Politische Beobachtungen vom Beckenrand
Von Silke Mertins
Wer klug ist, kommentiert allerlei politische Dummheiten vom Beckenrand aus und lässt die anderen verbissen ihre Bahnen ziehen.
#taz #tageszeitung #Christian #Lindner #Olaf #Scholz #UN-Resolution #UN-Menschenrechtsrat #Israel #Defense #Forces # #IDF # #Gaza #Israel #Hamas #Markus #Söder #Saddam #Hussein #Robert #Habeck #Fahrrad #Uno #Völkerrecht
At the height of Iraq invasion of Iran, Iraqi had the upper hand in the sky despite the fact that Iranian air force had better equipments and planes, the lack of spare parts and strong Iraqi air defense using Soviet made anti aircraft missiles and artillery as well as Italian and British systems were making it hard for Iran to push Iraq out of the large areas they had captured during the first 3 months of the invasion.
In a daring suggestion, the air force decided to attack the Iraqi main air force located at the border of the country with Syria.
The 2800km flight involving almost entire Iranian air force, including 2 4 tankers started in Hamedan airfield, with refilling of the planes over Azerbaijan, then fly over Iraq at low altitude refule once again inside Iraq and attack the Iraqi field Al-Valeed code named H-3, destroying 20 MIG planes and damaging 10 more plus massive damages to the missiles and air defense storage facilities that were not protected at all since Iraq didn't imagine to have them targeted.
After the operation, Saddam who was infuriated by the failure of his military to detect, intercept and destroy any of the planes involved in the operation, ordered the execution of head of the team and 5 others and imprisoned 20 others staff of the air fileld.
IRI claims that they destroyed 48 Mig-21s and damaging 20 more, but there haa never been any verified report to back those claims.
The attack were the turning point for Iraqi military who later turned to France to purchase Mirage F1 planes as well as Italian attack helicopters and French and British air to sea and air to surface missiles.
The operation involved 4 refueling operations, 2 of them over Iraqi air.
#Iran #Iraq #Saddam #Military IraqIranWar #Airforce #History #Politics
I didn't read much on French or international news, but the attack has the clear footprints of IRGC #Quds force, the main target was a senior member of MKO Masoud Keshmiri who was named as the personal behind the bombing in Tehran back in the summer of 1981 that killed the President Rajaii and Prime Minister #Bahonar.
The attack was always a source of questionable circumstances and many people believed that it was the work of #Rafsanjani and and #Khamenei together with Ali #Rezai the head of IRGC back then who were involved in the #McFarlane trip to #Iran before the US election of 1980 that resulted in a deal between #US government (actually #Republicans and #Reagan) and IRI regime to delay the release of the hostages who were planned to be released in early fall of 1980 in exchange for badly needed spare parts for Iranian #F-14 #TomCat fighter jets and the code to unlock the air to air missiles #Phoenix that #Shah of Iran had purchased before the àrevolution and IRI could not use them because of inability to break the code.
Rejaii was one of the deeply religious hardcore revolutionary who was badly tortured before the revolution in #Evin àprison and a man of principals who was 100% against the deal specially after he found out that most of the parts and àweapons delivered to Iran were actually came from an unmarked ship fromFrenxh port of #Marseille but it made a stop in Israeli port of #Haifa to load the weapons.
2 days before his death, #Rejaii made a famous speech that condemned those "naive individuals in the country who believed they could purchase weapons from an arh enemy of the nation in order to fight the little insignificant devil #Saddam that Iran could easily deal with".
The deal hlgave Reagan the landslide wicrory over #Carter who Khomeini hated more than anyone because he brokered a peace deal between #Israel and #Egypt and he, in his typical short sighted stupidity believed Reagan would be a friend of Iran in it's fight against the " pro #Soviet #Saddam".
The rest is history and we all know the sad and pathetic stupidity of #Khomeini and his closest inner circle gave the world a monster that setup the foundation to the shitty world we live in.
But for the stupid and ignorant followers of Khomeini, who never admitted that it was Israeli weapons and spare parts that turned the war around and let Iran almost destroy the entire Iraqi air force in series of attacks including one that goes to history as one of the longest direct hit of a French Mirage 1 (one of 3 that French government has lent to Saddam) from 150km distance using one of the $2.5M phoenix missiles, the blame was on MKO and not the evil Trio of IRI inner mafia.
So the last week's assassination brought "closer" to a 42 years old revenge against the puppet in the game of much more evil forces inside and outside IRI regime.
PS. Some say that #Macron's phone call with #Reisi was triggered by the #assassination in #Paris, buth both parties seems to have chosen not to talk about it in public.
Clinton helped creating the Taliban to stop the influence of Iran in Afghanistan and help surround Iran with enemy states.
But, just like Osama and Saddam, the Taliban turned on them and the rest is just history.
Now again, Taliban seems to be working as the useful idiots of the "leader of the free world" to fight against the baddest guys, so the same monsters who attacked Biden for letting the "terrorists" have so much American hardware, are now calling for a united front to stand behind the old friends, turned to enemies to btreat them as friends again.
I freaking hate to be right about these pigs.
The anti Iran centric policies of US has killed millions of innocent people in the region and around the world and it is not going to end here or any time in near future.
