IRAN PREPARING FOR U.S. INTRUSION?
PanARMENIAN.Net
27.06.2007 18:15 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Early this week, Tehran deployed in southern Iraq and
southern Iran contingents of Revolutionary Guards Corps of suicide
fighters in anticipation of an American attack on Iranian soil,
DEBKAfile reports.
Those units were posted to fight off a possible U.S. marines landing
in southern Iran. Tehran believes the American force will be assigned
with destroying RG bases and infrastructure in the south and sabotaging
the oil wells and installations of Iranian province of Khuzestan.
The RG fighters were dropped by helicopter in southern Iraq on June
24 and 25. Their task will be to launch suicide attacks on U.S. and
British bases and command posts in the region the moment Iran comes
under American attack.
Also in anticipation of a showdown, Tehran announced Tuesday at only
two hours notice the rationing of gas for Iran’s private motorists
to 100 liters per month.
Protesters started torching gas stations Wednesday.
For lack of refining capacity, the oil-rich country imports 40%
of its gasoline needs and oil products.
Tehran sharply reined in private consumption to free up reserves for
the armed forces in case of war and keep power stations and water
supplies running in an emergency.
These two steps in three days attest to the certainty of Iran’s
government and military that a military confrontation with the US is
around the corner.
The British Sun newspaper first disclosed the Iranian troop thrust into
southern Iraq Monday, June 25, reporting: "It is an extremely alarming
development and raises the stakes considerably. In effect, it means we
are in a full war with Iran – but nobody has officially declared it."
DEBKAfile’s military experts add: In effect, the Iranian military
incursion of Iraq is the fourth military invasion of foreign territory
underway in the Middle East at this very moment. None are officially
admitted.
1. The Turkish army is fighting Kurdish PKK rebels in Iraqi Kurdistan
on the other side of their border.
Almost daily, Turkish units backed by tanks, fighter planes
and helicopters cross into northern Iraq and battle with the
rebels. Washington, Ankara, Baghdad and Irbil blandly ignore this
ongoing war.
2. In the second week of the six-week long confrontation between the
Lebanese army and the pro-Damascus radical Palestinian Fatah al-Islam
near Tripoli, the Syrian army and security service began pushing into
the embattled camp reinforcements of hundreds Palestinian fighters,
members of groups under their control. These fighters, an estimated
1,600-strong, have since fanned out in clusters in northern Lebanon,
the Beqaa Valley, the mountains north of Tripoli and south of
Beirut. The Syrian army keeps them well supplied with ammunition,
food and fuel.
3. Israeli tank and armored infantry forces conduct ongoing
counter-terror operations against Hamas, Jihad Islami and allied
Palestinian terrorist groups in southern and northern Gaza. Since
the Palestinian Islamist Hamas takeover of Gaza last week, Israeli
tanks supported by helicopter and pilot-less aircraft are engaged in
ongoing firefights with Palestinian anti-tank units.