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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps simulates capture of Al Aqsa Mosque

Nov 21, 2015 9:28 am By Robert Spencer

They’re not even sure which one it is, as they set up a replica of the Dome of the Rock rather than the Al Aqsa Mosque, but in any case their bellicose intentions are clear.

Iran war game

“Iran Guard simulates capture of Al Aqsa Mosque,” by Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press, November 21, 2015 (thanks to Banafsheh):

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of paramilitary forces from the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard have held a war game simulating the capture of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control.

Iran’s state media reported Saturday that the forces stormed and “liberated” a replica of the mosque in the exercise. They say that 120 brigades from the Basij, the paramilitary unit of the Guard, participated in Friday’s exercise outside the holy city of Qom in central Iran.

The symbolic operations were backed up by Guard helicopters, drones and Tucano planes that bombed hypothetical enemy positions before ground troops captured the replica of the mosque set up at the top of a mountain.

In a common mistake, the Guard set up a replica of the gold-topped Dome of the Rock instead of the nearby mosque. Official photos showed one of the troops going to the top of the dome and waving an Iranian flag and a red-colored flag, a symbol of martyrdom.

The hilltop compound, which is holy to Jews and Muslims, has been at the heart of weeks of unrest between Israel and the Palestinians. Muslims call the spot the Noble Sanctuary, and the mosque is Islam’s third holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Jews revere the spot as the Temple Mount — home to the biblical Temples and the holiest site in Judaism.

The current round of fighting was sparked in part by rumors that Israel was plotting to take over the site — a charge that Israel vehemently denies. Clashes outside the mosque erupted in September and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the Guard’s aerospace division, said his force deployed Shahed-121, or Witness-129, drones during the war games. The drone, unveiled in 2013, has a range of 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles), a 24-hour nonstop flight capability and can carry eight bombs or missiles….

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  1. mortimer says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:31 am

    Yoohoo! Iranian morons! Muslims already control and manage the buildings on Temple Mount. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf is an Islamic trust best known for controlling and managing the current Islamic edifices around and including the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. The waqf has governed access to the geographic region since the Muslim reconquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187.

    So bugger off, fools. Shi’ite supremacists are not welcome.

    • john spielman says

      Nov 21, 2015 at 10:46 am

      the capture of the Dome of the Rock by Shiites would certainly start a Sunni Shia war

      • jura says

        Nov 21, 2015 at 11:57 am

        War in Syria and Iraq is the sunni shia war. It is the cause of that war.

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:33 am

    “…bombed hypothetical enemy positions before ground troops captured the replica of the mosque”

    The Dome of the Rock isn’t a mosque, but a shrine.

  3. Peter Hyatt says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 10:48 am

    http://analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-slumber-of-america.html

    It is too late for Germany. It must lead to war, but why are we listening to the lies? We do not have a reference point for freedom.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:05 am

    Muslims are in constant need of an (indignation fetish) object.
    This is to hide Islam’s shallow pretense of being a religion.
    This indignation fetish is like when bloodthirsty Iranian Muslims circled around falsely accused stoning victim Soraya M..

    Muslims have no right to even enter Jerusalem.

  5. Guy Jones says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:18 am

    These Mohammedans are so infantile, so utterly pathetic. Totally engrossed with narratives of alleged grievance and lust for power and notions of supremacy. But, that makes them no less dangerous. They are facsists and must be treated as such.

  6. ? says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:19 am

    One point…. if Jews somewhere did something like that–capturing the Mecca or the dome of the rock there would be an international incident…

    This is the reaping 666

  7. Charli Main says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:28 pm

    The Al Aqsa Mosque —-a foul Muslim boil perched on the Temple Mount. A boil long overdue for lancing.

  8. Sam says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 1:47 pm

    There is no way but total destruction of Islam by force is a must to achieve peace for humanity for few hundred years before we come up with another evil like Islam again. ISLAM IS EVIL.

  9. Angemon says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Thousands of paramilitary forces from the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard have held a war game simulating the capture of Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control.

    Too bad for then: real Israelis fire back.

  10. gravenimage says

    Nov 21, 2015 at 11:39 pm

    Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps simulates capture of Al Aqsa Mosque
    …………………….

    As others have noted, Al Aqsa is already under the controls of Mohammedans.

    And would those pious Sunnis react to Al Aqsa being captured by the “Rafidite dogs” of Iran? Likely instead of considering it to have been “liberated”, Sunnis would turn on the “heretical” Shia in an internecine bloodbath.

    God, I hate Islam.

  11. Mathew Solo says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 2:10 am

    Arabs who desire to control the Temple Mount in Jerusalem often deny that Israelite presence there predates Muslim presence that first appears about 700 AD…Yet…recent archaeological evidence counters the Arab claim…A 10-year-old Russian boy… recently made an extraordinary discovery in Jerusalem…Working as a volunteer in the Temple Mount Sifting Project…he found a 3,000-year-old seal…engraved limestone about the size of a thimble…with a hole at one end so it could be hung from a string…from the time of King David [about 1000 BC]…The artifact was nestled in the hundreds of tons of earth and rock that had been illegally excavated from below the Temple Mount in the late 1990s by the Muslim Waqf… the seal confirms the ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem—more than a millennium before the Muslim Dome of the Rock was built.

  12. Morrocan Infidel Christian says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 5:24 am

    Too bad a fast 60 mph wind did not come at the right moment to blow that air filled kiddie bounce attraction on over the mountain!

  13. Baucent says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 7:59 am

    Well they are certainly making their intentions crystal clear. An attack on Israel is still their dream. No doubt they would draw in support for Hamas and Hezbollah, but as others have pointed out, any Iranian move on the Jerusalem holy sites would stir up a frenzy of Sunni reaction led by Saudi Arabia. Such adventurism could only be contemplated after an attack and victory over Saudi Arabia. Perhaps that is the plan, and the reason they need nukes.

  14. el cid says

    Nov 22, 2015 at 9:07 am

    A totally corrupt, immoral, bankrupt government–worse than the Nazis. They have nothing to offer their own people or the world except tyranny, enslavement, and destruction.

    Where is the Western Press on this? Is this the government that will receive billions of dollars soon?

    • quotha raven says

      Nov 22, 2015 at 6:09 pm

      to el cid, who asks, “Where is the Western Press on this?”

      From what I understand, the USA Press is owned in significant part by Muslims, and the rest of it is deeply, religiously committed to political correctness and cultural diversity.

      Cheers!

      quotha raven

      • quotha raven says

        Nov 22, 2015 at 6:17 pm

        btw, JW readers – my subscription to follow-up comments is simply non-functional as of a few weeks ago, and in spite of my trying everything I could think of with regard to WordPress. They keep sending me JW “new posts” (which I don’t want) though, in addition to my “daily digest”, which comes once a day. Anyone else having this problem? It’s driving me mad. Cheers! quotha r

  15. petey says

    Nov 25, 2015 at 6:16 am

    They have to simulate capturing the Mosque, They simply don’t have the balls to stand toe to toe with the Israeli Army. Kinda like that mockup carrier they built, They sunk it and bragged! Only a two bit middle eastern army would ever celebrate such a thing

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