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Iran threatens 'worldwide strike' if attacked
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2/8/07 | Natalie Paris and agencies

Posted on 02/08/2007 9:23:21 AM PST by kiriath_jearim

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has today warned that if under attack, Iran will hit back at US interests worldwide.

While it is not unusual for Iran to threaten such a wide-reaching response to US action, the threat was issued as details were broadcast on state television that missiles had been test-launched today.

Speaking at a meeting of Iranian air force commanders, Iran's supreme spiritual leader said: "The enemy knows well that any invasion would be followed by a comprehensive reaction to the invaders and their interests all over the world.

"We believe that no one will make such an unwise and wrong move (to attack Iran) that would endanger their country and interests."

He added: "Some say that the US president is not the type who acts based on calculations or thinks about the consequences of his action.

"But even these people can be brought to their senses."

Iran is at loggerheads with the United States over its disputed nuclear programme which has prompted Washington to order a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf to bolster US influence.

A televised broadcast today revealed that Iran's Revolutionary Guards were test-firing missiles that could apparently sink "big warships" in the Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean.

The testing means that it is now the second day that Iran has been conducting war-games designed to be a public display of military might.

Revolutionary Guards naval commander Ali Fadavi said: "These missiles, with a maximum range of 350 km (220 miles), can hit different kinds of big warships in all of the Persian Gulf, all of the Sea of Oman and the north of the Indian Ocean."

However, Tehran insists its nuclear programme is purely civilian and says it is not backing militants in Iraq.

Both President George W Bush and Tony Blair have said that neither country intends to invade Iran.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: geopolitics; iran; islam; terrorism
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1 posted on 02/08/2007 9:23:23 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim

Hopefully, we still have the sense it takes to realize a real war is a real war. The World will be a much better place if Iran is eliminated as a threat. If it can be done peacefully, fine. If it comes to war, be decisive.


2 posted on 02/08/2007 9:25:43 AM PST by Williams
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To: kiriath_jearim

"Both President George W Bush and Tony Blair have said that neither country intends to invade Iran."

Which means of course, that we will.


3 posted on 02/08/2007 9:26:35 AM PST by Bob J (RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
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To: Bob J

Actually I doubt we'll invade Iran. But I see a lot of infrastructure damage in their future.


4 posted on 02/08/2007 9:27:45 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: kiriath_jearim
Let's Get Ready To Ruuuuuummmmmble!!


5 posted on 02/08/2007 9:29:19 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Williams

I'm not so sure we will. Fer cryin' out loud, there are freepers on here calling for the President to be impeached: I'm starting to think that people are too interested in their single-issue complaints to ever pull together.


6 posted on 02/08/2007 9:29:56 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: agere_contra

Just make it a glass parking lot and be done with it.


7 posted on 02/08/2007 9:32:22 AM PST by BMC1 (11/7/06 THE DAY WE LOST THE WAR. TERRORISTS AND THE TERRORIST LOVING DEMONCRATS ARE NOW IN CONTROL.)
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8 posted on 02/08/2007 9:32:33 AM PST by aliquis
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To: MizSterious

Amen. Sometimes I wonder how long until they say we need to stop the war on terror until we fix immigration/abortion/whatever else... or have they already said such things?


9 posted on 02/08/2007 9:33:16 AM PST by nhoward14
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To: kiriath_jearim
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has today warned that if under attack, Iran will hit back at US interests worldwide.

What are they going to do take some more hostages? Carter's not in office this year.

10 posted on 02/08/2007 9:40:41 AM PST by Centurion2000 (If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
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To: Williams

NEVER FORGET - IRAN AND HER AGENTA HAVE
ALREADY BEGUN WORLD WAR IV

THE REAL DEAL:

================= EXHIBIT 1 ================

Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay attacked by Islamic terrorists.


================= EXHIBIT 2 ================

London attacked by Islamic terrorists.


================= EXHIBIT 3 ================

Madrid attacked by Islamic terrorists.


================= EXHIBIT 4 ================

AMERICANS MURDERED ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS


>

================= EXHIBIT 5 ================

TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS.


================= EXHIBIT 6 ================

VERY PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Full list is pages and pages and pages and pages.

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........


The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 7 ================

Islamic Terrorists (mainly from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) attack America
murdering 3000 Americans per hour [pictures censored by the MSM]

The War for Infinite Justice SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESCALATED IN 2001


================= EXHIBIT 8 ================

Russia, at Beslan, with children murdered by Islamic terrorists.


================= EXHIBIT 9 ================

=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.


================= EXHIBIT 10================

=========== Islamic terrorists promising to conquer America prior to murdering all Christians and Jews therein.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth
"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998


Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

11 posted on 02/08/2007 9:42:36 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: kiriath_jearim
The US is a sovereign nations. The left tells us it is wrong to attack a sovereign nation no matter what they do.
12 posted on 02/08/2007 9:43:45 AM PST by weegee (No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
(Consulting Crystal ball) (holding fingertips to Forehead) I see much infrastructure damage in Iran's future, but no invasion... Iran in the 1st century...... Yes, much damage
13 posted on 02/08/2007 9:48:47 AM PST by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: MizSterious

"Fer cryin' out loud, there are freepers on here calling for the President to be impeached"

They may post on FR, but they are not Freepers.

LLS


14 posted on 02/08/2007 9:56:14 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: Diogenesis

Great info... but what America wants to know is... "What is on their iPods?"


15 posted on 02/08/2007 9:56:15 AM PST by BigFinn (LIBS: BIG HATS, NO CATTLE.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Sounds fair. We attack them. They attack us to the best of their ability. We put an end to civilization in their country, take over their oil fields, pump and refine the oil ourselves and kill any surviving Iranians who annoy us.

Or maybe we just put an end to their oil production, period.


16 posted on 02/08/2007 10:04:12 AM PST by Little Ray
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To: Diogenesis

The jihad vermin are in need of a smiting of Biblical prportions. As they blame America for everything, give them something to whine about!


17 posted on 02/08/2007 10:13:36 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: kiriath_jearim
"We believe that no one will make such an unwise and wrong move (to attack Iran) that would endanger their country and interests."

Yes it is possible for an entire country to go nuts.

The late Saddam Hussein also convinced himself, and his country, that they would win the "mother of all battles".

There must be an arab word for "monumental bluffing".

18 posted on 02/08/2007 11:22:59 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: agere_contra
Actually I doubt we'll invade Iran.

I remain convinced that we never should have occupied Afghanistan or Iraq, either. That was the major strategic error.

Make rubble as many times as necessary for them to get the message.
And let them (if they can) spend their wealth and energy focused on emerging again from the stone age.

As many times as necessary!

19 posted on 02/08/2007 11:25:27 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Diogenesis
1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated

I have noted this many times on FR whenever anyone copy/pastes this list.

Sirhan Sirhan, RFK's assassin, was not an Islamic terrorist. He was not a Muslim when he assassinated RFK. His family were Jordanian Christians, and he was raised as such. He explored many different religions in his life, including Baptist and Seventh Day Adventism, among other things.

The list is powerful but it loses most of it's power when it's obvious that the first item on the list is wrong.

To be fair, he harbored a great hatred for Israel, which helped motivate him to assassinate RFK. Though many Muslim terrorists share his hatred for Israel, that fact doesn't make someone an Islamic terrorist.

20 posted on 02/08/2007 11:32:37 AM PST by HitmanLV ("I mean, that's a storybook, man!")
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