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| Iranian commander says 190,000 US troops a target if Iran attacked |
| 2005-03-02 |
| The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards has warned that 190,000 US troops stationed close to the Islamic republic could be targetted if Iran were attacked, a report said Wednesday. "More than 190,000 members of American forces are scattered in Afghanistan and Iraq. If the US carries out its threats against Iran, they nust know that all these forces will be within our reach," Yahya Rahim Safavi told the ultra-hardline Ya Lessarat newspaper. "The US and the Zionist regime (Israel) do not have the power to confront us and we will hand them bone-breaking blows," Safavi said, adding that "Iraq is getting more unsafe everyday for America" anyway. He also warned that if "the Zionist regime had a satanic thought and attacked Iran, we would not leave one point safe in the entire Zionist territory". The United States and Israel both accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, and have not ruled out military options to prevent the clerical regime of acquiring the bomb. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #25 Ima thinkr sub-launched cruise missiles may be something this persian popoff forgot about...gonna send a human wave after a sub off-shore? Hee hee |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-02 10:42:29 PM |
| #24 Four Divisions? The MM also have to worry about the US 5th Fleet, not exactly a pushover. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-03-02 10:36:26 PM |
| #23 Yo, Soddam, heard that the rope factory near Bagdad has some neat specials on sale. You can even pick your favored color. |
| Posted by: Max Headroom 2005-03-02 8:38:08 PM |
| #22 Be very careful, Frank G. You aren't talking to Aris, now. |
| Posted by: Saddam Hussein 2005-03-02 8:29:45 PM |
| #21 "The US and the Zionist regime (Israel) do not have the power to confront us and we will hand them bone-breaking blows," This guy is so full of crap that I would recommend that whomever pushes the launch button to take him out do so using their left hand. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-03-02 8:27:28 PM |
| #20 a 1000 apologies, your spiderhole-ness |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-02 8:18:46 PM |
| #19 The Mother of All Battles ® is a registered service mark of Hussein al Tikriti. Continued use of this mark without payment of licensing fees will result in a stern letter from my attorney. |
| Posted by: Saddam Hussein 2005-03-02 8:17:32 PM |
| #18 Does the axis of evil have some kind of charm school for these spokesclowns where they learn how to froth? |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2005-03-02 8:04:41 PM |
| #17 Iran has the "powerful" Revolutionary Guard. Iraq had the "elite" Republican Guard -- didn't do them much good, did it? Let me quote Brig.Gen. Vincent Brooks on 2003-Apr-02: "The Baghdad Division has been destroyed." Not degraded, not defeated, destroyed. Referring to the other Republican Guard units, he then said: "They're in serious trouble, and they remain in contact now with the most powerful force on Earth." |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-03-02 6:41:00 PM |
| #16 if they nuked our soldiers - Iran would become glass within minutes. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-03-02 6:38:57 PM |
| #15 I read this as claiming they already have nukes. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2005-03-02 6:21:14 PM |
| #14 The head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards has warned that 190,000 US troops stationed close to the Islamic republic could be targetted if Iran were attacked, a report said Wednesday. And they're gonna target our troops with what? Bluster? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-02 6:20:44 PM |
| #13 So Baghdad Bob got a new job? I was worried about him... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-03-02 6:12:14 PM |
| #12 Also Anonymoose, I'm quite sure Diego Garcia is back up to 100% stock of droppables for the BUFF's, B-2's etc. I saw the aftermath of Arc Light raids in Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and again in OIF, so hopefully the Farsians will REALIZZZE (Ebonics word) |
| Posted by: Bodyguard 2005-03-02 6:08:39 PM |
| #11 Iran has already targeted our troops in the Middle East. Does anybody seriously believe none of our boys in the Middle East have died at the hands of the mad mullahs? |
| Posted by: Slomorong Chaviter7997 2005-03-02 6:06:50 PM |
| #10 I think they've forgotten the lesson Reagan administered in the late '80's - sinking big chunks of the Iranian Navy, at a time when the mullahs were armed with relatively new American stuff inherited from the Shah. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-03-02 5:56:33 PM |
| #9 "...190,000 US troops a target if Iran attacked." 190,000 comprising four of the best, most powerful, combat hardened Divisions equipped with weapons six generations more advanced than anything Iran has, and capable of inflicting a rate of 20-1 or better combat casualties on any enemy on the planet. I suppose if Iran is willing to suffer 3.8 MILLION casualties in a war with *just* these four Divisions, that's all well and good. But they might consider that these four Divisions can be readily resupplied and replaced by fresh Divisions of equal lethality. Last but not least, figure that ONE such Division can neutralize the entire Iranian army, and ONE more can neutralize the entire Iranian Revolutionary Guard. That leaves TWO Divisions to hunt down mullahs and hang them from light poles. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-03-02 5:52:23 PM |
| #8 GK, I think they meant "The Mother of all Pizzas" /The Far Side/ |
| Posted by: Bodyguard 2005-03-02 5:50:39 PM |
| #7 they couldn't even whoopm iraq and they think they could take the US on with their early 80's technology? |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-03-02 5:25:20 PM |
| #6 Well, what else is the head of the Revolutionary Guard going to say? Mr. Safavi, what we're offering should be considered. If you act now, we will give you a one-time only opprotunity to meet Allah. All you have to do is keep saying things like that. Think it over. |
| Posted by: shellback 2005-03-02 5:24:44 PM |
| #5 Isn't he cute! And he probably even believes it, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-03-02 5:22:21 PM |
| #4 It's amazing how soon the idiots forget. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-03-02 5:15:11 PM |
| #3 Are the MMs starting to believe their own propaganda. Do they believe they could sustain a multi front war that they would have to start against the kind of war we could wage on them? We already have invaded. We have their kids using our Internet You can't keep them down on the farm once they have seen the big city. Iran will fall from the inside. The more the MMs tighten their restriction the more the youth will resist at some point things will tip and the MMs will find themselves hanging from the boom of a crane. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-02 5:12:58 PM |
| #2 Since, of course, they'll never be targeted if Iran gets nukes. |
| Posted by: someone 2005-03-02 5:09:05 PM |
| #1 Damn, he forgot to mention "the mother of all battles." |
| Posted by: GK 2005-03-02 5:08:04 PM |