Posted on 10/14/2017 9:27:47 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Iran’s response to President Trump’s decertification of the nuclear deal, teased all week and finally made official on Friday, includes a mixture of belligerent rhetoric, ominous threats, and uncertainty about whether the deal can survive. Belligerent rhetoric poured in for days as decertification became a certainty.
Among the latest examples was Brig. General Esmail Ghaani, deputy commander of the infamous Quds Force, declaring that Iran is ready to “bury” President Trump.
“We are not a war-mongering country. But any military action against Iran will be regretted. … Trump’s threats against Iran will damage America,” Ghaani said to Iran’s Tansim News Agency, as reported by the UK Independent on Friday.
“We have buried many … like Trump and know how to fight against America,” the general added. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was sanctioned as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury Department on Friday, although the State Department did not formally label it a terrorist organization, the harshest measure that could have been taken.
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Oh really? A brief timeline of Iran-sponsored terrorism since 1979:
1979: 52 American diplomats and citizens were taken from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held hostage for 444 days between November 4, 1979 – January 20, 1981 by a group of Iranian students belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam’s Line, supporters of the Iranian Revolution, and with the help of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
1982: Between 1982 and 1992, Iran-backed Hezbollah systematically abducted a total of 96 foreign nationals, including 25 U.S. citizens, during the Lebanon Hostage Crisis. CIA Station Chief William Buckley was among the Americans killed.
1983: On April 18, 1983, an Iran-backed Hezbollah suicide bomber rammed a truck into the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans.
1983: On October 23, 1983, Iran-backed Hezbollah killed 241 Americans in a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy’s Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Over 100 were wounded. The explosion caused what was described as the “largest non-nuclear explosion that had ever been detonated on the face of the Earth,” A separate, and simultaneous, suicide truck bombed and destroyed a building housing French soldiers, leaving 58 French paratroopers dead.
1983: On December 12, 1983, Iran-backed Hezbollah and Iran-backed Shiite group Da’wa bombed the U.S. embassy in Kuwait leaving six dead and ninety injured.
1984: On September 20, 1984, Iran-backed Hezbollah detonated a van carrying explosives outside the U.S. Embassy annex in East Beirut, Lebanon, leaving 24 people dead. Among them were two Americans.
1985: On Friday, June 14, Iran-backed Hezbollah hijacked TWA flight 847, flying from Cairo, Egypt, to San Diego, California, and dumped U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem’s lifeless body onto the runway at the Beirut Airport. The hijackers sought the release of 700 Shi’ite Muslims being held as prisoners in Israel, Kuwait, and Spain.
1987: Hezbollah al-Hejaz, the Saudi-backed branch of Hezbollah, together with the help of the IRGC, carried out two attacks between 1987 and 1988. First, they bombed a gas facility in Ras al-Juaymah, Saudi Arabia, in August 1987. Then, in March 1988, they bombed a petrochemical plant in Jubail and an oil refinery in the Saudi City of Ras Tanura.
1988: United Nations Diplomat Robert Higgins was kidnapped in South Lebanon. Although the exact date of his murder is uncertain, he was declared dead on July 6, 1990.
1989: On July 13, 1989, then Secretary-General of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou was murdered in Vienna, Austria along with two of his associates where he was meeting secretly with Iran’s then-President Hashemi Rafsanjani. Austrian sources have reportedly connected Dr. Ghassemlou’s assassination to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad through the sale of weapons.
1991: On August 8, 1991, Iranian politician Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Iranian prime minister prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, was murdered by Islamic regime operatives.
1992: On March 17, 1992, Iran-backed Hezbollah carried out a suicide bombing on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, leaving 29 people killed and injuring 242 others.
1992: On September 17, 1992, the Iranian regime and then-Minister of Intelligence Ali Fallahian executed the murder of four Iranian Kurds at the Mykonos Café in Greece. The murder also included Dr. Mohammad Sadegh Sharafkandi, then-leader of the KDPI.
1994: On July 18, 1994, the Iranian regime bombed the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, leaving 85 people dead and injuring 300 others. This attack was the deadliest in the history of the Western Hemisphere prior to September 11, 2001.
1996: On June 25, 1996, fourteen members of the Iran-backed Saudi branch of Hezbollah bombed the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, leaving 19 U.S. airmen dead and 372 injured.
2000: On October 7, 2000, Iran-backed Hezbollah forces abducted three Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers from the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon. Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan, and Omar Souad’s bodies were returned to Israel in 2004 in exchange for the release of 400 Palestinian prisoners.
