.


95 posted on 12/30/2009 8:44:05 AM PST by GraceG
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To: wolfcreek; All

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.

Profile: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the man who has the final word in Iran


96 posted on 12/30/2009 9:04:23 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: F15Eagle

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


97 posted on 12/30/2009 9:15:55 AM PST by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: All

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.


98 posted on 12/30/2009 9:36:21 AM PST by rbmillerjr (It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
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To: BP2

"Well.....bye."
99 posted on 12/30/2009 10:24:50 AM PST by NCC-1701 (ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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