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Iran Threatens Gulf States Blitz If US Hits Nuclear Plants
The Sunday Times ^ | June 10, 2007 | Michael Smith

Posted on 06/10/2007 7:28:15 AM PDT by Fennie

IRAN has threatened to launch a missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities. Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a senior defence adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Gulf states providing the US with military cooperation would be the key targets of a barrage of ballistic missiles. Shamkhani told the US journal Defense News that missiles would be launched not only at US military bases but also at strategic targets such as oil refineries and power stations. Shamkhani, a former Iranian defence minister, accused the Gulf states of "helping the US establish legitimacy for its anticipated aggression against Iran". Shamkhani is the head of Iran's Centre for Strategic Studies, a think tank made up of former foreign, defence and interior ministers that advises the supreme leader...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gulfstates; iran; letsroll; military; unitedstates
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To: null and void

I have to agree. To him it doesn’t matter - the 12th imam thing.


41 posted on 06/10/2007 10:52:48 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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To: FARS; _Jim
Comments: Lest we forget, we are not dealing with rational foes but with the Ahmadi-Nejad “Hojatieh” sect philosophy of the greater the destruction everywhere the more likely the darling 12th Imam is to return after 1,300 years out of the Jamaran well down which he disappeared and redeem the world.

Real redeemers wait in Heaven, not in The Pit.

Islamic Iran is a flesh eating “bacteria”

You are being too harsh on necrotizing fasciitis.

The only survivor would be the flesh eating bacteria in an ever more virulent form.

The patient dies, the infection dies.

Retaliation will also take place in the USA and Europe (and other American targets around the world) so we can expect some suiciders in our malls, IED (explosive devices) along our freeways and a dirty bomb or two.

Crap. My Darling Daughter is flying to Oz next week.

Plus a crash of our electricity networks

I have it on Good Authority that "the Grid" simply cannot be taken down. underscoreJim will be more than happy to explain this in excruciating detail.

This is no joke

I'm not laughing.

42 posted on 06/10/2007 10:53:30 AM PDT by null and void (Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
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To: Nuc1
Jimmah's feeeeeeelings and maybe Habitat for Humanity...
43 posted on 06/10/2007 10:58:10 AM PDT by null and void (Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
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To: FARS
Iraq is in reach. All of it.

We know. ;-)

Bright lights! Bright lights!

44 posted on 06/10/2007 11:04:10 AM PDT by Allegra (Socks.)
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To: Allegra

Daylight strobes?


45 posted on 06/10/2007 11:09:03 AM PDT by null and void (Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
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To: FARS

Don’t know how I made this ping list, but keep me on it. Thanks for clarification in several regards.


46 posted on 06/10/2007 11:12:27 AM PDT by Issaquahking (Illegals kill more than al Quaida, thanks to the president,congress, and senate for ruining the USA!)
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To: Fennie

Thank you Mr Clinton, Bernie Swartz, and Loral Space (RIP).


47 posted on 06/10/2007 11:13:58 AM PDT by TN4Liberty (Ask any farmer... Good fences make good neighbors.)
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To: TomasUSMC; All

Iranian nuclear and fissionable material has been common knowledge in the intel community for several years and verified on the ground. They have watched the capability become lethal in the last 18-months or so with rocket development and solid fuel capability.

Not everything is printed in the drive-by media or sourced for editorial pleasure.

If you have contacts in the intel community just ask around. Simply not made public. Nor does it suit the MSM (main stream media to disclose this if they heard about it) and somewhat “old news”, too. Other than the progression.

Focus has been on Iran’s home made capability not half a dozen existing and quickly expended missiles.

Original capability has been posted on http://www.antimullah.com for quite a while. Check out the Archive Details to find the article. Slightly dated now but still useful focus.


48 posted on 06/10/2007 11:14:17 AM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

Thanks for the ping!


49 posted on 06/10/2007 11:16:26 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: null and void; All

“The patient dies, the infection dies.”

Not in this case. The bodies of third world countries that can survive at a very basic level of daily life will continue to nourish and spread the bacteria.

As I said, not a normal situation within our usual thinking/analytic standards :-)) we are dealing with the lunatic Hojatieh and Islamic Jihadists who live by 14th century rules and lifestyles. Those people will survive as they are still mostly hunter gatherers of yore. Except among some of their elite.


50 posted on 06/10/2007 11:20:39 AM PDT by FARS
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To: FARS

Bump tttop.


51 posted on 06/10/2007 11:26:51 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (With God for a pilot, anything is possible.......!!!)
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To: FARS
Yeah. The few remaining scattered crumbs of the species would be back to stone-age technology at best.

It would be an environmentalist’s dream world...

52 posted on 06/10/2007 11:30:22 AM PDT by null and void (Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
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To: Fennie

We will have to simply nuke their entire country.

Well, I know, it won’t happen. They should thank Allah on their callused knees that ole Bon Mots isn’t secretary of the button.

We’re waiting since 1979 for this supposedly “pro-American” nation to come to its senses - but it hasn’t happened for nearly 30 years - and probably never will.

Glassin’ time.


53 posted on 06/10/2007 11:45:14 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: FARS

Thanks for keeping an eye out for us, FARS.


54 posted on 06/10/2007 11:54:29 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: Bon mots
The great pity is that there are a lot of decent Iranians.

On the plus side, most of them are here.

On the minus side, the ones that are there have a psychotic government that utterly ignores the will of their people, and can easily be imagined to be a threat to the rest of the world.

This justifies/compels us to eliminate them.

The really minus minus side is that, arguably, they could use the same reasoning about us...

55 posted on 06/10/2007 12:00:57 PM PDT by null and void (Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
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To: jim35
Where are you, Mr President?

One wonders.

56 posted on 06/10/2007 12:12:44 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: headsonpikes

It could be called “Sonova Beech”.

What Marion Barry said: “The beech set me up”.


57 posted on 06/10/2007 12:18:57 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: onedoug
Lately? I keep hearing him in my mind's ear saying: "Do I have a bottle in front of me, or a frontal lobotomy?"

*sigh* He was a very good president for a while.

58 posted on 06/10/2007 12:23:46 PM PDT by null and void (Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find its seeds were watered with American blood)
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To: FARS
These have been imported and cobbled together with Ukranian fissionable materials and North Korean technology.

FARS, this information interests me. The maintenance of the fissionable materials is very indepth and costly. Does Iran have the capabilities and infrastructure to maintain these warheads or would they pretty much be "dirty" nukes?

59 posted on 06/10/2007 12:32:21 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
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To: Fennie

When Iran strikes, Iran might well lose a region surrounding the Straits of Hormuz. They will lose the war, to the victor belong the spoils, and the victors will turn Hormuz into some kind of Gulf State emirate.


60 posted on 06/10/2007 1:21:56 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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