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Iran threatens to target US bases if attacked
2012-06-02
Iran has warned the United States not to resort to military action against it, saying US bases in the region were vulnerable to the Islamic Republic's missiles, state media reported on Saturday.
Their missile bases likewise are vulnerable to us. If you can hit us, we can hit you...
The comments by a senior Iranian military commander were an apparent response to US officials who have said Washington was ready to use military force to stop what it suspects is Iran's goal to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

"The politicians and the military men of the United States are well aware of the fact that all of their bases (in the region) are within the range of Iran's missiles and in any case ... are highly vulnerable," Press TV reported Brigadier-General Yahya Rahim Safavi as saying.

Safavi is a military adviser to Iran's clerical Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and was until 2007 the commander in chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the force that protects Iran's Islamic system of governance.

He also warned that Iranian missiles could reach all parts of Israel but played down any possibility of military action against his country as "faint" because of the current economic condition of the United States.
Posted by:tipper

#2  Again, IMO Iran desires to isolate any US or US-led Coalition NAVFORS = Nuclear CVNS, USMC Amphibs, Allied to the Sea of Oman + beyond AMAP ALAP AFAP where Iran can make maxi use of its LR Air, Missle, Nuke-WMDS? Firepower.

Iff it survives any Iran first or preemptive strike(s), the US Fifth Fleet at Bahrain will prob come under LT Siege ala 1942 BATAAN-CORREGIDOR.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-02 22:11  

#1  Wasn't Sadaam talking the same sh*t right before the first gulf war?
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2012-06-02 18:35  

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