Posted on 11/01/2005 1:20:10 PM PST by EternalHope
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran has warned that it plans to intervene in the Middle East, including in the affairs of such neighbors as Afghanistan and Iraq.
In the first such high-level assertion, a leading Islamic military commander has placed the United States on notice that Iran reserves the right to intervene in the Middle East, Gulf and Central Asia. The commander said Iran would also seek to control events across the border in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Iran is in the center of three strategic and sensitive regions -- the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus ," Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said. "The Islamic republic, for this reason, can play a decisive role in regional political, economic, cultural and security arrangements."
Safavi outlined Iran's sphere of influence in an address designed to challenge U.S. policy. The IRGC commander said the United States must recognize Iran 's dominant role in the Gulf and warned that it would not be ignored in major regional developments.
This is serious folks.
Bring. It. On.
Track back to read responses later.
Blow up the nuke plants now. Then threaten the oil fields. While making that threat, take out all their air and naval stations.
That should shut them up for about 20 years.
I keep reading how we don't have the ability to truly invade and conquer Iran. I hope that's not true. IMHO we should be debating taking out the Syrian and Iranian regimes. The Middle East will not really have a front line antagonist after that. Is this a war we're in or a UN parlor game already? If it's a war, let's take out the enemies.
Very serious. I'd almost say this is a warning.
Does anyone here know someone who is working on the burrowing bomb? I think I have a solution to the 'Roman Candle' problem...
The following article in today's Middle East Newsline discusses this:
U.S. DISCUSSES INVASION OF SAUDI ARABIA
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has raised the prospect of a military invasion of Saudi Arabia.
The response could include the deployment of three U.S. Army divisions backed by fighter-jets and airborne early-warning and alert aircraft. In all, the U.S.-led mission could include up to 300,000 troops.
The House Armed Services Committee was briefed on the prospect of a Saudi coup and U.S. response during a hearing on Oct. 26. The scenario was outlined by Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, who cited a Saudi coup as one of several threats to the United States.
"How should the United States respond if a coup, presumably fundamentalist in nature, overthrows the royal family in Saudi Arabia?" O'Hanlon asked. "Such a result would raise the specter of major disruption to the oil economy."
Perhaps.
To destroy the hive, kill the queen.
I hope Isreal takes the cue and knocks out the next soon-to-be-reactor (and soon-to-be-pile of concrete blocks)
And we thoguht this was going to be a slow news day.
good to see the new president is a uniter and not a divider.
I just saw on Fox News last weekend that we cancelled the program.
Their rhetoric increases everyday..... this is going to get ugly.
Why doesn't he just say what he really believes, that the Iran is the center of the world. That's the sort of grandiose insanity Islam teaches it's brain-dead adherents.
In the meantime- not to diminish the seriousness of this- IRAN has been meddling in "regional" issues for over 25 YEARS.
....BOMB THEM AND GET IT OVER WITH!
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