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.
Do not send boys, send toys. Couple megatons ought to be enough for tehran.
Time for Israel to ignore Damascus and hit Tehran. Time to call their bluff.
Doubtful, I don't even think NK has a deliverable nuke. But should they launch a nuclear missile over Iraq there would shortly be one less member of the axis of evil.
Something to consider. Israel kicked Syrias butt last time decisively, and they will do it again.
I don't think if I got my @ss whupped once from someone bigger than me I'd want to pick a fight again, unless I had a bigger shovel...
As far as I know, Syria may have WOD, but I doubt they know how to use them or do they have the guts to fight Israel with them.
The arabs are basically cowards who hide behind women's skirts. What would be the basis for them to fight?
Israel is defending her home land, these people have no reason to fight other than the usual adolescent male hormones that all Arab youth have, until they get the reality bite of losing a few hundred soldiers.
I don't think the Iranians will lift one finger for the Syrians. If things get ugly, you can be sure Bush will step in and tell the Iranians to back off or else.
If they do and this is some master plan on their part they've made a gross miscalculation, Israel will turn Iran and or Syria into glass.
Count on it.
I was thinking the same thing; in fact, I was talking to another FReeper about it earlier today. These people know how to talk. But then, we all know what happened to that blowhard, Saddam.
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That could be. They are the only regional state talking tough; they may be staking their claim as the real 'defenders of Islam' against the 'Zionist agressors', etc, etc. At least they are speaking out, (they can say), unlike the rest of the Arab states who are all expressing upset at Hezbollah and Hamas, and very restrained criticism of Israel..
But that would all be lost if they meet Israel in battle and are badly mauled, as I think they surely would be.
We shall see ...
So, should we take the direct route through Okinawa?
Makes sense
The first part remains to be seen, but I agree with your second point. That evil Mo monkey won't be happy until the whole world is on fire.
the attack marks the first time that a pack of mangy flee bitten dog herders has managed to get lucky enough to cause a military error. if you throw turds on the wall for hundreds of years you just might hit something someday. it will take a few more hundred years for subhumans to understand model airplane schematics.
Judging by the help Iran is currently giving Lebanon, if I were Syria, I would be worried.
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Yep. He's a defendent for mass murder now, as the judge delights in reminding him when he gets out of hand.
He says he's on another hunger strike, his first (and I wish last) trial is winding down and it resumes July 24.
That's life for the ol' "Butcher" now.
He must either have a nuke, he's nuts or maybe someone has told him that he's got some friends behind him....
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