Iran Pushes Harder
Jane's Defense Weekly reports that Iran will begin supplying Hezbollah with air defense missile systems. This is a rather obvious escalation of hostilities toward Israel.
In a meeting, held late last month, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia called on Tehran to "accelerate and extend the scope of weapon shipments from Iran to the Islamic Resistance, particularly advanced missiles against ground and air targets."
Hezbollah's representatives pressed for "an array of more advanced weaponry, including more advanced SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems," Jane's said Friday.
"Iranian authorities conveyed a message to the Hezbollah leadership that their forces would continue to receive a steady supply of weapons systems,"it added.
"The details coming from the meeting reveal that they are about ensuring a constant supply of weapons to support Islamic Resistance operations against Israel," said Robin Hughes, the magazine's Middle East Editor.
"We are told the latest meeting was attended by senior representatives of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Qods force which is responsible for training and logistic support for Iranian-backed insurgent groups."
According to Jane's Defence Weekly, Iranian authorities have supplied the militia with Iranian-made Noor radar-guided anti-ship cruise missiles and Chinese QW-1 (Vanguard) shoulder-launched SAMs.
Next, the Iranians will begin supplying Russian systems. Does anyone still not realize that Iran is behind all the unrest in the Middle East right now?
By Black Jack, Friday, 4 August , 2006 @ 3:20 pm
Jimmy the Unready,
The useless Jimmy Carter could have nipped all this in the bud back during the Iranian hostage crisis. He had the opportunity to throw down on these Iranian thugs, but didn’t have the courage to stand up for the most basic of the freedoms of America’s citizens.
Carter vacillated and postured but ultimately stood by impotently while 66 Americans were taken hostage, most were held for 444 days from November 4, 1979, till the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, January 20, 1980.
Today, 25 years later and we’re all still paying on the installment plan in blood and boys for Carter’s cowardice with no end in sight. Back then, the USSR invaded Afghanistan and what was Jimmy the Unready prepared to do? Why, he organized a boycott of the Moscow Olympics. He sure showed them! What a statesman, he even got the Nobel Peace Prize.
Never, ever, let the Democrat Party get back into power, or they’ll stab us in the back again.