"Go ahead...Make our day."
Posted on 08/19/2004 8:58:09 PM PDT by neverdem
TEHRAN, Aug. 19 - Iran's defense minister, Vice Adm. Ali Shamkhani, has warned that Iran may resort to pre-emptive strikes to prevent an attack on its nuclear facilities.
Admiral Shamkhani made his comments in an interview on Al Jazeera television on Wednesday in response to a question about the possibility of an American or Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear projects.
"We will not sit to wait for what others will do to us," he said. "Some military commanders in Iran are convinced that preventive operations which the Americans talk about are not their monopoly. Any nation, if it feels threatened, can resort to that."
There has been speculation here that Israel may attack Iran's nuclear sites, as it struck against Iraq's nuclear facilities at Osirak in 1981.
A commander of Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards warned this week that Iran would strike Israel's reactor at Dimona if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear sites.
"If Israel fires one missile at Bushehr atomic power plant, it should permanently forget about the Dimona nuclear center, where it produces and keeps its nuclear weapons," said the commander, Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr.
Admiral Shamkhani said Iran was certain that Israel would not carry out such an attack without a green light from the United States. "So you cannot separate the two," he said.
On Thursday, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to close its file on charges that Iran was developing nuclear weapons, state-run television reported. This month, the United Nations agency affirmed Iran's claim that the highly enriched uranium found at an Iranian site had been carried in on equipment Iran purchased in the black market.
"If the case is not closed, it intensifies the suspicion about interference of political motives and pressures within the agency," Mr. Kharazi said.
The nuclear watchdog agency is scheduled to report its findings on Iran's nuclear activities at a meeting in Vienna starting Sept. 13. The United States has urged the agency to send Iran's case to the United Nations Security Council, which can impose sanctions.
And if they did...Iran would be no more.
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Israel has capability to intercept both their planes and missiles and Iran's attack would be a complete failure. It would, however, give a perfect backdrop for Israel's strike.
You know..after reading this article..I feel like telling Shaquille O'neal that I might kick his butt if he looks at me the wrong way..what do you think????
BRING IT ON YOU KERRY LOVING BA$TARDS!!!
How fast can you run?
Please do. We've wanted to do a bit of glass making since 1979. That would give us a chance. Or it might give the Israelis a chance, depending on who gets "pre-empted". Maybe both of us will have a go.
Hopefully faster than an iranian jet that dares cross over Israeli air space..good one...
It seems to me that Iran is whistling past the grave yard. They are in the cross hairs and they know it.
Yea...Because we'll impose UN sanctions on them and make them do a food for oil program...that ought'a scare the living shit out of'em...we might even almost, but not, attack one of their cities.
Are they kidding?
I can just see the Fox News Alert
Shepard Smith: Just moments ago, Iranian soldiers launched an all-out offensive on US positions in the Middle East and....THIS JUST IN: The country of Iran has just been liberated from its tyrannical regime and Paul Bremmer is en-route to service as the Acting Authority. All Iranian forced forced that managed to survive OPERATION: Whoop-Ass, are now cowering at the feet of US Marines.
OR (Alternate and preferred Ending)
....THIS JUST IN: The country of Iran is now flat, black and smoky as a result of several inbound ICBMs. The only reported survivors were cockroaches and a few high-ranking former Iranian Government Officials.
BRING IT. Israel will kick ass and Iran will be turned into one big sheet of glass. If they launch ANYTHING against our mainland, they are toasties.
Well, that's our cue. Let's take 'em out now.
As I recall, Israel stepped up and took out Iraq's nuclear facilities years ago. Thank God they did, otherwise Saddam would have been a still-greater threat. I hope we can rely on them to do the same with Iran.
Having heard this from Iran,it seems if a strike were made to take out their nuke facilities, it would also take out as many missile sites as possible, and maybe even their air force.
That's about it. I gotta chuckle out of it too.
They are just trying to set us up so they can go screaming to the U.N. like children, screaming "IT ALL STARTED WHEN HE HIT ME BACK!"
We may have to preempt their preemption.
It's going to be our fault either way.
Hell, it's always our fault.
HOWEVER, if Iran really wants to make a thing of it..... who do you think will be in the most trouble?
What would be wrong with launching a thousand ship-based missiles (ala Iraq '92) and remove every missile silo and nuclear facility in Iran?
But Kerry might object to that, citing that it isnt a gentler war...
Kindred spirits.
How tall are you?
But Kerry might object to that, citing that it isnt a gentler war...
You mean "More Sensitive", right? =)
Isn't threatening "an overwhelming response" good enough?
True. I would think that the leaders are also having to worry about their own population rising up to throw out the theocracy. The unhappy millions of Iranians have seen the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq and many remember life before Khomeni.
Could it be they are that stupid? I wonder if there is someone in the state department whispering in their ear that we and Israel would not respond. LOL. Worked once before.
That's a pretty open statement .. who else besides Israel do they plan on attacking??
Yes, they COULD be that stupid. We are talking about Islamics here. To assume that they reason like we do is suicidal.
I would have hoped Iran would have learned from Khadafy and Lybia that we will call the bluff. Unfortunately, with Russia backing Iran, this could get messy.
How tall I am is none of your concern...I can take out Shaq just as iran can take out Israel and the USA...oh heck..iran should just take over the entire planet..be done with it..(end of sarcasm..:) )
"Go ahead...Make our day."
Russia backing iran if they launch an attack? I think not
Better read up on it first...
LOL! I think the Iranians just might want to think hard before taking any action.
The Muslim clerics in charge of theocracy in Iran are shi**ing in there robes at this point. Count on it.
Let's do this.
Bring it!
Iranian officials are peein' in their burkas over the possibility that their own people might turn on them.
They're trying the divert attention routine to unite the masses against the 'Great Satan', IMO.
I say the vocal idiots are blufing. But Iwould like to see them try. Israel would simply eliminate them with nukes. Us... I dunno. Maybe we could just sit back, grab the popcorn and watch Israel kick ass for a change.
Preemptive strike,,,
Like Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941?
Dateline: Iran Leveled
Israel took turns heating things up in the former nation of Iran yesterday, lobbing nukes over the head in reaction to Iran's silly missile attack against Israel, which took out a sheep pasture 100 miles from the nuclear facility of target.
We may have to get approval from the UN before we make any wholesale threats. But, it seems we prefer a lifetime of UN sanctions, resolutions and "formal protests"...
Isreal has been kicking ass for quite some time. This tiny nation has held the Muslim world at bay. There is a lesson here that the rest of us should learn.
Actually, should an attack of this sort take place, I'd be willing to bet that there would be quite a few nuclear weapons missing from the stockpile at Dimona, and things would be getting very bright and hot in Iran.
Mark
They have been hanging out with N. Koreans so long that they now talk like N. Koreans. Hello, Democratic People's Republic of Iran!:)
and allah thinks that there has been a run on virgins lately . . . wait until they try that one.
Israel no more needs our permission than we need France's!
They are thinking "Goliath" without reading the story.
The free world against Iran....or even the whole of the "Axis of Evil" doesn't take much to consider the outcome of their glorious battle!
(sniff)
Anyone else smell that?!
Smell's like burning mullahs...
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