'Iran will bomb Turkey if the country invades Syria'

[bell-the-cat]

Re: 'Iran will bomb Turkey if the country invades Syria'

http://www.newsbad.com/story/breakin...s-bomb-usnato-

Aren't you a bit late in posting this? I'd have expected it several months ago - on (or just before) April 1st.

[Eddo211]

Re: 'Iran will bomb Turkey if the country invades Syria'

Iran issues tough warning to Turkey on Syria

Monday, August 1, 2011 INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

NICOSIA — Iran, stressing its strategic interests, has warned Turkey to end intervention in Syria.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a harsh warning to Turkey to end activities in Syria. In an article in IRGC's weekly Sobh'eh Sadegh, the elite military force asserted that Turkish forces were crossing into Syria as part of a Western campaign to destabilize the regime of President Bashar Assad.

"They entered through the Turkish border with Syria," the article, authored by R. Grumabdri, said.

[On July 31, up to 150 Syrians were said to have been killed in an army assault on the northern city of Hama. Western diplomats said the Assad regime wanted to crush the revolt in Hama, a leading stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, before the onset of Ramadan.]

The article published in July, titled "Iran's Serious Stance in the Face of Syrian Events" and said to reflect IRGC thinking, warned that Syria would remain a strategic asset of Iran. IRGC said Ankara was playing a double game, pretending to support democratic change while working to undermine Syria.

IRGC said Turkey was trying to exploit the revolt in Syria to press on long-held border claims. The author warned that Iran would stand with Syria against any Turkish intervention.

"The whole world is aware of Iran's relationship with Syria and Iran should not keep this hidden," the article said. "Should Turkish officials insist on their contradictory behavior and if they continue on their current path, serious issues are sure to follow. We will be put in the position of having to choose between Turkey and Syria. Syria's justification in defending herself along with mirroring ideological perceptions would sway Iran toward choosing Syria."

The article was published after Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei relayed a warning to President Barack Obama against U.S. intervention in Syria.

Teheran has also warned Turkey against helping Washington in a NATO-led missile defense umbrella aimed to stop Iranian attacks on Europe. Khamenei raised the prospect that Turkey could be a target of Iran's huge missile arsenal.

"From Iran's standpoint, the Syrian leadership is in the midst of resolving its problems, and as soon as foreign meddling stops, the Syrians will be able to revert back to normal," the IRGC article said.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/me_iran0958_08_01.asp

[londontsi]

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Iran 'successfully sends monkey into space'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21230691

Images of the monkey being prepared for lift-off were shown on Iranian television



The primate travelled in a Pishgam rocket, which reached an altitude of some 120km (75 miles) for a sub-orbital flight before "returning its shipment intact", the defence ministry said.

Iranian state TV showed images of the monkey, which was strapped into a harness, being taken to the rocket.

Western nations have expressed concern that Iran's space programme is being used to develop long-range missiles.

Such missiles could potentially be used to carry nuclear warheads.

Iran denies it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons and insists its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.

In 2010, Iran successfully sent a rat, turtle and worms into space. But an attempt to send a monkey up in a rocket failed in 2011.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in 2010 that the country planned to send a man into space by 2019.

A domestically-made satellite was sent into orbit for the first time in 2009