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Tehran Fears U.S. Attack [USS Eisenhower, Enterprise]
ADKNI ^ | 10/11/06 | freedom44

Posted on 10/11/2006 2:35:42 PM PDT by freedom44

Tehran, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has held an emergency meeting after reports that US nuclear powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower was moving towards the Persian Gulf. Khamenei met on Tuesday night with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and, the head of the Iranian army and the revolutionary guards corps Pasdaran, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, along with advisors to Khamenei.

During the talks, Iranian online daily Roozonline reports, participants discussed the possibility of a US military attack and the consequences of potential sanctions on Iran.

According to Roozonline, Khamenei stressed the need to present a united Iranian front to the international community.

The Eisenhower is expected to reach the Persian Gulf on 21 October while another US aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, will also be allegedly close to the Iranian coasts. The Enterprise was employed in 2001 by the United States to bomb Afghanistan after the September 11 terror attacks on the US.

According to Baztab, a website controlled by the Pasdaran, "the United States is gaining positions in the sea and countries close to Iran in case the Pentagon wants to launch an attack on the Islamic Republic."

According to Baztab, the US has already drafted a plan to attack Iranian nuclear plants and its military installations by sea and air.

US president has not ruled out the possibility of a military attack against Iran if it continues to pursue its nuclear programme which it fears is aimed at building nuclear weapons. Washington is currently pressing the Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its repeated refusal to halt sensitive nuclear work.

Baztab also said that "if the presence of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf turned into a real threat for the Islamic Republic then the region's oil pipeline would explode, as would mines in the Hormuz Strait (a key shipping route for oil) when oil tankers pass through so as to make the price of oil double or triple."

Iran is the world's fourth largest crude oil producer.


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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

One artillary shot is NOT going to take out a carrier, even if it were to set off some munitions. This aint the 60s.


101 posted on 10/11/2006 4:30:53 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Being a Liberal is just a coping mechanism for low self esteem and/or bad parenting.)
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To: freedom44

Damned straright they better be afraid. I'm ready to kick their butts every day!


102 posted on 10/11/2006 4:30:59 PM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
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To: Frank Sheed

Thanks Frank.

The Iranian government and Slim Kim (Ruh Roh) are partners in crime. No doubt.


103 posted on 10/11/2006 4:32:45 PM PDT by ARE SOLE
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To: US Navy guy

Sailor, understand this. This Airman wants you you know that you are entitled to your feelings. Don't forget this. You are one of the many reasons that the Stars and Stripes are still flying. Your time was not a waste. God Bless you Brother.


104 posted on 10/11/2006 4:33:26 PM PDT by JOE43270 (JOE43270, God Bless America and All Who Have and Will Defend Her.)
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To: Pukin Dog
One artillary shot is NOT going to take out a carrier, even if it were to set off some munitions. This aint the 60s.

What would a Rockeye do to a fully-loaded flight deck? Hundreds of bomblets plus dozens of airplanes equals bad things... The Hezzies were shooting DPICM.

105 posted on 10/11/2006 4:33:27 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: freedom44

Waste the m


!!! (My favorite line from "Rules of Engagement"


106 posted on 10/11/2006 4:34:45 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: El Gato

yep, nothing like seeing those Tomahawks, come erupting up out of empty sea is there? :)


107 posted on 10/11/2006 4:36:41 PM PDT by Bottom_Gun (Crush depth dummy - proud NRA member & Certified Instructor)
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To: Psychotronic Weapon
You don't hear about muslims taking to the streets freaking out about Iceland, Japan or Brazil do you

Yes you do. Well not Iceland or Japan. They are active in Brazil, or at least very nearby, in the so called "tri-border region" They have rioted in Denmark, against the Danes, and caused problems in Holland, Britain, France, Spain, need I go on?

As to why they are pissed off, I guess you could ask Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, if they were around to ask. They had problems with Muzzies in their day as well. The spirit under which they operated was, "Millions for Defense, but not one cent for Tribute". (Although they, like us, had tried tribute first).

With their surplus of young males, they seem to be perpetually PO'd. I guess from one point of view, one can understand that, but one would also wish they turn their anger to those hoarding the women, rather than those the hoarders would throw them against as so much cannon fodder.

108 posted on 10/11/2006 4:39:16 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: freedom44; All
Greetings fellow FReepers from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) where the internet is as sloooowwww as time itself.

Yep! We are somewhere in the Atlantic and steaming east. I'm not saying where exactly but it is nice and warm outside. And the food is pretty good as well!

My shipmates and myself are rested, sharp and focused and ready for work.

110 posted on 10/11/2006 4:41:31 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: freedom44

Khamenei...be afraid...be very afraid. A big chunk of the US Army may be busy, but the Navy and Air Force is free.


112 posted on 10/11/2006 4:43:02 PM PDT by Busywhiskers (Democrats delinda est.)
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To: Psychotronic Weapon
For your info, I'm pro military and I was a zealous advocate of wiping out all these Middle East clowns. But I realized, this ain't a cakewalk. Our marines aren't just walking in there and shooting these guys like a turkey shoot. No, it's freaking tricky, complicated long term combat.

So you support fighting only easy wars?

And we shouldn't trade with them either.

How much of your standard of living are you willing to forfeit to achieve that goal?

113 posted on 10/11/2006 4:44:24 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
Try "Multi-billion Dollar Carrier Put Out of Action by One Shot from Goat-Herding Hezbullah Freedom Fighter."

Very unlikely. Those things are designed to take hits from Soviet Cruise missiles with several hundred pound warheads. Worst case would be probably be knocking one of the catapults out of action. But they have four. So one is down for a bit. Some earlier, smaller carriers only had two.

Kind of like shooting a drugged up Hells Angel with a .22 derringer. You'd have to get darn lucky, else you'd get the ever living snot beaten out of you.

114 posted on 10/11/2006 4:44:25 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
Very unlikely. Those things are designed to take hits from Soviet Cruise missiles with several hundred pound warheads.

The airplanes aren't--and they apparently had a fully-loaded strike on deck.

115 posted on 10/11/2006 4:45:09 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: Drew68

Greetings from Jax!


117 posted on 10/11/2006 4:45:51 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: Psychotronic Weapon

Well I've worked with two Iranian men, and I assume they were muslims. One of them was great to work with in every way and a really fine gentleman. The other guy was very congenial but he had a problem with honesty and tended to not do what he told his co-workers he would do. I think the assimilation issue probably has more to do with education level and the extent to which muslims believe in western economic principles and values. These two men appeared to be well-assimilated into the US workforce, if not at a social level.


118 posted on 10/11/2006 4:45:56 PM PDT by defenderSD (The concept of national martyrdom, combined with nuclear weapons, is extremely dangerous.)
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To: freedom44

That's as it should be.


119 posted on 10/11/2006 4:46:50 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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