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Iran commander: 'Nothing will remain' of Israel if it takes military action
Fox News ^ | 9/16/12

Posted on 09/16/2012 5:22:02 AM PDT by Libloather

Iran commander: 'Nothing will remain' of Israel if it takes military action
Published September 16, 2012
Associated Press

TEHRAN – The top commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned Sunday that "nothing will remain" of Israel if it takes military action against Tehran over its controversial nuclear program.

Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iran's response to any attack will begin near the Israeli border. The Islamic Republic has close ties with militants in Gaza and Lebanon, both of which border Israel.

Iran has in the past made reference to the destruction of Israel but his comments at a Tehran news conference were unusually strongly worded and detailed.

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He also said that Iran warned that oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz will be in jeopardy if a war breaks out between Iran and the United States. Iranian officials have previously threatened to close the waterway, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, but less frequently in recent months.

Isn't this a golf day for Hussein?

1 posted on 09/16/2012 5:22:07 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

One button take care of all of this. One bright flash ends it.

And it doesnt even take a big one to end it.


2 posted on 09/16/2012 5:27:40 AM PDT by crz
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To: Libloather

“He also said that Iran warned that oil shipments through the strategic Strait of Hormuz will be in jeopardy if a war breaks out between Iran and the United States.”

I’ve read that Iran has 30-70 thousand mines ready to deploy. There are two ways of disposing of mines. You can sweep for them or hunt for them. Both are slow and only give you some probability that you’ve destroyed the mines. In actuality, some will still be there. The only way to keep the straights open is to destroy the mines while they are still in their warehouses. I can’t see Obama authorizing such a bombing.

Incidentally, the Navy has moved virtually all of its mine sweeping and hunting capability to the area. But sweepers and hunters can only work if the Iranian side of the straight has been neutralized. Otherwise, the sweepers and hunters will be killed in short order.

If the straights are closed, sure the cost of gas will go up, but nobody here will starve. In the rest of the world starvation will be the norm. That, in my opinion, is why America has been keeping the lid on the middle east for the last 50 years.


3 posted on 09/16/2012 5:33:56 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Libloather

He’s not exactly right - 1/6th of Iran (”Persia”) will remain. Israel will be fine. In fact Israel will have seven years of employment burying their dead enemies after the massacre.


4 posted on 09/16/2012 5:36:44 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Libloather

They are good at the terrorist game but horrendous at the military one. As the worlds biggest state-sponsored terrorist govgernment I would almost welcome a conflict where I know they will get their terror sponsoring arse handed to them and be lucky to be alive after.


5 posted on 09/16/2012 5:40:58 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: ICE-FLYER

You are correct.

When the war actually comes to their land, surrogates will be of no value.


6 posted on 09/16/2012 5:43:40 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Libloather
"nothing will remain

Wanna bet?

7 posted on 09/16/2012 5:46:32 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Libloather
A message for General Mohammad Ali Jafari:


Don't talk smack to a nation that has ALREADY built a decisive nuclear arsenal.
8 posted on 09/16/2012 5:50:34 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in America's panties, 0bama is the yellow stain in front!)
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Hey raghead, Israel lives as much in America as in Israel.

What makes you think, even if we do nothing in retaliation for your murderous act, that American Jews would not rally and go re-inhabit their land?

What makes you think that you can take US out as well to prevent that?

Every king that goeth to war must first count the cost ... you old camel humpin' fart.

The only thing good I ever got from oreilly is the word and concept of .. bloviate

9 posted on 09/16/2012 5:53:17 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Gen.Blather

Destroying all their mine laying ships would help too.


10 posted on 09/16/2012 5:53:36 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Libloather

Yeah, yeah little buddy Iran commander... Remember your “buddy” Saddam Hussein and his guys? Yeah, those dead men? They said the same thing about what would happen if the USA took military action against them. Where are they now? Dead. And we are supposed to not laugh when you blotivate like this?


11 posted on 09/16/2012 6:04:19 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: crz

Bravado for sure. I’d suggest that Iran stock up on 50,000 SPF if they actually start some sh!t with Israel. They have been backed as far into a corner as one can get - they will not let it happen again.


12 posted on 09/16/2012 6:05:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: PapaNew

You nailed it. We are about to see God in action as prophesied long ago. Sobering but exciting times to live in.


13 posted on 09/16/2012 6:11:41 AM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: Farmer Dean

“Destroying all their mine laying ships would help too.”

For the most part, Iranians use fishing boats. Which ones of the many thousand would you hit? (Given the despotic nature of Islam, it would have to be all of them.) Rubber rafts would do the job too.


14 posted on 09/16/2012 6:26:55 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Libloather

On the slightest provocation, we need to wipe out Iran’s strategic nuclear assets, as well as the bulk of its convention military assets, using a mix of cruise missiles, deep penetration aircraft, (off-shore) conventional forces, and covert agents. The idea is to do the deed all at once, before world opinion gets mobilized to stop it. The opposite idea is incrementalism. An example would be an attack on Kuwait, a “Major Non-NATO Ally,” which Iran has threatened. We don’t need no stinkin’ UN resolution to respond to an attack on an ally.


15 posted on 09/16/2012 6:29:29 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Libloather
Iran commander: 'Nothing will remain' of Israel if it takes military action

From your lips, baby, to God's ears. This will have been one of the greatest of ironical statements. Too bad he won't be around to appreciate it.
16 posted on 09/16/2012 6:30:57 AM PDT by aruanan
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From your lips, baby, to God's ears. This will have been one of the greatest of ironical statements. Too bad he won't be around to appreciate it.

Sorry, commander, I thought you said "if" and not "of" the first time. Well, anyway, you still won't be around to appreciate the aftermath. You'll be lucky if all you have left is a camel, a tent, and the light of the moon.
17 posted on 09/16/2012 6:33:50 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Libloather

Too bad the so called moderate faction of the Iranian people won’t depose these insane leaders. You would think they would know the consequences.


18 posted on 09/16/2012 6:33:53 AM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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The top commander in Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard

I gotta laugh. It took this powerful guard 10 years to fight Iraq too a draw.


19 posted on 09/16/2012 6:49:46 AM PDT by chainsaw ("Two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.")
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To: catfish1957

The moderate West-leaning Iranians aren’t in the driver’s seat. Mohammed Fatso Jafari & his Revvie Guards call the shots. And they pray to a hole in the ground (look it up).


20 posted on 09/16/2012 6:50:15 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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