Iran Holds Anti-Air Exercises Defending Nuclear Sites
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Iran's military announced on Monday it has launched four days of maneuvers in the south of the country aimed at boosting anti-air defenses protecting nuclear sites.
"These exercises aim to reinforce the integrated abilities of the country's anti-air defenses," said a statement from the Katem-ol-Anbia military air base coordinating Iran's anti-air and ballistic missile systems.
Missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, radars and warplanes were being deployed, it said.
The declaration, reported by the official news agency IRNA, came as officials from the U.N. nuclear watchdog were holding talks in Tehran on Iran's suspect nuclear program which has unsettled the West and Israel.
It also coincided with increasing speculation that Israel was mulling air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
"These maneuvers aim to reinforce the coordination between the military and the Revolutionary Guards for a total coverage of the country's sensitive facilities, especially nuclear sites," the statement said.
The exercises, named "Sarollah" (a word borrowed from Arabic meaning "God's vengeance"), covered a zone of 190,000 square kilometers in southern Iran, it said.
20 February 2012, 16:16
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They are really afraid. But there is no fear that the Israelis are coming after their nuclear facilities. That will not happen because the US does not want it to happen.
No the fear is for the weakest link in their chain to the Eastern Med falling, namely the Assad Regime in Syria. It is about to fall and Iran is putting on all sorts of shows of intimidation against that eventuality.
Unfortunate for Iran, there is no naval show or rocket show that it can put on that will justify the Assad Regime to the Syrian people who have bled so much at his hand.
They will not be justified by anything except the long neck of Bashar al Assad in a noose.
20 February 2012, 18:25
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The Iranian people will eventually topple their theocratic and corrupt regime. Once a decent leader takes control of the Persian nation, the entire world will gladly equip Iran with nuclear power plants. For now, it remains a threat and the use of military power against them could be justified. Iran is not stronger than Saddam's Irak from the early 90s... Their aircrafts are rusty and lack spare parts... Their rockets and missiles can be flattened in the hangar.... Sure, a few of them will hit the Zionist entity, but it'll be a joke.
21 February 2012, 15:23
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People forgot that the americans were backing the shah at that time, and not the opposition or the revolution. @prime Saddam was supported by the Americans against Iran, then he paid the price for such an alliance. At the end, Iran won, since the US toppled Saddam.
20 February 2012, 16:22
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I agree Beiruti... but a firework between these two would be a nice show...
20 February 2012, 16:31
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the filthy zionist media terrorists hallucinate about iran being afraid.
send your airplanes than
20 February 2012, 16:32
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also, the rabid zionist didn't miss the chance to make more regional hallucination.
20 February 2012, 16:57
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They are irritated and they got bored with the 0 options they actually have.
20 February 2012, 17:23
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As an Iranian I get depressed when I see our people live in misery and our government lay a such a lot of money to do a show of power which is not but a bloff to chit our own people!
20 February 2012, 18:32
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let it be war between Iran and israel now and no one will shed a tear if Iran and israel destroy themselves mutually
Democracy now for all arab country including gulf countries
20 February 2012, 18:55
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There is a saying that says: the dog that barks too much does not bite. If you're really trying to show us your might then why going public? look at the zionist regime they already have a nuclear bomb, the defect that spoke out about it, was jailed for life because he revealed their secrets.
20 February 2012, 23:53
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Voting in 1979 doesn't mean the same people should rule for 40 years. Also many marxist and leftists participated in the revolution but were persecuted by the Islamist regime in power to this day.
These anti-air defenses would be lucky to shoot down one American made plane with their backwards technology.
21 February 2012, 15:50
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well damn them all they all envy us on such a country & they want to either buy or destroy it...can we just be Lebanese n support whats left in this misrable country?!
