Posted on 04/15/2006 6:24:55 PM PDT by freedom44
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
TEHRAN -- Iran boasted yesterday it could defeat any American military action over its nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States.
"You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," said Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime's most powerful figures.
"The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error," he told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran.
"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," Gen. Safavi said with a grin.
"We have American forces in the region under total surveillance. For the past two years, we have been ready for any scenario, whether sanctions or an attack."
Iran announced this week it had successfully enriched uranium on a small scale that could be used for nuclear reactors. The claim represented a direct challenge to the United States and the U.N. Security Council, which has demanded that Iran halt enrichment activities by April 28.
At a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran yesterday, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad branded the U.S. as a "decaying power" lacking the "stamina" to block Iran's ambitions. And hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Agence France-Presse that a U.S. push for tough U.N. sanctions was of "no importance." "She is free to say whatever she wants," the president replied when asked to respond to comments by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice highlighting part of the U.N. charter that provides for sanctions backed up by the threat of military action. "We give no importance to her comments," he said with a broad smile.
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These guys remind me of the saying "Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".
ping!
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH....
Two word alone defeats those fools in IRAN..."AIR POWER"
Tehran is obviously fool of idiots, thus nothing to fear...at all.
Well, consider the audience. When you're brought up to believe all the idiotic crap in the koran, you're likely to believe anything.
Uh huh, when I was young, dumb, and drunk, I thought I could whip Joe Louis, and we all know how that gig would have went.
Things need to 'Mysteriously' start blowing up in Iran.
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The jihadist mindset is a curable psychotic illness.
The cure:
This is why world leaders should not smoke crack.
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Premature jihadulation is common there..
Let a Dhimmicrat take back the white house in 08
It is starting to look like it won't be possible to just take out the nuke facilities. Iran claims to be the major influence in the region now. Iran will probably activate its unsymmetrical war capacity everywhere it can, which will make it impossible to do much of a constructive nature for a long time. So, if the nuke facilities are to be reduced, it will take general war with Iran to quell the unsymmetrical warfare. That means invading and occupying Iran. Since England is not capable of participating in the invasion, perhaps Russia could be induced to invade from the north while the US advances from Iraq. Half efforts will fail.
bttt
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