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| Iran Issues More Extensive Missile Threat |
| 2011-06-14 |
| Last Thursday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani — while at the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Indonesia — stated that Iran will use its missiles to defend other Muslim nations if threatened. This is the first time that a high-ranking Iranian official has issued such a warning. In effect, Iran is expanding its defense strategy from protecting their own sovereignty to a “defensive umbrella” over other Islamic nations. Larijani based his argument on what he called “the school of the late Ayatollah Khomeini,” the founder of the Islamic Republic: Muslims should possess enough defensive strength to use against other countries should one of those countries attack. Larijani further stated: We do not hide our defensive advancement and (we) have designed advanced missile systems. … Israel and the U.S. should know that if they want to act violently toward Muslims, we will stand in their way. The Revolutionary Guards have now expanded the reach of their missiles to 2000 miles, which covers the capitals in Western Europe. These missiles are capable of carrying a nuclear payload. Also, through a secret pact with Venezuela which was signed by Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 19 in Tehran, the Guards are constructing a missile installation to be built inside Venezuela with missiles able to reach U.S. shores. The Guards are also actively arming Hezbollah, which now has over 40,000 rockets, and Hamas with over 10,000 rockets. The Guards have stockpiled more than 1,000 ballistic missiles while constantly introducing more advanced models: the recently announced Qiyam 1 missile is difficult for air defense systems to detect. The Guards have also stockpiled hundreds of anti-ship missiles capable of disrupting the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. More and more they are sounding like the Japanese government prior to WWII. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 See also WAFF [related]> IRAN NOW OFFERS A MISSLE UMBRELLA TO FELLOW MUSLIM NATIONS. ARTIC = denotes that ... > Iran's curren arsenal of LRBMS can effec hit ISRAEL, SE EUROPE, + RUSSIA. > VENEZUELA MISLBASE(S) = Iran can strike at CONUS-NORAM targets. > IRAN'S SECONDARY MESSAGE = may strike Any + All Muslim Nations whom are agz its interests + aligned or in support of the US-West e.g. YEMEN, BAHRAIN, + UAE. > IRAN'S MISSLE UMBRELLA = closely resembles tit-for-tat that of the SOVIET UNION/USSR AS PER SOVIET-DOMIN EASTERN EUROPE, ETC. DURING THE COLD WAR, i.e. PROTECTING SOVIET = IRAN-DESIRED HEGEMONY WHILE ALLOWING IT TO PROMOTE + FOSTER PRO-MARXIST/SOVIET, ANTI-US/NATO INSURGENCIES, AGENDUMS ABROAD. > Until the advent of the REAGAN POTUS ADMIN, the Cold War SOVIETS were not deterred by the potent US Strategic Nuc Arsenal from fomenting various Civil Wars + Insurgencies, etc. in Asia, Africa, + Latin America. DITTO RISING NUCLEAR IRAN VEE OBAMA POTUS ADMIN + SUCCESSOR??? IOW, Iran is not going to stop dev andor improving its LRBMS + NucWeaps, Mil Arsenal + C4IRM, etc. warfighting management sys until it achieves PARITY, IFF NOT SUPERIORITY, AGZ THE US-WEST = MEMBERS OF THE WORLD NUCLEAR CLUB!? and * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > WAR COULD HIT NORTH AMERICAN SOIL THUS CENTURY? Irvin Studin, co-author of Canada's 2004 NatSec Policy. ARTIC > STUDIN = believes that ... > US is likely to remain the world's premier strategic power until 2050 - after 2050, US status becoms increasingly uncertain = up for grabs??? > Canada must strive to improve its MilPol standards + capabilities "across-the-board" as over time it may no longer be able to rely on US specific assistance, protection as per its National, Geopol Security. IOW, IIUC OWG-NWO + US-WORLD ECON TROUBLES MAY EFFEC ALTER THE MONROE, ETC. VARIOUS US STRATEGIC DOCTRINES WHEREUPON THE USA WILL NO LONGER UNILATER DETER NOR PREVENT FOREIGN POWERS FROM ASSERTING, OR ATTEMPTING TO ASSERT, [anti-US-Western]POWER + INFLUENCE IN NORTH AMERICA OR ANY IN THE AMERICAS - THE US MAY NO LONGER DESIRE OR BE ABLE TO MILPOL "GUARANTY" THE SECURITY + INTEGRITY OF NORTH-CENTRAL-SOUTH AMERICAS. And by extension nor for ANY of its key Allies elsewhere around the World. "Atlanticism" + "Pacific-ism", etc. may be no more??? IMO STUDIN'S TIMELINE = could likely be SHORTER than 2050 depending on the state of RADICAL ISLAM'S, OTHER ANTI-US/WESTERN MILTERR NUCLEARIZATION E.G. IRAN'S UNSTOPPABLE "NUCLEAR TRAIN" COMMENT. AGain, Iran is unlikely to formally declare itself a NucWeaps State until such time its MilTerr proxies also have "sufficient/minimal" Nuke-WMDS capabilities, for effec deterrence + mil counterresponse agz US-ISRAELI-NATO = UNO,UNSC attack. * SAME > PANETTA BACKS [Conventional] PROMPT GLOBAL STRIKE CAPABILITY. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-15 00:25 |
| #4 Read, Paleos = PA State, Syria = Assad regime, Shiite Militias in Iraq, Shia rebels in Bahrain, seemingly new BFF PAKISTAN = AFPAK. Perhaps most ominiously, the troubled CAUCASUS REGIONS OF ECON-TROUBLED NUCLEAR RUSSIA??? * ARTIC = "Most importantly, Iran's Leaders believe that the time for a WORLD WIDE ISLAMIC STATE is at hand". Read, the ME, North AFrica "JASMINE" UPRISINGS. D *** NG IT, ANOTHER SHOCKER THIS AM - NOT! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-14 20:37 |
| #3 Iran will use its missiles to defend other Muslim nations if threatened. A spectacularly unclear statement. Does this mean 1. if other Muslim nations threaten Iran, they will be shot with missiles 2. if Iran is threatened, it will shoot missiles [at someone], thus protecting other Muslim nations 3. if other Muslim nations are threatened, Iran will shoot missiles at the threatener Perhaps there are other possible interpretations. One hopes it is only the translation which is so ambiguous, not the statement in the original Farsi. A thought: has it occurred to the rulers of Iran to ask whether the prospective protectees want or accept Iranian protection? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-14 19:21 |
| #2 "the recently announced Qiyam 1 missile is difficult for air defense systems to detect" Apparently it stays on the ground. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2011-06-14 17:44 |
| #1 remember: Ali Larijani is the "moderate" former nuke negotiator |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-14 16:58 |