Posted on 10/11/2006 2:35:42 PM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has held an emergency meeting after reports that US nuclear powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower was moving towards the Persian Gulf. Khamenei met on Tuesday night with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and, the head of the Iranian army and the revolutionary guards corps Pasdaran, Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, along with advisors to Khamenei.
During the talks, Iranian online daily Roozonline reports, participants discussed the possibility of a US military attack and the consequences of potential sanctions on Iran.
According to Roozonline, Khamenei stressed the need to present a united Iranian front to the international community.
The Eisenhower is expected to reach the Persian Gulf on 21 October while another US aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, will also be allegedly close to the Iranian coasts. The Enterprise was employed in 2001 by the United States to bomb Afghanistan after the September 11 terror attacks on the US.
According to Baztab, a website controlled by the Pasdaran, "the United States is gaining positions in the sea and countries close to Iran in case the Pentagon wants to launch an attack on the Islamic Republic."
According to Baztab, the US has already drafted a plan to attack Iranian nuclear plants and its military installations by sea and air.
US president has not ruled out the possibility of a military attack against Iran if it continues to pursue its nuclear programme which it fears is aimed at building nuclear weapons. Washington is currently pressing the Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran for its repeated refusal to halt sensitive nuclear work.
Baztab also said that "if the presence of US navy ships in the Persian Gulf turned into a real threat for the Islamic Republic then the region's oil pipeline would explode, as would mines in the Hormuz Strait (a key shipping route for oil) when oil tankers pass through so as to make the price of oil double or triple."
Iran is the world's fourth largest crude oil producer.
Not when they miss their mark by an ocean and topple a couple of buildings accidentally.
Ummmmm... so they're saying they've already mined the Hormuz Strait, an international waterway? That's an act of war against the entire world. If true that is a "casus belli" (effectively "cause of war," though not literally) and would fully justify a "jus ad bellum" (just war) by any other nation under international law.
I suggest that this Saturday our current president repeat a statement by our 40th president from his radio addresses, with appropriate modification:
"I'm happy to announce that I have just signed legislation outlawing the Islamic Republic of Iran. The bombing begins in five minutes."
Regards.
SSGNs . One, two would be overkill, of the four Ohio class SSBNs modified to carry cruise missiles. Surface occasionally to be sure they see it.
Notice the provision for carriage of Special Operations forces, usually SEALs. Those should really worry Little Kim, and Ahmanutjob and the Angry Ayatollahs, should one appear in their waters as well.
Iran is one of the larger supporters of terrorists. Terrorists would love to plant one in a house or apartment on your block. You figure it out.
Couldn't agree more. How we get there is the issue.
Someone told me a horror story from the mid-1980s--apparently the National Security Council told the Navy to send a carrier within a few miles of the Lebanese coast to show Hezbullah who was boss.
The Hezzies were not impressed, and fired some artillery at the carrier, and actually managed to straddle it before the ship went to full speed ahead and got the hell out of there.
But they can let themselves be seen if they wish. An Ohio class SSGN cruise missile/spec ops boats surfacing just outside your 12 mile limit will get your attention. Then when it's sure it's been spotted, it will slide below and disappear, possibly to appear again somewhere else. Or that may be the only time you see or hear it. Is it gone? You decide. :)
Of course it can be pretty "gone" and still hit you with those cruise missiles. :)
Gee, that WOULD be prudent. It's known as getting the drop on your opponent.
Funny then that's you've only been on FR since April 17th of this year
Many people are only familiar with half of that story. The OTHER half, is that the battleship that was part of that battlegroup opened up with her 16 inch guns and silenced the artilary in a minute or so. It was a bait and switch, which caused many Hezzies to get their asses blown up.
Wasn't it big boy Clinton who closed the Utah area that was the only clean burning coal resource in the U.S., thus making us dependent upon foreign sources (Indonesia, I think). . and then, of course, we have oil resources but for some reason Clinton stopped it on environmental excuses, and Washington in general seems hesitant to make it happen.
- your pendulum has swung too far, my good man.
Who said anything about invading? Hit the nuke facilities, hit the Revolutionary Guard (aka Pasdaran) facilities and kill lots of them. The Iranian people will likely take it from there.
Yeah, but the version I heard was that there was a fully-loaded air group on the flight deck--if the last shell had come down 200 yards closer to the beach, guess what the lead on the four news networks would've been that night?
Oil.
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