Tehran: If Iran Is Attacked, Nuclear Devices Will Go Off In American Cities

DEBKA ^ | April 13, 2010 | Special Report

[Fennie]

This warning, along with an announcement that Iran would join the world's nuclear club within a month, raised the pitch of Iranian anti-US rhetoric to a new high Tuesday, April 13, as 47 world leaders gathered in Washington for President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit.

The statement published by Kayhan said: "If the US strikes Iran with nuclear weapons, there are elements which will respond with nuclear blasts in the centers of America's main cities."

For the first time, DEBKAfile's military sources report, Tehran indicated the possibility of passing nuclear devices to terrorists capable of striking inside the United States.

[a fool in paradise]

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[Voter62vb]

Nice work, Obama. I’m so impressed with your “reset” on foreign relations.

Maybe you and Hilary need to check what you actually spelled out on the Iranian “reset” button, too.

[edcoil]

We need to issue a simple statement.

If America is attacked in anyway. Mecca will be removed from the planet earth.

enuf said.

[Quix]

Hmmm

[Quix]

DING DING DING DING!

WINNER OPTION!

[angcat]

Does Iran care about Mecca?

[stevie_d_64]

clever...;-)

[stevie_d_64]

December 2002...

The story of three chemical parcel tankers leaving Iraqi ports “hull down” before we jumped off of them...

They left for parts unknown, and no one ever followed up on the report...

Funny how that worked out...

[reagan_fanatic]

They wouldn’t dare. Iran would cease to function as a state if that ever happened.

[stevie_d_64]

“GIVE ME A NAME!!!”

“WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!!”

[stevie_d_64]

But at the end of the day it seems to work out for them...regardless...

[stevie_d_64]

You sure about that???

[edcoil]

100%

[Joya]

Ping.

[ExSoldier]

Manpads, so called suitcase nuclear bombs are quite real but they give a nominal yield of only about .2 KT. Small, tiny in terms of destruction. Of course the EMP might be significant to the region. On the plus side, while the manpads do exist (at least in our inventory) they do require a lot of maintenance and it's extremely doubtful that any secreted on US soil during the cold war would still be viable. How can I be so certain? My recently deceased father in law held a SC.D in nuclear physics. Never heard of an SC.D? Neither had I. But as I did the research for the eulogy, I discovered that it is actually an order of magnitude higher than a Ph.d. The Ph.d degree requires a certain number of hours in the humanities like philosophy, while the SC.D is pure science and this old guy was the top of the heap, having been the head honcho of a nuke plant during his time with a major power company before retirement. So when he spoke to me of nominal yield and maintenance I knew he knew what he was speaking of. I stopped worrying about those things a good many years ago. Which is not to say that a real device like a warhead might not have been smuggled across the Mexican border into our country by Iranian agents in pursuit of a future "SUM OF ALL FEARS" terrorist scenario!

[ExSoldier]

Why? Whats so wrong with Debka?

It's the public face of MOSSAD and when that spook shop wants to spread disinformation they use DEBKA.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Eleutheria5]

Well, there. He said he was joining the nuclear club only to deter attacks, so I guess it’s ok./s

[ExSoldier]

Does Iran care about Mecca?

If you're referring to their version of Dear Leader "Imanutjob" himself, I seriously doubt it. But certainly the reverent muslims in that country do care, a lot. Will they hold HIM responsible if we nuke it in response to an attack on our soil by Imanutjob? Unknown. It might just spawn a mega JIHAD. So maybe a slightly restrained strike would be better initially. Instead of Mecca hit Medina or one of the other holy sites. THEN threaten Mecca. OR better yet, strike Teheran directly. Cut the head from the snake. While we're at it, send one or more into the area where we feel OBL is hiding. We've given the warlords there ample opportunity to give him up.

[ExSoldier]

Spatnitz SPETSNAZ (sp) teams.

There, fixed it.