Posted on 02/09/2010 5:28:02 AM PST by nuconvert
Khamenei, whose public statements should be taken seriously, is promising some sort of devastating “punch” against the West on Thursday the 11th, the same day as the Green Movement is calling for a monster protest against his regime.
What might he have in mind? I don’t know; they say a lot of things just for effect, but threats/promises from the supreme leader have a certain standing. If I were an Israeli official, I’d recheck my information on Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
Some think he’s preparing some kind of attack against Israel. Surely there has been no shortage in recent weeks of nasty language against the Jewish state. Here’s Foreign Minister Mottaki a day ago:
“Iran is facing a mad nation led by insane people. This is the reason why all of us in the region – in Syria, in Lebanon, and the Palestinians – must be prepared constantly for any crazy operation against us.”
Other Iranian leaders have spoken of the “inevitability” of Israel’s destruction. Maybe they have something in mind.
The other obvious possibility is that he’s ordered a massive, Chinese-style crackdown on the opposition. Since he believes that the opposition is foreign-based and foreign-controlled, a devastating massacre might count as a big “punch” to the West.
He’s totally obsessed with bringing an end to the protests, and the nightly chants of “Death to the Dictator” that haunt him so. In the last few days he’s been telephoning opposition journalists and intellectuals, telling them to give it up, and the preparations for the crackdown have gone so far as to replace the traditional plastic garbage cans in Tehran–in which demonstrators have been setting fires to combat tear gas–with metal ones. I don’t understand the point of that, but I’m sure it annoys the sanitation workers, who will now have to heist much heavier containers.
Meanwhile, the purge of journalists and activists continues. Since June 12th, the regime has arrested slightly more than 11,000 people, more than 3,000 of whom are still in those nightmare cells. Executions continue at a regular tempo, as does torture.
The Greens expect the regime to go all out on Thursday. The leaders believe they will be arrested on Friday, and are prepared for it. In his recent interview Mousavi remarked that a large number of his best friends were in prison, and he was sad not to be with them.
He also said that the Green Movement did not depend on his leadership, or anyone else’s.
That theory may be about to be tested by Ali Khamenei, starting Thursday.
Something economic.
I urge all FReepers to set up a Twitter account Today. Once you have a Twitter account, you can follow the 22Bahman happenings at the Twitter thread #IranElection. In addition, this site http://onlymehdi.saharkhiz.net/ will be posting some news of the goings on in Tehran during the day. I follow several Twitterers in Tehran and during the Ashura riots in December, they were posting pictures and videos in nearly real time. I understand the Mullahs have curtailed texting and internet access already this week in an attempt to stop the flow of pics, videos, and live reports from the streets, but the brave Iranian people will find a way around this.
There's been mention on the FR Threat Matrix Messagethread that perhaps these Iranian pronouncements about Feb.11 will materialize in a major EMP event.
I am curious, however, if perhaps, the Persians have "awoken" multiple sleeper cells already in the USA and that they are about to conduct a SERIES of many multiple attacks in areas all across our nation, involving both biological contaminants and dirty bombs.
Personally, I don't think that Iran has the capability to create a massive EMP, not yet, anyway.
But if these religious fundamentalists can successfully provoke a U.S. military attack against Iran, then the current leadership in Tehran might believe that they can successfully unite the populace against The Great Satan.
And since BHO is so concilliatory towards all things Persia.... they will have to conduct MASSIVE DAMAGE across America to provoke ANY type of military response.
I hear he’s going to make in snow in Dallas.
Yeah, something like that. I'm most bothered by the neutered response,that this administration will have.
Except that they just did this. While it got some coverage, most of the American sheep didn't give a damn the first time. A second time will have no psychological impact on the west.
Although they could do this in conjunction with a large-scale terror attack and the crackdown would give them some plausible deniability ("no, no, we were referring to this, not that")-- which is all you really need in a world full of Neville Chamberlains.
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Berlin, June 21 1941.
Herr Hitler, today reiterated the friendship between
Germany and the Soviet Union.
While at the same time calling communism
a blight on free Germans
everywhere, the Chancellor said a great blow
would be struck against the untermenchen and
slavic occupiers on the 22 of June.
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
And Barry Sotero will blame it on the failings of the Bush Administration and the misguided policies of the past 10 years.
Excellent article!
Thanks for asking I forgot how many hours ahead they are
and if he does something to undermine the oil lines...
I agree. It’s an attention grabber, not merely bluster. Reminds me of the carnival on Heroes
Barry and Hillary are probably drafting a strong letter of condemnation as we speak. Reagan would have said - “OK we start bombing in 10 minutes”.
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