#Iran #Taliban #Biden #Afghanistan #History #Politics #osama #Saddam
The so called Russian peacekeepers who were supposed to make sure the agreement between the 3 nations were followed, has all but deserted the strategic road that is the only supply line for 1000s of Armenians living in #Lachin and surrounding areas.
The fascist Aliyev is preparing for a massive assault on Isolated and poor Armenia with the help of Israel and Turkey and approval of Biden administration who is sending millions of dollars in military aid to Aliyev brutal dictator.
Once again, the anti-Iranian policies of the US is creating a powerful monster as they did with Saddam in the 80s, Taliban in the 90s and ISIS/AlQaeda/MbS in 2000s.
Will they ever learn? How many more innocent people have to die for people in the US to deman an end to this failed policies that has destroyed the region since early 1980s.
#Politics #Azerbaijan #Armenia #Peace #StandWithArmenia #Israel #Turkey #Iran #Taliban #Saddam #ISIS #AlQaeda #Iraq #Syria
But #Cheney and #Rice neglected to disclose that there was a heated dispute within the #intelligence community about this supposed evidence. The top scientific experts in the US government had concluded these tubes were unsuitable for a #nuclear weapons program. Only one #CIA analyst—who was not a scientific expert—contended the tubes were smoking-gun proof that #Saddam was working to develop nuclear weapons. That was all the Bush-Cheney White House needed.
#history #crime #terror #humanRights #usa #politics #problem #justice #ethics #moral #Pentagon #dod #military #fail #news
US-Invasion im Irak
Von Karim El-Gawhary
Vor 20 Jahren begann die „Operation Iraqi Freedom“. Sie beschädigte die Idee der Demokratie in der arabischen Welt für lange Zeit.
#taz #tageszeitung #Irak-Krieg #George #W # #Bush #Saddam #Hussein #Arabische #Welt #wochentaz #Irak
20 Jahre nach Invasion im Irak
Von Dorothea Hahn
Dass der Krieg gegen den Irak ein Fehler war, stellt kaum noch jemand in Frage. Und doch ist bis heute niemand zur Verantwortung gezogen worden.
#taz #tageszeitung #Irakkrieg #Saddam #Hussein # #Islamischer #Staat # # #IS # #George #W # #Bush
Time flies. It wasn't yesterday, but I still remember the first I heard the news on shortwave radio.
Saddam had used chemical weapons again, but this time targeting civilians in IrQi Kurdistan.
Reports were mentioning some horrifying scenes of people lying dead on the allys and pathways, door fronts or in their homes.
US and UK did everything in their power to prevent the UN to condemn the Saddam regime and put the blame first on Iran, then under pressure, changing the UN resolution to condemn both sides using chemical weapons.
Even 10 years later, long after operation Desert Storm and massive bombing campaign that followed, the no fly zone over Iraqi Kurdistan and occasional bombing of Saddam military operating there, a team of reporters from American TV channel CBS went to visit the place.
The 60 minutes team visited Halabja, met with the locals and went to see the graves. The people were desperate, 100s of people were still suffering from the aftermath of the chemical attacks. Without any help, they were suffering and dying.
Even the ground water was contaminated, partially because of the clean up operation, but also from the corps of the victims leaking deadly chemicals into the ground water that people used for drinking and farming.
The short 20 minutes or so that the CBS team used in their broadcast went missing during the lies of post 9/11, when suddenly US started to scare the world of the danger of Saddam with his WMDs and Collin Powell went to the UN and showed the world what he claimed being enough Anthrax to kill thousands of people in the most horrifying way.
What they didn't say was that Powell was one of Reagan's men working with Saddam's army to coordinate their attacks against Iranian and Kurdish forces. He was probably aware of fhd usage of a cocktail of chemical weapons given to Saddam by German chemical companies, with the help of French and Italian scientist and American helicopters and Soviet chemical bomb canisters. But Powell didn't say anything about those, he was quiet for 15 years and never ever told anyone how much help and Support Saddam received from Americans, French and Britta to fight the barbarian army of Iranians. Because after all Iran was the enemy, not Saddam.
35 years have past, none of those who provided those deadly weapons to Saddam were prosecuted nor named or shamed.
Saddam is gone, and once again, Iran is the target of the US and the memory of those victims of chemical attacks against Halbja and over 30 Iranian sites that no one even care to remember, are all gone.
US is now the savior of the free world, standing up alongside other NATO nations against the new enemy from the east, Putin and his friends Lukashenko and Reisi with the hint of help from China.
America is the source of good, and only grumpy old men like me remember the dirty history of men who are acting like they are the moral guardians of our world.
And for people of Halabja, no one really cares.
#Halabja #ChemicalAttacks #Hisgory #Iraq #Saddam #Reagan #Iran #PersianGulf #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#PoliticalHumor #SaudiArabia #Politics #USDollar #Saddam #Ghaddafi
Horrifying video of a target hit by the barrage of katyosha rockets
Rinds me of the early days of #Saddam invasion of Iran and videos of US invasion of #iraq
#peaceNow #StopTheWar #StopPutin #StopNATO #SayNoToWar #RefigeesWelcome
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