Don't talk smack to a nation that has ALREADY built a decisive nuclear arsenal.
Posted on 09/16/2012 5:22:02 AM PDT by Libloather
Iran commander: 'Nothing will remain' of Israel if it takes military action
Published September 16, 2012
Associated Press
TEHRAN – The top commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that "nothing will remain" of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.
Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iran's response to any attack will begin near the Israeli border. The Islamic Republic has close ties with militants in Gaza and Lebanon, both of which border Israel.
Iran has in the past made reference to the destruction of Israel but his comments at a Tehran news conference were unusually strongly worded and detailed.
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Isn't this a golf day for Hussein?
One button take care of all of this. One bright flash ends it.
And it doesnt even take a big one to end it.
“He also said that Iran warned that oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz will be in jeopardy if a war breaks out between Iran and the United States.”
I’ve read that Iran has 30-70 thousand mines ready to deploy. There are two ways of disposing of mines. You can sweep for them or hunt for them. Both are slow and only give you some probability that you’ve destroyed the mines. In actuality, some will still be there. The only way to keep the straights open is to destroy the mines while they are still in their warehouses. I can’t see Obama authorizing such a bombing.
Incidentally, the Navy has moved virtually all of its mine sweeping and hunting capability to the area. But sweepers and hunters can only work if the Iranian side of the straight has been neutralized. Otherwise, the sweepers and hunters will be killed in short order.
If the straights are closed, sure the cost of gas will go up, but nobody here will starve. In the rest of the world starvation will be the norm. That, in my opinion, is why America has been keeping the lid on the middle east for the last 50 years.
He’s not exactly right - 1/6th of Iran (”Persia”) will remain. Israel will be fine. In fact Israel will have seven years of employment burying their dead enemies after the massacre.
They are good at the terrorist game but horrendous at the military one. As the worlds biggest state-sponsored terrorist govgernment I would almost welcome a conflict where I know they will get their terror sponsoring arse handed to them and be lucky to be alive after.
You are correct.
When the war actually comes to their land, surrogates will be of no value.
Wanna bet?
What makes you think, even if we do nothing in retaliation for your murderous act, that American Jews would not rally and go re-inhabit their land?
What makes you think that you can take US out as well to prevent that?
Every king that goeth to war must first count the cost ... you old camel humpin' fart.
The only thing good I ever got from oreilly is the word and concept of .. bloviate
Destroying all their mine laying ships would help too.
Yeah, yeah little buddy Iran commander... Remember your “buddy” Saddam Hussein and his guys? Yeah, those dead men? They said the same thing about what would happen if the USA took military action against them. Where are they now? Dead. And we are supposed to not laugh when you blotivate like this?
Bravado for sure. I’d suggest that Iran stock up on 50,000 SPF if they actually start some sh!t with Israel. They have been backed as far into a corner as one can get - they will not let it happen again.
You nailed it. We are about to see God in action as prophesied long ago. Sobering but exciting times to live in.
“Destroying all their mine laying ships would help too.”
For the most part, Iranians use fishing boats. Which ones of the many thousand would you hit? (Given the despotic nature of Islam, it would have to be all of them.) Rubber rafts would do the job too.
On the slightest provocation, we need to wipe out Iran’s strategic nuclear assets, as well as the bulk of its convention military assets, using a mix of cruise missiles, deep penetration aircraft, (off-shore) conventional forces, and covert agents. The idea is to do the deed all at once, before world opinion gets mobilized to stop it. The opposite idea is incrementalism. An example would be an attack on Kuwait, a “Major Non-NATO Ally,” which Iran has threatened. We don’t need no stinkin’ UN resolution to respond to an attack on an ally.
Too bad the so called moderate faction of the Iranian people won’t depose these insane leaders. You would think they would know the consequences.
The top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard
I gotta laugh. It took this powerful guard 10 years to fight Iraq too a draw.
The moderate West-leaning Iranians aren’t in the driver’s seat. Mohammed Fatso Jafari & his Revvie Guards call the shots. And they pray to a hole in the ground (look it up).
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