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Iran says they are ready for possibility of war with US
2019-05-30
[al masdar] Iran is prepared for the possibility of war with the United States, but hopes instead that tensions between the two nations can be solved with dialogue, the country’s deputy foreign minister has said.

“We hope that we can start a dialogue, but we are ready for war,” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told RIA Novosti.

The comments by the Iranian Foreign Ministry comes just hours after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton accused Tehran of carrying out a naval mine attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.
Posted by:3dc

#5  Ready as in they have bent over and are ready to kiss their ass goodby or Ready as in "We need to act tough"

Or both?
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-05-30 16:39  

#4  IIRC, during the Iran-Iraq war, the Iranians used teenagers as minesweepers. The kids would walk across a minefield. When the discovered a mine, the got blown to bits, thereby getting rid of the mine. But the Iranian soldiers found this too disturbing. Not that kids were dying., but that they were leaving body parts all over the minefield. The solution was to have the kids wrap themselves in a blanket. That way, when they stepped on a mine, all the body parts stayed together. And, they were already in a burial shroud, so win-win!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2019-05-30 14:35  

#3  White flags, burial shrouds. Ain't much difference.
Posted by: Squinty Ebberetle2049   2019-05-30 06:27  

#2  I don't knowy Raj, they may have been stocking up on white flags for awhile now.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-05-30 06:23  

#1  “We hope that we can start a dialogue, but we are ready for war,”

You're not nearly as ready as you need to be.
Posted by: Raj   2019-05-30 01:13  

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