Iran threatens retaliation in event of Israeli strike

[DuctapeFatwa]

"We will use all strike weapons at our disposal and the Shahab 3 missile is one of those," Mr Shamkhani told reporters after a cabinet meeting when asked if Iran would retaliate with missiles if Israel made good its threats to take out Iranian nuclear sites.

Earlier this year, the air force of the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps took delivery of several domestically built Shahab 3 missiles, with a range of between 1,300 and 1,500 kilometres, sufficient to reach Israel.

The Tel Aviv daily Haaretz on Sunday quoted Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz as warning that the Jewish state was considering striking the nuclear facilities of Iran

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1016040.htm

[bemildred]

1. Ain't love grand?

I don't suppose even Mofaz is stupid enough to think
his bluster is going to cause Iran to grovel before him,
so one has to ponder the question: what is his public
babble on this subject supposed to accomplish?

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. the extraction of addtitional money from your pocket

and its insertion into the overstuffed pants of executive gunrunners.

[bemildred]

5. I expect Mr Shamkhani is playing into his hands then.

I suppose if Iran really wanted to get a war going they
would profess love for Israel. That should get the planes
on their way in no time. :-)

[bpilgrim]

3. Iranian human-wave attacks is what caused Iraq to resort to WMD's

and they STILL couldn't defeat them.

Initially, Iraq advanced far into Iranian territory, but was driven back within months. By mid-1982, Iraq was on the defensive against Iranian human-wave attacks. The U.S., having decided that an Iranian victory would not serve its interests, began supporting Iraq: measures already underway to upgrade U.S.-Iraq relations were accelerated, high-level officials exchanged visits, and in February 1982 the State Department removed Iraq from its list of states supporting international terrorism. (It had been included several years earlier because of ties with several Palestinian nationalist groups, not Islamicists sharing the worldview of al-Qaeda. Activism by Iraq's main Shiite Islamicist opposition group, al-Dawa, was a major factor precipitating the war -- stirred by Iran's Islamic revolution, its endeavors included the attempted assassination of Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz.)

more...
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

When the U.S. Senate passed economic sanctions on Iraq in 1988 for using poison gas against the Kurds, U.S. ambassador April Glaspie reported that the U.S. construction company Bechtel planned to employ "non-U.S. suppliers of technology and continue to do business in Iraq," according to a CONFIDENTIAL State Department cable. In April 2003, Bechtel landed the largest U.S. Agency for International Development contract to date for infrastructure repair work in Iraq, with an initial payment of $34.6 million and long-term value of up to $680 million.

more...
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm


peace

[0007]

4. Working for the advancement of a solid relationship..

in the name of Love and Brotherhood

[Code_Name_D]

6. Is this a pre-text for the next fase of PNAC?

We all know Rummy wants to go into Iran soooooooo badly. You can see the man salivate when he talks about it. So Isrial dose something, Iran responds, and we then atack Iran while comming to the defence of Isrial. And every one is happy. Even the Iranans, who then get to exprince the same sort of liberation that we gave Iraq.

[Voltaire99]

7. Can't Sharon be put on meds?

No?

How about a few extra billion US tax dollars to help him control his temper until, say, next month?

[PsychoDad]

8. Let us be thankful...

Iran has not subscribed to the bush doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against a possible threat, as has Israel.