Iran: IRGC (Islamic Rev. Guard Corp) ready to respond to any attack’

[Dover]

Source: Tehran Times

IRGC ready to respond to any attack’

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- A senior Iranian commander says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps is geared up to counter any act of aggression against the country.


Speaking to reporters on an IRGC command ship in the Persian Gulf fleet headquarters, Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari said Saturday that Iran’s armed forces are prepared to detect and repel any potential attack against the country’s nuclear facilities.

After overseeing a military exercise aimed at detecting and destroying mock targets in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, Maj. Gen. Jafari asserted that Iran’s army is equipped with cutting-edge military warfare enabling it to instantly respond to any act of aggression.

The maneuver, which was a rehearsal of different passive defense methods, included torpedo and missile speedboat drills, sources told Press TV.

Maj. Gen. Jafari’s remarks came a day after a New York Times report quoted Pentagon officials as saying that over 100 Israeli F-16s and F-15s staged a maneuver off the southern Mediterranean island of Crete in the first week of June.

According to the report, the Israeli jets flew more than 900 miles, roughly the distance from Israeli airfields to an Iranian nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz...cont'd


Read more: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=171296

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Iran ready for ‘win-win’ nuclear talks
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN - Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Saeed Jalili said here on Saturday that Iran has presented its strategic package of diplomatic proposals and is prepared to hold talks with the 5+1 group based on the “win-win” principle and mutual trust.

Jalili, who is Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, made the remarks in a video conference with 200 German intellectuals, politicians, security officials, academics, and reporters attending a conference in Nuremberg...cont'd

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=171301

[ohio2007]

1. Iran banned newspaper for criticizing president

'Tehran Emrouz' released to the public a scalding article against their mad dinnerjacket leader and the mullahs shut it down under the "freedom of repress" laws;

Iran banned newspaper for criticizing president

TEHRAN, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Iran banned a daily newspaper for publishing articles critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economic policies, Iran's English-language Press TV reported on Sunday. Iran's press commission on Saturday withdrew the license of local daily Tehran Emrouz after it published a special issue on the third anniversary of Ahmadinejad's election Friday that contained numerous articles criticizing the government's economic policies, Press TV said.

The newspaper published an apology in its Saturday edition, citing "journalistic adventurism" as the main cause of its "mistake," but it was too late to prevent the cancellation of the publication's license. Tehran Emrouz, launched approximately 18 months ago, was generally seen as having close ties to the current Mayor of Tehran Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.

Iran which has a myriad of newspapers, Internet news sites and news agencies of all political colors, has seen a string of media closures. Early this month, the Fars news agency was temporarily banned because of "broadcasting false report and disturbing public opinion."

The moderate labor news agency ILNA and the daily newspaper Ham Mihan was shut down in July 2007. The authorities also closed Shargh (East) daily in August for publishing an interview with a well-known Iranian expatriate poet. In March 2008, authorities banned nine cinema and lifestyle magazines for publishing pictures and stories about foreign celebrities and promoting "superstitions."

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/22/content_8418009.htm

Only the mullahs decide the 'insulting' issues

Iran daily banned for criticising president
TEHRAN (AFP) - A conservative daily in Iran has been banned for publishing articles and images deemed critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official IRNA news agency
http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/menu-234/0806225366125158.htm
reported on Saturday.

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At the beginning of June the Fars news agency, one of the country's most prominent news organisations and normally considered close to the government, was banned for three days for reporting "false news."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080621/wl_mideast_afp/iranpoliticsmedia

What articles were being posted here in early June quoting the FARS link stories ? I'm sure the false stories have been 'fixed' by now so no reason to bother looking imo. No matter,the mullahs still 'use' that site when required to get the truth out. ;)
So,
what does this have to do with the original article ;

IRGC ready to respond to any attack’

TEHRAN (Press TV) -- A senior Iranian commander says the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps is geared up to counter any act of aggression against the country

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?

dunno, but I guess the mullahs democracy is hanging in the balance and they will decide what the 'truth' fit to be published will be.....



Jundallah kills two Iranian hostages

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=60738§ionid=351020101


.....and which is an illusion.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=3355764



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3356052

[Arctic Dave]

2. Thanks for posting.

I'm glad we don't live in a country were if you criticize the president, the government and its surrogates shouts you down. Oh wait, never mind. I forgot what country I was in.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. "The Mother of all defenses..."

:dejavu:

[ohio2007]

4. Worst of times for Iran ( Asia times)

Worst of times for Iran
By Spengler

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds 19 shillings and six pence, result happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20 pounds and six pence, result misery," said Charles Dickens' Wilkins Micawber in the novel David Copperfield.

Households in President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's Iran must suffer on a Dickensian scale, for they spend 10% more than their income, according to the country's central bank. Iran's data are more hilarious than reliable, to be sure, but they illustrate how ordinary Iranians are perishing in a sea of petrodollars.

The price of oil more than doubled since I warned last year (Why Iran will fight, not compromise Asia Times Online, May 30, 2007) that Iran's Islamic kleptocracy had reached the end of its rope. Despite the surge in oil revenues, conditions are worse than they were a year ago, as the price of necessities soars out of ordinary reach. Not only the theft of the oil windfall, but the manner of the heft, puts Adhmadinejad's political future in doubt, as Sami Moubayed reported on this site on June 21 ('President' Larijani: A star is born http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF21Ak02.html ).


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The system is rotten, and must either break down, or break out, that is, through military adventures. Western observers who hope for reduced tensions through replacing the feckless Ahmadinejad with Majlis (parliament) speaker Ali Larijani will be disappointed. On that more below.

Iran's economic disaster looms large in the twilight war now in progress in the Middle East. Israel has just conducted the sort of public display of force that a nation does not do if it actually plans a surprise attack.

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Ahmadinejad's patronage system generates payoffs to the political class that have set in motion uncontrolled inflation - officially 25% per year but certainly much higher - and a rush into real assets. A side effect is that the average Iranian urban household, which spends $316 a month, is gradually being priced out of the rental market
Not only rents but foodstuffs, fuel and other essentials have registered double- or triple-digit price increases during recent months, according to fragmentary reports trickling out of the country. The government's 25% inflation figure cannot be correct. The German Suddeutsche Zeitung's Tehran correspondent wrote on June 17, "Price increases follow one another in batches. After the prices of rice and detergent suddenly jumped by a multiple, tea prices have their turn. In just a few days different types of tea have become 300% to 700% more expensive." It is too early to speak of hyperinflation, but the the Iranian bazaar already presents with symptoms of incipient hyperinflation. How do households survive?

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF24Ak03.html

Some will call it a CIA orchestrated insurrection but the sharp rise in petrol dollar income for Iran didn't exactly.... trickle down.
I don't think the mullahs have "big oil" as a scapegoat to whip the masses into a frenzy over there either. Maybe they will let the youth of the country "vent" during th Olympics to get the huyperinflation off their minds

[Dark]

5. They're not ready for a war against America.

But of course, winning the initial war is only half the battle.