Iran issues stark military warning to United States

[fintstone]

Iran issues stark military warning to United States
Apr 15 4:42 AM

Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States.

"You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime's most powerful figures.

"The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error," he told reporters on the sidelines of a pro-Palestinian conference in Tehran.

The United States accuses Iran of using an atomic energy drive as a mask for weapons development. Last weekend US news reports said President George W. Bush's administration was refining plans for preventive strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," General Safavi said with a grin.

"We have American forces in the region under total surveillance. For the past two years, we have been ready for any scenario, whether sanctions or an attack."

Iran announced this week it had successfully enriched uranium to make nuclear fuel, despite a UN Security Council demand for the sensitive work to be halted by April 28.

The Islamic regime says it only wants to generate atomic energy, but enrichment can be extended to make the fissile core of a nuclear warhead -- something the United States is convinced that "axis of evil" member Iran wants to acquire.

At a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati simply branded the US as a "decaying power" lacking the "stamina" to block Iran's ambitions.

And hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told AFP that a US push for tough United Nations sanctions was of "no importance."

"She is free to say whatever she wants," the president replied when asked to respond to comments by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice highlighting part of the UN charter that provides for sanctions backed up by the threat of military action.

"We give no importance to her comments," he said with a broad smile.

On Thursday, Rice said that faced with Iran's intransigence, the United States "will look at the full range of options available to the United Nations."

"There is no doubt that Iran continues to defy the will of the international community," Rice said, after Iran also dismissed a personal appeal from the UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief must give a report at the end of April on Iranian compliance with the Security Council demand. In Tehran he said that after three years of investigations Iran's activities were "still hazy and not very clear."

Although the United States has been prodding the council to take a tough stand against the Islamic republic, including possible sanctions, it has run into opposition from veto-wielding members Russia and China.

Representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany are to meet in Moscow Tuesday to discuss the crisis.

In seeking to deter international action, Iran has been playing up its oil wealth, its military might in strategic Gulf waters and its influence across the region -- such as in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

At the Tehran conference, Iran continued to thumb its nose at the United States and Israel.


"The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat," Ahmadinejad told the gathering of regime officials, visiting Palestinian militant leaders and foreign sympathizers.

"Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is on the road to being eliminated," said Ahmadinejad, whose regime does not recognise Israel and who drew international condemnation last year when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map."

Unfazed by his critics, the hardliner went on to repeat his controversial stance on the Holocaust.

"If there is serious doubt over the Holocaust, there is no doubt over the catastrophe and Holocaust being faced by the Palestinians," said the president, who had previously dismissed as a "myth" the killing of an estimated six million Jews by the Nazis and their allies during World War II.


"I tell the governments who support Zionism to ... let the migrants (Jews) return to their countries of origin. If you think you owe them something, give them some of your land," he said.

Iran's turbaned supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also accused the United States of seeking to place the entire region under Israeli control.

"The plots by the American government against Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon aimed at governing the Middle East with the control of the Zionist regime will not succeed," Khamenei said.

There was no immediate reaction from Washington, but French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy severely condemned Ahmadinejad for his latest remarks on Israel.

"As I have had occasion to do before, when the Iranian president made similar statements, I condemn these inacceptable remarks in the strongest possible terms," Douste-Blazy said in a statement.

"Israel's right to exist and the reality of the Holocaust should not be disputed," he added.

[Aurel]

See, the french have balls and condemn the evil doer. The americans are just plain scared

Aurel

[fintstone]

Originally posted by Aurel
See, the french have balls and condemn the evil doer. The americans are just plain scared

Aurel

Yes, they did the same with Iraq...but when the time came for action....

[nine_one_4]

Are they employing the former Iraqi information minister? If it takes low-yield nuclear bunker busters to destroy their nuclear program, go for it. And stop trying to win the bugaboos' hearts. Fire bomb their cities or go Nagasaki on their pagan asses.

