{"id":199392,"date":"2007-08-03T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/03\/is-rumored-arms-sale-to-iran-a-pretext-for-an-attack\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T23:33:00","slug":"is-rumored-arms-sale-to-iran-a-pretext-for-an-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/03\/is-rumored-arms-sale-to-iran-a-pretext-for-an-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Rumored Arms Sale to Iran a Pretext for An Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a report that Iran will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1185379034835&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\">buying a significant number of Sukhoi Su-30 multi role jets<\/a> in the Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>The specific report says that they will be buying 250 fighters, they will be purchasing aerial refueling tankers.<\/p>\n<p>I call bull s$%#.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at the points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This amounts to a very significant chunk of change.  At least $6 billion, and more likely $25 billion total cost.  They don&#8217;t have the money for this.  They have already had riots over gas rationing, because they lack sufficient money to reimport enough gasoline (they lack refining capability) for their needs.<\/li>\n<li>They have no experience with the aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>This is roughly equal to the total number of fighters that they currently deploy.<\/li>\n<li>They have a significant amount of western systems that would be difficult to integrate into the platform.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian government, and Sukhoi both deny it vehemently, which would not be the case with this huge an order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that this got leaked to a friendly source (the J. Post) in the sort ot PR campaign that we swa before the invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a report that Iran will be buying a significant number of Sukhoi Su-30 multi role jets in the Jerusalem Post. The specific report says that they will be buying 250 fighters, they will be purchasing aerial refueling tankers. I call bull s$%#. Let&#8217;s look at the points: This amounts to a very significant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,964,1006,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-foreign-relations","category-military","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}