Posted on 03/26/2007 5:29:47 AM PDT by Flavius
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards warned the United States against attacking the Islamic Republic, a news agency reported on Monday, two days after the United Nations imposed new sanctions on Iran.
International tension over Iran's disputed nuclear programme has risen further in recent days, sending oil and gold prices higher. The West suspects Iran is seeking to make atom bombs, a charge Tehran denies.
Iran said on Sunday it would limit cooperation with the UN's nuclear watchdog and vowed not to halt its atomic plans "even for one second" after the UN Security Council voted to impose new arms and financial sanctions on Tehran.
The United States, leading efforts to isolate Iran over its nuclear ambitions, has said it prefers a diplomatic solution to the crisis but has not ruled out military options.
"If America starts a war against Iran, it won't be the one who finishes it," Morteza Saffari, naval forces commander of the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
"Our people will not even allow one American soldier to enter our country," he said in the southwestern city of Shoush.
The Revolutionary Guards is the ideologically-driven wing of Iran's armed forces, with a separate command structure from that of the regular military.
Naval Guards units on Friday seized 15 British navy personnel in the Gulf, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
Iran Rejects UN Demands
Iran has said it was considering charging the sailors and marines, captured in the Shatt al-Arab waterway marking the southern stretch of its border with Iraq, for entering Iranian waters. Britain says they were detained inside Iraqi territory.
A British diplomat in Tehran said on Monday Britain had requested another meeting between its ambassador, Geoffrey Adams, and Foreign Ministry officials to press for the group's release as well as access to them.
"We are hoping for more contact today with them (Iranian officials)," the diplomat said.
A day after the Britons' detention, the UN Security Council approved the sanctions for Tehran's refusal to suspend its nuclear programme, but major powers offered new talks and renewed an economic and technological incentive package offer.
The resolution goes beyond the nuclear sphere by banning Iranian arms exports and freezing financial assets abroad of 28 individuals and entities, including state-owned Bank Sepah and the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards.
The sanctions will stay in place until Iran halts the enrichment of uranium and the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, which can be used to make a bomb or to generate power. Iran has 60 days to comply or face possible new sanctions.
"Iran will not stop its peaceful and legal nuclear trend even for one second because of such an illegal resolution," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on his Web site www.president.ir on Sunday.
It is past time for a nuclear "accident" (with plausible deniability) at Iran's main nuclear weapons facility.
as US used to say, "get it over and did with"...
Curtis LeMay had a good thought about the Stone Age.
Sorry, but it won't get any better.
Old Robin Williams routine:
"This is a 'Line of Death.' You cross it, you die."
"This is another 'Line of Death.' Cross it, you die."
"Here's another Line of Death."
"And another Line of Death."
"All right, that's it, you come a-knocking on my door, I'm not coming out. Nyaah!"
Democrats promise dialog.
Not at this point,
there are some British Troops touring the nuclear facilities,
at the request of the Iranian President.
Destroy and forget, plus give them something to spend all those billions of oil profits on...
I'd love to see what Maggie Thatcher would do in this case.
Muslims tend to feign strength when they are weak.
The younger half of the Iranian population is rather pro-political-choice... but few people ever welcome foreign armies.
Sadly, if we could just wait 30 years, this problem would take care of itself (the old guard dies off, the younger generation begins taking over every leadership position by popular demand)...
but the ruling Mullahs see this too, and that's what's driving their desperation right now.
Iran is already involved in the mess of Iraq. That what makes me think there is no difference rather we strike them or not. In other words, it is much more better to destroy their bases and make them economically unstabled to drain the money currently going to the terrorists in Iraq, and to destroy their terrorist training camps. They have been involved in Iraq enough.
"Our blustering bull**** will blot out the sun!"
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