Here comes your "No Fly Zone" a/k/a "Airborne Exclusion Zone" enforced by NATO Jets from Turkey and Cyprus...

Iran using passenger jets to smuggle weapons to Syria, Lebanon

Iran’s government has repeatedly used commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons and explosives to Syria and Lebanon, the German broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday.

ZDF, citing Western security sources and unspecified information it said it had obtained, reported that Iran Air and Yas Air, both based in Iran, have repeatedly used aircraft designated as passenger planes to transport weapons to Damascus and Beirut. It was not clear from the report what type of weaponry was involved.

ZDF, a content partner of NBC News, said the weapons were supposedly ordered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which supports the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

U.S. officials have long accused Tehran of using commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.

ZDF noted that there had been one previous shipment of arms seized aboard an Iranian airliner. In March 2011, it said, Turkish security officials in Diyabarkier found weapons and explosives on board a Yas Air passenger jet. The freight was supposedly scheduled to be shipped to Damascus.

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...ia-lebanon

(05-31-2012 03:23 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Here comes your "No Fly Zone" a/k/a "Airborne Exclusion Zone" enforced by NATO Jets from Turkey and Cyprus...

Iran using passenger jets to smuggle weapons to Syria, Lebanon

Iran’s government has repeatedly used commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons and explosives to Syria and Lebanon, the German broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday.

ZDF, citing Western security sources and unspecified information it said it had obtained, reported that Iran Air and Yas Air, both based in Iran, have repeatedly used aircraft designated as passenger planes to transport weapons to Damascus and Beirut. It was not clear from the report what type of weaponry was involved.

ZDF, a content partner of NBC News, said the weapons were supposedly ordered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which supports the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

U.S. officials have long accused Tehran of using commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.

ZDF noted that there had been one previous shipment of arms seized aboard an Iranian airliner. In March 2011, it said, Turkish security officials in Diyabarkier found weapons and explosives on board a Yas Air passenger jet. The freight was supposedly scheduled to be shipped to Damascus.

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...ia-lebanon

Tell them to stop... ONE TIME. If it is found to occur again....

:tomcat: ASK NO MORE QUESTIONS... LET THE TOMCAT AND OTHERS :noisycricket: END OF STORY ! !

You could easily run an airier blockade from Iraq, but that makes it impossible for the IAF to sneak across Iraqi Airspace to hit Iran.

(06-02-2012 12:54 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  You could easily run an airier blockade from Iraq, but that makes it impossible for the IAF to sneak across Iraqi Airspace to hit Iran.

I still think they'll go through Saudi.

This is an escalation, and needs to be dealt with firmly. You cannot shoot down passenger planes. Iranian diplomats could become fair game.

(06-02-2012 01:48 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  This is an escalation, and needs to be dealt with firmly. You cannot shoot down passenger planes. Iranian diplomats could become fair game.

You don't have to shoot them down. Just intercept and order them to land. If the Iranian plane is carrying prohibited cargo it will turn back to Iran.

(06-02-2012 09:42 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(06-02-2012 01:48 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  This is an escalation, and needs to be dealt with firmly. You cannot shoot down passenger planes. Iranian diplomats could become fair game.

You don't have to shoot them down. Just intercept and order them to land. If the Iranian plane is carrying prohibited cargo it will turn back to Iran.

OH, but that's being .... WAY TOO NICE ! ! ! Those wormy little bastards need to be made an example of... you know... so they can meet Allah on their way to the 72 virgin filled beds. ! ! !

(06-02-2012 09:28 AM)tigertom Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 03:23 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Here comes your "No Fly Zone" a/k/a "Airborne Exclusion Zone" enforced by NATO Jets from Turkey and Cyprus...

Iran using passenger jets to smuggle weapons to Syria, Lebanon

Iran’s government has repeatedly used commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons and explosives to Syria and Lebanon, the German broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday.

ZDF, citing Western security sources and unspecified information it said it had obtained, reported that Iran Air and Yas Air, both based in Iran, have repeatedly used aircraft designated as passenger planes to transport weapons to Damascus and Beirut. It was not clear from the report what type of weaponry was involved.

ZDF, a content partner of NBC News, said the weapons were supposedly ordered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which supports the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

U.S. officials have long accused Tehran of using commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.

ZDF noted that there had been one previous shipment of arms seized aboard an Iranian airliner. In March 2011, it said, Turkish security officials in Diyabarkier found weapons and explosives on board a Yas Air passenger jet. The freight was supposedly scheduled to be shipped to Damascus.

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...ia-lebanon

Tell them to stop... ONE TIME. If it is found to occur again....

:tomcat: ASK NO MORE QUESTIONS... LET THE TOMCAT AND OTHERS :noisycricket: END OF STORY ! !

Actually there's only one nation that still flys the F-14 Tomcat, and its not us:

(06-03-2012 04:17 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(06-02-2012 09:28 AM)tigertom Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 03:23 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Here comes your "No Fly Zone" a/k/a "Airborne Exclusion Zone" enforced by NATO Jets from Turkey and Cyprus...

Iran using passenger jets to smuggle weapons to Syria, Lebanon

Iran’s government has repeatedly used commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons and explosives to Syria and Lebanon, the German broadcaster ZDF reported Wednesday.

ZDF, citing Western security sources and unspecified information it said it had obtained, reported that Iran Air and Yas Air, both based in Iran, have repeatedly used aircraft designated as passenger planes to transport weapons to Damascus and Beirut. It was not clear from the report what type of weaponry was involved.

ZDF, a content partner of NBC News, said the weapons were supposedly ordered by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which supports the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

U.S. officials have long accused Tehran of using commercial aircraft to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.

ZDF noted that there had been one previous shipment of arms seized aboard an Iranian airliner. In March 2011, it said, Turkish security officials in Diyabarkier found weapons and explosives on board a Yas Air passenger jet. The freight was supposedly scheduled to be shipped to Damascus.

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2...ia-lebanon

Tell them to stop... ONE TIME. If it is found to occur again....

:tomcat: ASK NO MORE QUESTIONS... LET THE TOMCAT AND OTHERS :noisycricket: END OF STORY ! !

Actually there's only one nation that still flys the F-14 Tomcat, and its not us:

But the AWG-9 Radar hasn't worked in 30 years and the Phoenix Missiles haven't worked since 1979 when the Hughes Technicians sabotaged them on the way out of Iran.

(06-03-2012 04:17 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Actually there's only one nation that still flys the F-14 Tomcat, and its not us:

How do you say "Maverick" in Farsi?

(06-04-2012 03:54 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  

(06-03-2012 04:17 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Actually there's only one nation that still flys the F-14 Tomcat, and its not us:

How do you say "Maverick" in Farsi?