Ten top members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards have recently died under mysterious circumstances

Hmmm. Maybe there are ways around Barack Obama's supine and obsequious reaction to the jihad threat from Iran. "Top Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guards Dropping Like Flies," by David Lev for Israel National News, May 24 (thanks to Voice of the Copts):

At least ten top members of the Iran's Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Pasdaran) group have died under suspicious circumstances in recent months, the Defense Online website reported Thursday. Those killed include generals and other top-ranked officials, and many of them have died in “apparently violent circumstances,” the report said.

The Guardians act as a combination border patrol, modesty police, and internal security apparatus in Iran. Their mission is to ensure that the Islamic Revolution does not fall by the wayside, and that Iranians continue to submit to the wills of the mullahs running the country. The Guardians are considered one of the most powerful organizations in Iran today, controls its own paramilitary group, employs 90,000 people, and is said to have tens of billions of holdings in businesses.

It is tension over those holdings that have gotten the officers killed, the report says....

Iran has publicized only two of the deaths, with information on the other eight coming from democracy and rights groups operating outside of Iran.

Among the dead was General Ahmed Mansouri, a top Guardians officer who is a close relative of Supreme Leader Ayatalloh Ali Khameini. Sources in Iran say that he died of a heart attack. Two other officers died in a traffic accident. Two were found dead by apparently violent means, and no information was available from the Iranian rebel groups on the other five.

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Interesting how important people seem to keep going away...am reminded of "He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."

Indeed, yet there are the smart guys like the Farman-Farma's, who put their Persian brains to good use and shrug off Islam.

Reminiscent of the "Night of the Long Knives" for Ernst Roehm and the SA.

Wonderful news! May the bloodletting continue!

Clowns!

this has been going on for a few years now and it is not all economice either. the generals who where involved in the iran/iraq war who are now retired have a disdain with the new generals and view them as traitors. wonderful news is right in any case.
M

Alhamdullilah indeed!

One possibility that the Saudis, Turks and other Gulf Arabs are trying to destabilize Iran so that the latter can't support Shias wanting a part of the Arab Spring, particularly countries like Bahrein and Syria.

Iran should go ahead and along w/ Iraq and Syria, start a war against Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. It'll be a good start.

Best way to get rid of the enemy. FROM INSIDE. As Islam is doing to us by indoctrinating our population with "multi-culturalism" BS. We really should be out of the Middle East and let them self-destruct. They really will as they have done before during the Ottoman Empire times.

[sarc]It's obviously a Zionist conspiracy.[/sarc]

The irony is that, in this case, the typical Muslim "Zionist Conspiracy" paranoia may actually be accurate.

However, the other theories presented here (Saudi, Turkey, et al trying to destabilize those darned Shia troublemakers, or simply the Iranians cleaning house) are just as likely. Personally,I wouldn't be surprised if it was some combination of the three.

Not that we will ever know, one way or the other.

I assume that the 'Iranian Revolutionary Guard' are distinct from this lot (the Pasaran)?

Internecine bloodletting is normal for the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, just as it is for the Mafia and other crime syndicates.

In his history of the Holy Land, James Parkes had this to say about the dynasty of the Mamluks: "by intrigue and assassination they ascended the throne, and by intrigue and assassination they perished".

Similar observations were made by C S Forester concerning the warlords of the Barbary Coast, in his book 'The Barbary Pirates'; and by Winston Churchill, discussing the habits of the Mohammedans in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan, in his book 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force'.

Quite right. Far from spawning despicable conspiracy theories, it's quite probable that one of those three factors you mention is effectively the Mossad's business of making their handiwork look like accidents and natural causes. They have a load of experience with that type of thing.

Good on them, too, I say. Keep up the good work.

We use to refer to executions of GRU and KGB officers in the basement of the Lubyanka as "natural deaths".
It may be part of the IRGC fatal symptomolgy as well.
After all, it's pretty routine for this sort of governing.

Go Mossad!

Ruslan Tokhchukov.

Dumbledore's Army wrote:

Internecine bloodletting is normal for the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, just as it is for the Mafia and other crime syndicates.
...

"by intrigue and assassination they ascended the throne, and by intrigue and assassination they perished"
.................................

So true...

Could be the Israelis. Might even be a western power. But then it could stem from the fact that the entire Iranian government operates like a mafia. Lieutenants moving up to Capos? Turf wars to control the business assets? Who knows.

Whatever it is and whoevers doing it, keep it up.

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