Iran is trying to put a positive spin on things, and turn a disaster into an occasion for saber rattling. Hey, when life hands you lemons... "Iran: Explosion occurred during military research," by Ramin Mostafavi for Reuters, November 16:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A massive explosion that killed 17 troops including an officer regarded as the architect of Iran's missile defences last week took place during research on weapons that could strike Israel, the Islamic Republic's military chief said on Wednesday.
Iran has insisted the blast at a military base on Saturday, which rattled window and nerves in parts of the capital Tehran 45 km (28 miles) away, was an accident and denied speculation of possible sabotage by Israel or the United States.
"This recent incident and blast has no link to Israel or America but the outcome of the research, in which the incident happened as a consequence, could be a strong smack to the mouth of Israel and its occupying regime," armed forces chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi was quoted as saying by the student news agency ISNA.
But first, you have to keep it from detonating inside Iran.
Asked on Israel's Army Radio on Sunday about the scope of damage from the blast, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he did not know, but added: "May there be more like it." There was no indication that the explosion was a deliberate attack.
Iranian officials had previously said the accident happened while munitions were being moved at the base, without linking it directly to weapons research.
Brigadier General Hassan Moqaddam, hailed as the founder of Iran's missile program, was the most senior casualty.
Iran already has missiles, the Shahab-3, first tested in 1998, that it says could reach Israel, which has threatened to strike Iran's nuclear sites if diplomacy and pressure fail to stop it getting the bomb....
Maybe it was a mosad squirrel or rabbit that chewed through the detonator wires?
Dear Israel:
Please send in more of them critters, if they were responsible!
A massive explosion that killed 17 troops including an officer regarded as the architect of Iran's missile defences
uh oh! It MUST have been the Mossad then .....as usual taking out the top Iranian scientists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Xl8FQ7OWM
Perhaps.
A massive explosion that killed 17 troops...
Prez Mahmoud must be deeply saddened by this. Yet more fine, dedicated men lost in furtherance of the Cause.
U. of Illinos at Chicago Circle
Bill Ayers suffered the same bomb making team loss pain
And now he's political mentor to Oprah's Prez Barack Hussein
Persia & America ain't so different, they're not that far apart
But stricter OSHA bomb making safety rules would be a good start
More about this event, including involvement by Syria and Turkey, can be found at
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=368237
STRATFOR's take on the larger set of behind the scenes maneuvering by a hole host of actors can be read at
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20111114-dispatch-countering-iran-covert-world?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111115&utm_term=gweekly&utm_content=videotitle&elq=2a47a5589bf941b28d6c020034bdfac7
Things are heating up in the ME. Why is it that I don't get the feeling our team is on top of things?
Required Conventional covort action by Israel, will continue to be exercised until Tehran's delusional despot abandons his nuclar arms effort. If Israel is attacked with a nuclear device, it will not be triggerd by Iran.
Pakistan ? Israel is right up their nuclear communications corridor. They didn't produce men like Salk and Einstine by accident.
Islamic firework instructions: Light the blue touchpaper, then stand real close! :)
Looks like a usual work accident.
"Wow, it really worked! Now if we can just figure how to handle it?
Well, back to the ol' chemistry set, damn!
Maybe we shoulda got more Nobel's then 9 just for killing people, like maybe science knowledge? Hmmm, why didn't we?" imaginary quote from an iran official, thinking on edge of blasphemy (allah shoulda handled it, and science is all in the ko-ran)
BTW, where was allah, playing golf, maybe? How could that pre-mature detonation have happened, achmed?
@Eastview,
highly interesting, thanks. I wonder if we are only seeing the top layers of the surface.
As far as I'm concerned, the simplest explanation is probably the most likely.
As others have said: Work Accident. A nice big one, this time.
Mohammedans have them a lot.
Sloppy Muslim work habits, disregard for the rules, and fatalism do not combine very well with the advanced weaponry and complex, unstable explosive substances invented by the clever kuffar.
