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Given recent events in Syria with Russia and the US, the movie's come back to mind, and looking for the script to confirm what I think I was remembering (bits of tv news playing in the background of the movie's story describing events in the middle east leading up to the war):
"This film, shot secretly
by a West German television crew,
shows one of the Soviet convoys
on the move in northern Iran.
The convoys were first spotted
by United States satellites on Monday
moving across three of the mountain
passes leading from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet foreign minister
has defended the incursions
and has accused the United States
of deliberately prompting
last week's coup in Iran.
Speaking on his arrival in Vienna,
Mr. Gromyko claims the Soviet vehicles
were responding to an appeal...
The time now 7:30. Douglas
Barton with tonight's headlines.
The United States may send troops
to the Middle East
if the Russians don't move their forces
out of Iran.
... Western leaders calling for
immediate withdrawal...
... in the waters off the coast of Iran.
No further details are given in the story,
attributed to the paper's correspondent.
However, one rumor being heard
increasingly in the Capitol today
says the vessel is a US submarine
that has disappeared
whilst on routine patrol in the area.
BBC news at eight o'clock.
The Soviet Union has protested strongly
to the United States
about dangerous provocations
by American ships in the Gulf of Oman.
This follows an incident where damage
was caused to the Soviet cruiser Kirov
when she was in collision
with the US destroyer Callaghan.
The United States
government has been forced
to take action to safeguard
what it believes are legitimate
Western interests in the Middle East.
This administration
has therefore resolved
to send units of its rapid deployment
force, the US Central Command,
into western Iran.
We are confident that the Soviet Union
will take note of our resolve
and will desist from
its present perilous course of action."
Threads (1984) Movie Script | SS
Needless to say, things go downhill from there. If you replace 'Iran' with 'Syria' things get really scary.
"This film, shot secretly
by a West German television crew,
shows one of the Soviet convoys
on the move in northern Iran.
The convoys were first spotted
by United States satellites on Monday
moving across three of the mountain
passes leading from the Soviet Union.
The Soviet foreign minister
has defended the incursions
and has accused the United States
of deliberately prompting
last week's coup in Iran.
Speaking on his arrival in Vienna,
Mr. Gromyko claims the Soviet vehicles
were responding to an appeal...
The time now 7:30. Douglas
Barton with tonight's headlines.
The United States may send troops
to the Middle East
if the Russians don't move their forces
out of Iran.
... Western leaders calling for
immediate withdrawal...
... in the waters off the coast of Iran.
No further details are given in the story,
attributed to the paper's correspondent.
However, one rumor being heard
increasingly in the Capitol today
says the vessel is a US submarine
that has disappeared
whilst on routine patrol in the area.
BBC news at eight o'clock.
The Soviet Union has protested strongly
to the United States
about dangerous provocations
by American ships in the Gulf of Oman.
This follows an incident where damage
was caused to the Soviet cruiser Kirov
when she was in collision
with the US destroyer Callaghan.
The United States
government has been forced
to take action to safeguard
what it believes are legitimate
Western interests in the Middle East.
This administration
has therefore resolved
to send units of its rapid deployment
force, the US Central Command,
into western Iran.
We are confident that the Soviet Union
will take note of our resolve
and will desist from
its present perilous course of action."
Threads (1984) Movie Script | SS
Needless to say, things go downhill from there. If you replace 'Iran' with 'Syria' things get really scary.
