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[MajiC]

http://memritv.org/T...ipt.asp?P1=1246

Iranian Generals Reveal New Weapons Systems and Methods and Discuss the Possibility of Confrontation with American Forces in the Persian Gulf


Following are excerpts from interviews with Iranian army generals, on the recent military war games, which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 21, 2006, and on Channel 2, Iranian TV, on August 17, 2006.

Channel 2, Iranian TV, August 17, 2006

Admiral Sajjad Kouchaki, commander of the Iranian army's navy: We have made achievements in building submarines of various tonnages.

Interviewer: I recall a two-seater submarine which was tested two or three years ago. Have you built other submarines as well?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes. This is a small submarine for two divers. We have built larger submarines. Today, we are building submarines weighing 120-500 tons. These submarines can reach any depth in the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the north of the Indian Ocean, and can "shadow" the enemy's vessels very closely.

Another technological aspect I can tell you about is the building of missile boats. These boats can carry anti-ship missiles, with a range of over 100 kilometers. I am pleased to say that these missiles were designed and built with the help of personnel and experts from the army, the Defense Ministry, and the universities.

Interviewer: Are these guided missiles?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes, they are.

[...]

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the brigades of the marines. I am pleased to say that our brigades are stationed today on the Abu Musa and Sirri islands, protecting them with all their might. These brigades can be divided into over 1,500 special operations teams, which can deploy throughout the Persian Gulf, from the northernmost tip to the southernmost tip, the port of Gavater, and can attack the enemy below surface, above surface, from the air and from the shore. I am pleased to say that we have this capability.

Interviewer: Mr. Kouchaki, will you conduct new test in this maneuver?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes. I am pleased to say that we have many defense technologies in this field. In general, I can tell you that several submarines will be tested in this maneuver.

Interviewer: For the first time?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes. I can also say that unmanned aerial vehicles for combat and reconnaissance will be used for the first time in this maneuver, as well as torpedoes that we built ourselves, which can be launched from submarines and boats, as well as from islands or from the shore, to hit the designated targets.

In this maneuver, we are operating launching equipment for missiles, torpedoes, and mines. In addition, COMINT equipment and active and passive sonar will be used in this maneuver.

[...]

General Abdolrahim Mousavi, head of the Iranian army's Joint Staff: Our planes have been given to us by their manufacturing country, but if these countries ever face our planes, they will see things that even they could not imagine. The modifications our planes have undergone - in their systems for combat, identification, missiles, launching, and smart bombs - all of these are not what they had built.

[...]

Sajjad Kouchaki : Our tactics are completely different from the enemy's conventional tactics. This means that our submarines can easily get near the enemy. Even our enemies know full well that one of our submarines passed under one of their [vessels], without their noticing. We came close to their anchored vessels, and we even filmed their anchor chain. We followed them through a periscope at a depth of one kilometer, without their noticing. All these methods and tactics are non-classical and non-conventional, constituting unbalanced warfare.

Interviewer: Mr. Kouchaki, can a boat, for example, be loaded with explosives, and directed, by remote control, towards some warship?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes, it can be done below surface, above surface, and from the air.

Interviewer: How can [the enemy] confront this - by interception?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes, that's the method, but we need to use the element of surprise.

Interviewer: What would happen if a hundred of these are used simultaneously?

Sajjad Kouchaki : Naturally, they would be able to intercept some, but others would hit the target. However, I don't think this is a good method. If we use the unconventional tactics of unbalanced warfare…

Interviewer: What you mean is that all options are open, and even if we are technologically inferior, we have methods of confronting [the enemy].

Sajjad Kouchaki : Yes.

[...]

Interviewer: Mr. Kouchaki, is there a division of labor between you and the IRGC navy, or do you complement one another?

Sajjad Kouchaki : I am delighted to say that you asked a very good question. These two navies complement one another. As our honorable leader [Khamenei] has said, these are two branches and two navies that complement one another.

The IRGC navy has good experience in the strategic dimension of speed boats, anti-ship missiles, and techniques and tactics of unbalanced warfare.

[...]

Abdolrahim Mousavi: Regarding what Admiral Kouchaki said, the same submarine that passed underneath the American warship could have done other things as well. It could pass underneath it against - doing other things. The same goes for the unmanned planes. The same unmanned plane that flew over the warships in the Persian Gulf, taking pictures of them all, can do other things if equipped with a warhead. No matter how large they are, they have vulnerabilities.

[...]

Iranian News Channel (IRINN), August 21, 2006

General Ja'fari, Iranian Army: Another aspect of this maneuver is the use of new weapons and systems by our soldiers. This new equipment includes bullets designed to penetrate bullet-proof vests. That's the way it is in war. Whenever something new is made, something is immediately made to counter it. Once they used to talk about electronic warfare. Later they talked about anti-electronic warfare. Then they talked about anti-anti-electronic warfare. Today, there are bullet-proof vests, and they are used by the enemy. We have manufactured ammunition that can penetrate these vests, and they were tested in this maneuver.

[...]

