'Iran will strike Tel Aviv if attacked'

AFP via Yahoo! News ^ | November 22, 2009

[Oldeconomybuyer]

An aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that if the Islamic republic is attacked, it will retaliate against the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv, official media reported on Sunday.

"If the enemy attacks Iran, our missiles will strike Tel Aviv," the official IRNA news agency quoted Khamenei's representative in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mojhtaba Zolnoor, as saying late on Saturday.

His comments came as Iranian air defence forces were set to carry out five days of manoeuvres involving simulated attacks on the country's nuclear facilities.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

There will never be mideast peace until muslims love their children more than they hate Jews. - Golda Meir.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

There’s nothing to see here. Move along.

[Gorzaloon]

'Iran will strike Tel Aviv if attacked'

So What?

Do us all a favour-Be sure and do it like Egypt did.

[Dallas59]

#560...The Larch.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I feel certain that if Israel strikes Iran, the Iranians will no longer have the capability to srike back.

[Rumplemeyer]

They will also not have the ability to find their fanny, even using both hands.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Instead of trying to take out Iran’s underground nuclear facilities why doesn’t Israel just take out their goofball leaders? Then finding and destroying the nuclear facilities would be a lot easier.

[rawhide]

More bluster coming out of Iran? I would think that Israel could attack Iran, then they shoot down any missles coming in from Iran easily?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“I feel certain that if Israel strikes Iran, the Iranians will no longer have the capability to srike back.”

I agree. Also, why should Israel care about this threat of retaliation when the Iranian government has been saying all along that Israel will be ‘wiped off the face of the Earth’?

[Gorzaloon]

Instead of trying to take out Iran’s underground nuclear facilities why doesn’t Israel just take out their goofball leaders? Then finding and destroying the nuclear facilities would be a lot easier.

Just do what we should have done in 1979 under the inept, gutless, treasonous eunuch dirtbag POS Carter.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“There will never be mideast peace until muslims love their children more than they hate Jews. - Golda Meir. “

How do you post the picture of Hell freezing over?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

'Also, why should Israel care about this threat of retaliation when..."

Exactly. SSDD.

[Spok]

Saddam Hussein tried the same thing, to draw other Islamic countries into the war in Iraq. It didn’t work because Israel trusted us and exercised restraint.

[Servant of the Cross]

That brilliant quote of Golda Meir cuts straight to the heart of the issue.

The headline to this article makes me think of the NATO policy (which the United States has historically made clear also applied to its ally Israel):

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all ...

If we had a President who loved our country and freedom (we don't), this article's headline would be followed by this hypothetical quote:

America will strike Iran if Iran attacks Tel Aviv ...

[DownInFlames]

The Israeli nuke strike will be in 2 phases. 1st, will be the Iranian nuke sites. After Iran counterstrikes, Tehran will cease to exist.

[Venturer]

Iran has already sent a Dirty Bomb ship to Israel and only the Lord stopped it by allowing Pirates to capture it.

http://smoothstoneblog.com/2008/10/hijacked-iranian-ship-dirty-bomb-meant-for-israel-on-yom-kippur.htm

IMO this was an act of war, but it is being kept very quiet.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Israeli AF doesn't have the long range capability of the U.S. and still during Desert Storm, the Iraqis hit Tel Aviv and Riyadh. The Iranians have surrogates in Lebanon willing to shoot from behind women and children, both Christian and Muslim.

The U.S. is not being particularly helpful and the Arabs are scared witless of the Iranians. The Middle East is a mess and much of the responsibility must lie at the feet of Jiminy Carter.

[vetvetdoug]

I see a lot of bluster from the Iranians. They remind me of a diverse set of individuals that run their mouths a lot but cannot deliver on their threats. Israel will get their noses bloodied but Iran will cease to exist if anything happens between the two. I just hope the US sides with Israel and not Iran.

[taildragger]

The Israeli AF doesn't have the long range capability of the U.S.?

Really?

Look @ the various block upgrades to the F-16, the conformal tanks of which they have design rights and probably made their own tooling. Not to mention the version with the fuel tank in the vestigial fin. Not to mention the refueling tankers in "Project Green Salad". Tell me they can't get their and back...

[Bon mots]

Iran can launch a devastating photoshop counter-attack.