Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps

[AdamG]

Incompetency or sabotage?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Wednesday said 18 members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard were killed in an explosion that struck the force's base in the country's west a day earlier.

The state IRNA news agency said 14 other Guard troops were wounded in Tuesday's blast in the city of Khoramabad, some 300 miles (500 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Tehran. The injured were taken to hospitals in Khoramabad.

The report said the blast was caused by a fire that had reached the ammunition storage area, but there was no word on what had ignited the blaze. In their first reports of the blast late Tuesday, most Iranian media said the explosion was an accident.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...ocId=D9IQOHTO2

[AdamG]

Qu'elle surprise.

An explosion that ripped through an Revolutionary Guards Corps. base last week in western Iran, killing 18 soldiers, has attracted international attention because the site is reportedly used to store medium-range Shihab-3 missiles.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/N...aspx?id=191626

[davidbfpo]

Hat tip to Scott Lucas blogsite picking up a story in The National:

The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has come under harsh and unprecedented criticism from his usually close supporters, the Revolutionary Guards, in a move that suggests rifts among the Islamic Republic's power centres are widening.

Link:http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/...-ahmadine.html