Iran Prepares Suicide Boats
Filed under: Iran Watch by Chad at 6:06 am CST
The Sunday Telegraph reports Iran has built an underground emergency command center in case the nuclear talks completely fall out and there is an attack to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The bunker connects many governmental offices and is located near the Mossala prayer ground, a very common tactic of Iran to build nuclear and military sites near religious landmarks.
This bunker is clearly because the Iranian regime believes they will be attacked, and sadly that may be the only option considering Iran has walked away from the negotiation table numerous times. How would Iran defend itself from attack? One way, reports the Sunday Telegraph, is through the use of small and fast suicide boats.
The regime is also reviewing its contingency plans to attack tankers and American naval forces in the Persian Gulf and to mine the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 15 million barrels of oil (about 20 per cent of world production) passes each day. Any action in the Gulf would send oil prices soaring - a weapon that Iran has often threatened to wield.
The naval wing of the Revolutionary Guard has in recent years practised “swarming” raids, using its flotilla of small rapid-attack boats to simulate assaults on commercial vessels and United States warships, according to Ken Timmerman, an American expert on Iran.
Only in Iran would a military actively plan suicide boats as part of a naval battery.
“The price to the West for standing up to Iran is clear,” Gen Moshe Ya’alon, the former Israeli defence chief said last month in Washington. “It includes terror attacks, economic hardship… and consequences resulting from fluctuations in Iranian oil production. Indeed, the regime believes that the West - including Israel - is afraid to deal with it.”
Very true, but what would the price be with a nuclear Iran? I do not envy for one moment the people who have to make these decisions.
Hah! An underground bunker? The USA is vacating their nuclear bunker in Colorado because it is only 2600 feet deep. Got to do better than that.