Iran to conduct missile war games

[Raydawg1234]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_missile_tests

TEHRAN, Iran -Iran plans three days of military maneuvers, including short-range missile tests, beginning Sunday — its first since the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against it in late December, state-run television said.

"The elite Revolutionary Guards plans to begin a three-day missile maneuver on Sunday near Garmsar city," said the broadcast. The city is located in northern Iran on the edge of Kavir desert, about 60 miles southeast of Tehran.

"Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles will be test fired in the war game," the television quoted an unnamed commander of the guards, as saying. Both are considered short-range missiles.

Iran conducted three large-scale military exercises last year as tensions with the West and the United States rose.

In November, for example, it test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3 that can reach Israel, in military maneuvers that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of world powers in the Persian Gulf region.

Sunday's maneuvers are to be the first by Iran since the U.N. Security Council imposed limited sanctions on the country on Dec. 23, banning selling materials and technology that could be used in Iran's nuclear and missile programs and freezing assets abroad of 10 Iranian companies and individuals.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_missile_tests

[Cooley Hurd]

1. If you rattle your sabre at someone, you gotta expect them to...

...rattle theirs back at you. Let's hope it remains mere gestures and doesn't escalate to actions.:scared:

[C_U_L8R]

2. someone's gonna lose an eye this way

doesn't anyone listen to their mothers?

[IDemo]

3. I'm sure they'll only aim it at an Iranian satellite n/t

[RestoreGore]

4. Armageddon coming?

Is this a bluff or are we truly headed for the Armageddon the Christian Right is peeing their pants to see? If I didn't know any better based on the way these events are being timed, I would think Bush and Ahmanijedad (or whatever the hell his name is) were in this together to start a war. They both certainly do not care for the loss of innocent life. If this does come to another Gulf of Tonkin and we continue to sit and allow these criminals to have reign over this government, WE ARE TO BLAME.