Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.
"In implementation of the Geneva Conventions... the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers," the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying.
"We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000," the general said, some of them mass graves if necessary.
Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to "reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country... and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War."
His comments came as the United States continued to refuse to rule out an eventual resort to force against Iran over its contested nuclear programme, which the West fears is cover for a drive to build an atomic weapon.
They also came as Israeli officials spoke of their determination to prevent Iran developing a nuclear capability at all costs.
A former head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency said in comments published on Sunday that the Jewish state had one year to destroy Iran's nuclear programme or face the risk of coming under nuclear attack.
Shabtai Shavit told a London weekly that the "worst-case scenario" was that Tehran would have a nuclear weapon within "somewhere around a year".
"The time that is left to be ready is getting shorter all the time," he told the Sunday Telegraph.
Israel is the only, if undeclared, nuclear armed power in the Middle East.
(Brietbart)
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From PatDollard: Olmert agrees to free Palestinian terrorists
Witnesses said Kantar smashed the little girl’s head against a rock and crushed her skull with a rifle butt. The attack has been etched in the Israeli psyche as one of the cruelest in the nation’s history. Kantar denied killing the girl or smashing her skull.
Her mother, while trying to silence the cries of her other daughter as Kantar and three others rampaged through the apartment, accidentally smothered the 2-year-old.
On Sunday, the mother, Smadar Haran Kaiser, said she was devastated by the decision but understood it.
I just don't understand how you can set free such a cruel monster.
2 comments:
Israel should never hold these guys. They should execute them rather than have them imprisoned and used for leverage.
Let the Iranians waste their time digging graves. I don't think an attack will come.....If they feel threatened.....that's okay.
Rik
Those terrorists killed two brave Israel soldiers. It boggles my mind how setting a bunch of murderers free will do them any good. I think of the devil who bashed that four year old girl's head in, and it breaks my heart to know that he will soon be free.
The soldiers are said to be dead now; therefore, Israel should slap the death penalty on some of the monsters they're holding.
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