Posted on 02/08/2010 1:20:18 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
"The Iranian nation, with its unity and God's grace, will punch the arrogance (Western powers) on the 22nd of Bahman (February 11) in a way that will leave them stunned," Khamenei, who is also Iran's commander-in-chief, told a gathering of air force personnel.
The country's top cleric was marking the occasion when Iran's air force gave its support to revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a key event which led to the toppling of the US-backed shah on February 11, 1979.
His comments came as Iran said it would begin to produce higher enriched uranium from Tuesday, in defiance of Western powers trying to ensure the country's nuclear drive is peaceful.
This year's anniversary is expected to become a flashpoint between security forces and supporters of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who charge that the June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rigged.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
One can only hope that Obama and Holder stand ready to read Iran its national Miranda rights!;-)
With this clown’s track record, something big is going to blow-up on the launching pad.....
They will announce they have nukes!
We don’t need PUNCH.
We have Obama’s KOOL-AID!
Thank goodness the military option is off the table... I feel so safe.
Sorry bout that...I did a title scan and came up empty handed!
Will it be a 2/11/2010 ??
The only thing that I can think of that would ‘stun’ the world, at least the majority who can’t seem to rub three brain cells together, would be a mushroom cloud over some Iranian test site announcing their working nukes.
Making snow/trouble for the Olympics?
BTW, those posts (from Breitbart) each had changed the title slightly. That’s why its so important to cut and past the title exactly.
I'm not sure what else besides either a test detonation of a nuclear weapon, or a testing of a long-range ICBM could stun the international community.
This is the second time they’ve made the threat. I suspect that the threat itself is the punch. They are all about “scaring” people with as little actual punch as possible. It is their way. It is the way of Islam.
>>Carter was outwitted and ridiculed by Iran every tme.<<
And yet Carter was smarter than o. This could be o’s undoing.
“I’m not sure what else besides either a test detonation of a nuclear weapon, or a testing of a long-range ICBM could stun the international community.”
An ICBM would have to be sitting on a launch pad by now in order to launch by the 11th, so that’s doubtful. Some kind of nuke test seems most likely.
Possible disruptions in the Straits of Hormuz?
“Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a “punch” that will stun world powers “
Is Ismellasogamey planning on bathing on the 11th?
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