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2005-03-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Fearing Security Council Oversight, Iran Threatens U.S. and Europe

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-06 9:51:30 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred, do you thing it will work on EUnuchs?
The choice is simple: empty threats now or nukes pointing at EU locations a bit later.

Actually, maybe EUnuchs bet that the moment it would look like Iran is getting closer the evil Jooos or Merkins would see to it, so they can play their goody-guys game for now.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-06 1:17:33 AM|| 2005-03-06 1:17:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I detect more than an element of panic.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-06 2:36:38 AM|| 2005-03-06 2:36:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Do you now mean 2 or 3 elements of panic or something else?

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-06 2:40:09 AM|| 2005-03-06 2:40:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sobiesky, its an expression that has fallen out of common usage. It even sounds odd to my ears. It means the statement is motivated by panic as much as anything else. Iran is looking at losing its last regional ally in Syria (the regime is teetering on the brink) and its proxy forces in Lebanon. It has been a particularly bad week for the mullahs.

Posted by phil_b 2005-03-06 2:58:26 AM|| 2005-03-06 2:58:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 An even worse week is just down the road. Not June or July, as some fear-mongering wags have shouted from the MSM rooftops, but somewhere around the end of the year... John Pike & Co seem to have a more precise estimate... and I'll wager they have a good "feel" for how things are shaping up, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-03-06 3:13:09 AM|| 2005-03-06 3:13:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay, that's what I thought, 2 or 3 or more elements of panic. :-)

However, reaction of EUnuchs may be still particularly dhimmified.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-06 3:15:24 AM|| 2005-03-06 3:15:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The MMs have by their actions and words, painted themselves into a corner. They do believe their own sh**te. They have tipped their hand and even the EUniks are starting to see the danger. The US will not do their heavy lifting. We will do our own heavy lifting. One thing we will NOT do with Iran and that is jawbone and appease. With the neutering of Syria, Iran will be an island, more or less. Pressure MUST be kept on Syria in order to further isolate the MMs. We are in a race with MM nuke development and the fall of the MMs. Exciting and dangerous times ahead. Move the Ship's Telegraph to Full Speed Ahead, Mr. Rumsfeld, if you please.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-06 3:26:34 AM|| 2005-03-06 3:26:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 ..Iran would cease all voluntary and confidence-building measures it has implemented.

Oh really?? And what, pray tell, would those be?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-06 4:09:36 AM|| 2005-03-06 4:09:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 A Hard Rain gonna fall...

Posted by .com 2005-03-06 4:12:46 AM|| 2005-03-06 4:12:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Give them the pebble-bed reactor, both China and Germany can have the contract. Then they have nuke power, which is what they say they want.

However, nationalism is strong and they want to be part of the club.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-03-06 4:36:31 AM|| 2005-03-06 4:36:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 a2u - Huh? Gotta differ.

I wouldn't give them the time of day, much less a reactor. It's an irrelevant joke, anyway.

They don't want nuke power, never did, don't need it. They have approx 120 yrs worth of proven oil production reserves at current rates, last I looked it up. The notion is so absurd it does not bear even mentioning. The biggest red herring in the M.E. desert. Pfeh.

They want nuke weapons. Period. And Nationalism has dick to do with it. Sure, the Persians would like to sit at the Big Table, what people wouldn't?. But not with the Mullahs running the show. They want to be a power, as big as they can be, period, and it has nothing to do with the Persian people and everything to do with who "they" are: the Mullahcracy. There's nothing else to this equation, except that they are actually more likely to use a nuke pkg, if they aren't stopped in their tracks first, than any other regime on the planet. Their religious dogma demands it - and they've said it enough times to convince anyone except an MSM or Tranzi appeasenik.

Nah. It's Mullah Whacking Time and it will happen sooner or later because they are deranged, in spite of posts to the contrary 'round here. If they were "sane", they would either back off and enjoy their oil loot -- or have kept the whole thing under the radar as much as they could for as long as they could. The course they've chosen makes sense only in their ultra-insulated ultra-dogmatic world, it's insane outside of that bubble.

Plan. Prepare. Practice. Execute. Whack-a-Mullah.

My $0.02.

Posted by .com 2005-03-06 5:11:08 AM|| 2005-03-06 5:11:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Mullah fantasy land. We will get a nuke and if the Americans try to stop us, we will cut of their oil and crush them. Bwaahhhaaa.

Um..hello, you won't get a nuke - and if you do succeed in cutting off our oil - it will hurt us as we eat sparingly off the goose that laid your golden egg.

Posted by 2b 2005-03-06 9:32:16 AM|| 2005-03-06 9:32:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I particularly like this: Rowhani said, "The United States has spread its forces and equipment all around us and become our unwanted neighbor." to which Fred said We can get much closer. Like down the block.

Is there a movie of what happened to Saddam's Republican Guards that could be sent to the Mullahs' Revolutionary Guards?

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-03-06 12:10:20 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-03-06 12:10:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 If Iran is referred to the U.N., the security situation in the region will deteriorate,

And the Iranians will do everything possible to make it happen. Fuck 'em.

Quick, Robin, to the Security Council!

Posted by Raj 2005-03-06 12:31:33 PM|| 2005-03-06 12:31:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 "...confidence-building measures it has implemented."

I think that's a mistranslation. I believe the correct text should be:

"...confidence games it has implemented."

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