Iran increasingly willing to launch US attack, top intelligence official warns
America's top intelligence official has claimed that Iran's leadership was now more willing than before to carry out an attack inside the US, and that intelligence agencies were worried about plots against US and allied interests around the world.
In a report to Congress, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said a plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador in a Washington restaurant - which the US blamed on Iran's Revolutionary Guard - "shows that some Iranian officials, probably including supreme leader Ali Khamenei, have changed their calculus and are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived US actions that threaten the regime".
Clapper added: "Iran's willingness to sponsor future attacks in the United States or against our interests abroad probably will be shaped by Tehran's evaluation of the costs it bears for the plot against the ambassador as well as Iranian leaders' perceptions of US threats against the regime."
US officials have expressed concern that the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, responsible for external operations, could have sleeper cells in the US or over the border in Mexico and the rest of Latin America.
full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/31/iran-us-attack-james-clapper
teddy51
(3,491 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)150 years?
AnOhioan
(2,894 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)They're not about to wipe themselves off the map. For what??? Lemme guess, they hate us for our freedoms. whatever.
mackdaddy
(1,527 posts)Saddam, Mubarak, Noriega, or Gaddafi did not try to hit us back, how well did that work out for them?
Two nutcases with a rifle and a 30 year old impala nearly shut down DC. What if even a small country sent in 20 or a hundred sniper teams here? You can buy a scoped rifle in nearly any walmart.
It would not even take that. Sink a couple of oil tankers, and oil prices would skyrocket.
This is a very dangerous game we have been playing for many years now.
Somewhere along the way when you keep poking sticks into other countries hornets nests, you might get stung.