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| 'No US troop survives if Iran is attacked' |
| 2010-04-09 |
| Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has warned the US against making any military moves on the Islamic Republic. Firouzabadi said that if the United States attacks Iran, none of the American troops in the region will go back home alive. "If the US seriously threatens Iran and takes an action against Iran, none of the US soldiers in the region will return to America alive," Fars news agency quoted him as saying on Thursday. Firouzabadi made the remarks in reaction to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said on Tuesday that Washington was keeping "all options" on the table for dealing with Iran and North Korea. "If there is a message for Iran and North Korea here, it is that if you're going to play by the rules, if you're going to join the international community, then we will undertake certain obligations to you," AFP quoted Gates as saying. Firouzabadi also said if the US takes action against Iran, the threats it would face increase exponentially and its economic problems skyrocket. "If the US seriously threatens Iran and takes an action against Iran, the threats against it will become a thousand times more, its economic problems will increase and it will lose more markets," he said. Firouzabadi's speech comes a day after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned Washington's latest nuclear policy. The policy authorizes the use of nuclear arms against nations which violate the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Obama's mention of Iran is despite the fact that there is no credible evidence indicating Iran is violating the NPT. In response to the new nuclear strategy, Ahmadinejad lambasted the plan and advised his US counterpart not to repeat the "past mistakes" of the previous US governments. "I advise Mr Obama to be careful. If he tries to follow in the footsteps of Mr [George W.] Bush, the response of the [Iranian] nation will be the same crushing response they gave to Bush," President Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh. The 50-page "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR) issued by the US administration was released on Tuesday. It purportedly restricts the use of US nuclear arms against some non-nuclear countries. The new NPR by the Obama Administration restricts the use of US nuclear arms against some non-nuclear countries. Countries that "from the US perspective" do not comply with the NPT will be at risk of a possible nuclear attack. The US has repeatedly accused Iran of failing to meet its obligations defined in the NPT -- an allegation categorically denied by Tehran. Iran was among the original countries that signed the NPT, a global pact aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons across the globe. Tehran says its nuclear work is monitored by the UN nuclear watchdog and is conducted in accordance with the NPT. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 No worries, Zero doesn't have the cojones to hit Iran with anything beyond empty rhetoric. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-04-09 20:17 |
| #2 A few quotes from Bahgdad Bob are in order just to put mideast threats into perspective. Replace Iraq with Iran and Bahgdad with Tehran where appropriate: "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" "My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all" "Our initial assessment is that they will all die" "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis." 'We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back." "Surrender or be burned in their tanks." "No I am not scared and neither should you be!" "We have them surrounded in their tanks" Britain "is not worth an old shoe." Of U.S. troops: "They are most welcome. We will butcher them." "We will welcome them with bullets and shoes." "Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire" "These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying" "They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-09 11:34 |
| #1 Versus NEWS KERALA > NEW US BALLISTIC MISSLE WITH CONVENTIONAL WARHEAD CAN STRIKE ANYWHERE IN THE WOLRD IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR. and WMF > US MISSLE BARRAGE AGZ CHINA? OBAMA'S NUCLEAR PLAN DOES NOT LIMIT MASSIVE US MISSLE SRIKES WITH CONVENTIONAL WARHEADS. Which is prolly why RUSSIA is repor again harschly criticizing US GMD-TMD as dterimentally effecting the new US-RUSS START Agreement signed just today??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-09 02:08 |