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Defiant Iran pledges to ramp up missile program, in challenge for Obama
Reuters ^ | January 2, 2016 | By BOZORGMEHR SHARAFEDIN

Posted on 01/02/2016 6:56:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A series of Iranian officials vowed on Friday to expand Tehran's missile capabilities, a challenge to the United States which has threatened to impose new sanctions even as the vast bulk of its measures against Iran are due to be lifted under a nuclear deal.

"As long as the United States supports Israel we will expand our missile capabilities," the Revolutionary Guards' second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

"We don't have enough space to store our missiles. All our depots and underground facilities are full," he said in Friday Prayers in Tehran.

Defence Minister Hossein Dehqan said Iran would boost its missile program and had never agreed to restrictions on it.

"Iran's missile capabilities have never been the subject of negotiations with the Americans and will never be," he was quoted as saying by Press TV, an Iranian state channel.

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1 posted on 01/02/2016 6:56:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"As long as the United States supports Israel we will expand our missile capabilities," the Revolutionary Guards' second-in-command, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency.

I think Salami is full of Baloney

2 posted on 01/02/2016 6:58:25 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The deal was already sealed with Obama's approval.

Iran will send one or more nukes out and folks like Obama will use it to impose even more despotic controls over the People because it's really all our fault for not kissing his corroded ring.

3 posted on 01/02/2016 6:59:25 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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I don’t know of anything Iran has that is subject to negotiation as long as this U.S. Administration has authority.


4 posted on 01/02/2016 6:59:56 AM PST by taterjay
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Iran was doing this anyway.


5 posted on 01/02/2016 7:06:49 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What a deal that Iran Deal turned out to be, eh? Just as we knew it would. We have a ringer in the WH...


6 posted on 01/02/2016 7:11:18 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Iran owns obama. It doesn't really matter if obama is secretly a Muslim (I think there's a very good chance he is) or if he is merely a Muslim sympathizer (I am sure he is) and would do anything he can to help his Muslim brothers...

No, even if you set that aside Iran still owns him and his admin. They (bammy and his cohorts in crime) have shouted far and wide that we should make the nuclear deal with Iran because they can be trusted, they're operating in good faith, they really don't want to destroy their neighbors etc. etc. So there is no way the admin can do an about face and push for sanctions or really say very much of anything negative about Iran without having to backpedal on their signature nuclear deal that they put so much political capital into.

It was actually a very shrewd tactic by Iran, and the naive and wishful-thinking led bammy and crew fell for it. Iran waved the big bad nuclear shtick in front of them, looked like they were ready to deal and give bammy a much-needed legacy claim... So they went for it whole-hog like the babes in the woods (in terms of international relations anyway) that they are. Now Iran merely has to push on with their missile program. bammy and crew look like fools. bammy and crew either have to back off, or reverse themselves. Either way, Iran looks strong at home and to their supporters and to terrorists around the globe. Iran wins, basically no matter what bammy does now.

7 posted on 01/02/2016 7:12:44 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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< "We don't have enough space to store our missiles. All our depots and underground facilities are full," he said in Friday Prayers in Tehran.

one well placed C-4 pack and it won't be in a matter of secs and your chamber will be emptied. Ya gotta love loudmouths like this....

8 posted on 01/02/2016 7:14:51 AM PST by jsanders2001
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I'd say he's a lot more Muslim than he is Christian:


9 posted on 01/02/2016 7:19:22 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not to worry, I’m sure the Jugeared Jihadi will scrounge up a few trillion more for our jizzya payment.


10 posted on 01/02/2016 7:20:24 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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Time to quit playing patsy with Iran, blow them away.


11 posted on 01/02/2016 7:24:04 AM PST by DaveA37
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If this clown spent as much time making it difficult for the nations that are our enemies as he does for the citizens of this nation, we would be far better off.


12 posted on 01/02/2016 7:34:11 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"They Don't Defy Me--
I'm On Their Side.
Death to America!"


13 posted on 01/03/2016 11:24:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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