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| 2004-08-15 |
| By Paul Hughes Sun Aug 15, 2004 10:30 AM ET TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Iranian military official said Sunday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest missiles, news agencies reported. Iranian officials have made a point of highlighting the Islamic state's military capabilities in recent weeks in response to some media reports that Israeli or U.S. warplanes could try to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities in air strikes. Iran last week said it carried out a successful test firing of an upgraded version of its Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile. Military experts said the unmodified Shahab-3 was already capable of striking Israel or U.S. bases in the Gulf. "The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran's advanced missiles," the ISNA students news agency quoted Yadollah Javani, head of the Revolutionary Guards political bureau, as saying. The mullahs seem to forget that they too are within range of Israeli missiles. What's more, the Israeli vehicles carry significantly more destructive payloads than anything Iran can muster. "Therefore, neither the Zionist regime nor America will carry out its threats" against Iran, he said. An attack on Iran "could only be carried out by angry or stupid people. For that reason, officials of the Islamic Republic must always be prepared to counter possible military threats," Javani said in a statement, ISNA reported. And precisely how does Iran intend to retaliate against America if it opts for destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program? |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #7 'it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest missiles' Well what it means is they can fire them in the general vacinity of Israel but they aint got a clue where they will land .. |
| Posted by: MacNails 2004-08-16 7:45:30 AM |
| #6 A senior Iranian military official said Sunday Israel and the United States would not dare attack Iran since it could strike back anywhere in Israel with its latest missiles, news agencies reported. Go ahead, attack Israel, and you'll rue the day the idea ever popped into your pointy little heads. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-16 12:14:50 AM |
| #5 Eh, The last time I checked we have missiles that can hit anywhere in the world, and we have a lot more of them than the uptight mullahs in Tehran. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-08-15 10:18:00 PM |
| #4 Very possibly Iraq. Wonder how we would treat an incursion of Iraqi airspace by Iranian vehicles. That's why the mullahs are all turban no crude. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-08-15 6:45:00 PM |
| #3 Perhaps I'm being ignorant, but when Israel's anti-missile missiles knock Iran's missiles out of the air, won't they land on brotherly Arab territory? Or, if they explode Iran's in mid-air, won't the fall-out again land on Arab territory? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-08-15 6:41:11 PM |
| #2 wouldn't be surprised if we have several anti-missile batteries just inside the Iraq-Iran borders as well.... boost phase radar acquisition? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-15 5:57:00 PM |
| #1 Iran seems to forget about a little system called Arrow and the much improved Patriot batteries there as well. They can AIM anywhere in Israel, whether the munition actually gets there is a different question. And they do have a finite set of missles. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2004-08-15 5:46:52 PM |