Posted on 05/23/2008 9:03:43 AM PDT by Perdogg
As Barack Obama and John McCain thrash it out over how they would deal with Iran, voices from inside Iran are weighing in with an unusual message: If the United States strikes hard and fast, we will support you.
Emissaries from inside Iran have been meeting with Iranian exiles in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in recent weeks to deliver this provocative message, which they claim comes from pro-U.S. dissidents at the upper-most levels of the regime.
“U.S. airstrikes must be powerful and sustained enough to break the myth of the regime’s absolute power and reveal the weakness of the leadership,” a former official who traveled outside of Iran recently said.
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I wouldn’t want to disappoint them.
Way past due.
Geez, who actually believes Iran has "absolute power"? Whomever it is I wish they'd send me some of whatever they're smokin'
How about a nice little nuke at their enrichment facility?
It would accomplish so much.
1) We haven’t nuked anyone since 1945. None of our enemies belivee that we ever will, so it isn’t a threat. Dropping a tiny nuke will change that attitude.
2) Europe and every socialist, marxist, communist or islamic nation out there will condemn us. So what. They hate us anyway and the incident will be forgotten in two years.
3) Anyone considering giving us problems will reconsider for fear of offending us.
4) Mr. Bush is a lame duck. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain for our country.
I’m currently at a base that was bombed heavily by the US in both Gulf Wars. I don’t think they really mean that.
One more; maybe we could get ourselves kicked out of the UN or is that just asking for too much?
> One more; maybe we could get ourselves kicked out of the UN or is that just asking for too much?
Getting ourselves kicked out of the UN has always been my life long dream.
Carolyn
Ken usually backs his stuff up.
He is talking about mullah regime’s absolute power over their subjects.
So far the regime was successful to show it is in control against any opposition, by big margin. Demolishing all centers of power and military installations is doable without massive collateral damages - i.e. keeping the populace that wants the regime change on our side.
His Imperial Highness Reza Pahlavi has issued a strong declaration (too early to have an English translation) addressed to Iran’s Ali Khamenei (current Supreme Ruler) stating that Khamenei and his Mullahs are going to be responsible for anything bad that happens to the people of Iran.
This is the most strongly worded condemnation and criticism of the Mullah Regime he has so given specially in recent times and also insists that all responsibility for Islamic Iran’s misery can only be blamed on the Mullahs themselves and not on any foreign countries or forces.
The implication of his attack on the Mullahs is not a matter of venting but a warning that something is about to happen. Something for which the monarchy wants to have no blame aimed at it.
At the same time a nationwide “unofficial” martial law has been declared inside Islamic Iran.
The Mullahs have declared that the Bassiji Suppression forces will be conducting 24/7 patrols in every city inside Islamic Iran. Curfews have not been officially announced but can you imagine if every time you are out in the streets at night one of the ruthless Bassiji patrols stops and questions you, how quickly your desire to be out and about will disappear?
Meanwhile the Mullahs are using their Dhimmis in the Media to try to find out when, what, where, and how the USA or Western coalition will atack to stop them building nuclear weapons.
Chinese earthquakes, Burmese Typhoons and floods, Californian Fires, South African Immigration riots, increasingly larger food shortages around the world, USA elections and high oil/gas prices have knocked Middle East news, including successes in Iraq off the front pages but not from under the surface of the Roiling Waters.
BTW, Hezbollah and Jihadists are using FOOD as leverage to recruit and win followers. Did you ever think that so simple a thing would float to the top? We give away shiploads of food as aid for free. They then distribute it as a grace and favor perk to their followers and their families through mosques and political office locations.
Willl we ever wake up to reality and deal with it?
http://farsiposts.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html
I doubt we will wake up soon enough, by the time anyone reacts, it will be too late. That is my fear.
Here’s hoping there’s something to all this. It’s just ridiculous that our president (and it always comes down to leadership) has to ritualistically work up his courage to drop the hammer.
Having said all that. I still think the most clever approach is to avoid the heavily-defended nuke sites initially.
Cut off the head first. A surprise daylight raid with B1’s, tactical and carrier aircraft and Tomahawks on the regime’s various nerve centers, catching them in their offices, is the way to go. Wax the IRGC, the Quds force, the Ayatollahs, the Bonyads and leave the regular military conspicuously untouched. Send in the B2’s after sundown to apply the finishing touches (presumably after receiving onsite reports from informants in place) of any attempts by the regime to regroup). Step back and let the chips fall where they may, perhaps offering helpful advice and bringing in people as needed.
The centrifuges at Natanz will not be going anywhere and (pipe dream here) I’d love to see all that nuke talent preserved and put to constructive use building 4th gen pebble-bed reactors for the third world...
Oh, and make it a joint operation with the IAF simultaneously settling accounts with Bashar and his Baathist apparatus and Hezbollah offices in Damascus.
“Willl we ever wake up to reality and deal with it?”
In a word? No.
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