Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)

- Ok, ... so let's blow a few minutes in this blog. My day was made today by going over a jewel of a book from a long time back which I still keep. I was sorting my stuff in the attic to bring down the ones that may melt in high heat. I noticed this book which was written by the Iranian militia and published right after Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988. The book is about the first two years of that war, not the whole 8 years.
Militia considers that war to have taken only two years, because Iraq was defeated by then. The rest of that war was for political considerations. Important as they were, still they were quite different from reasons to conduct war in that first two years.
So I brought the book downstairs and began reading it again :) I even had made a few notes in it, thankfully with pencil this time! Every note I've made in my books from decades back, which were made by ball-point pens have the ink diffused through the paper and turned into wide areas of evenly water-colored looking shades on both sides of the page. Not a single letter, let alone word, is left intact to be read.
Last time I had even noticed this book was about 40 years ago. Since then it has been staying in boxes together with other books. It was not something I would put on bookshelves, and I didn't think I'd ever want to read it again. But I had kept it because record-wise, it was like a depository of events in the first two years of that important war.
The material in it are nicely dated chronologically, and very well written based on true understanding of stuff that those who weren't there are impossible to even encounter.
Anyway, that made my day today.
It's been a long time Iran has not been in war. This is worrisome. It isn't safe.
- Mossad is now saying the crowds in Israel that participate in anti-genocide demonstrations are "Iran-backed" :) Hahhahhahh :-))) Guess who told Nazis to say the same about the protests inside Naziland.
What lunatics were running that hellhole and the world didn't even know.
So any fuck up by Mossad is now "Iran-backed", huh? No, you're just stupid and people didn't know it till now.
- Iran needs about 400 more airliners. Sanctions placed on Iran have prevented the purchases. Recently Iran successfully reverse engineered the engine that goes on such airliners and will soon build the planes' bodies and other systems in them as well.
War is the mother of self-sufficiency. Iranians are good at that but only when forced to.
That's what Saddam had forgotten about, when he thought he could easily occupy the oil-rich regions of southwest Iran. He paid a very high price for that mistake.
Iran's regular military force, after all the changes and confusion in 1980 that came with new regime, had been reduced to only 1.5 armies that was still fully functional. That same stupid "Rohani" was pressing to dismantle that also! He is on film, as a young cleric, advocating it in the parliament. He has always been quite dumb to the point of dangerous; not just later as president.
So that was all the military Iran had! And that was what threw Saddam off. He attacked Iran with 12 armies, half of them mechanized to the teeth, moving fast, and expecting to occupy and annex the entire southwest Iran within just a couple of months. And he had the ok of all sorts of Nazis in the world back then to do so, even numerous offers for help. Their Mirage and Super Etendard jet-fighters were flown by French themselves shooting Exocet missiles at Iranian targets. Nazis here were supplying Saddam with chemical weapons, and providing him with war intelligence gathered by geostationary satellites. Soviets were having a ball selling Saddam every aircraft and tank, etc, that he needed.
Oh, they were all so certain of what they were doing. The whole world, not just Saddam.
But!...
Iran had created the militia who had fought separatist Kords farther north on the west parts of Iran successfully for two hard years, plus Iran's regular military by then as a result of that same mini-war knew how to repair a lot of war equipment and bring them to functioning level. They had learned all that in that war with the Kords.
And this was not all at all! Saddam and all his friends and supporters had missed something, and that was the real reason that they lost the war.
Those areas down there in southwest Iran are flat, like Texas. War equipment have a ball driving through them at any speed they want. Very different from areas that Kords had to fight Iranian military and militia, which were all mountains and hard to move around in.
So the mechanized armies of Iraq quickly and rather easily defeated what little Iranian military they encountered on their ways and came forward and manage to occupy Khorramshahr in a somewhat half-assed way because Iranian forces were mainly planning and preparing for the new kind of war now on flat surfaces during those weeks.
But see what happened. Iraqis never got past Khorramshahr! Their efforts to capture Ahvaz failed, and they went for smaller cities from then on, and failed there as well. Then they were defeated inside Khorramshahr itself and fled out and eventually retreated to areas behind their borders. From then on the war took the punishing nature to it. Iran began to learn many different ways to inflict damage on structures as well as personnel inside Iraq. That was when missiles were first built and used.
So eventually they got kicked out. Just 1.5 armies of Iran against 12 armies of Iraq who were always equipped to their teeth and were getting constant help by literally every country in the world!
So what happened?... Quite a rude awakening for Saddam and Iraqis in general, and for all other neighbors of Iran as well as every motherfucker Nazi criminal in Washington. No? How did that happen?
That's what made my day, baby :-) So I'm going to keep that for a bit later.
See, I don't know what war does to other people, but it builds Iranians. It builds everything among them. It makes them stronger in every respect. In fact, I'll celebrate that day when you Nazis make your move to begin a war with Iran.
Every technological advance in Iran began from that 8 year war. They only had 2 years of more or less sporadic war experience with Kords. And before that, the only real war Iran had had, went more than a hundred years back to the times of Abbas Mirza who fought Russian Empire and lost Caucasian areas to them. Iran had had no other war since and was utterly unprepared without really knowing it. Something like how Saudis right now are.
So both the Kords' insurrection, followed by Saddam's mistake in attacking Iran worked as blessings for Iran.
That's why I think another war is due. Iran needs it to refresh all such skills and go beyond and get way stronger.
Now the reason why the world lost that war against Iran.
