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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Considering Attacking U.S. Facilities in Mideast
2011-09-24
Destroying American military positions in the Middle East is the most effective method to get the "Great Satan" to abandon the region, Iran now believes.

The Iranian website [the Mahramaneh online website, which is close to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] then concludes that if the Islamic Republic, quietly and without any media hype, attacks American installations throughout the region, the United States will have but two choices: either it will be forced to keep quiet and the media will freeze out the information, or it will be forced to go to war with Iran, in which case the war would then be out-and-out known to be a war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West and America.
Iran may be coming late to the game, if all the Iranian panics over American spy squirrels are believed, not to mention the occasional airplane full of Iranian generals unexpectedly falling out of the sky. Though the airplanes may merely be due to inshallah maintenance and a woeful lack of spare parts. But really, the time for them to worry is when everyone important over there suddenly gets a late-night telephone call on the unlisted phone number...

Posted by:trailing wife

#7  JM that was good-"[Once again, NOSTRADAMUS = ".... Until the SEVEN/SEVENTH holds the Line".
Guess we need to look for a comet or two.
Posted by: Dale   2011-09-24 23:05  

#6  As per FREEREPUBLIC this AM > MOUD = is calling on Western Navies to pull their ships from the Gulf.

and

* MEMRI.ORG > LEBANON SOURCES CLOSE TO HIZBULLAH: WASHINGTON ASKS TEHRAN FOR NEGOTIATIONS ON IRAQ + AFGHANISTAN; IRAN DEMANDS COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT INCLUDING SYRIA, BAHRAIN; AHMADINEJAD TO [tells] QATARI EMIR: IFF SYRIA IS ATTACKED, THE FIRST MISSLE WILL FALL ON YOU.

Besides the on-going Syrian Crisis, + anti-Iran Qatar's potential leadership role in any All-Arab Peacekeeping-Security Force [GCC] in Libyuh, IMO NOW COMES IRANIAN PREEMPTION = DENIAL OF BASE-TOO-FAR QATAR AS FORWARD = FALLBACK BASE TO ANY US-NATO/COALITION INVASION FORCE AGZ SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN.

[Once again, NOSTRADAMUS = ".... Until the SEVEN/SEVENTH holds the Line".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-09-24 21:28  

#5  Pull my finger mullah a-hole.
Posted by: newc   2011-09-24 13:22  

#4  How? The US/NATO can counter from the south, west east and probably north (Not sure Russia is a friend of Iran).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-09-24 13:18  

#3  Since Obama's reelection is anything but assured they must make their move about now if they want to create facts on the ground that cannot easily be changed by a new administration.

Gaddafi's demise should give them pause though. The Duck of Death was ideologically closer to Obama than the Mullahs (via Obama's neighbor 'Minister' Farrakhan.) And that didn't protect him ultimately.
Posted by: Chereger Unetle6155   2011-09-24 05:13  

#2  "Out and out known to be a war ..." > IOW, Iranian military andor proxy attacks agz the US Govt, in Washington, DC - includ agz the Bammer + US NCA - would be "justified".

Espec via proxy = surrogate terror.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-09-24 02:32  

#1  Can't fault their logic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-09-24 01:37  

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