Iran threatens to carry out missile strikes on enemies

iranfocus ^ | 1/28/06 | na

[Flavius]

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28 – Iran threatened on Saturday to strike its enemies with its medium-range missiles if its suspected nuclear weapons facilities came under attack.

“If we come under military attack, we will respond with our very effective missile defence”, the commandant of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, said on state television.

“The world knows that the Islamic Republic has ballistic missiles in its defence arsenal”.

Iran currently has a large arsenal of Shahab-3 missiles that can strike over 2,000 kilometres away from their launch sites, easily reaching arch-nemesis Israel and United States troops in the region.

Safavi said that Iran was able to produce medium-range missiles indigenously without foreign assistance.

He accused “the occupiers of Iraq”, in particular British troops in the south, of being behind Tuesday’s twin bombings in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz which left nine people dead. He warned British and U.S intelligence apparatuses to avoid meddling in Iran’s internal affairs.

During the inauguration of the Revolutionary Guards new air chief, Safavi highlighted Tehran’s ideological influence over neighbouring countries and said that the United States and Israel had reached a “political dead-end” in the Middle East, the state-run ISNA news agency reported.

“The political paths of the countries of the region such as Iraq and Palestine show that America has reached a political dead-end. The results of Iraq’s parliamentary elections, the victory of Hamas in the [Palestinian elections], and the role of Hezbollah in Lebanon prove this claim to be true”.

“God willing, the 21st century will see the defeat of the U.S. and the Zionists, and the victory of freedom-seeking nations of the world”.

The IRGC chief warned that Iran was seeing through “critical days” and “fate-determining years”.

He described the purpose of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution as the “Salvation of Muslims” from the hands of the “oppressive U.S. and Israel”.

“The final goal of the revolution is to create global Islamic rule and a regime of law to be led by the Imam Mahdi”.

[Flavius]

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Examples:

* The AT-AT "commander" on Endor in Return of the Jedi. This may be anomalous: a walker should be an Army vehicle, and there is no "commander" rank in army terminology. Perhaps a naval officer was in command of this walker because the Endor deflector shield garrison was a Navy or joint-forces facility. * Commander Gherant, an officer aboard the Executor in The Empire Strikes Back, named in the SWCCG cards. * In the computer game Rebellion, Commanders Klev, Bane Nothos, Orok, and Pter Thanas are represented with the *RRR/BBB* insignia. Unfortunately there are characters of higher rank (Moff Jerjerrod, Commodore Zuggs, Captain Needa) who are inconsistently given the same insignia. But perhaps those exceptions can be rationalised as photos of the men at lower ranks, earlier in their respective careers? * Commander Praji, the black-uniformed stormtrooper officer who informed Lord Vader about the jettisonning of a lifeless escape pod from the Tantive IV to the Tatooine surface. Praji is an honours graduate from the Imperial Navy Academy on Carida, which was revealled in Jedi Academy Trilogy to be exclusively a stormtrooper training facility. Images: [outside the red computer room] [*] Commander Praji's insignia:

[saganite]

WTF?

[frankiep]

ummmm, ok

[Flavius]

wtf to what part

[Hypervigilant]

"commandant of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi"

[md2576]

Safavi said that Iran was able to produce medium-range missiles indigenously without foreign assistance.

Yeah right!

And Clinton didn't help the Chinese either.

Do I really need a /sarc at the end of that one?

[kentj]

Oh please , oh please

Maybe if we call them a name (they hate that sh-t)

Iran you are a pig eating pork rine of a sow who's mother was the whore of all HO's spawned by the union of a pig and a lima bean (I hate lima beans) then raised by a camel and washed in its do do. (how was that? think they will shoot now?)

[GermanBusiness]

Promises, promises

[RightWhale]

It's been quiet on the Iranian polemics the past couple of days. Good to see they are still busily working on their own destruction.

[Ostlandr]

Yes, they have missiles. But I imagine the payload is fairly small, and the circular error fairly large.
Without WMDs, the missile strikes would be as stupid and futile as Hitler's V-1 and V-2 raids on London. Blowing up random buildings in a large metro area doesn't really accomplish much, from a military standpoint.

However, a missile of that size and capability carrying Sarin, VX or Anthrax (or even the guts out of old X-ray machines) is a whole 'nother ball game.

[Flavius]

i like lama beans

[R. Scott]

I hope we have a few of these ABLs operational when the time comes.

[md2576]

You forgot to mention Dogs!

[Coldwater Creek]

I heard Connie Chung say today, that she was not afraid of Iran's nuclear threat's, as the only country to ever use the bomb was the U.S.

[Flavius]

hmm, thats the 46%-51% of constituents

[cweese]

"Safavi said that Iran was able to produce medium-range missiles indigenously without foreign assistance. "

Yes, using many of the indigenous Russian scientists.

[md2576]

Blowing up random buildings in a large metro area doesn't really accomplish much,

It got Americans to give up their freedoms for the Patriot Act.

But then, that's another story and thread altogether.

 

[saganite]

All the text talking about starship captains seems to be a non sequitur. I thought this post was about Iran.

[Camel Joe]

The Russians who helped Saddam move his WMD's may have relocated some of them to Iran. I hope they are not that stupid, we would totally annihilate them for something like that.

[Flavius]

sorry i find that hilarious