I mentioned that Saddam's occupation of Khorramshahr was "half-assed" because Iraqi forces faced new realities there that nobody had predicted. Iran's weak military had first been defeated and Iraqi forces had moved all the way to the first big city, thinking anything they wanted from that point on was candy.
But the surprise to them and the Nazis in Washington was that they realized _people_ of Khorramshahr fought much better than Iran's army! It was the people that defeated Iraqi forces. Every imaginable trick and plot and traps and attacks were invented out of the blue by those people to fuck up Saddam's forces inside Khorramshahr, to the extent that the only reason for which the city was occupied to begin with, which was the oil establishments of Abadan, stayed out of their reach... They couldn't get there. And from then on, it was Iranians who were fucking Saddam's men up, not vice versa.
This gave Iran time till army and the militia got really prepared and made their moves on Saddam's forces
Saddam, like all other dictators in the world, certainly including the Washington Nazis, were relying on the strength in military forces to determine the outcome. Dictators always make that mistake. They got the shock of their lives instead. They had forgotten Iranians themselves, the people. They thought they were like people of "Seattle" or something. People raised on cartoons and the Book of fucking Mormon at best. Oh, they got surprised I can tell you that.
In those same years, here in the school that I was attending, I told an American student that Russians (who had just occupied Afghanestan) were mistaking Afghans with their Polish people. The student looked at me and said something to the effect of, "total nonsense". He was like those Russians. Totally clueless. Hehe :)
Iran's military got immensely more functional and skilled and smart and intelligent after Iranian _people_ in Khorramshahr and areas around began helping them against Saddam's forces. An ocean of resourcefulness and ideas poured inside and joined with Iran's military forces. From just ordinary people bringing their skills into the scenes.
Those people were in none of Saddam's and his backers calculations. They didn't even exist in their stupid minds. Just like that grad student I talked about above. Everybody only discovered them first time when they reached inside Khorramshahr!
Generally, the real war was over in just 8 months. Militia puts it at 2 years. But in 8 months, and from that point on, Saddam's forces only got reduced, and Iranian forces only increased. So it was like the Stalingrad defeat of Germans. The rest of the war was very clear to Iranians to see in advance.
12 working tanks of Iran againt 600 Iraqi tanks. This was the formation just outside Ahvaz when the battle for her defense began. And Saddam's men couldn't get inside and retreated. Backed by people of Ahvaz, Iran's military defeated the Iraqis. This is what I'm talking about.
The book I mentioned, says the effect of people's joining the military forces was at least a 7-fold increase in Iran's military strength. And they go through a few various ways of meaningfully calculating this.
War _builds_ Iranians. It throws away bullshitting and emotions, and replaces them with realities and problems on their hands needing to get solved. It forces them to work and solve the issues. This process takes place both inside of each person and outside of them. So internally too, each individuals becomes realistic and practical and finds their ways toward solutions to their psychological pressures.
The book says even militia were surprised at the sudden magnitude of changes in military's war capabilities and extent of equipment they were building and repairing and adding to the war effort. It was eye-opening to all Iranians directly involved in that effort.
I still remember those pre-1979 years very well. Iran's military was in reality partly not for Iran to begin with. It was mostly to control Iranians with. And soldiers, all those friends of mine who left to do their 2-year mandatory military services, and my own two elder brothers, on coming back home, or occasional visiting the family and friends, instead of gaining a sense of being useful and effective for their country, they often showed they'd lost that sense! ... Their morale fucked. Physically they'd become stronger and more muscular (and darker skinned), but their heads were now full of despair and unproductiveness; just months back they were full of ideas and hope and now their minds were barren. Because they knew how they were to be used and they resented it.
So, in fact, that war changed the nonsensical form of "military force" that Iran had piled up in the years before the war, and turned them into the correct form that a military force must have. Made them get into the right mind, and they became true soldiers for Iran. Now they considered themselves lucky that they'd had that service and experience. Now it all made sense. Perfect sense.
War provides the opportunity for _every_ type of Iranian to be and become and feel useful. It doesn't matter what a loser you've been all your life. It doesn't matter you didn't do jack for anyone and your country. It doesn't matter who you are. War gives you the chance to get in the right mind and help your people and country. This is very valuable help for millions upon millions of people's psyche. A "blessing"!
A lot of Iranians must only dream about being such individuals in their lives. They don't get their chances to invent something, to discover something, or to become professor of something, or to build jobs for the jobless or have any positive effect on the overall affairs of themselves as well as the country and people. To create something. Write books. Etc and etc. War gives them those chances! Because in war, what you are doing is as important and useful as any of the cases I just mentioned. You suddenly begin to matter. You suddenly can put your creativity into use. Into good use for that!
Almost 50 years has passed since last war. About time it begins again.
Oh, you think you'll enjoy killing Iranians right?... You have no idea! You have no idea, sweeties, how Iranians feel about you after subjecting them to 5 decades of distress.
So tell me. Who wants this war you and your cohorts talk about. You Nazis? Or Iran?
Who's the one who wants this _opportunity_, BOZOS?
The book says when any of them were due to leave the service and go back home after certain period of combat and get active in other aspects of war away from the fronts, they DREADED the prospect. For many of them, war at the front provided the best chances for them to be useful and solve all sorts of problems, and they knew that and felt that and didn't want to leave it. But they had to, so they'd even fall into depression when their time would come.
I think it's time some rude asses go to war with Iran :)