A senior official from Iran's Revolutionary Guards hinted his country could retaliate for any US military action linked to the campaign against terrorism by targeting the Gulf's oil infrastructure. Pasdaran second-in-command Mohammad Baghr Zolghadr said that "if total insecurity were to settle over Iran, preventing its oil from being exported, then no other oil in the region would be exported." Quoted by television, Zolghadr said: "If a war breaks out, then the Persian Gulf will be the graveyard of US soldiers and their navy. Iran is not Afghanistan, and a war against us would not last two or three months. The Americans are bawling like drunkards, but with time, they will understand their mistake."Doesn't everybody yet understand, that Iran's current function is to act as a destabilizing
factor, everywhere it makes contact. From Bosnia,
Kosovo, Lebanon; which was the closest to a real
civil society we're likely to see in the Arab Near
East; their part in the TWA 800, the barracks bombings in Beirut & Dhran; and yet they quibble over the axis of evil. It was Chinese supplied Silkworms, (brokered by our good pal Bandar) that
made the Persian Gulf, such a dodgy place. Imagine
Iran with nuclear tipped missiles that could hit
targets in the Southern Mediterranean & the course
of action is clear.
Posted by Anonymous 2/12/2002 10:48:27 AM |