While Ahmadinejad Away, The Kurdish Terrorists Will Play And Play And Play (Updated)

Besides being a sponsor of terrorists--like Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has lately been on the receiving end as well.

The Washington Post reported yesterday that 18 Revolutionary Guard were killed:

An explosion in an ammunition depot at a Revolutionary Guard Corps base killed 18 people and injured 14, a commander of the elite force said Wednesday.


Yadollah Buali, a deputy commander, told the semiofficial Fars News Agency that ammunition exploded after a base storage facility caught fire Tuesday.

"This is almost the final death toll," Buali said.

That is in addition to a bombing last month during a military parade in which 12 were killed and 80 were injured in the ethnic Kurdish city of Mahabad. "Anti-revolutionary" militants were blamed at the time.

And earlier this month, there was a kidnapping:

Iranian Sunni rebels said on Sunday they had kidnapped a nuclear scientist and would publish secrets he knows about Iran's nuclear program unless 200 political prisoners were released.

The government in return claimed he was just a driver or welder who worked for one of the contractors.

Looks like Ahmadinejad could use a vacation.

Oh, wait...

UPDATE: While the source I used, The Washington Post, referred to the site of this month's attack as a training facility, Jameel at the Muqata used a source that gave a different version of the facility:

The base houses underground launching and storage facilities for Iran's medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missiles, said research group Global Security.

So much the better.

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