Posted on 07/25/2009 2:58:31 AM PDT by Strategy
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday Iran will strike Israel's nuclear facilities if Tel Aviv attacks the Islamic state, state television reported.
"If the Zionist Regime (Israel) attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," Mohammad Ali Jafari, Guards commander-in-chief, told Iran's Arabic language al-Alam television.
The Revolutionary Guards are the Ideologically driven wing of Iran's military with air, sea and land capabilities, and a separate command structure to regular units.
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I am starting to wish we could get this over with already.
No doubt they got good targeting info directly from
their supporter in the Oval Office.
then there can be no reprisal.
Not possible.
I am not impressed with Iran's missile capabilities. I might change my mind if they had a plutonium weapon. I'm sure the Israelis have hardened key elements of their program. Besides, they have already fielded a number of weapons, the time constant of nuclear program is in years, the lag between opening a facility and producing a weapon. Their pipeline is fully charged and systems are deployed.
Iran is bluffing, which makes me think they fear an Israeli attack.
You don’t actually think he knows anything about where the U.S. Atomic Sites are do you? He damn sure doesn’t know where they all are in Israel! POS
The middle east has been using Israel as a scape goat for the last 70 years and Obama needs to realize if they are gone, all that negative energy will be directed squarely at us. Arabs have to blame someone for the fact they produce nothing of value for mankind besides pumping a sticky black substance from the ground.
The Iranians could send a Shahab-3 MRBM to hit the Dimona nuke plant, but Tehran would be hit in return!
If “the Zionist state” (I just love that expression, as if “Zionism” is an eveil thing — it is not.) strikes Iran, there will be no missles remaining in Iran capable of targeting Israel.
At this stage in the game, I cannot imagin an attack on Iran that doesn’t include an attack on its capabilities to retaliate.
I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and blow your house down, yada, yada, yada.
LLS
They need to keep several hundred in reserve to keep their Arab neighbors at bay.
I have no DOUBT that Israel would use its IRBM’s and cruise missles in an attack on Iran. I nave not seen confirmation that they even have true ICBM’s - 6,000+ mile range - however. But, I would be SURPRISED if Israel used nukes in its first strike, albeit it may make good TACTICAL sense. I know I would not want to be the first to use nukes in an attack on a 3rd-world country.
Only a few dozen would be needed.
LLS
I agree, If this happens and Israel makes good on their plan to eliminate the Iranian Nuke threat, it will serve two purposes, It will start the process of stripping these thugocracies of their legitimacy, and it will show the world what a coward BO really is. It could start the process of rendering him impotent.
Lets do this thing. I’d like to get on with my economic life. Nothing is getting better until the crazy well wishers in Iran are deposed. Nothing. Kind of like the lead up to the Nazi problem. We tried using economic levers to fix that one too. Didn’t work so great. Sort of doubt it will this time either.
Just talk. If Iran sent a missile into Dimona it would be all over; Israel would hit back and destroy Tehran. Khamenei knows that, and as loony and evil as he is, he wants to stay in power. Iran will not hit Israel with a missile, they’ll leave that to Hezbollah. This is just Jaafari’s way of saying “We’re in a mess right now and the regime is about to fall apart as it is, so pleeeease don’t hit us!”
"If the Zionist Regime (Israel) attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," Mohammad Ali Jafari, Guards commander-in-chief, told Iran's Arabic language al-Alam television.Gee, lucky for the Iranian Reactionary Guards that the Israelis never thought of that, eh?
“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:16, KJV)
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