[Mulhollanddose]

Iran's greatest asset is the DNC and their media arm. I think we should first bomb the DNC, take out ABC/cBS/NBC/CNN; maybe then the propaganda war will be fair for the United States.

[speeder]

Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
Iran's greatest asset is the DNC and their media arm. I think we should first bomb the DNC, take out ABC/cBS/NBC/CNN; maybe then the propaganda war will be fair for the United States.

That's my boy, always thinking "outside the box".....

[Rodeo]

"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," General Safavi said with a grin.

Welcome to the reality of George Bush, year 5. America needs to be prepared for a marathon, and the president has us running at full speed on mile 70 of an ultra right now.

It makes me sick that my country has been weakened so badly, for no reason, that General Safavi can can make his very valid point "with a grin."

[Mulhollanddose]

Originally posted by speeder
That's my boy, always thinking "outside the box".....

Think of it this way; the partisan bickering will stop, the races will begin getting along because there will be no more race-baiters like Cynthia McKinney, people will take responsiblity and no longer be made into victims by the Democrats, less poverty, America's enemies will no longer have an enemy within, gas will be cheaper, taxes will be lower, schools will be better, the IRS will be abolished, illegals will be deported, and there will finally be peace on earth or else we will drop a nuke on you.

[Kevin Powers]

if george w. bush(jesus) could get everyone to get on board, this wouldn't even be an issue.

[fastpat]

Originally posted by fintstone
Yes, they did the same with Iraq...but when the time came for action....

The time for action never came, the US invasion and continued attempt to occupy Iraq was and remains illegal under US and international law.

[fastpat]

Originally posted by nine_one_4
Are they employing the former Iraqi information minister? If it takes low-yield nuclear bunker busters to destroy their nuclear program, go for it. And stop trying to win the bugaboos' hearts. Fire bomb their cities or go Nagasaki on their pagan asses.

Your childish ideas are all illegal.

[fastpat]

Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
Iran's greatest asset is the DNC and their media arm. I think we should first bomb the DNC, take out ABC/cBS/NBC/CNN; maybe then the propaganda war will be fair for the United States.

Fortunately, you don't have the courage to act; and sane, courageous people won't act in such a fashion.

[tabs]

OHHH BOY .......Im' scared ....the USA committed ILLEGAL ACTS.....

[tabs]

Whats FKING NEW PAT...Got something orginal to say instead of rehashing that same old NEW AGE Translation of History you've been bandieing about on these Boards...

[tabs]

I love it when a THIRD RATE military power threatens the USA....I guess we have fallen in the esteem of the world...or in other words how does it feel to be living in a Second Rate country.

[Mulhollanddose]

Originally posted by fastpat
Fortunately, you don't have the courage to act; and sane, courageous people won't act in such a fashion.

I saw what happened to Koresh (innocent of all charges except being a cultist)...no thanks...I am intelligent enough to learn from other people's mistakes.

[fintstone]

Originally posted by tabs
I love it when a THIRD RATE military power threatens the USA....I guess we have fallen in the esteem of the world...or in other words how does it feel to be living in a Second Rate country.

Sadly, it is like Mul said...they have lots of allies right here in the US....right here on this BBS.

[HardDrive]

SO nice to have Mull on the ignore list.

[nostatic]

what exactly do you expect Iran to say? I mean, come on guys...they're supposed to say, "oh, we're sorry for doing something that the US doesn't like...we're scared of your army and will stop right now."

It's called sabre rattling. We've been known to do it on occasion.

And on a related note, why is it that some countries are allowed to have and develop nuclear arms/power, and others are not?

[fastpat]

Originally posted by tabs
I love it when a THIRD RATE military power threatens the USA....I guess we have fallen in the esteem of the world...or in other words how does it feel to be living in a Second Rate country.

I do not rate America by it's military prowess; only a bloodthirsty shadow of a man does that.


In fact, the military activities of the US government are what is bringing America lower, and will ultimately be it's demise unless real Americans don't stop it.