"Capt. JG" wrote in
:

So? Do you think the maniacs in power in Iran have world peace in
mind?



The maniacs in power in Iran are in a very poor position to attack
anyone. Take Google Earth to their air bases and have a look around. I
worked at Doshen-Tappeh IAFB in the NE quarter of Tehran under the Shah
in 1978-79. The biggest base in Tehran is virtually deserted...How can
I tell? NO CARS, NO TRUCKS, NO PLANES except the ones on static
display. There's no PEOPLE working on the base I worked at where you
could hardly find a parking space under the Shahanshah. Where are they?
Where are the planes? The can't fit in the hangars as there aren't any,
bunkers, either.

Boot Google Earth and tell it to find Bandar-e Khoumeyni, Iran, at the
headwaters of the Arabian Gulf. This is Iran's largest port. It's on a
large island directly upriver from the largest waterway at the head of
the Arabian Gulf. It has huge docks, tank farms, heavy industry, all
the things a heavy military machine needs. Zoom in close, Google has
high definition photos of it. What's missing? EVERYTHING. NO SHIPS,
NO TRUCKS on its roads or in its abandoned parking lots, NO SMOKE from
its chimneys, EVERYTHING on the island just reeks of ABANDONED. Outside
of a few rusting, abandoned hulks, rusting at the docks, there's
NOTHING! No huge freight car lines on the rusting tracks. Tracks that
are used are POLISHED, not rust colored. Follow the main road up the
East side of the neck off the island. You'll come to a huge factory
with a bright blue roof. Look over the whole complex. There are no
trucks, no people, no smoke from its stacks, it's ABANDONED. When I
lived there I flew in an Iranian C-130 ELINT aircraft over this place.
It was teeming with life under the Shah, tens of thousands worked here,
it stunk with industry you could see for miles downwind. Now it's DEAD.

Now, to the NE across the bay is another tankfarm/terminal. Zoom in on
it. There are two rusting hulks, one of them red at the otherwise
abandoned docks. Look closely at the tank farm...tanks are empty, their
roofs telescoped inside them. No cars/people/trucks/human
activity...abandoned.

Up a little canal behind this tank farm are two "marinas", or what pass
for marinas in Iran, I suppose. Zoom in close. Most boats lay on their
sides, ABANDONED, in the mud, Some look tied out. No cars, people,
abandoned. There's a little marina by the road to the left of the
canal. All the boats, some that look quite large, lay in the MUD,
ABANDONED. The Iranians abandoned all their finest sailboats to
convince Google Earth watchers that they are dirt poor and to hide these
"boat bombs" destined to attack Israel at a moments notice. Notice
nothing has come or gone since the MUD filled in the place. There's no
tracks where someone dragged a boat over the mud in shallow water. No
cars, no trucks, no people, Abandoned.

Let's go up into the town, Bandar-e Mahshahr. Half of it is in the high
res pictures. Zoom in real close and look for yourself. The
southernmost part of the town looks to be upper-middle-class homes, many
with swimming pools, parks, high rise apartment buildings, probably from
my experience built by the German engineers. Zoom way in so you can
look into the yards inside their nice walled gardens. What do you see?
See any cars?...no. See any people...no. Why are all the gardens BROWN
and DEAD? These are upper middle class people with walled gardens.
When I lived in Iran, those gardens were hand tended and lawns looked
like the putting greens at Augusta National at the beginning of the
Masters Tournament...lush...GREEN...WATERED. Look at the swimming
pools...EMPTY. There's not 10 cars in the WHOLE PLACE! Every Iranian I
ever met, even the poor ones had multiple cars. They LOVE cars. Gas
was so cheap, 3-5US cents/us gallon they drove around just for sport!
Look at these streets...ABANDONED, EMPTY. I found ONE blue bus on the
street that looks like it's in motion. ONE in a CITY?! Major traffic
circles on 4-land highways have 10-15 cars around them. This is a big
place! Where did everyone go?! Right up by the line between high res
and low rez Google photos, you'll find a big square with a street packed
with cars This would be the central market. There's a big bus terminal
with 2 blue busses. ALL the streets would be packed like this all over
an Iranian city of this size....not one or two. Run out on the East
side of town where the industry WAS. Zoom in close...ABANDONED. No
trucks parked all over and milling around, no cars, DEAD. Maybe they
all took the day off and moved up into the out-of-focus area where we
couldn't see them.....NOT.

