Tehran Fears U.S. Attack [USS Eisenhower, Enterprise]

ADKNI ^ | 10/11/06 | freedom44

[freedom44]

Tehran, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has held an emergency meeting after reports that US nuclear powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower was moving towards the Persian Gulf. Khamenei met on Tuesday night with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and, the head of the Iranian army and the revolutionary guards corps Pasdaran, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, along with advisors to Khamenei.

During the talks, Iranian online daily Roozonline reports, participants discussed the possibility of a US military attack and the consequences of potential sanctions on Iran.

According to Roozonline, Khamenei stressed the need to present a united Iranian front to the international community.

The Eisenhower is expected to reach the Persian Gulf on 21 October while another US aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, will also be allegedly close to the Iranian coasts. The Enterprise was employed in 2001 by the United States to bomb Afghanistan after the September 11 terror attacks on the US.

According to Baztab, a website controlled by the Pasdaran, "the United States is gaining positions in the sea and countries close to Iran in case the Pentagon wants to launch an attack on the Islamic Republic."

According to Baztab, the US has already drafted a plan to attack Iranian nuclear plants and its military installations by sea and air.

US president has not ruled out the possibility of a military attack against Iran if it continues to pursue its nuclear programme which it fears is aimed at building nuclear weapons. Washington is currently pressing the Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its repeated refusal to halt sensitive nuclear work.

Baztab also said that "if the presence of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf turned into a real threat for the Islamic Republic then the region's oil pipeline would explode, as would mines in the Hormuz Strait (a key shipping route for oil) when oil tankers pass through so as to make the price of oil double or triple."

Iran is the world's fourth largest crude oil producer.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You know how when you take a test in school they say never pick answers that involve "Always" and "Never"? It's true with most things, including stmts against races, religions, etc. I do't doubt there are many good Muslims in the world and here in America. It just takes a handful of people to mess things up.

[El Gato]

Oil.

Oil is the reason we haven't just blown the place all to hell and gone.

There other reasons to be concerned with the region. For one, it's the birthplace of our two major religions (in terms of numbers of adherents).

It's also the hatching place of a third religion, may of whose adherents seem to want to dominate the world. Oil is their lever to do that. Without the oil, they'd just be a bunch of goat herders following the rantings of a pedophilic warlord.

[chesty_puller]

Worried about a couple of boats. What a wuss.

[El Gato]

Well Drew, thanks for your service and that of your shipmates.

From your homepage... Oh yeah, I also dig Ukrainian chicks named "Tatyana"!.

Good taste! My brother in law is married to a gal from Kirgistan, whose parents were from the Ukraine. Her daughter from preivous marriage is Tatyana, although she's most often Tanya, or Tanish. Her mother is a good looking gal, who makes a mean birthday cake (well sort of a cake, but good), gives a good haircut, can dissassemble and reassemble an AK, blindfolded, and who's now a pretty darn good shot with a "cowboy" type pistol and more so with her very own .243 bolt action. :)

[Bottom_Gun]

I have a few friends out escorting you guys, it's good to know you all are cocked, locked and ready to rock if need be

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

Greetings from Texas! God bless you guys! Give 'em hell if you have to!

[El Gato]

Sure, supply Israel with tech, aid, and weapons when appropriate but otherwise, leave it at that.

That alone would ensure that they would continue to consider us the Great Satan, and continue coming after us.

[Brad from Tennessee]

"if the presence of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf turned into a real threat for the Islamic Republic then the region's oil pipeline would explode. . ."

As crazy as these people pretend to be they are not going to destroy their main source of income--oil. To do so would end the regime and power of these flea-bitten pig-f*ckers.

[alarm rider]

How many times can you say "not a cakewalk", actually, I think we understand your position.

The problem is that with silly rules of engagement, PC and weak leftist cowards with no stomach for anything except "Kumbaya", we cannot do what should be done.

If the time comes when we are suffering attacks, then all rules are nil, all leaves are cancelled and the doo-doo will hit the fan big time.

What you do not seem to get is that war is a nasty business, always has been and always will be- it gets nastier when your back is up against the wall because you did not do what sheould have been done when you had the chance-see; Europe, 1934-39.

If you want to argue that every tin-pot twit who faces East five times a day can have a nuke because we do, then you need to reconsider your position, get a clue and do a reality check on your opinion of being an American. Cakewalk that.

[El Gato]

Then either don't do it, or keep it in the dark, or on a very limited basis.

Hmpf. You would abandon those you'd at first said you would support, as soon as you thought it might cost you something? I'm reminded of this statement by Samuel Adams:

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

[SevenofNine]

Is kinda wrong thinking to send Red shirts on Enteprise to Iran

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I would bet they are already laying off the coast of N.K. right now.

[bill1952]

During WWII, thousands of bombs might be dropped on a target before it could be considered damaged or destroyed

Again, I couldn't agree more.

Nor could dad. - On the mission where he was forced to crash land behind enemy territory, he and 20 other B17 heavy bombers hit a single target, the coke plant at Nuenkirken on November 04, 1944.

As per later analysis, that plant was not put out of action.

Actually, the mission is still somewhat of a mystery, as the official records do not jive, or are destroyed. - I have been to Ghent, Belgium, and also to England to gather such evidence as I could.

Part of the saga is told by me here - and this is a site well worth visiting for those inclined to study the history of U.S. air power in WWII.

He survived, and he was a pretty well decorated airman;

Distinguished Unit Citation w/1 Oak Leaf Cluster
Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal w/4 OLC
American Defense Medal and a Europe/Africa/Middle East Campaign Medal w/ 4 Campaign stars and a WWII Victory Medal.

Not too bad for a young kid from Pa.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

We can drill for oil here in the US!

At a significantly higher cost per barrel. How much of your standard of living are you willing to forfeit to achieve that goal?

[bill1952]

If we let Iran build a couple of nuclear weapons, some crazed ayatollah might decide to sneak one into Washington and destroy most of our federal government

Nah, not these guys. - In The Holy City of Qom.

Hell, let them have nukes...