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| Iran warns US, Britain of reprisals |
| 2006-01-28 |
| Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Saturday warned the United States and Britain that Iran would respond with its missiles if attacked, a clear threat to Israel, which lies within easy range of such a launch. "The world knows Iran has a ballistic missile power with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles)," Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said on state-run television. Iran's improved version of Shihab-3 missile can strike more than 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles) from their launch site, putting Israel and US forces in the Middle East in easy range. "We have no intention to invade any country. We will take effective defense measures if attacked," he said. "These missiles are in the possession of the Guards." "We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that," he said. Iran announced last year that it had fully developed solid fuel technology for missiles, a major breakthrough that increases their accuracy. Safavi also accused US and British intelligence services of provoking unrest in the oil-rich southwestern Iran and providing bomb materials to Iranian dissidents. He said the US and Britain were behind bombings January 21 that killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, near the southern border with Iraq where 8,500 British soldiers are based. "Foreign forces based in Iraq, especially southern Iraq, direct Iranian agents and give them bomb materials," he said. Safavi said Iran was monitoring dissidents and their alleged links with the US and British forces. "We are aware of their meetings in Kuwait and Iraq," he said. "We warn them (US and Britain), especially the MI-6 and CIA, that they refrain from interfering in Iran's affairs." |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #7 Translation: no half measures - hit them hard. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-01-28 18:15 |
| #6 Current US strategic doctrine has this scenario well covered. The Iranians may be busy, but we have been busier. I shall say no more. |
| Posted by: HV 2006-01-28 18:05 |
| #5 WTF? Are they just trying to get us to take them out? I thank God every day I was raised in a Western world with a Western logic and a philosophy of the greater good. It seems as if we will not end this any time soon and my young son will end up there also. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-01-28 17:09 |
| #4 There will be no "holding Israel back" for any provications. The provications are all there and plain to see as the nose on ones face. This international political dance is about to come to an end. The Chinese and Rus really have not calculated Israels reactions very well from what I have read. The election of Hamas, an Iranian client movement, is likely the actual tipping point. Israel really doesn't need a justification anymore. Who is going to attempt to stop them? Us? I think not. Irans throw weight is 0%. Not enough MMs will be left around to carry out any "reprisals" should they decide to lunch any missiles at anyone. Look for an Iranian grab at the oil fields in southern Iraq cloacked as an Shia Iraqi move in the near future. Thats why all the anti-UK forces noise is being made. Greed and stupidity with a huge heap of religious mania. It's not just for breakfast anymore in Iran. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-28 16:52 |
| #3 NOTE THIS: This could be part of their plan. That is, they will pre-emptively launch missiles and claim it is in retaliation to an act of war against them. Also note that the British are foremost in their accusations. This means there is some focus on the British forces in southern Iraq. This could mean something. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-01-28 16:36 |
| #2 squeal litle piggies |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-28 15:54 |
| #1 Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said ... Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard it all before. /Apologies if I violated the no-making-fun-of-names edict. |
| Posted by: Grineting Gliper7504 2006-01-28 15:44 |