I have often stated here at Holger Awakens that the Iranians are the biggest chicken shits on the planet - that they boast and threaten and make wild claims but when it comes to putting military rubber to the road, they are spineless and yellow. Well, today, a website in Iran that is closely linked to the Revolutionary Guards in Iran announced that the Revolutionary Guards had captured seven U.S. troops that had entered Iran near the border with Pakistan. And within minutes of that report going up on the website, the Iranian government fell all over themselves to deny it emphatically.
Subsequently, both U.S. and Pakistani officials have also denied the report.
From the article at DAWN:
First of all, Iran's Revolutionary Guards couldn't capture seven of our troops on their best day with 100,000 of their buddies and all the weaponry in the world - simply put, seven U.S. soldiers or Marines or special forces would leave more dead Revolutionary Guards than we've seen in 30 years.
Secondly, if there had been a "skirmish" on that border, we would be getting reports of more "explosions" inside of Iran than you could count.
Don't be fooled - the Iranian Revolutionary Guards wants NOTHING to do with American forces and if seven American troops wandered into Iranian territory, the Revolutionary Guards would back up to Tehran and ask for some help.
Subsequently, both U.S. and Pakistani officials have also denied the report.
From the article at DAWN:
Officials in Iran, the United States and Islamabad on Sunday all denied reports that Iranian security forces had seized seven American troops near the Islamic republic's border with Pakistan.
The denials came after hardline news website Javanonline.ir, which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guards, reported that seven US soldiers had been seized in Iran's Kuhak area near the border with Pakistan.
“No American troops have been arrested. We deny it,” Ali Mohammad Azad, the governor general of Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, told the Arabic language Tehran-based Al-Alam network.
First of all, Iran's Revolutionary Guards couldn't capture seven of our troops on their best day with 100,000 of their buddies and all the weaponry in the world - simply put, seven U.S. soldiers or Marines or special forces would leave more dead Revolutionary Guards than we've seen in 30 years.
Secondly, if there had been a "skirmish" on that border, we would be getting reports of more "explosions" inside of Iran than you could count.
Don't be fooled - the Iranian Revolutionary Guards wants NOTHING to do with American forces and if seven American troops wandered into Iranian territory, the Revolutionary Guards would back up to Tehran and ask for some help.
‘Iran seizes US troops’ report denied
TEHRAN: Officials in Iran, the United States and Islamabad on Sunday all denied reports that Iranian security forces had seized seven American troops near the Islamic republic's border with Pakistan.
The denials came after hardline news website Javanonline.ir, which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guards, reported that seven US soldiers had been seized in Iran's Kuhak area near the border with Pakistan.
“No American troops have been arrested. We deny it,” Ali Mohammad Azad, the governor general of Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, told the Arabic language Tehran-based Al-Alam network.
The channel said a source with the provincial border patrol services had also denied the arrest.
The United States also rejected the Javanonline report as “false.” "We have no missing soldiers. All accounted for,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said in an email to AFP.
And in Islamabad, Pakistan's foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP: “There are no US soldiers there, the question of arrest does not arise.”
Iran's English-language Press TV said the guards themselves rejected the reports that US troops have been arrested as “unfounded,” and Javanonline later said its report had been “incorrect” and “apologised” to its readers.
The town of Saravan is near the border with Pakistan in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province.
The province, which also lies on a major narcotics route from Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been the scene of a deadly insurgency by the Sunni militant group Jundallah, whose leader was executed in Iran this year.
Iranian officials have repeatedly said that American forces in neighbouring Afghanistan give support to militants and fuel unrest in its restive border area.
In March 2007, Revolutionary Guards seized 15 British naval personnel and held them for 13 days for allegedly entering Iranian waters in the Gulf.
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