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Iran would 'use nuclear defense' if threatened
Associated Press by way of Jerusalem Post ^ | 15JUN06 | Associated Press

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.


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1 posted on 06/15/2006 2:44:23 PM PDT by familyop
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To: familyop

My Shih-Tzu could take out his Shahab 4 missile and all of the Imans all at the same time


2 posted on 06/15/2006 2:46:31 PM PDT by cmsgop ( DO NOT VOTE FOR PEDRO !!! He's a DEMOCRAT......)
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Sooo, your saying you have the bomb??? INCOMMING!


3 posted on 06/15/2006 2:48:11 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Somebody important make The Call.....pitchforks and lanterns.!)
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To: familyop
use nuclear defense

program was only meant to generate electricity

Which lie are they going with this week?

4 posted on 06/15/2006 2:48:47 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.)
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To: cmsgop
Iran Is Building Its Missile Force
NewsMax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595198/posts

Excerpt:
"The Shahab-4 is quite capable of carrying enough payload to deliver an atomic bomb onto Paris, London or Berlin."
5 posted on 06/15/2006 2:53:33 PM PDT by familyop ("Either you're with us, or your with the terrorists." --President Bush)
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But I thought they were just developing nuclear energy to generate electricity and that they were not trying to acquire nuclear weapons. They said so.


6 posted on 06/15/2006 2:53:50 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: familyop
Islamics may be barbarously evil but their big mouths always expose them for the cowards and blow-hards they are.

As the President would say..."nukular defense, when did that happen?"

7 posted on 06/15/2006 2:58:06 PM PDT by Dark Skies
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if "threatened by any power."

...hmmmm, could that be a bit of an overreaction for simply being threatened? NO ONE is listening to them anymore...they squawk so often... We should listen....

8 posted on 06/15/2006 2:58:48 PM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: familyop
If they want to test the concept of mutual assured destruction, then by all means.
9 posted on 06/15/2006 3:00:27 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Every person has a photographic memory... but some don't have their flash card installed.)
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To: familyop
Here's what troubles me:

Iran's defense minister on Thursday vowed that his country would "use nuclear defense as a potential" if "threatened by any power."

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."

It's right there, right THERE...Iran will use nuclear weapons against threats, and it considers Israel and the US a threat. How much clearer does it need to be? If the International community accepts this stance, then Iran could technically be justified in launching an attack at any point.

10 posted on 06/15/2006 3:01:58 PM PDT by The Blitherer ("These are not dark days, these are great days." – W. S. Churchill)
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To: familyop

Baghdad Bob's cousin strikes again!


11 posted on 06/15/2006 3:03:22 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (My head hurts.)
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To: samadams2000

Sooo, your saying you have the bomb???

Naaah, he's saying his Shih-tzu is da bomb!

Someone set us up the Shih-tzu?


12 posted on 06/15/2006 3:03:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: VRWCmember

We should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities right away, and keep on bombing until they are pounded into oblivion.


13 posted on 06/15/2006 3:04:20 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: familyop

With some clever sabotage one could provoke a large scale purge in iranian military R&D and security establishments.


14 posted on 06/15/2006 3:05:13 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: familyop

What nuclear defense? They claimed it was for electricity only! Did they lie?!?


15 posted on 06/15/2006 3:07:25 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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so did north korea

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

16 posted on 06/15/2006 3:12:05 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: familyop
This raving Islamist lunatic is going to get a whole lot of wonderful Persians killed -- if they don't get his ass and the Lunatic Clerics under control......

The civilized world can't afford to take the risk of permitting a first or second nuclear strike capability by raving lunatics who SEEK Armageddon and death....

If we are forced to strike - the strike will be devastating -- and WIDESPREAD...

Semper Fi
17 posted on 06/15/2006 3:12:26 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Ben Mugged
use nuclear defense
program was only meant to generate electricity
Which lie are they going with this week?


Are you sure John Kerry isn't handling their press releases?
18 posted on 06/15/2006 3:15:31 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
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To: familyop
Nuclear defense?

Is that Persian for "I'll nuke myself"?
19 posted on 06/15/2006 3:24:23 PM PDT by Pox
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To: river rat
If we are forced to strike - the strike will be devastating -- and WIDESPREAD...


20 posted on 06/15/2006 3:26:56 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Every person has a photographic memory... but some don't have their flash card installed.)
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