Posted on 01/24/2006 5:58:58 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Last update - 09:26 24/01/2006
Iranian official: UN sanctions may lead us to seal off Persian Gulf
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent
A senior Iranian official threatened that Tehran may forcibly prevent oil export via the Straits of Hormuz if the UN imposed economic sanctions due to Iran's nuclear program, an Iranian news Web site said on Monday.
This is the first time an Iranian official makes military threats in a public statement on Tehran's recent disagreements with the West.
The news site, affiliated with the radical student movement in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was once a member, quoted Mohammed-Nabi Rudaki, deputy chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
[The Iranians need to pre-emptively seal the Persian Gulf. They need to cut oil supplies to the West for purely strategic reasons.]
Sorry, you guys are right. Yes, the Iranians need to do this right away. The Russians will back them.
[That and double my payments to my favorite U.S. Senators and media allies.]
I've decided not to give the Iranian regime any good ideas via my postings. They may be reading FR.
Nice map by the way! Can someone post more maps of Iran with terrain markings?
Has anyone stopped to wonder how those other producers might react to their neighbor's advertising a plan to cut off their source of income?
We'd need to destroy more than 10%.
Here is a map of some likely Iranian nuke sites to target:
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/images/npp/iran.jpg
An excellent map of the Straight of Hormuz, showing shipping lanes and water depth:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_strait_of_hormuz_2004.jpg
They followed the money path blazed by the Chinese decades ago. There are no ideas in my posts that they aren't already doing. I would hope that maybe someone on our side might learn something.
Their light infantry (Hezbollah) has been smuggling cigarettes and insurgents in America for quite a while now.
They've been raising millions and people swapping for years. The first one comes in legally and legitamately and is replaced a few years later by an agent who assumes his identity.
The alliance with Russia and China isn't new, either.
LOL!
That's funny!
How long would it take to establish a Mediterranean beach head where Syria was?
I say to Iran..."Go ahead punk...Make my day!"
With all due respect, you sound like you've gotten your view about conducting military operations in the Arabian Gulf from Hollywood.
I speak as someone who sat many a watch in CENTCOM during the 1980's while the world's oil tankers were steaming slowly through the Gulf under US military escort.... someone who remembers the result of Libya dropping a few mines in the Suez canal...and someone who was involved in DESERT STORM planning, execution, and BDA. Up close and personal.
I have "kinda" been through the pol-mil side and the military operations side .... of Gulf war. Your statements are laughable.
But you could write a good episode of "The West Wing" and let Hollywood defeat the conniving right wing Iranian fundamentalists in a one hour episode. So hurry.
"DU". Indeed.
Actually, no.
Tomahawk missile lauch from a submarine:
But the situation isn't.
"But the situation isn't."
No. It's not. But the map sure is.
I wondered that, too. Kuwait, Saudi, the UAE...they may have some strong opinions about this.
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