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| Israel downplays Iranian threat to fire 600 missiles |
| 2007-09-18 |
| Israeli officials are treating Iran's latest claims that it has 600 Shihab-3 missiles aimed at targets throughout the country the same way it treated Teheran's claims last month to have crossed a key nuclear threshold: by listening carefully, but not believing everything they hear. "We don't believe all the Iranian rhetoric. I don't even think the average Iranian believes it," a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office said of the Monday claim. "We are not flippant and are watching carefully, but that doesn't mean we believe everything they say." The official said that few in the world believed Iranian claims earlier this month that they had 3,000 centrifuges in place and running - a process that could produce enough enriched uranium for an atom bomb within a year. "They just want the world to believe that they have passed the point of no return, so that any further pressure would be useless," the official said. Likewise, regarding the Shihab missiles, the official said the Iranians wanted to try and frighten the world away from thinking about possible military action. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a similar statement at a briefing with senior journalists from Israel's Russian-language media on Monday, saying that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was trying to frighten the world into thinking that it was "too late" to get the Iranians to stop their nuclear march. Olmert said Israel was not afraid of the situation in Iran: "We are concerned, but we don't have to lose our head." Earlier Monday, an Iranian Web site affiliated with the regime reported that 600 Shihab-3 missiles were pointed at targets throughout Israel and would be launched if either Iran or Syria were attacked. "Iran will shoot 600 missiles at Israel if it is attacked," the Iranian news Web site, Assar Iran, reported, saying such a barrage would "only be the first reaction." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Iran would be suicidal to launch 600 at Israel. They would have to cross over Iraq and risk US counter strikes/anti-missile launches. Plus Israel has counter-missile batteries around valuable targets. Oh sure, some missiles would get through and kill people in the countryside, but the Israeli rage would be so great that they would have to strike Iran hard and the US most likely would join in the fun. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-09-18 09:29 |
| #9 I believe that Israel attacked Syria a few days ago.PUT UP OR SHUT UP. |
| Posted by: darrylq 2007-09-18 08:00 |
| #8 I'm not aware of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, smn. Who are they? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-18 07:38 |
| #7 Iran will shoot 600 missiles at Israel Didn't they already do that once? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-18 03:40 |
| #6 How about a 600 Mile wide crater inside Iran |
| Posted by: Sleatch Jones5947 2007-09-18 02:43 |
| #5 The 'Doomsday Scenario' Israel will launch after a 'Green Light' given by the Mossad,Shin Bet,The Shayetet, and Patriarchs of Jerusalem in an Above Top Secret meeting. Of the 200+ nuclear warheads Israel possesses; 20 of these LOG (Light Of GOD)weapons will be activated from hidden desert launch points, fighter jets, and submarines to subdue the enemy. The trump card will be the US's position on 'taking the honor' (with the capacity); to preserve it's status as the only country in the history of the world to deploy and detonate such weapons against another country! This of course assumes that tactical nuclear bunker busters weren't used in Syria last week! |
| Posted by: smn 2007-09-18 02:36 |
| #4 The boyz at DEBKA say its bluffery, wid Iran's missles most likely the older, inferior and unreliable SAHAB-2. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-09-18 02:04 |
| #3 "Iran will shoot 600 missiles at Israel.." They have possibly already shot 600 lies to the world's media. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2007-09-18 01:34 |
| #2 "We don't believe all the Iranian rhetoric. I don't even think the average Iranian believes it," This remains a huge mistake on the part of this world's non-Muslim population. These blowhard terrorist wankers need to be taken at their word. They must be held directly responsible for every little threat and menacing gesture made. There must be consequences for such maliciousness. By not punishing such acts we only encourage more of them. Additionally—by not reacting—we cement our own image as a paper tiger and further embolden those who are so fond of saber-rattling. Some Muslim heads need to be blown off in midsentence before a few really big crowds to get this point across. Allowing such inflammatory rhetoric to go unrewarded only serves our enemey's ends and not our own. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-18 00:30 |
| #1 The way I see it, Iranian "leaders" have already threatened destruction. The legal realm for action is wide open. They are apostates anyway. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-09-18 00:15 |