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| Iranian official threatens U.S. (AGAIN) |
| 2004-05-29 |
| (Here they go again, pushing all the buttons at once) Suicide, missile attacks are ready ’to strike at Anglo-Saxon culture’ An official of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has threatened the United States and other Western nations with suicide and missile attacks aimed at 29 sensitive sites. "Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from (The longer we delay in removing this global threat, the harder it shall be.) He also threatened to "take over" Britian. The paper reported "an Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called The Brigades of the Shahids of the Global Islamic Awakening to replace the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Department of Liberation and Revolutionary Movements, which had been in charge of helping and training revolutionary forces across the world." A source close to the Revolutionary Guards intelligence confirmed confirmed the establishment of a new office that has begun registering the names of suicide volunteers to be sent to Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, the London paper said. In a tape of the speech obtained by the paper, the official spoke of Tehran’s "secret strategy" aimed at taking over the Arab and Muslim countries by means of helping revolutionary forces and organizations." The official, identified only with the initials H.A., has published a number of works on exporting the Islamic revolution and struggling against the U.S. "In his speech at a secret conference attended by students who are members of the Ansar Hizbullah movement at Al-Hussein University, the official harshly criticized reformist President Muhammad Khatami and his "dubious idea" of dialogue between civilizations. "We do not want to take over the British Embassy, since [the British] have already cleared the embassy of documents; we must take over Britain [itself]," he said. "The West sees us as terrorists, and depicts our strategy as terrorism and repression," the officials continued. "Had our youth agreed to Khatami’s teachings and interpretations, it would never have fought the arrogance [U.S.], and would never have defended the holy places — because Khatami speaks always of being conciliatory, of patience, and of rejecting terrorism, while we defend [the line of] toughness and war against the enemies of revolutionary Islam. I take pride in my actions that cause anxiety and fear to the Americans... ’Haven’t the Jews and the Christians achieved their progress by means of toughness and repression? We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization and for the uprooting of the Americans and the English. Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as soon as the instructions arrive from leader [’Ali Khamenei], we will launch our missiles at their cities and installations. Our motto during the war [in Iraq] was: Karbala, we are coming, Jerusalem, we are coming. And because of Khatami’s policies and dialogue between the civilizations, we have been compelled to freeze our plan to liberate the Islamic cities. And now we are [again] about to carry out the program." Later in his speech, the official declared "the global infidel front is a front against Allah and the Muslims, and we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front, by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them." He emphasized, "If Israel dares attack the [nuclear] installations at Bushehr, our losses will be very low, because [only] one structure will be destroyed -- while we have means of attacking Israel’s nuclear facilities and arsenals such that no trace of Israel will remain." The previous day, according to MEMRI, Iranian sources had statements on the same issue. At a ceremony marking the four-year anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Ali Akbar Makhatashemi-Pour, reformist MP and secretary-general of the International Committee for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada, called on Muslim countries to open their borders with Iraq to troops of Muslim martyrdom bombers. "We, the Muslim countries, must create a storm front against the U.S. and Israel," he said. "The half-million member organization that was created in Beirut [Hezbollah] is not sufficient. Many young Muslims are willing to carry out martyrdom operations against the American Crusaders." According to the Iranian reformist paper Sharq, the Persian-language Ruydad website cited Hezbollah-Iran activist Forouz Rajaii-Far saying "martyrdom operations are the only option to expel the Americans and British from Iraq." Rajaii-Far said a Basij activist from Elm Vasonaat University in Iran acknowledged a group calling itself the "To Karbala Battalion" was sent Thursday to Karbala to fight the coalition forces. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #14 Relax, WND says that US is returning to the client-state (strong-man) policy of the Cold War. Actually, a non-corrupt, pro-West Iraqi leader who is sufficiently secular to toss Wahabis and Khomenis is mass graves is better than the status quo: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38701 THANK ME! |
| Posted by: Dog Bites Trolls 2004-05-29 3:18:52 AM |
| #13 Riverdog - Yeah - describe for them how just one MIRVed shot can be a decap strike for the Mad Mullahs, Thug Guards, Rubber-Stamp Council, and a few of their bases... Now if Tenet hasn't completely dropped the ball, tipping time could be at hand. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-29 9:17:11 PM |
