Iran Stockpiling High-Tech Small Arms

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=5&u=/ap/20050325/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arming_iran

VIENNA, Austria - Iran (news - web sites) is quietly building a stockpile of thousands of high-tech small arms and other military equipment — from armor-piercing snipers' rifles to night-vision goggles — through legal weapons deals and a U.N. anti-drug program, according to an internal U.N. document, arms dealers and Western diplomats.



The buying spree is raising Bush administration fears the arms could end up with militants in Iraq (news - web sites). Tehran also is seeking approval for a U.N.-funded satellite network that Iran says it needs to fight drug smugglers, stoking U.S. worries it could be used to spy on Americans in Iraq or Afghanistan (news - web sites) — or any U.S. reconnaissance in Iran itself.


The United States has a strict embargo on most trade with Iran, which it accuses of supporting terrorist organizations and trying to build nuclear arms. It also has imposed sanctions on dozens of companies worldwide over the past decade for supplying Tehran with equipment that could be used for nuclear or conventional warfare.


Much of the military hardware has been hard to hide — sales of tanks and anti-ship missiles by Belarus and China, or helicopters and artillery pieces from Russia have been well documented by U.S. authorities and international nongovernment agencies.

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[Jacobin]

1. HTSMA, HTSMA, HTSMA!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for your lives!!!!!

We cannot allow Iran to have High Tech Small Arms!!!!!!!!

Invade Invade Invade!!!!

(harder to say than WMD's but, I'm sure the marketing team can put this one together.)

[jayfish]

5. OMFG! We Need A UNSC Resolution STAT! -NT-

Jay

[Ready4Change]

7. We dont have time for that!

With these HTSA's Iranians could kill more people than 9/11! They are a clear and imminent to world wide peacehood! We must attack now, and justify our actions later, just like we did in our astoundingly successful assistance to Iraq!

[leftofcool]

2. Having heard all of this shitty rhetoric before..........................

Left of Cool holds her hands over her ears and sings really loud..................."SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW"

[banana republican]

15. You forgot to klick your heels together and say

There is no place like home...

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Sounds like Iran, like Venezuela with its 100,000 rifles, is preparing

to defend itself.

Can't imagine what they'd want to defend themselves against.

Just further indication that our next target will be Syria. No way we're going to attack someone who can actually defend themselves.

[Robbien]

4. Yes. When the US demands a country disarm

it means it wants the attack on that country to be a cakewalk. It cannot have an opponent having any defense against our attack.

[ozymandius]

6. HEADLINE: Iran Stockpiling Inventory of Lava Lamps

Secretary of State Rice says this latest development is "troubling".

[Robeson]

8. "U.S. worries it could be used to spy on Americans ".....

...as opposed to our satellites that spy on Iranians?

[Brooklyn Michael]

9. Iranian Official:....

"The notion that Iran is getting ready to defend itself from an American invasion is ridiculous. Having said that, all options are on the table."

:eyes:

[Robbien]

10. Ha!

nice one!

:thumbsup:

[Frederik]

11. Preparing for liberation

Armor-piercing sniper rifles and night vision googles may come in handy in the post-liberation insurgency phase.

[daleo]

12. Wow, maybe they are afraid of being invaded.

The Iranians having night vision goggles - is that really fair? I mean third world armies are supposed to be sporting, and sit back and be massacred by U.S. forces, aren't they?

[Trillo]

13. Drug War Fails Again. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

14. How Dare They!

Sound of war drums beating slowly in the background.

It is inevitable, isn't it?