General Kiomars Heidari, spokesman for the maneuver: Today, we tested three systems, in order to make the airspace of the area of the maneuver unsafe for the attacking planes and helicopters of the enemy. These systems have been proven very successful. Our first system was an air-mine. It is being tested for the first time in our country, and with great success. With this system, we can make a large part of our country's airspace unsafe for the enemy's planes. The second system was a light, portable, shoulder-launched missile, manufactured by our military industries. These missiles are portable, and are carried and operated by a single person. These missiles too can make a large part of the country unsafe for the enemy's planes.

[faisal]

  

emmm just wondering is revealing new weapons, systems and methods a good strategy?  

isnt it better to keep silence about it and just 'show it' when the 'real time' comes...

just wondering....

[MajiC]

The generals know that better than we do so it's safe to assume that they know what they're doing.  Besides, they're not disclosing detailed specifications.

[atlantis]

As I had said before, Iran, like any other country, only declassifies old technologies. The declassification is done after a couple of years, is very limited in disclosure, and moreover, is targeted. Any missile test, or any operation conducted is in response to a particular missile test by their adversaries. We think it is random inauguration of new achievements. Foreign military forces in the region, watch closely with their radars, and get the message very clear. Bear in mind, this is a cold war of deterrence. No body wants to see an actual engagement.

Edited by atlantis, 01 September 2006 - 01:54 PM.

[American Infidel In Kansas]

This cracks me up! All blow and no go. They wouldn't stand a chance. They even showed a stock Chinese clip the world has already seen and pretended it was theirs.


Baghdad Bob would be embarassed to represent these clowns.


The sad truth is that they are so clogged up with internal strife against the government, they have to resort to this boogeyman crap to pretend otherwise.

morons

[hamid_a]

American Infidel In Kansas, on Sep 1 2006, 09:40 PM, said:

This cracks me up! All blow and no go. They wouldn't stand a chance. They even showed a stock Chinese clip the world has already seen and pretended it was theirs.


Baghdad Bob would be embarassed to represent these clowns.


The sad truth is that they are so clogged up with internal strife against the government, they have to resort to this boogeyman crap to pretend otherwise.

morons

i wonder why this guy never get banned???!!!!

[Kalashnikov]

American Infidel In Kansas, on Sep 1 2006, 08:40 PM, said:

This cracks me up! All blow and no go. They wouldn't stand a chance. They even showed a stock Chinese clip the world has already seen and pretended it was theirs.


Baghdad Bob would be embarassed to represent these clowns.


The sad truth is that they are so clogged up with internal strife against the government, they have to resort to this boogeyman crap to pretend otherwise.

morons

Iran is in a very sensitive geopolitical position. No one under estimates the power of the U.S army but the U.S armies worries about it's image and losses more then any other nation in the world and depeneds on these two things more then anything else. American imperialism rules the world by media not weapons. America burns 1/4 of the world's oil, block the strait of hormuz and you will see $ prices in gas stations in the U.S shoot up even higher then they already are causing internal anger. Most empires, nations and impersial regimes were very arrogant which led to their fall or sensitive errors.

[American Infidel In Kansas]

You are another fine product of your shortsighted media. Rising prices and blockades will hurt the middle east and other nations more than us. In fact, that sounds like the cheapest and fastest way to put the state sponsored stooges out of business.
What would be a pin[Edited Out] to us, would be a gaping wound to you.

Score another for Blessed America!

[rahat]

cough cough hizbullah kicked israels ass even though it was fully funded and supported by US military weaponry cough cough

if hizbullah could mess up israel - please keep in mind, hizbullah is just "the lions tail". You haven't seen the whole lion yet compadre.

-
rahat

[American Infidel In Kansas]

If they were kicking ass, how come they gave up so fast? 500+ dead out of a punk Iranian force of 2000 is why. They hurried to sign on the cease-fire agreement with nothing to show for it but 1300 dead Lebanese and the country around them blown to hello, with them out of the south and the Israelis standing there instead.
The only thing keeping them alive was that idiot liberal Olmert.

truth sux eh?

[DigitalMo]

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

If they were kicking ass, how come they gave up so fast?

Ignorant, it was your fellow stupid zionists that couldn't go on .. if was the zionists that had planned the war, not Hizbullah.

Hizbullah planned a capturing operation. This operation's objectives were acheived - the zionist soldiers remain captured the only way to get them back is if you release the lebanese hostages in zionist prisons.

The Zionist planned this war, aiming to surprise and hence destroy Hizbullah. None of this planned war's objectives were met. Hizbullah remains and is actually stronger than ever, its rockets remain in great quantities, and there is no talk what so ever of any of it being relocated - Even the UN has disowned this. In fact through waging this war ther zionist proved the need for Hizbullah. Everyone agrees that Hizbullah is the only thing that can face up to the zionist aggression and make it pay a price for any aggrrssion. Hizbullah has actually made the zionists reaslise that they will loose alot without being able to acheive their objectives, they have made the zionist realise that it is _impossible_ to settle south lebanon with zionists - your greater israel dream has been shattered for ever, alhamulilah.

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

500+ dead out of a punk Iranian force of 2000 is why.

Freaking how many lies can you fit in one sentence .. how typically zionist of you - pathetic.

