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MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH BIO-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Oct 2000
time: 07:36
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Iran promises retaliation if Israel attacks
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran
Iran's top nuclear negotiator warned Israel on Tuesday that his
country would certainly retaliate if the Jewish state were to attack
Iranian nuclear facilities.
Israel and the United States suspect Iran is secretly building
nuclear weapons under cover of a nuclear program to produce
electricity. In the past, Israel has said it will not allow Iran to
build a nuclear bomb. In 1981, Israeli fighter-bombers destroyed a
nuclear reactor that was under construction outside Baghdad because
it feared Iraq would acquire a nuclear weapon.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said last month Iran was a
threat to Israel, "maybe the main existential threat."
In an interview with state television, Iran's chief negotiator on
nuclear affairs, Hasan Rowhani, warned that an Israeli attack would
have severe consequences.
"Israel knows our hands are well equipped," Rowhani said. "If such
an incident happens, it will meet a resolute response from our
side."
Rowhani did not explain what he meant by saying Iran was "well
equipped," but Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said in December that
Iran would strike back with long-range missiles if Israel were to
attack its nuclear facilities.
Shamkhani said Iran's Shahab-3 missile, which has a range of about
1,300 kilometers (810 miles), would be one of the weapons used.
Israel is about 965 kilometers (600 miles) west of Iran.
Suspicion of Israel and its agents is pervasive in Iran. On
Saturday, Iran's armed forces closed the new Imam Khomeini
International Airport on its first day of scheduled flights. Citing
security concerns, the armed forces spoke of possible links between
Israel and a Turkish company that has a contract to operate the
airport. The Turkish company rejected the allegation.
Turkey does have military links with Israel.
Iran is building its first nuclear reactor, which is expected to
come on stream next year. It has been criticized by the
International Atomic Energy Agency for failing to disclose certain
aspects of its nuclear program. Iran has promised to cooperate fully
with IAEA inspectors and insists its program is only for peaceful
purposes.
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Kontiki
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Canada
Aug 2001
time: 00:36
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Shocking news! If one country unilaterally attacks another, the country being attacked may retaliate!
Are there people that are expecting Iran to issue a statement saying "sure, come and bomb us. We don't care and certainly won't do anything about it"?
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Cruddy
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Sava, you don't remember the tanker war of the mid 80s.
Over 100 tankers were attacked in 1 year alone.
Come to think of it, that period was the last big peak for oil prices... so add that situation into the current one and you've got an even bigger mess.
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Cruddy
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quote:
Originally posted by Sava
I don't doubt it would be a mess... but I can guarantee that Iran's "Navy" would be toast if it messed with America. |
But the object of this thread isn't Iran messing with America. It's Israel messing with Iran, and the likely consequences.
You want more martyrs? Fine. Just be prepared for the gas price to go up and the coffins to be flown home.
And, when the US has failed to change the Iranian regime, lost it's foothold in Iraq, turned the whole Middle East into one big anti-western block buying every gun, bomb and missile that China and NK can make...
...don't say you were not warned about it.
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:36
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quote:
NO, they didn't. The point is that it was America's TANKS and GROUNDTROOPS, NOT the airforces that beat Saddam twice. Hence your point, that an airwar alone is enough, is WRONG. In fact, we can go with the whole SERBIA example for you...something you barely ever even mention... |
I'm not talking about gaining control of Iran on the ground or occupying it... an air war would be more than enough to punish Iran. All of their conventional equipment (tanks, planes) could be targeted, any command and control facilities, anti-air/radar sites, power plants, industrial facilities... all of it could be turned into rubble which would undoubtly leave Iran screwed.
I'm not here arguing that this SHOULD be the course of action... I'm merely stating what I believe what would happen if Iran decided to go to the next level. For a normally sharp guy Gepap, you seem to be lost in the dark on this one.
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GePap
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of the Big Apple
Nov 2001
time: 23:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Sava
I'm not talking about gaining control of Iran on the ground or occupying it... an air war would be more than enough to punish Iran. All of their conventional equipment (tanks, planes) could be targeted, any command and control facilities, anti-air/radar sites, power plants, industrial facilities... all of it could be turned into rubble which would undoubtly leave Iran screwed.
I'm not here arguing that this SHOULD be the course of action... I'm merely stating what I believe what would happen if Iran decided to go to the next level. For a normally sharp guy Gepap, you seem to be lost in the dark on this one. |
Hello! Do you rember Serbia? We bombed Serbia for 70 days plus trying to get them to give in- in those 70 days we failed. Most of their equipment was not destroyed, nor command and control. Whic is what you claim we can do.
The effectiveness of the campaign you believe us capable of can only come based on the amount of intelligence we have- decoy tanks, or placing vehicles in strcutures and such deceptions work. All the Iranians have to do is move vehicles to areas in which stuff can be hidden easily (much like the serbs stuck tanks in rail tunnels), and if we can;t see it, we can;t hit it. C3 is even easier to move, just move it into civilian buildings, or unknown underground bunkers, so forth.
As for attacks on civilian infrastructure-that is another level issue. But of course, the political fallout from doing something so monumentally stupid as to attack the civlian and economic infrastructure of another sovereing state by us is such that it would rule out such an action from the get go.
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11-05-2004 20:20
What is Iran going to do? If it retaliates, surely the US will step in. I guess Bush would then have an excuse to invade Iran. Oh well... it should make for interesting news.
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