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Iranian general: War with the US would be 'no big deal'
[TIMESOFISRAEL] Two top Iranian generals on Thursday taunted the United States, saying the much-discussed military option to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities is "ridiculous," that Washington knows it can't be done, and that their country "welcomes war with the US."
That's what Tojo said.
The saber rattling came as Western powers prepared to sit down for another round of negotiations with Iran to reach an agreement on putting curbs on Iran's nuclear program.

Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in an interview on state-run television that a battle with the US would only serve to highlight Iran's strengths.

"We welcome war with the US as we do believe that it will be the scene for our success to display the real potentials of our power," he said, according to a report by the semi-official Fars news agency. "We have prepared ourselves for the most dangerous scenarios and this is no big deal."
A certain Mr. Saddam Hussein used also to think in that vein, once upon a time. Sometime thereafter he thought differently. One does wonder what his followers think now, those still trying desperately to maintain their footing in the Hell that is the ISIS caliphate.
Salami threatened that Iran would strike any airbase used as a launch-pad for a strike on his country.

"We warn their pilots that their first flight [to attack Iran] will be their last one and no one will be allowed to go back safe and sound," he warned.

The commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, gave similarly belligerent warning during a ceremony in the city of Semnan, in the north of the country. Jafari reasoned that if the West really thought it could attack Iran at will, it would have done so already; instead world powers "kneel" before Iranian might, he boasted.

"The military option that the Westerners speak of constantly is ridiculous and they know that if the military option could have produced any result, they would have already used it many times, and today they have shifted their focus to other types of threats and to the soft war front," Jafri said.
Posted by: Fred 2015-05-08
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