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US within our military range: Iran
2007-09-18
Iran’s military has the capacity to strike American interests in the Middle East to a range of 2,000 kilometres, a top general in the elite Revolutionary Guards warned on Monday. “Today the Americans are around our country but this does not mean that they are encircling us. They are encircled themselves and are within our range,” General Mohammad Hassan Koussechi told the official IRNA news agency. “If the United States is saying that they have identified 2,000 targets in Iran, then what is certain is that it is the Americans who are all around Iran and are equally our targets. “Today... we have reached capacities that allow us to hit the enemy at a range of 2,000 kilometres,” added Koussechi.
Posted by:Fred

#15  If only PsyOps would hire Zenster and 3dc as planning consultants! (I can imagine every single telephone and computer going off at once, with the message, "The Twelfth Imam wants you to go out into the street and prostrate yourself NOW!")

/a girl can dream, can't she?
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-09-18 18:17  

#14  In the propaganda area maybe Russia's big fuel air bombs make sense. One blown up in the desert but visible from either Qom or Tehran would require lots of face saving by NutJob.

Something close enough that it lights up the night.

Maybe even a couple at high altitude. Visible but too high for much if any damage. Deny everything - suggest meteors. Mumble about Allan being upset.


Or, release some barium in the upper atm. over Iran and play video on it with some major lasers...

Start with a US Marines ad and work it from there.
Posted by: 3dc   2007-09-18 17:16  

#13  "Now that they've got us right where we want them."

Jeez, Is everyone a "Bhagdad Bob" in the muzzie mideast?

Yes, and it is a severe failing of the West that we do not routinely expose the abject lies of their rhetoric. These spittle spewers continually inflame the public thereby entrenching completely false perceptions and expectations. I doubt few Muslims comprehend the immense danger their leadership steers them towards. We need to detonate a few nuclear devices in unoccupied areas to make this point. Remember the photo of KSM, all dishevelled and ill-shorn? That is the sort of demeaning and humiliating treatment Islamic figureheads must be given at every turn.

When Ahmadinejad says "they will never strike Iranian soil", lob in a cruise missile later that afternoon to falsify his blather. The West has absolutely ZERO concept of how potent propaganda is in high context Muslim cultures. Think WWII Japan.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-18 15:22  

#12  And we have recently sunk 2 carriers all by ourselves: the Oriskany off the coast of Florida to become an artifical reef ( filmed by the Discoery channel with some really neat 'hangarcam shots filling with water) and the America; somewhere off the East Coast in an effort to understand the damage a carrier to take. The location and results, to my knowledge, are very tightly controlled (for obvious reasons)
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-09-18 14:43  

#11  
A word to the Iranians: If your enemy is in range, so are you!
Posted by: Natural Law   2007-09-18 13:51  

#10  Does anyone see the irony here?:

“Today the Americans are around our country but this does not mean that they are encircling us."
Posted by: Gleck Unavising7367   2007-09-18 09:00  

#9  Shahabs are ballistic missiles without the targeting capability to hit a carrier. The real threat to ships is Chinese Silkworm anti-ship missiles from Iranian small boats.
Posted by: Spot   2007-09-18 08:28  

#8  There hasn't been a US carrier sunk by enemy action since USS Bismarck Sea in February of 1945 -- and that was an escort carrier. The last fleet carrier lost to enemy action was Hornet in 1942.

The Shahab is an improved Scud (which is, itself, not much more advanced than a V-2). I can't imagine you could hit a moving target with one.
Posted by: Mike   2007-09-18 08:13  

#7  no US carrier has ever been sunk in war!

Lexington, Yorktown, Saratoga... Oh, I get it! these were confederate carriers!
Posted by: JFM   2007-09-18 07:46  

#6  Jeez, Is everyone a "Bhagdad Bob" in the muzzie mideast?
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-09-18 07:33  

#5  Sorry, I stand corrected; I have been informed that it is virtually impossible for a shahab to sink a carrier even with a direct hit, and that no US carrier has ever been sunk in war! Still, my thought of "W"'s allowing his Admirals and Generals to 'remedy' the situation is still frightening!!
Posted by: smn   2007-09-18 05:21  

#4  I spat up parts of my cup of coffee pondering how "W" would react to just one direct hit and sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by a shahab losing all 6,000 men! I didn't want to go there.
Posted by: smn   2007-09-18 04:52  

#3  Wonder what they'll say if they develop a Shahab 4.
Posted by: gorb   2007-09-18 03:48  

#2  Moud=Radical Iran feeling the heat from Dubya's Regional-Global entrenchin' and containin'.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-09-18 02:32  

#1  But will the Iranians take escalating destruction? They will turn on the Ayatollahs.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-09-18 00:51  

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