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Iran war games to defend nuclear sites
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by Babel-Fish | November 22, 2009 at 04:16 pm
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I smell a new war in the air, its a war of wills or will nots, Iran shows its might because it knows it may be be attacked from the air. Of course Iran has not got a chance and knows that this time Russia will not step in.
Israel of course is famous for its use of propaganda and threats have been leaking all over the middle east and in USA and Europe that it will attack Iran.
In the end Iran will lose this war and bow down to King Obama, so to stop the Israeli threat.
Iran has begun five days of large-scale war games to simulate attacks on its nuclear sites, officials said, warning it will retaliate if provoked.
The head of Iran's air defence said the aim of the exercises was to thwart aerial reconnaissance and air attacks.
Another official warned Tehran would retaliate with a missile strike on Tel Aviv, if it was attacked by Israel.
Iran is under intense pressure over its nuclear programme, which critics say is intended to produce nuclear weapons.
The US and Israel have not ruled out the prospect of a military attack to prevent Iran developing nuclear bombs. Tehran insists its programme is peaceful.
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at 16:42 on November 22nd, 2009
One day may come when Iran's belligerence and naiveté will blow up in their faces.
at 18:06 on November 22nd, 2009
Yeah, maybe sooner than they think.
It will get ugly.
at 03:00 on November 23rd, 2009
I hope you are right that Iran will stop. I am not so optimistic as you are and if you are wrong we are in for a terrible global crises.
at 06:45 on November 23rd, 2009
I may be wrong but then I could be right
at 15:43 on November 23rd, 2009
Iran Stages War Games As A Warning To Israel EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. An Iranian Tondar missile is ready for launch during a test at an unknown location in central Iran September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Fars News/Ali Shayegan
Iran Begins Air-Defense Drills To Protect Nuclear Sites -- L.A. Times
Iran says Israel would pay a heavy price if the West launches airstrikes. Meanwhile, opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi praises anti-government protesters.
Reporting from Beirut - Iran today launched what it described as its biggest air- defense drill ever with the aim of preparing to protect the country's nuclear sites from possible airstrikes as international talks to resolve the long stalemate over the nation's atomic research program falter.
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at 20:19 on November 23rd, 2009
Iran's key sites exposed without S-300s
Tehran (UPI) Nov 23, 2009 - The large-scale exercises Iran is currently conducting to test its air-defense network and assess its ability to protect its nuclear facilities appear to be little more than a show of defiance against the United States, Israel and Russia, its longtime key arms supplier. Without the advanced S-300PMU missiles that a fickle Moscow refuses to deliver, presumably because the Kremlin finds ... more
at 00:28 on November 24th, 2009
Here is what Debka has to say:
Iran tests nuclear site defenses: Stage One a washout
DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis
November 23, 2009, 12:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Not equal to defense function
From the word go on Sunday, Nov. 22, Iran's five-day drill demonstrated that its air force and air defense units were unequal to their mission of keeping the skies over its nuclear sites clear of incoming strike aircraft, DEBKAfile's military and Iranian sources report.
This was quickly borne in on Gen. Ahmad Mighani, air force chief and commander of five-day air defense exercise and the officers at the Khatam ol-Anbia air force base, headquarters of the exercise in the southern province of Khuzestan.
The first stage of the three-part war game Sunday and Monday was devoted to preventing hostile bombers from reaching nuclear installations. Iranian Mirage F-1 fighters acted as strike craft while F-5 fighters - old American models and local products - were assigned defensive roles. However, the F-5s broke through Iranian radar systems, overwhelmed the defending craft in dogfights and seized command of the air space over the nuclear sites. In conditions of real war, therefore, Iran's atomic installations would be destroyed in the first hours of an attack.
To raise the morale of the Iranian units who witnessed the debacle, Gen. Moghani gave them a pep talk before Monday's drills began. He assured them that even if enemy aircraft were able to knock out the installations while they were bombing Iran.
His words confirmed DEBKAfile's report Saturday, Nov. 20, that in the early stages of a war Tehran would focus on destroying Israeli air force, missile and radar facilities at home as well as the US military bases in Israel, rather than its cities.
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