Posted on 06/15/2006 2:44:22 PM PDT by familyop
Iran's defense minister on Thursday vowed that his country would "use nuclear defense as a potential" if "threatened by any power."
Speaking following a meeting with his Syrian counterpart Hassan Ali Turkmani in Teheran on Thursday, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar emphasized that Iran "should be ready for confronting all kinds of threats."
Teheran has denied accusations by the US and its allies that Iran was seeking uranium enrichment technologies in order to develop nuclear weapons, saying its program was only meant to generate electricity.
Meanwhile, Turkmani told reporters that Syria and Iran's "policy is the policy of strengthening resistance and tackling the threats of United States and Israel."
He added that he wouldn't give details of joint defense plans against Israel, although the plans were "not secret."
Answering a question regarding a newly-developed Shahab 4 missile, Najjar said that research activities were underway. Iran would continue production of "different missiles and research," Najjar declared.
The most recent Iranian missile was the Shahab 3, and Iran recently claimed to have followed it up with the development of the Shahab 4.
Puff and bluster.
Remember, the leaders don't buy into the "72 virgins" crap. That's just pap to motivate their uneducated grunts.
They know that if Iran uses a nuke, the entire country -- as well as a large part of the rest of the ME -- will cease to exist overnight. Even they aren't that stupid.
/OK, that was the side of me that wants to believe they are remotely rational. Here's the truth:
Of course they will use nukes if they get them. They don't care about life in any way, shape, or form, theirs or ours. They just care about appeasing their Moon God. That's why we CANNOT let them get nukes. Period. Or hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocents WILL die in a nuclear holocaust.
BLITHERING IDIOTS IN TEHRAN...
Pinging... You might also want to see this post.
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