Posted on 09/22/2006 9:26:55 PM PDT by Flavius
TEHRAN, 23 September 2006 — Iran warned Western powers yesterday the armed forces would hit back “like lightning” against any attack as it crowed over its military prowess and showed off firepower at a major army parade.
Thousands of members of the armed forces and the whole panoply of Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal were on display at the parade, including the Shahab-3, a weapon whose range includes Israel. “We want peace but we warn the expansionists not to think of an aggression against Iran as we can defend the fatherland and Islam,” Vice President Parviz Davoodi warned.
“Our lions are so powerful that they can strike the enemy like lightning and destroy him,” he added.
The comments of Davoodi — standing in for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has yet to return from a visit to the United Nations in New York — come at a time of mounting tension over Tehran’s contested nuclear program.
“Are you not proud to see the Shahab-3, a missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles)?” boomed the commentator over the loudspeakers as two green Shahab-3s were driven past the parade ground on the back of a truck.
A succession of other missiles were also on display, including the short-range Fajr-5 and the medium-range Nazeat-6 and -10, Shahab-1 and -2, and Zelzal-2. Thousands of soldiers clutching their rifles marched past Davoodi and other dignitaries to the sound of martial music.
Meanwhile, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Iran would not halt uranium enrichment work, calling it an unacceptable precondition set by six world powers for talks over the country’s atomic activities.
“It (enrichment suspension) is a ridiculous precondition. It is unacceptable,” Rafsanjani told worshippers at Tehran University, broadcast live on state radio.
Ahmadinejad had said on Thursday that Iran was prepared to negotiate its uranium enrichment suspension “under fair and just conditions.” He gave no time frame for halting Iran’s most sensitive part of nuclear work.
In another development, several hundred demonstrators protested in Tehran yesterday against remarks by Pope Benedict XVI on Islam and violence, torching flags and urging the pontiff to make an emphatic apology for his comments.
Up to 300 demonstrators filed into Tehran’s revolution square, burning US, British and Israeli flags that had been bound into a single cloth and chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”
What did Iraq do when we stopped shipping repair parts for their F-15's circa 1979? How would they have a "lightning response" if they can't control the air?
If they wanna play with missiles, I bet ours work better....
:)
Unfortunately, lions don't make for very good ballistic missiles.
At least he was not dumb enough to threaten the "Mother of all Battles".
You mean they'll hit the ground while they explode?
amahdinehandjob, you fool, only one question. Remember when you spent all those years fighting iraq to a standstill in the '80's? the same iraqi army we went through like $hit through a christmas goose 3 years ago? what do you think has changed?
Hey Islamatard,
Come get some. You attack us and we'll reduced the number of people enslaved by your backwards death cult to zero.
- Big Guy and Rusty 99
P.S. I heard that mohamhead liked to give Cincinnati Juiceboxs. Is this true?
same nightmares
Iran needs $100+/barrel oil. The way to get that is to keep the speculators thinking that war is just over the horizon.
Follow the money....
In addition, the Iranian rulers keep in power by trotting out the bogeymen of Israel and America. When all else fails (and much does fail there), they just blame the Americans / Joooos / Zionists / Pope, etc and anyone who disagrees with them is stoned as apostate.
iraq and lebanon
with msm any victory is editor away
I suppose that may be relevant, after all, if they survive a war they won the war.
Holy Akbar! I better rethink our lunacy!
This is my plan; but W would disagree.
Don't they mean, "the Mother of all Responses?"
"“Our lions are so powerful that they can strike the enemy like lightning and destroy him!”
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