Today an Iranian transport crashed carrying members of the Pasdaran, the Revolutionary Guards. In January 2006 the head of the Pasdaran ground forces and several other high ranking officers were killed in another plane crash. In December 2005 yet another transport went down, the passengers mainly journalists traveling to cover naval maneuvers. In 2004 a planeload of Iranian aerospace scientists were killed in a plane crash. In 2003 a troop carrier crashed killing 276 Pasdaran. In response to the 2005 crash President Ahmadinejad said, “What is important is that [the crash victims] have shown the way to martyrdom which we must follow.” And they want us to trust them with nuclear capability?
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James S. Robbins is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
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