Naval maneuvers: A hollow show of force to escape domestic problems

The mullah regime's Naval Force today begins a 10-day maneuvers in the Persian Gulf. The ground, air and naval forces of both the military and the Guards Corps are to participate in this maneuvers, with some 100 ships and submarines supported by 40 planes and helicopters. The maneuvers is to take place in the presence of the regime's top officials.

By staging such maneuvers, the Khomeini regime aims to gain better readiness for the export of terrorism and fundamentalism, tension, and unrest to the whole region, especially that the third Russian submarine is going to be delivered to the regime, simultaneously.

Beset by economic and political crises and incapable of confronting the Iranian people and Resistance, the regime needs such shows of force to boost the morale of its demoralized forces.

While 80 per cent of the Iranian population earns a daily income of less than one dollar and lives below the poverty line, and while the precarious state of the economy has either destroyed or stopped many of the production lines in the country, the mullahs' regime is spending billions of dollars of the Iranian people's wealth on military purchases and objectives.

So long as the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship is ruling Iran, the region will not experience peace and tranquillity. The Iranian Resistance condemns Russia's military sales to this regime and once again calls on the world community, particularly the industrialized nations, to impose an oil and arms embargo on the mullahs.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris
November 21, 1996

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