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.
One artillary shot is NOT going to take out a carrier, even if it were to set off some munitions. This aint the 60s.
Damned straright they better be afraid. I'm ready to kick their butts every day!
Thanks Frank.
The Iranian government and Slim Kim (Ruh Roh) are partners in crime. No doubt.
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.
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.
Waste the m
yep, nothing like seeing those Tomahawks, come erupting up out of empty sea is there? :)
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.
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.
Khamenei...be afraid...be very afraid. A big chunk of the US Army may be busy, but the Navy and Air Force is free.
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?
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.
The airplanes aren't--and they apparently had a fully-loaded strike on deck.
Greetings from Jax!
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.
That's as it should be.
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