2005: On February 14, 2005, Iran-backed Hezbollah assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, along with 21 others, in an explosion in Beirut.
2006: On July 12, 2006, Iran-backed Hezbollah infiltrated Israel in a raid, killing seven IDF soldiers in a conflict that would continue for a month.
2007: In March 2007, the Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) terrorist group, directed by the IRGC-Quds Force, oversaw an attack that killed five U.S. soldiers in Karbala. The group’s leader, Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, directed this attack.
2007: Sheikh Qais al-Khazali organized the kidnapping of five British men in Iraq.
2009: Certain paramilitary groups in Iraq are affiliated with the IRGC and are engaged in terrorism and crimes against humanity. On June 24, 2009, the State Department designated Kataib Hezbollah (KH), a paramilitary group in Iraq affiliated with the IRGC, a terrorist organization. The group was responsible for attacks on U.S. forces, including the bombing of a U.S. Embassy in Iraq. The group’s head currently reports directly to Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani.
2011: In October 2011, dual U.S.-Iranian citizen Mansoor Arbabsiar and IRGC-Quds Forces commander Gholam Shakuri planned to bomb a restaurant in Washington, D.C., in order to target then Saudi Ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir. The plan was thwarted.
2012: Between February 13 and 14, 2012, members of the IRGC attempted to assassinate the wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi, India. The wife and her driver were injured after the device planted on their car detonated.
2012: In March 2012, IRGC-backed terrorists targeted U.S. and Israeli officials in an Azerbaijan-based terror plot. Arrests prevented the plots from being carried out.
2012: On July 18, 2012, Iran-backed Hezbollah bombed a bus in Bulgaria, killing five Israeli tourists and the bus driver and injuring more than 30 others.
2015: In August 2015, Kuwait foiled an Iran-backed Hezbollah terror plot meant to destabilize Kuwait, which is located to the southeast of Iraq, where Tehran has a heavy presence.
2015: In December 2015, members of Iran-backed Katai’b Hezbollah in Iraq kidnapped 29 Qatari falcon hunters in the Iraqi desert only to release them over a year later in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom.
HE is the one who knocks.
Whistling past the graveyard.
Why can’t an Iranian be circumcised? Because there’s no end to those pri*ks.
No question that the mullahs and their thugs are fundamentally evil. However they are not without assets. In fact ever since they obtained state of the art Chinese made stealthy land to sea missiles ( which featured US designed encrypted guidance systems compliments of Bill Clinton), the Iranians control the Persian Gulf.In the event of shooting , the big capital ships, including the carriers, of the US Navy could not survive in the narrow, shallow Gulf. The US Navy would suffer a debacle worse than Pearl Harbor in less than 15 minutes. Of course the Iranian nation and culture would soon cease to exist, but it would be at great cost and suffering for the American people.
Also it should be understood that the war in Syria will not be resolved until Israel is certain Iran and its allies have been removed. Te Iranians have deployed equally hard to stop mobile medium range stealth missile batteries in forward positions they control in Syria. Absolutely intolerable for the Israelis.
Just like Communism, Islamofascism treat people as meat, to be used or abused. During the Iran-Iraq war the Mullahs used small children to ‘clear’ mine fields. They would first indoctrinate the children in their twisted religion and then give them a plastic key to wear around their necks. These were the keys to heaven. They would then force them to walk through the mine fields. Creepozoids All.
bttt
I’d bet Saudi Arabia would love to lend us a hand against the Iranians.
Um, sure. I met Mike Tyson in a bar one night, and he mouthed me off, so I smacked him a couple of times and told him to leave. He went off in tears. Sure.
Name one, chimp.
He is correct in one respect: Iran does not want a real war with a real power. They prefer to use terrorists who hide among non-combatant women and children.
Isn’t Tehran where the bulk of the Iranians live?
Methinks Persia could be a great nation again. How?
Get rid of the mullahs.
Or, Persia could be turned into a glass parking lot.
5.56mm
I like the second option, better.
DD
And abandon Islam altogether.
May their rhetoric come back on their heads seven-fold.
YOU ever wonder why there very few (or even never) any Muslim
attacks on the Chinese?
While working with an Engineer from China years ago, I was told the following and I can say that so far, it is the Truth: Per the Chinese Engineer; “ His Country told the Muslim leaders....
” For every one of ours ..... We’ll give you 10,000 of yours!””
Bkmk
The Iran deal violated American law (never properly ratified). It is already DOA.
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