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This all sounds a bit familiar doesn't it?
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Posted on 04/15/2006 8:11:03 AM PDT by Hadean
IRAN has said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States.
"You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime's most powerful figures.
"The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error," he told reporters on the sidelines of a pro-Palestinian conference in Tehran.
The United States accuses Iran of using an atomic energy drive as a mask for weapons development. Last weekend US news reports said President George W. Bush's administration was refining plans for preventive strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," General Safavi said with a grin.
"We have American forces in the region under total surveillance. For the past two years, we have been ready for any scenario, whether sanctions or an attack."
Advertisement: Iran announced this week it had successfully enriched uranium to make nuclear fuel, despite a UN Security Council demand for the sensitive work to be halted by April 28.
The Islamic regime says it only wants to generate atomic energy, but enrichment can be extended to make the fissile core of a nuclear warhead -- something the United States is convinced that "axis of evil" member Iran wants to acquire.
At a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati simply branded the US as a "decaying power" lacking the "stamina" to block Iran's ambitions.
And hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that a US push for tough United Nations sanctions was of "no importance".
"She is free to say whatever she wants," the president replied when asked to respond to comments by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice highlighting part of the UN charter that provides for sanctions backed up by the threat of military action.
"We give no importance to her comments," he said with a broad smile.
On Thursday, Ms Rice said that faced with Iran's intransigence, the United States "will look at the full range of options available to the United Nations".
"There is no doubt that Iran continues to defy the will of the international community," Rice said, after Iran also dismissed a personal appeal from the UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief must give a report at the end of April on Iranian compliance with the Security Council demand. In Tehran he said that after three years of investigations Iran's activities were "still hazy and not very clear".
Although the United States has been prodding the council to take a tough stand against the Islamic republic, including possible sanctions, it has run into opposition from veto-wielding members Russia and China.
Representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany are to meet in Moscow Tuesday to discuss the crisis.
In seeking to deter international action, Iran has been playing up its oil wealth, its military might in strategic Gulf waters and its influence across the region -- such as in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
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Will somebody please drop this guy Ahmadinejad?
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This all sounds a bit familiar doesn't it?
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What was it Saddam was saying back in Gulf War I ... it was to be the mother of all wars? That war was over in less than 100 hours ... in Gulf War II the coalition forces overran most of Iraq in less than 3 weeks. Iran thinks it would fare any better?
The leadership of a country is always the responsibility of the people and the people's acts of commission or omission. 
Spoken like a true Democrat.
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Interesting game of Chicken they are playing.
Yes, but it is sure driving up the price of oil and making them a ton of money. The price of oil has gone up 25% in the last few weeks and their cost of production has gone up zero. |
Close. Spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee.
Exactly. How can the Dims not be ashamed when a sworn enemy of the US is quoting them approvingly? Simply amazing.
At least we know the General reads the New York Times and the Washington Post!
just lob one into their executive bathroom
Lets be honest. Iranian and Syrian jihadist with the support of their governments have been killing our troops left and right. They have also been killing Iraqi Air Force pilots who were involved with the war in the 1980's. Iran has as much control of Iraq as we do.
If we attack Iran it will be an extremely bloody war on both sides. The people of the United States are not prepared for such a war and our media is ready to support the enemy a 100 fold and they will make it look as if Iran is G-D himself and has destroyed our forces.
Israel has already promised that they will not sneak attack Iran (read it in today's New York Post). Europe WANTS Iran to get the bomb and for them to use it on Israel. Europe (and I bet many in the US) believes that getting rid of Israel will solve many of the world's problems. After Iran nukes Israel, then, NATO will attack Iran, so they can secure themselves. Killing to birds...
Iran is going to get the bomb...only then will "we" attack.
Wonderful trip down memory lane:) Thanks for the chuckles.
It does point something out that we can't underestimate about this enemy. They are STILL out of touch with reality- it is the only way they cling to their defiant rants like the ones Iran is currently broadcasting. The problem with these people- they BELIEVE their lies.
AmadHandJob better be careful what he wishes for...
For that to occur we'd have to manage the regime change
competently. I have yet to see evidence that we can do it.
A fourth option is that he's been listing to Biden and the rest of the Dimms and is confident that they will stop Bush from taking action.
What the process requires in more separation of the isotope Uranium 235 from the natural Uranium 238. Typically, when the material has 20% Uranium 235 it is "enriched" enough for a power plant. When you have separated out enough Uranium 235 to have 90% Uranium 235, you have weapons grade material. The process takes huge amounts of energy to run centrifuges at near speed of sound rotation rates.
In reading this, I was struck with the thought that Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities are not altogether new, and not in Iran ... they think they've gained control over the long-rumored cache hidden in the Bekaa, bordering Syria and Lebanon. All this IAEA seal business within Iran was mere theater, backfilling the story line as far as just how Iran came to acquire the capability. This protects "someone," and Russia springs to mind.
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