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Iran issues 'battlefield' warning as tensions escalate with arch-rival US
AFP via Business Standard ^ | September 21st, 2019 | Unattributed

Posted on 09/21/2019 9:37:52 AM PDT by Mariner

Any country that attacks Iran will become the "main battlefield", the Revolutionary Guards warned Saturday after Washington ordered reinforcements to the Gulf following attacks on Saudi oil installations it blames on Tehran.

Tensions escalated between arch-foes Iran and the United States after last weekend's attacks on Saudi energy giant Aramco's Abqaiq processing plant and Khurais oilfield halved the kingdom's oil output.

Yemen's Huthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes but the US says it has concluded the attacks involved cruise missiles from Iran and amounted to "an act of war".

Washington approved the deployment of troops to Saudi Arabia at "the kingdom's request," Defence Secretary Mark Esper said, noting the forces would be "defensive in nature" and focused on air and missile defence.

But Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Major General Hossein Salami said Iran was "ready for any type of scenario".

"Whoever wants their land to become the main battlefield, go ahead," he told a news conference in Tehran.

(Excerpt) Read more at business-standard.com ...


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To: ASA Vet

This is not our war and yes I’m a USN vet. This is to swing an election.


21 posted on 09/21/2019 10:05:59 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: rhombus10
arch-rival? Who wrote that headline?

A former Marvel Comics writer.

22 posted on 09/21/2019 10:08:29 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Mariner

I’m confident that our President will not go down in our history books as George W. Trump.


23 posted on 09/21/2019 10:08:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Mariner
I wonder if the US electric grid is vulnerable to attack. So many US citizens have gotten fat, lazy, and wouldn't last more than a few days if power and food/water went down. The countries we bully around, in contrast, have populations that are accustomed to hardship.

There are forces that don't want peace. I do wish everyone would stand shoulder-to-shoulder, across the political spectrum, and reject them.

24 posted on 09/21/2019 10:10:24 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: Alberta's Child

“I’m confident that our President will not go down in our history books as George W. Trump.”

He only controls 1/2 of the equation.

Iran could suicide attack two USN vessels in the gulf simultaneous with cruise missile attacks on Kuwait, UAE and Saud...while also undertaking terror on US soil.

ANY US President would be at war then.

Personally, I don’t think Iran wants suicide. I think they want international pressure on the US to end sanctions. That’s why they hold out the threat of grand violence, augmented by petite violence and demonstration of capability.

But, who knows? They may be as crazy as many think they are.


25 posted on 09/21/2019 10:16:00 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Undecided 2012
"This is not our war." I totally agree which is why I posted this back on the 19th.
26 posted on 09/21/2019 10:17:09 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: Mariner

Trump is NOT Jimmy Carter


27 posted on 09/21/2019 10:23:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Mariner

Hi.

“But Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Major General Hossein Salami said...”

I thought his name was, Hussein Sulemani.

No matter, imho it would take two weeks to conquer Persia.

Logistically, it would take three months to put the appropriate forces in place. For example, 1st ID from the NW (Iraq), 4th ID from the SE (Afghanistan), MEUs from the ocean and Gulf.

Air assets from Diego Garcia, Missouri, the carriers, etc.

Take two weeks. Maybe three.

Then leave after killing as many ayatollahs, immams and IRG as possible.

The People will do the rebuilding.

5.56mm


28 posted on 09/21/2019 10:24:22 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Mariner

Doze guys make me so mad...

29 posted on 09/21/2019 10:31:53 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Bon mots

That’s Funny
Right there!


30 posted on 09/21/2019 10:42:20 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Mariner

You can bet there are a lot. There is coming a time when we either fight for it all, or lose it all.


31 posted on 09/21/2019 11:11:08 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Vaquero

nice idea but unworkable (many reasons - guidance being one) - not to mention very expensive.


32 posted on 09/21/2019 11:12:27 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Mariner

Iran WANTS to pull us into a troop slaughter... they think the American people will fold if they see lots of American blood spilled.


33 posted on 09/21/2019 11:13:19 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Daniel Okrent HELP - lowlife editors at the New York Times need YOU... they've lost their way.)
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To: Mariner

So Iran can attack anyone they want and if anyone fights back or objects too loudly “They will become the main battlefield”?

Bring it morons...


34 posted on 09/21/2019 11:16:58 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Vermont Lt

We absolutely know where every ship everywhere is at all times. Have since the 70s.


35 posted on 09/21/2019 11:19:33 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: GOPJ

Yep. I say just let ‘em continue to starve.


36 posted on 09/21/2019 11:21:58 AM PDT by myerson
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To: Mariner
"Whoever wants their land to become the main battlefield, go ahead..."

Well, the U.S. won't become the "main" battlefield, but they make a good point, nevertheless... The moslem jihadists and their enablers/supporters in this country will cause a huge amount of chaos and destruction...

However, with the proper steps to clean out a lot of liquor stores, 7-11's, mosques, cheapo gas stations, the halls of Congress, and the many training centers like Islamberg NY, some of the hundreds-of-thousands jihadists living & waiting amongst us can be deported and/or neutralized...

OK... That would just leave the question of the need to vote-out-of-office politicians or other people who despise the U.S. and it's Constitution...

37 posted on 09/21/2019 11:21:58 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Mariner

“Whoever wants their land to become the main battlefield, go ahead,” he told a news conference in Tehran, as Iran
went ahead...


38 posted on 09/21/2019 11:35:35 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Bon mots
Pop goes the weasel
39 posted on 09/21/2019 11:36:12 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again. Bring back ASA.)
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To: myerson
We like the Iranian people = no one wants to see them starve. It's sad they're captive to insane Mullahs... who feather their ‘ own nests at the expense of the people.

If I had my way we would change the laws on murdering ‘leaders’... NOT allow assassinating for first world countries or democratic countries or counties where the people have a say... but for hellholes like Iran and North Korea it should be ‘NO HOLDS BARRED’... Anyone - any country in the world - should be allowed to go in and assassinate the ‘leaders’.

The Iranian people deserve better. I also feel countries that are hellholes should NOT have protection against their nighbors moving in and taking over.

40 posted on 09/21/2019 11:46:37 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Daniel Okrent HELP - lowlife editors at the New York Times need YOU... they've lost their way.)
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