Casualties feared as militants attack Iran army parade

[SipahSalar]

یک منبع آگاه: تاکنون ۲ نفر از مهاجمان مسلح در #اهواز کشته، یک نفر زخمی و یک نفر توسط نیروهای امنیتی دستگیر شدند.

Why are all these soldiers hiding and running? Shouldn't they be fighting?

 

[AmirPatriot]

Why are all these soldiers hiding and running? Shouldn't they be fighting?

Soldiers at the parades have guns but the guns don't have any bullets. This is standard procedure.

 

[SipahSalar]

Soldiers at the parades have guns but the guns don't have any bullets. This is standard procedure.

Even without the bullets they are still soldiers. They should be helping other civilians escape, not run away themselves.

 

[AmirPatriot]

Even without the bullets they are still soldiers. They should be helping other civilians escape, not run away themselves.

If you just look at many of the pictures in this thread you will see them shielding civilians with their bodies as they escape, or even carrying children away from danger.

 

[yavar]

 

[TheImmortal]

Even without the bullets they are still soldiers. They should be helping other civilians escape, not run away themselves.

They did you moron. What else do you want them to do? charge at attackers and die?

It’s the heat of the moment with shots coming from unknown directions. The first instinct of any soldier will be to find cover and assess the situation.

Apparently you been watching too many Hollywood movies and think soldiers are James Bond.

Major security lapse by Iran, not surprised. They will learn from this and upgrade security procedures and establish checkpoints.

The fact that they attacked a regional parade shows that the attackers didn’t have enough resources to reach high security targets.

But again as history has shown around the world. It’s hard to stop a handful of gunmen from just randomly shooting up civilians.

Cowardly attacks.

 

[Draco.IMF]

Alright, lets load some Fateh missiles!

 

[VEVAK]

They did you moron. What else do you want them to do? charge at attackers and die?

It’s the heat of the moment with shots coming from unknown directions. The first instinct of any soldier will be to find cover and assess the situation.

Apparently you been watching too many Hollywood movies and think soldiers are James Bond.

It has NOTHING to do with being James Bond or not and every Iranian solder would have given his life if ordered too and the fact is the solders were ordered to take cover and hit the floor!! While civilians that don't know any better start running around and become easier targets!

Without knowing exactly who is firing at who you can't just start going after anyone with a gun at a military parade or else more people would die from friendly fire! And it's not like every Iranian Solder knows the face of every other solder!

 

[SipahSalar]

They did you moron. What else do you want them to do? charge at attackers and die?

They can be only seen hiding and crying out of fear, sorry if that offends your patriotism, moron.

 

[AmirPatriot]

They can be only seen hiding and crying out of fear, sorry if that offends your patriotism, moron.

You don't even know what they were saying. In every video I watched of the time of the shooting they were shouting, yes, but they were shouting "Bekhab zamin!" or something similar to civilians and fellow soldiers to get down on the ground.

You've changed your dumb point so many times I don't know why I'm bothering to explain it to you so many times.

 

[HAIDER]

This all linked to Basra incident. RIP for the loss of innocent life in this terrorist attack.

 

[Flag_Combo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1043424704663642112

Look at this UAE mother fucker, We should invade and annex the entire UAE. These mofos want a war with 80 million people, I say we give it to them swiftly. Meanwhile we should destroy couple of Saudis oil wells to let them know we won't hesitate to decimate everything they have next time. We live in a hostile region surrounded by those who hates us, we need NUKES we need it now.

 

[Hindustani78]

So it’s official state tv said Sunni groups involved in this. Sad to see Muslim are killing Muslims .
RIP. .... Arrest them irrespective of any religion and hang them.
We should not tolerate terrorism & extremism in any form by any group.

Iranian soldiers taking cover in a rain gutter at the scene of an attack on a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz on September 22, 2018. AFP


"The response of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the smallest threat will be crushing," Rouhani said on his official website. "Those who give intelligence and propaganda support to these terrorists must answer for it." Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet that the attack near the Iraqi border was carried out by "terrorists recruited, trained, armed & paid by a foreign regime".

"Iran holds regional sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attacks," he wrote.

IS jihadists said via their propaganda mouthpiece Amaq that "Islamic State fighters attacked a gathering of Iranian forces" in Ahvaz.

The city lies in Khuzestan, a province bordering Iraq that has a large ethnic Arab community and has seen separatist violence in the past that Iran has blamed on its regional rivals.

State television gave a casualty toll of 29 dead and 57 wounded.

Armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said the dead included a young girl and a former serviceman in a wheelchair.

"Of the four terrorists, three were sent to hell at the scene, while the fourth who had been wounded and arrested went to hell moments ago due to his severe wounds," Shekarchi told state television.

Khuzestan deputy governor Ali-Hossein Hosseinzadeh told the semi-official ISNA news agency that "eight to nine" troops were among those killed, as well as a journalist.

"Those who opened fire on civilians and the armed forces have links to the Ahvazi movement," Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif told ISNA.

In a message of condolence to Russia's close regional ally, President Vladimir Putin said he was "appalled by this bloody crime".


In a keynote speech, Rouhani vowed to boost Iran's ballistic missile capabilities despite Western concerns that were cited by his US counterpart Donald Trump in May when he abandoned a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran.

"We will never decrease our defensive capabilities... we will increase them day by day," Rouhani said at a military parade. "The fact that the missiles anger you shows they are our most effective weapons," he said, referring to the West.

Iran has ballistic missiles with a range of up to 3,500 kilometres, enough to reach bases in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Indian Continent.

 

[royalharris]

RIP

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Condolences from Pakistan on the lost of life and such a cowardly attack may allah keep Iran safe from Terrorist and evil doers

A stronger Iran will emerge from this cowardly attack on peaceful people at their own parade in their own country

Pakistan and Iran are forever tied with our language and heritage