Iranians are bordering on economic disaster. Cities all over the
country have this same Abandoned, shut-down look to them. Case in
point....

Go back down to the Gulf and follow the Shat-al-Arab waterway up along
the Iran-Iraq border and you come to Iran's boomtowns of Abadan and
Khorramshahr. This is Iran's Houston. Zoom in close to the massive
tank farm near the waterway on the South side of Abadan. See the
circles where the tanks WERE before the Iran-Iraq war? Why have they
not been rebuilt by this massive Iranian Military machine? Where are
all the tankers and other ships at the docks? There used to be many
more tank farms to the NW of there....gone.

See the airport between the cities? Boy that runway was a welcome site
when I landed there! The outboard starboard engine on our IAF C-130 had
a FIRE the extinguishers got out. The engine came apart inside
somehow....not good. We landed here and they flew down another plane
from Tehran, so we all got a great 3 day vacation in these two cities
during the BOOM TIMES. See any airplanes now? See the parking spaces
where the airplanes USED to park? See anyone at the airport? ABANDONED
comes to mind.... I see 3 cars in the parking lot of the main
terminal....THREE! It's been a while since anyone flew out of here.

Go towards Kharman from Khorramshahr. Half way between the Google names
is a massive port facility with deep water docks, massive warehouses,
storage yards for goods. Zoom in close. All the ships at the docks are
the rusting hulks blown up by the Iraqis during the war a LONG TIME AGO.
There are no cargo ships unloading tons and tons of stuff for Iran. The
warehouses have doors with no trailers at them because they must be
empty. There are thousands of trailers, however, parked all over the
place...but NO TRUCKS TO TOW THEM as there is nothing to tow. Why
didn't they rebuild their major ports on the Gulf? This place was
teeming with life in 1978 when I was there. Now....Abandoned.

There's a big Air Base at Tabareh at 30-50-50N by 49-32-20E. Let's go
see how much of a threat Iran is...militarily. This base guards the
waterway and a lot of Southern Iran from Iraqi attack. It guards the
Southern Flank! Zoom in close. Iran moved the entire air base out of
this location just so Map Data/Europa could take pictures that look like
it's completely ABANDONED. See the white plane on the tarmac. Zoom in
close. It HAS NO LEFT WING! Iran has not done a damned thing since the
Iraqis blew up this plane in the war WAY BACK WHEN? My Zionist TV in
America is telling me Iran is a "MAJOR THREAT TO THE REGION" with
"MASSIVE MILITARY MIGHT". If that's true why is this major military air
force base ABANDONED??

The major cities of the North, like Tehran and Tabriz and Mashad still
have a lot of cars in the streets. But, if you look at their INDUSTRY,
you get a horrible picture of closed factories, abandoned buildings,
etc. I'm looking, now, at the Mashad airport, which also is the air
base. Been there....in a C-130 with all the parts pulling together,
amazingly enough. Mashad is a fascinating old city full of friendly
people who don't get to see many Americans, even when I was there in
'78-'79. Man, hang onto your wallet in the central market! The
hagglars there make all the Tehran hagglars look like AMATEURS! I lost
a bundle and took home a pile, much to the amusement of the Iranian crew
flying the plane. The military post is in the north corner of the
airport. There ARE jets on the tarmac, finally! But, alas, look real
close...MANY of them have PARTS MISSING and look canibalized. There's
about 6 that look like they can fly, the grey painted ones. This is a
base? Where are the VEHICLES? WHERE ARE THE CARS? WHERE ARE THE
PEOPLE? It must be Friday and they're all at Mosque....yeah, that's it.

Dangerous people, these Iranians and their ABANDONED air bases. I
wonder how long it would take them to scramble 10 jets to ward off the
American Zionist invasion? The taxpayers should, too. The people in
the most danger are the ones off the end of the runways! Those planes
look SICK!

Like Iraq, Iran is absolutely NO THREAT to AMERICA on the other side of
the planet. If you find the massive military might on Google Earth
anywhere in the bankrupt country, post the lat/long and name of nearest
town so we all can see it. I'd love to know where all the AF and army
people I worked with are. They're certainly NOT anywhere near the base
IN THEIR CARS.