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| IRGC C-in-C sez Iran will use ballistic missiles to repel any attack |
| 2006-02-16 |
| Iran is ready to counter any US aggression with offensive action, the head of the country's elite Revolutionary Guards warned on Wednesday amid an escalating international dispute over Tehran's nuclear activities. "We have worked on all defensive and offensive scenarios for any possible attacks," General Yahya Rahim Safavi told state television. "Currently there is no military threat against our country, and the United States and Israel are only talking about our nuclear program as part of psychological war in order to escape from their defeat in Iraq and Palestine," he charged. Earlier this month, US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Washington did not rule out using military force against Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Iran on Tuesday confirmed it had resumed limited uranium enrichment - a process that makes reactor fuel but can also be extended to make the core of a nuclear weapon - despite renewed warnings from world powers. Safavi had warned at the end of January that Iran was ready to use its ballistic missiles - another source of concern in the West - if it was attacked. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 ISRAEL has already warned that it is prepared to unilater stop Iran by military force if the rest of the world does nothing - a warning that Israel has made many times in the past ags Arab/Muslim threats, and has many times kept despite the then ongoing Cold War tensions/ posturings between the USA and USSR, etal. Israel has also warned that something must be done ags Iran by the end of this year. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-02-17 00:00 |
| #5 This blast is for you, fu |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-02-16 21:09 |
| #4 Which would probably get them the big glass parking lot they've been begging for. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-02-16 13:41 |
| #3 Ballistic missiles are strategic weapons, not tactical assets. Such vehicles do not have the accuracy to address small targets. Methinks Iran is hinting at launching large scale retaliatory attacks at Israel if we decide to pre-empt their nuclear aspirations. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-16 12:57 |
| #2 MMs feel attacked as long as there is one infidel who hasn't been dhummified. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-02-16 10:25 |
| #1 Gen. Safavi neglected to say what Iran will do with its missiles if not attacked... |
| Posted by: Whutch Threth6418 2006-02-16 07:27 |