| #12 It bears repeating, especially since Iran is threatening with ballistic missiles now: we can settle this with OUR missiles from one missile patch in Kansas. Perhaps we should tell them that. A simple report that our supposedly-untargeted ICBMs are now targeted against "selected military targets and targets of Iranian national command authority" would curdle their blood. Two can play this game, and our threat is more credible than theirs. |
| Posted by: Rivrdog 2004-05-29 8:52:38 PM |
| #11 Lucky I'ma worried that I ma begin undersanding you. The dragoons dead, killed by St. George not the fake religon man moohamed. mohammed was a liar there is no god named allah nor should it be capitalized |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-29 3:58:07 PM |
| #10 Is anyone else beginning to feel that maybe America should just take possession of those super-holy Shiite shrines in Iraq and hold them as material hostages until Iran completely dismantles its nuclear I'm bloody fed up with these morons fanning the Middle East's flames without having a hair turned on their own beturbaned heads. It's time for Iran to pay the piper for all the havoc they continually wreak upon other nations. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-29 12:25:18 PM |
| #9 "Why is it this kind of raving never hits the mainline media?" I saw it on at least one of the cable new networks last night. Sounds like they're plenty scared - good! That Karbala and Jerusalem thing worked out great for them 20 years ago, huh? |
| Posted by: VAMark 2004-05-29 9:57:53 AM |
| #8 OT: "Gunmen Attack Saudi Foreigner Compounds 11 minutes ago RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Gunmen opened fire Saturday in separate attacks on compounds in eastern Saudi Arabian city of Khobar, Western diplomats said. Witnesses spoke of at least one attack on a compound where foreigners worked for an oil company. There were three separate shooting attacks on housing compounds in Khobar, according to a Western diplomat. Two security guards were believed to be dead, he said on condition of anonymity. Saudi Interior Ministry officials could not be immediately reached for comment. According to witnesses in Khobar, four gunmen wearing military-style uniforms attacked a compound near a petroleum company. Security cordoned off the area, they said, also speaking on condition of anonymity." This situation has been going on since 7:am this morning. In one compound these mother fuckers went around looking for westerners to kill. They were hunting westerners! Rumors say that among the westerners killed are children. 3 compounds are under siege as we speak right now. For the people here : do me a great favor and the first westerner appeaser you see today beat the shit out him! |
| Posted by: Anonymous4617 2004-05-29 3:28:42 AM |
| #7 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted] |
| Posted by: Dog Bites Trolls TROLL 2004-05-29 3:18:52 AM |
| #6 After reading Howell Raines self-justifying essay in last month's Atlantic, I believe that the reasoning of the press elites goes something like this: * There is a cycle of violence in the Middle East. * If I were to publish the anti-American screeds of the Islamists, I would only help perpetuate the cycle of violence by giving (bigots, neo-cons, blue-collar jingoists who read the Post) the ammunition they need to further their own violent agenda. * Therefore, by not publishing (OBL's declaration of war, an independent translation of Arafat's latest speech, threats from the Mullah's) I am helping break the cycle of violence. I think that we've established by now that the "cycle of violence" analogy is a pretty crappy one. But these geniuses don't get it. The funny thing is, most of these guys are pretty aggressive in their own careers. I'm sure that they've all left a few bodies along their career paths. Well screw 'em anyway. The whole paradigm of national news outlets molding mass opinion is rapidly reaching the end of its life. I'm not entirely sure what the next paradigm looks like, but I suspect it will be something a lot like Rantburg, with no news report left unchallenged for bias, facts, and sources. Consensus will be formed through debate, not "molded" by biased editors. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2004-05-29 2:23:25 AM |
| #5 SteveS, an open threat of war, yes. But since Pres Carter, may he build a house, they don't care. Nobody has a dog in the fight yet. Iran is a funky nut. It may be the place that puts the knife in islam or it may be the place that puts the knife in islams bloody hand. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-29 2:04:12 AM |
| #4 The "To Karbala Battalion", is that an islamic brigade? Sent by allan (via the mulaahhs) to avenge the hole in the "Holy Moskke of the Dragon that was Slayed There". An 8.3 on the dragon meter. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-29 1:57:35 AM |
| #3 Maybe I'm just simple and naive, but this sounds an awful lot like a declaration of war. You don't suppose this has any relation to that 7 carrier 'exercise' mentioned in another rantburg item? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2004-05-29 1:24:23 AM |
| #2 As with other similar breaking news, if they covered this type of ranting the 'liberal' mass-media would be forced to eat their own appeasement. Those Islamic fanatics engaged in the raving & the deeds, never had better friends than the leftwing media of today. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-29 1:12:42 AM |
| #1 Why is it this kind of raving never hits the mainline media? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-29 12:45:38 AM |