1) 500+ is false.
2) dead is false.
3) punk is false.
4) iranian is false.
5) 2000 is false.

I am sure i can find more things wrong in that sentence, but i just stated the obvious ones.

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

They hurried to sign on the cease-fire agreement

Ignorant, Hizbullah rockets were only being fired as a _response_ to zionist bimbardments, so when the zionists stoped their terrorist bombarments their was no need to continue responding - since their was no bombs to respond to. Furthermore, it was the zionists that begged the US to get them out of the mess that they got themselves into. The zionist couldn't win no matter what they tried, and if they sent anymore soldiers into south lebanon - they would have been slaughtered just like the stated 157+ zionist pigs that were sent to hell in south lebanon. It was your coward government that was forced due to military losses to backdown despite not acheiving any of their objectives - while Hizbullah acheived their stated objectives of resisting the zionists and inflictiing heavy losses. The resistance saw no reason to continiue if zionist aggression was stopped as they had proved the things they wanted to proove. The zionist won't be so eager to get a beating next time - a detterence is born - a new balance emerges. The zionists are not invincible as they claim, their label of invincibility sank like that of the titanic .

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

with nothing to show for it but 1300 dead Lebanese

This is actually the only acheivement of the zionist criminal terrorists. The facts are that it was the zionists that dropped US made bombs on these civillians and civillian infrasturure. These facts lay sole responsibility for their deliberate criminal acts on the heads of the terrorist criminal zionist entity and its stooges. They couldn't hit any of the resistance so they took their revenge on the countries civillians and infrasturcture. This proves the cowardly and terrorist nature of the zionsist criminals. Hizbullah did not plan this war, it was the zionists that planned this war, and their plans were to kill as many civillians as they can - this zionist acheivement will ensure that you and your masters will be hells eternally damned. I hope that makes you happy.

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

and the country around them blown to hello,

Zionist bombed the civillian infrastructure with american weapons, facts say blame is on the heads of the terrorist zionists and their stooges who orderd these sorties. Eternal damnation awaits those that dropped these bombs or ordered these targtes be blown up.

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

with them out of the south and the Israelis standing there instead.

You really enjoy lying to yourself, some facts that should bring you back to earth.
1) HIzbullah is still in ever part of south lebanon (and lebanon in general) - especially on the border
2) The zionists are in a few specific points very near the border that they were lucky to stay in because the cease fire took effect. Otehrwise they would be in hell by now. If they don't get out soon, they will actually be in hell very soon. So stay at your won risk. Hizbullah can send them to hell at any time - if they choose to - however they are trying to see if the UN will do what it promised it will do - remove the zionists from lebanon - if the UN doesn't do this - then you will see them enter hell soon enough.

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

The only thing keeping them alive was that idiot liberal Olmert.

The only thing that kept the zionist soldiers alive was that idiot comical Omlet. Very true this. Otherwise most of them would have been in hell already.

'American Infidel In Kansas said:

truth sux eh?

For you

Edited by DigitalMo, 02 September 2006 - 06:40 AM.

[American Infidel In Kansas]

You're supposed to drink it, not smoke it.

[MajiC]

^ What a troll you are. Even your Zionist fathers have admitted their defeat but you're still slow to smell the burning toast.

[DigitalMo]

I wonder how many more zionists will be making the trip from south lebanon straight to HELL (believe me their won't be any detours). Hell awiats you.

[American Infidel In Kansas]

MajiC, on Sep 2 2006, 12:45 PM, said:

^ What a troll you are. Even your Zionist fathers have admitted their defeat but you're still slow to smell the burning toast.

check it out

[American Infidel In Kansas]

illegal for who?

[kosh]

faisal, on Sep 1 2006, 02:41 PM, said:

  

emmm just wondering is revealing new weapons, systems and methods a good strategy?  

isnt it better to keep silence about it and just 'show it' when the 'real time' comes...

just wondering....

Propaganda is an effective passive weapon.  This is intended as much for internal consumption as external.

[Ali Fazel]

American Infidel In Kansas, on Sep 1 2006, 08:40 PM, said:

This cracks me up! All blow and no go. They wouldn't stand a chance. ............................................

morons

American Infidel In Kansas, on Sep 2 2006, 12:58 AM, said:

You are another fine product of your shortsighted media. Rising prices and blockades will hurt the middle east and other nations more than us. .....................................................................

Score another for Blessed America!

rahat, on Sep 2 2006, 01:04 AM, said:

cough cough hizbullah kicked israels ass even though it was fully funded and supported by US military weaponry cough cough

if hizbullah could mess up israel - please keep in mind, hizbullah is just "the lions tail". You haven't seen the whole lion yet compadre.

-
rahat

rahat He is just a loud mouth American cyber soldier - he knows nothing.  Just shouts a lot.

His idea of discussion is, "we are right even we commit atrocities - you are wrong even if you are not guilty."

Ignore him

Edited by Ali Fazel, 03 September 2006 - 12:21 PM.

[145_turbo_16V]

American Infidel In Kansas, on Sep 3 2006, 01:10 PM, said:

illegal for who?

Exactly, thanks for the answer and being true to your name.