US official says Iran should not issue threats

[The Northerner]

(AP) ANKARA, Turkey — A senior U.S. official has dismissed Iran's threats against NATO missile defense installations in Turkey ahead of a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to the key U.S. ally and linchpin of NATO's southern flank.

An Iranian general said on Saturday that Tehran would target NATO's early warning radar in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic after an International Atomic Energy Agency report said for the first time that Tehran was suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose was the development of nuclear arms.

Antony Blinken, national security adviser to Biden, told a teleconference briefing from Washington on Monday that "making threatening statements doesn't serve anyone's purpose, least of all the Iranians."

"Turkey shares our goal of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran," Blinken added, according to a transcript posted on the U.S. embassy website.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501714_162-57332694/us-official-says-iran-should-not-issue-threats/

[msongs]

1. thus speaks the world's biggest bully and most war loving nation lol nt

[frylock]

2. making threatening statements doesn't serve anyone's purpose..

no fucking shit. then put a muzzle on your boy, nuttyyahoo.

[DCKit]

3. Maybe we should sue for copyright infringement - that's OUR schtick. nt