"Iran's military launched the first stage of a planned series of war games on Saturday. The exercises will be conducted in 16 provinces in southern, southwestern and western parts of the country during the coming days, IRNA reported. Brig. Gen. Kiumars Heidari, a military spokesman, told the IRNA that Iranian forces test-fired Iranian-made Saeqeh (Thunderbolt) missiles and surface-to-water missiles in southwestern Khuzestan Province, which adjoins Iraq."
The above paragraph is an excerpt of a piece ran by CNN.com yesterday. Unfortunately, the infamous news channels omits to report that the game Iran has been playing in Khuzestan is a bit more real than these days simulated military operations. In fact, the province, which is composed of mainly Sunni Arabs and is the region that provides almost 80% of Iran's oil, has been at the center of a brutal repression by the central regime for years.
How can such a renowned news organization forget about these crucial "details" of the story on the eve of the Iranian reply to the Security Council request to halt nuclear experiments?...
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