While the Pasdars are panicking, The Mullah's are being shot!

Gun men kill Shia cleric in Iran (AFP) 3 October 2007

TEHERAN - A Shia cleric was gunned down by bandits in a village in the restive Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan as he was delivering a sermon, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. Hojatoeslam Mehdi Tavakoli was killed by two gunmen on motorcycles on Tuesday in an unidentified village near the city of Khash, it said, without elaborating further.Sistan-Baluchestan province, which has a large Sunni population, borders both Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been hit by a string of attacks and kidnappings blamed on a Sunni group called Jundallah or Allah’s Brigade.

گزارش دریافتی از سوی یکی از خوانندگان در تبریز

امروز چهارشنبه 11 مهر 1386 مقارن با روز تعطیلی 21 رمضان یگان های نیروی زمینی ارتش مستقر در پادگان تبریز (لشگر 21 حمزه) جابجائی های وسیع و بی سر وصدائی در سطح شهر داشتند. اغلب این جابجائی ها در خودروهای لند کروز حامل اثاثیه و تجهیزات ارتباطی و مقادیری مهمات در جعبه های قدیمی امریکائی به همراه یک سرباز محافظ در عقب لندکروزها انجام می شد. یکسان بودن تجهیزات در عقب هر لندکروز، مسیر های متفاوتی که هر خودرو در آن حرکت می کرد و نیز عدم وجود دلیلی برای چنین جابجائی وسیعی در کنار اخبار منتشره این روزها در خصوص آمادگی رژیم برای حمله احتمالی این گمان را در ذهن بوجود می آورد که واحدهای پراکنده ای در نقاط مختلف مسکونی یا اداری شهر با تجهیزات و مهمات تعیین شده بصورت متحدالشکل بصورت مخفی مستقر می شوند. احتمال اینکه این جابجائی ها از سوی سپاه و زیر پوشش لباس و خودروهای ارتش باشد بعید نیست.

آخوند حکومتی روی منبر به ضرب گلوله شهید شد

به گزارش خبرگزاری حکومتی فارس، افراد مسلح شب گذشته یک آخوند حکومتی را که برای تبلیغ به استان سیستان و بلوچستان اعزام شده بود، به ضرب گلوله بهلاکت رساندند.این خبرگزاری حکومتی نوشت: "حجت‌الاسلام مهدي توكلي از طلاب فارغ‌التحصيل مدرسه علميه امام صادق (ع)‌ زابل كه به عنوان روحاني مستقر در روستاي افتخارآباد خاش در حال تبليغ بود، شب گذشته حدود ساعت 30/9 بر روي منبر مسجد اين روستا در حال سخنراني بود كه دو موتورسوار وارد مسجد شدند و اين روحاني را به رگبار بستند. اين روحاني همان ديشب به فيض شهادت نائل آمد."یادآوری می شود چند روز پیش نیز یک آخوند حکومتی در اهواز هدف گلوله قرار گرفته بود.

War, Diplomacy and Iran's Revolutionary Guards

The ongoing confrontation between the United States and Iran is a sword of Damocles that looms over the Middle East. By Khaleej Times Online

Iran Revolutionary Guards' Role Growing
TEHRAN, Iran -- They own car factories and construction firms, operate newspaper groups and oil fields and increasingly, serve in parliament or become provincial governors. To supporters, the Revolutionary Guards are the cream of Iran's talent.

Russian Roulette on Iran : By Michael Rubin
Last week, the United States turned to the United Nations in an attempt to increase pressure on Iran. The U.S. wanted to expand sanctions against the budding nuclear power. Neither China nor Russia would go along. And faced with the prospect of one or the other vetoing sanctions at the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice punted. She put off further action against Iran until at least November.

Bombing Iran : Oct 1, 2007

The Washington Post's Dana Priest opines that if the White House decides to bomb Iran, "the military would revolt and there would be no pilots to fly those missions." Matt Yglesias isn't convinced: It's important to avoid overstating the degree of military opposition to a bomb Iran policy. As best I can tell, the Army is dead-set against it. But the Army wouldn't be carrying the mission out anyway. It'd be shocking for the Air Force to suddenly come to appreciate the strategic limits of air power. In their minds, bombing Iran won't compound the error of Iraq; rather, it'll show the manifest benefits of doing things their way rather than getting bogged-down into an Army-style quagmire.A couple of things. First, my semi-understanding of the state of play here is that opposition to bombing Iran comes at the Joint Chiefs and theater command levels, not at the individual service level. Second, a lot of this surely depends on what kind of bombing mission we're talking about. A massive two-week effort deep into the heart of Iran to destroy their nuclear infrastructure is one thing, and that seems to be the mission the Chiefs have a problem with. (Assuming scuttlebutt is right and they have a problem in the first place.) But if Sy Hersh is right and Dick Cheney's latest gambit is to turn Iran into a 21st century Cambodia complete with "limited" bombing raids along the border, that's another thing entirely. I'd be surprised if anyone in the E Ring had a serious problem with that.In fact, you might recall that a few weeks ago Joe Lieberman asked Gen. David Petraeus if it was time to give him authority to perform military missions in Iran, and contrary to the anti-Joe spin that this exchange received in the liberal blogosphere, Petraeus very decidedly didn't say he was opposed to the idea. What he said was that he personally wanted to focus on Iraq and "any kinds of operations outside the borders of Iraq would rightly be overseen by Central Command." That's not exactly stirring opposition.Now, Adm. Fallon, based on his public statements, doesn't seem especially inclined to expand the Iraq war into Iran. Neither does Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Still, the drumbeat of reports from Baghdad implicating Iran in supplying weaponry to its various clients and allies in Iraq has been increasing considerably over the past month or two, and that kind of thing doesn't happen unless the Army wants it to happen. So somebody in Petraeus's command is happy to help Cheney's marketing program along. Maybe it's Petraeus himself, maybe someone else. And, yes, the Air Force is probably pleased at the prospect too. Stay tuned.