A top security official accused the United States Thursday of seeking to undermine Iran's clerical regime by stoking sectarian and ethnic tensions in the country and using newspapers and non-governmental agencies toward that goal. "A soft threat is the main plan of the US due to its incapability to launch a military operation [against Iran,]" Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
Evidently he hasn't seen our full inventory. | Zolqadr, whose comments came in a speech he made in Iran's Kurdistan province, said, "The threat is being implemented through the creation of instability and tension inside Iran as well as fanning ethnic and sectarian differences."
I sure hope we're doing this, and doing other stuff you don't even know about. | "The threat is being implemented through the creation of instability and tension inside Iran as well as fanning ethnic and sectarian differences," said Zolqadr.
You mean the Kurds, Balochis, Arabs and Azeris aren't all that excited to be subservient citizens of the Empire of the Medes and Persians? Tusk, tusk. | Earlier Thursday, he said that his country would attack Israel and American targets throughout the world if Teheran were attacked over its nuclear program, Israel Radio reported.
Thanks for the warning, but we knew that already. | According to the official Iranian news agency, the official, who deals with defense issues, said that no American would be safe from Iran's long-range missiles. "We are prepared to fire tens of thousands of these missiles every day," he said.
That's almost, ... KCNA-like. | He added that the Shahab 3 missiles, which have a range of some 2,000 kilometers, could hit Israel, as well as US Army bases in the Persian Gulf.
Funny, we have some long-range missiles too. As do the Israelis. |
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