Posted on 07/16/2006 10:22:00 AM PDT by NYer
Iran warned its arch-enemy Israel of "unimaginable losses" if it attacks Syria and vowed that it was standing by the Syrian people.
"We hope the Zionist regime does not make the mistake of attacking Syria, because extending the front would definitely make the Zionist regime face unimaginable losses," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
"Iran is standing by the Syrian people," he said of the Islamic republic's sole regional ally.
"We have offered and will offer Syria and Lebanon spiritual and humanitarian support," Asefi insisted, reiterating Iran's denial that it is providing military and financial assistance to the Hezbollah movement.
The Israeli army has said Hezbollah militants had used an Iranian-built radar-guided anti-ship missile in an attack on Friday on an Israeli warship off Lebanon's coast.
The attack marked the Lebanese militia's first successful strike on an Israeli warship, dealing an unprecedented blow to the Jewish state's military. One Israeli sailor was killed and three more were missing, feared dead.
An Israeli military intelligence official has also alleged that around 100 members of Iran's powerful ideological army the elite Revolutionary Guards were in Lebanon, acting as military advisors to Hezbollah.
Iran is a major backer of Hezbollah, but regularly insists that it only gives "moral support" to the Shiite movement.
"We have no Guards there. It is not true that we have sent missiles. Hezbollah is capable enough. The Zionist regime is under pressure," Asefi said, repeating Iran's denial of any connection to the attack.
He also hit out at the United States after President George W. Bush said Israel had "every right to defend itself".
"The United States has had a destructive role by vetoing resolutions and hence encouraging the Israeli crimes," Asefi said, referring to Washington's use of its veto in the UN Security Council Thursday to block a resolution calling for a halt to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
"The United States should reconsider its policies and correct its wrong attitude of supporting the Zionist regime."
On Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boasted that Israel was not powerful enough to take on Iran and also warned against an attack against Syria.
"Thanks be to God, despite its criminal and savage nature, the Zionist regime and its supporters in the West do not have the power to look in the same way towards Iran," the fiercely anti-Israeli president said.
"If Israel commits another act of idiocy and aggresses Syria, this will be the same as an aggression against the entire Islamic world and it will receive a stinging response," Ahmadinejad said in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad.
The hardline president, who has calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or moved as far away as Alaska, has also compared Israel's military strikes on Gaza and Lebanon to tactics used by Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler.
"Their methods resemble Hitler's. When Hitler wanted to launch an attack, he came up with a pretext," Ahmadinejad said Saturday.
"Zionists say they are Hitler's victims, but they have the same nature as Hitler," said Ahmadinejad, who has previously described the Holocaust of six million Jews in wartime Europe as "a myth."
"We have two solutions for the crisis. One of them, which is a logical one, is that as you (Western nations) who imposed this regime by fabricating stories, you put an end to it and take it with you," he said.
Ahmadinejad's second solution was to have a referendum in which only the "true Palestinians," decide their fate.
Don't bother with Syria, just hit Iran with all you got!
Well we could reposition some our troops to another country in the region say Syria.
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I am telling you that Iran already has nukes staged to hit Israel. They are baiting...this is not an accidental war.
This Ahmeanenedidijjjiniinieid guy has already threaten and promised to wipe Israel off the map.
So what difference does it make who Israel fights?
All fights are for their life.
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"If Iran had the power to inflict "unimaginable losses" on Israel, they would just do it; everyone in the game knows that.
You'd think the Iranians would realize that to everyone who counts, all this brave talk is really a confession of weakness."
Wrong. Iran is going to have even more leverage among the Arab Nations. They will have been given reason (their own reasons) to attack in self-defense. Iran will use this as an opportunity. I believe it is all staged.
He talking about the Koran here?
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No, it would be a good thing to topple the Syrian government.
It appears that Iran is baiting and hoping IDF will attack Syria because they want an excuse to get boldly into a war with Israel. Maybe this should be so. Then Iran will know what is real and what is fake. Israel can take them to task and stomp on them a little. Iran obviously doesn't know what the fear of God is but they will if Israel gets them into her sights.
The democrats want us out of Iraq so they might be happy. Besides, we can get the military to do what they do best which is killing the bad guys instead of nation building.
Indeed I can't rule out the possibility. But on the face, it seems the escalation begun by the attack on Israel were orchestrated to deflect attention from Iran.
The idea the attacks came on the same day as Iran's date for a response does not appear accidental.
I keep thinking the same. I trust international inspectors opinions like I trust a rattle snake. Not in the least.
Iran fought a stalemate war with Iraq for nearly a decade, the US defeated Iraq in a fraction of that time. Why would he pick a fight if his conventional forces are so weak???
Yes, and everyone knows this hasn't happened yet....
Iran has already promised to wipe Israel off the map. They have promised to nuke Israel, several times, the threat has been made not only by Ahmadinejad but also by others, which means that it makes no difference if Israel goes into Syria. Iran is coming for them.
Israel has to decide if they are better off, when Iran comes for them, for the Assad regime to still be in place, or if their chances for survival would be improved if Assad were removed.
Ezekiel 38: (NIV)
14 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it? 15 You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. 16 You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, O Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.
17 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you not the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel? At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. 18 This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign LORD. 19 In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. 20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground. 21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign LORD. Every man's sword will be against his brother. 22 I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. 23 And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'
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