Muslims buy or copy the technology but they do not have the mental habits required to properly follow the recipes, or to safely store and handle, or (often) effectively use such dangerous toys. Occupational Health and Safety Regulations...pshaw!! Inshallah...BOOOOOM.
To the 17 morons: insh'allah!
Yes, indeed! "May there be more like it." Im yirtse hashem!
"Iran: Massive explosion occurred during "military research" on weapons that could strike Israel"
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MOSSAD
Isaiah 54:17
17 ¶No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper
Oh, not necessarily.
Have you been here at jihadwatch long enough to have read the story of the suicide murder-'martyr' in Afghanistan, all rigged up with his explosive vest, who ...tripped on his way down the stairs? KA-BOOM!
Or the story of the Imam's house in Lebanon that suddenly ascended skywards in a deafening explosion (improperly-stored ordnance)?
Or the story that featured a bucolic scene in downtown Afghanistan (or was it Pakistan?) - everyone busy chaffering at the cattle market, and in the nearby mosque the imam broadcasting a fiery sermon over the radio while - also in the mosque - a bunch of guys got busy concocting a bomb...except they didn't read the recipe properly, or something....KA-BOOM!
It happens a LOT.
I'm not surprised.
In John Roy Carlson's 'Cairo to Damascus' he describes a hair-raising trip he once made on an old American truck (this is the late 1940s) loaded with Arab Muslims, crates of oranges, and improperly stoppered and secured drums of... petrol. The petrol drums were leaking, adding extra flavour to the oranges and soaking the wooden floorboards of the tray of the truck.
They drove much too fast over narrow, pot-holed, hair-raising roads, while Muslims, oranges, petrol drums and one Armenian-American pretending to be an Islamophile (our friend 'Carlson') bounced around in the back. And then...and then...one of the Muslims on board **lit a cigarette** and nearly gave Carlson heart failure.
Thanks for this Stratfor report, Eastview.
We can learn a lot about what Iran is up to by what they tell us. Analysts say the interpretation of Islamic prophecy in this leaded Ahmadinejad video suggests that Iran must launch an offensive war against Israel by the end of this year. It also calls for the assassination of King Abdullah:
The Coming Is Near
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwiadYT-N9k
You can also get Ahmad Rezaie's interview before he was killed here:
http://tundratabloids.com/2011/11/interviewed-iranian-revealed-true-nature-of-irans-revolution-before-being-assassinated.html
One might think that with all the accidents, mishaps, and failed plots from the ME, that some kind of divine intervention is in play. If I were Muslim I'd might even think that Allah didn't really want me to kill anyone.
Looks like the research was successful, judging by the results ;-)
'Times' (London) Nov 17 (£).
Headline:
"Iran's elite Guard 'runs global crime network pushing heroin to West'"
[Opening excerpt]:
"Members of Iran's Revutionary Guard Corps(IRGG)have seized control of drug trafficking throughout the Islamic Republic, using the multi-billion-pound trade to establish links with a global crime network and further the goal of undermining the West, according to former regime officials."
Does anyone else find it significant that the Iranians, who usually jump at the chance to blame *everything* on the 'evil Zionists', insist for a change that this was a result of their own carelessness?
I noticed that too, CGW. The Iranians undoubtedly were quite conflicted about this, and felt great angst about whether to credit/blame the Jews.
Okay, is Tehran telling us that they are so inept that they can't guard their own top secret facilities, or so stupid that the architect of their missile defenses blew himself up accidently!?!
Either way, "Pity"!!!!
"May there be more like it." Ditto.
Yeah, as I said in my post on another thread, it could just be incompetence, as you say. In answer to your question - yes, since 2007, but under another screen moniker. I'm sure you know who I "was", though.
Unfortunately, he may be replaced by someone who knows what he's doing.
Asked on Israel's Army Radio on Sunday about the scope of damage from the blast, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he did not know, but added: "May there be more like it."
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Hear, hear!