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Iran Vows To Hit Israel's Atomic Sites If Attacked: TV
Reuters ^ | July 25, 2009

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; bho44; iran; islam; israel; obama

1 posted on 07/25/2009 2:58:31 AM PDT by Strategy
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To: Strategy

I am starting to wish we could get this over with already.


2 posted on 07/25/2009 3:00:53 AM PDT by GeronL (Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
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To: Strategy

No doubt they got good targeting info directly from
their supporter in the Oval Office.


3 posted on 07/25/2009 3:02:24 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Strategy
Israel needs to act before Obama guts them.
4 posted on 07/25/2009 3:02:44 AM PDT by allmost
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To: Strategy
to employ a spoonerism, Israel must take out Iran, in one swell foop.

then there can be no reprisal.

5 posted on 07/25/2009 3:06:07 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero
Israel must take out Iran, in one swell foop.

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.

6 posted on 07/25/2009 3:21:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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To: Diogenesis

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


7 posted on 07/25/2009 3:55:28 AM PDT by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: Strategy
Israel is in a dilemma here because with what is going on in Iran an Israeli strike could either prove a strong enough catalyst for the people to overthrow the government, or it may galvanize the Iranian population against Israel, saving the Ayatollah.

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.

8 posted on 07/25/2009 4:14:36 AM PDT by lt.america (Looking for a bailout)
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To: Colorado Cowgirl

The Iranians could send a Shahab-3 MRBM to hit the Dimona nuke plant, but Tehran would be hit in return!


9 posted on 07/25/2009 4:17:02 AM PDT by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
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To: Strategy

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.


10 posted on 07/25/2009 4:30:28 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: Strategy

I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and blow your house down, yada, yada, yada.


11 posted on 07/25/2009 4:41:09 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (TR started the Bull Moose Party, maybe Palin can start the Moose Cow Party?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
250 to 500 ICBM’s can “git ‘er dun” with no problems... and do not think for a minute that Israel would not use them... they are not America nor restrained by false profits of peace. MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP ISRAEL SAFE!

LLS

12 posted on 07/25/2009 4:44:54 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

They need to keep several hundred in reserve to keep their Arab neighbors at bay.


13 posted on 07/25/2009 4:49:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
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To: Strategy

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.


14 posted on 07/25/2009 4:55:37 AM PDT by 2harddrive (S)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Only a few dozen would be needed.

LLS


15 posted on 07/25/2009 5:38:50 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: GeronL

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.


16 posted on 07/25/2009 5:57:10 AM PDT by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: Strategy

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.


17 posted on 07/25/2009 7:58:14 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: Strategy

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!”


18 posted on 07/25/2009 9:27:45 AM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
"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?
19 posted on 07/25/2009 5:35:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Strategy

“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:16, KJV)


20 posted on 07/26/2009 10:29:35 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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