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Iran ready to give U.S. 'slap in the face': commander
Reuters ^ | February 22, 2017 | Reuters

Posted on 02/22/2017 6:26:50 AM PST by monkapotamus

The United States should expect a "strong slap in the face" if it underestimates Iran's defensive capabilities, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday, as Tehran concluded war games.

Since taking office last month, U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to get tough with Iran, warning the Islamic Republic after its ballistic missile test on Jan. 29 that it was playing with fire and all U.S. options were on the table.

"The enemy should not be mistaken in its assessments, and it will receive a strong slap in the face if it does make such a mistake," said General Mohammad Pakpour, head of the Guards’ ground forces, quoted by the Guards' website Sepahnews...

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1 posted on 02/22/2017 6:26:50 AM PST by monkapotamus
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<snort>
2 posted on 02/22/2017 6:29:24 AM PST by tomkat
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To: monkapotamus

Iran has been giving the US slaps in the face for the past 8 years. The difference now is that we will finally start punching back again rather than crying and taking it.


3 posted on 02/22/2017 6:29:29 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: monkapotamus

Damn....I sure hope Trump give them a dusting....turn the whole place in glass.


4 posted on 02/22/2017 6:29:48 AM PST by mastertex
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To: monkapotamus

Paging Bagdad Bob.....


5 posted on 02/22/2017 6:30:16 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
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To: monkapotamus

Iran is about the size of Alaska.


6 posted on 02/22/2017 6:30:27 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: monkapotamus

You slap the wrong person in the face and you better be ready to get to punched in the face for it.


7 posted on 02/22/2017 6:34:06 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: monkapotamus

Slap our face and we’ll kick your ass.


8 posted on 02/22/2017 6:34:18 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: monkapotamus

I say we respond to any slap in the face with a solid kick to the nuts followed by a double tap to the head.


9 posted on 02/22/2017 6:34:57 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: monkapotamus
It is time for the US to do some slapping back.


10 posted on 02/22/2017 6:35:13 AM PST by kabar
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To: monkapotamus

Will they do it with a pair of gloves? Will they challenge us to a duel?

Trump probably will not respond the way the old muslim president would have.


11 posted on 02/22/2017 6:35:22 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: monkapotamus

The reality is that the Iranians just can’t stand being ignored. Most Americans could not care less what happens to their bizarre, medieval, non sustainable theocracy. Let them stew with the Russians to their North, the Chinese to their East and the Sunnis to their West. If they actually were so stupid to try something nuclear, they would be incinerated and not by the US. Goodbye and good luck fools.


12 posted on 02/22/2017 6:35:42 AM PST by allendale
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To: mastertex

Start with pest control. Take out their annoying fleet of mosquito boats, every last one.

Then an EMP pop over Teheran to deprive the mullahs of their command & control, which will throw Iran into chaos.


13 posted on 02/22/2017 6:38:56 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: All

Said the fly to the spider.


14 posted on 02/22/2017 6:40:00 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

We should capture some of THEIR sailors, like they did ours.


15 posted on 02/22/2017 6:41:31 AM PST by Starboard
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To: monkapotamus

They don’t seem to understand that we’ll bring BIG GUNS to their palm-fight.


16 posted on 02/22/2017 6:42:00 AM PST by ALASKA (Landslide.........)
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Time to dust off the bunker buster MOABs and warm up the engines on the B-2s.

Then get ready to arrest the Obama Admin alums who spent 8 years looking the other way as Iran built up it's sleeper cell network in the US.

17 posted on 02/22/2017 6:42:53 AM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ...)
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To: monkapotamus

Iran keeps rattling the saber but no one is paying attention to them.


18 posted on 02/22/2017 6:43:19 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: monkapotamus

It appears that Iran underestimates the US’s offensive capabilities.


19 posted on 02/22/2017 6:45:08 AM PST by D Rider
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To: AppyPappy

They’re following NK’s “look at me” program.


20 posted on 02/22/2017 6:45:20 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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