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June 25, 2003
Iranian Authorities Mobilize Hezbollah Militants
IRAN. Iranian authorities are enlarging their forces with militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah group. This measure is reportedly prompted by forthcoming anti-government rallies in July....According to the Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), Iranian authorities have been recruiting thousands of mercenaries from among Iraqi and Afghan refugees, as well as members of radical organizations from Palestine, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Indonesia. Several hundred mercenaries have been billeted in barracks of the Revolutionary Guards in northern and western Tehran. Members of the Revolutionary Guards, a military force established after the revolution, are being told that new combatants that do not speak Persian are from the Arab units of Iranian troops.Full Article.... Posted by Dean Esmay at June 25, 2003 06:09 AM | TrackBack Comments
Huge mistake. Using foriegn mercenaries to quell your own population is generally the death knell of a regime. See Hessians, Revolutionary War. Posted by: Mark Buehner at June 25, 2003 10:39 AMvery true. once you tell your soldiers to fire and they decide not to fire on their brothers, and you then need to hire outsiders the times are changing. the same thing happened when communism fell too. they tried to use Georgian troops in Ukraine, Ukranian troops in Georgia etc. Posted by: june16_1904 at June 25, 2003 10:54 AMAnd presumably they propose to arm and train these terrorists? What will these terrorists do after they have put down the students in July? Hand in their weapons and forget that training? Hardly. If the Islamofacist Mullahs are allowed to raise a terrorist militia against students protesting for democracy then expect far reaching repercussions in the GWOT. Further, given the support vocalised by the US administration for those protests, we find ourselves morally bound not to allow that democratic movement to be crushed by an external militia, for such would be to repeat the betrayal of the Southern Iraqi Shiia in 1991. One cannot express solidarity with the fledling democratic movement in Iran on the one hand and then throw that movement to the wolves when, bolstered by our encouragement, it tries to stake its claim within the politics of Iran. Posted by: Simon Barnet at June 25, 2003 11:43 AMI agree, Simon. Post a comment
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