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oberliner

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Sat Nov 21, 2015, 02:19 PM Nov 2015

Iran Revolutionary Guard simulate capture of Al-Aqsa Mosque

TEHRAN - Thousands of paramilitary forces from Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard have held a war game simulating the capture of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli control, state media reported Saturday.

It said forces stormed and "liberated" a replica of the mosque in the exercise. They say that 120 brigades from the Basij, the paramilitary unit of the Guard, participated in Friday's exercise outside the holy city of Qom in central Iran.

The symbolic operations were backed up by Guard helicopters, drones and Tucano planes that bombed hypothetical enemy positions before ground troops captured the replica of the mosque set up at the top of a mountain.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=74107

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Iran Revolutionary Guard simulate capture of Al-Aqsa Mosque (Original Post) oberliner Nov 2015 OP
Iran: the reddit trolls on the geopolitical stage nt geek tragedy Nov 2015 #1
that's not peaceful 6chars Nov 2015 #2
its incitement Mosby Nov 2015 #3
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