Don't expect France and Germany to be too woried about this. They're out of range and there's some money to be made. Russia's reaction will be interesting though.
Posted on 04/27/2006 6:21:05 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Iran has recently purchased BM-25 surface-to-surface missiles from North Korea that put European countries within firing range, Israel’s military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, has been quoted as saying today.
The missiles, which have a range of 1,550 miles, are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and part of the shipment has already reached Iran, the Haaretz daily newspaper reported.
You wonder what is going thru the Russians' heads. Afterall, Iran is a whole lot closer to Moscow than it is to NY.
The Europeans don't have to worry. Iran would not attack fellow Muslims.
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Doesn't matter - Iran wouldn't dare hit Russia. I don't think any country (except the U.S.) has the guts to hit Russia.
The wry irony is Russia, who recently approached us for some sort of "protection" or at least an alliance to fend off the Iranians who they have been supplying all the material to equip Iran with nuclear as well as rocketry to target the US.
Turns out the easiest route to the US is the Polar route which goes right over Russia.
(Yikes!)
Ya think maybe now Europe will get a hint?
Not unless you sneak one aboard a cargo container and launch, say, from their new Friends's country of Venezuela.
They're cutting out bed sheets as we speak.
Their "hint," such as it is, is that inevitable 'oh, sh*t' moment when they realize that they cannot do anything about Iran without asking us and the British for help.
The Europeans have no way to project significant power to other places in the world. For the past 60 years they've been content to let us do the heavy lifting in that arena, while they get to sit around and bitch about us.
And now they'll realize in the most embarrassing possible way that they're toothless without us.
Schadenfreud is best when it's allowed to mature for a while..... ;-)
Don't expect France and Germany to be too woried about this. They're out of range and there's some money to be made. Russia's reaction will be interesting though.
The Iranians would do well to remember that no people have such a rich and varied history of industrialized mass murder when it comes to doing away with their enemies or minority groups which have outlived their utility, or their welcome, than the Europeans.
Whether we're talking about the response to the "Albegensian Heresy", to the tradition of pogroms, the Crusades, the Inquisition, the French Revolution, the destruction of Native American and African tribal powers via smallpox and the machine gun, the Opium Wars, two World Wars (really four), right on through to Hitler's industrial-line death camps, Europeans are on the forefront of killing technology, and the will to use it, whenever they can justify it.
And they do find ways to justify it.
A mushroom cloud over Rome, Paris of Brussels would be just the thing to wake the sleepy Eurocrats from their slumber (although I DO NOT advocate it) and the resulting retribution would be more terrible than anything we Americans could ever unleash (we like to think we have morals, after all).
The Iranians (and all the rest of the Islamic nutjobs) would do well to remember what Europe has been capable of in the past, because that is a foretaste of the future should Islam finally go too far.
And don't come whining to the US, you Euroweenies. Handle it yourselves this time, because we have been told we should not be involved in the affairs of other nations.
It says that North Korea sold these missiles to Iran. North Korea has nukes. So how many of these missiles are nuclear tipped?
Who knows. The North Koreans are lunatics could be all of them have nuclear warheads on them. Russia just finished selling a ton of military weapons to Iran too. No wonder they don't want sanctions against Iran.
But Iran said their nuclear program was only for peaceful energy creation.
c'mon
they only bought them for self defense. in case a neighbour was going to invade, one of their immediate neighbors...... a non muslim neighbor
the power of jihad will have the crusaders kneeling before allah, god willing
InHonor.net exceeded their Bandwidth (and could use more donations) but, you can still view this Iranian Military Presentation from web Archives. As you can see from the video, they are paying tribute to missiles and targets. I see U.S. (USA), Star of David (Israel) and the swastika (Tibet?)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040710012932/http://inhonor.net/videos/uped/fl_video.php?f_num=52900
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