Iran threatens Gulf blitz if US hits nuclear plants

[*jr]

IRAN has threatened to launch a missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities.

Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a senior defence adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Gulf states providing the US with military cooperation would be the key targets of a barrage of ballistic missiles.

Shamkhani told the US journal Defense News that missiles would be launched not only at US military bases but also at strategic targets such as oil refineries and power stations.

Qatar, Bahrain and Oman all host important US bases and British forces are based in all three countries. Any Iranian attack would be bound to draw in the other Gulf Cooperation Council states: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 909896.ece

[SummerRain]

I think its only fair Iran defends itself. Friggin Arab cowords..UFF. Tired of them kissing the USs' arse. Even if Iran was not developing Nuclear plants for power purposes, what makes it fair for the US and other countries to have one and not a Muslim country like Iran. Focking Bullies.

Excuse my, language.

[*jr]

US and Israel training for a joint strike on Iran


Source: Reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's air force held a joint drill with visiting U.S. pilots on Sunday, stirring interest in a region bracing for a possible armed showdown over Iran's nuclear programme.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the exercise was "part of a multi-year working plan involving joint flights for the purpose of mutual learning" and would be held annually.

Reports on the exercise were carried in Arab media, fuelled by speculation that Israel or the United States could bomb Iran should U.N. Security Council sanctions fail to curb its nuclear programme. Iran insists its atomic ambitions are peaceful.


http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070610/ ... rael-us...

[adanboy]

US must remember parsians are not like arabs,.They will hit back very hard,Israel is the prime target..But how is US gonna win a war without sending in troops and invading the country ,which they are not even near capable of right now.They will probably carpet bomb Iranian milatary and nuclear facilities.That will only delay Irans program for a decade or something like that.and Bush will leave the mess to the next coming president..US&Trouble all the way

[gurey25]

there are about 10,000 - 20,000 right now in the UAE.

You can see thousends of them when they get shore leave and go shopping and stuff.


there been a buildup silenty for the pst couple of months.


hope its just a show of force.

[Gedo_Boy]

I think this year and the next will be very interesting.

It's only logical that Iran would be posturing like this, they have a lot going in their favor now.

Besides, the last thing they want to be is without a sufficient conventional and/or nuclear deterrent. If attacking Iran would be simple enough, Cheney & co. would have authorized it with or without Iran developing a nuclear program.

[King-of-Awdal]

For some of u can just be happy for a war and shit but am not trying to get drafted so i hope aint no war though at the end of the day i can always run to my birth place MTL.

[Grant]

Here's some of what Debka is saying:

"DEBKAfile - We start where the media stop


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Syrian and Iranian Generals in Intensive War Consultations


June 9, 2007, 12:07 PM (GMT+02:00)


Syria and Iran march together


DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Middle East sources take a look at the actions behind the words issuing from Damascus officials affirming Syria’s willingness to go into peace talks with Israel.

During most of last week, two high-ranking Iranian delegations spent time in Damascus. One was composed of generals who held talks with Syrian leaders on coordinated preparations for a Middle East war in the coming months.

At the Iranian end, a similar high-ranking Syrian military delegation called in at Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards headquarters to tighten operational coordination between them at the command level, as well as inspecting the Iranian arsenal. The Syrian general staff will draw up a list of items it is short of for a possible military confrontation with Israel this summer.

Our sources report that last week, Tehran sent Moscow a check for $327 m to pay for assorted missiles consigned to Damascus. A further $438 m has been pledged by the end of June for more hardware to Syria.

Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki’s three days of talks in Damascus at the end of May further consolidated the strategic partnership between the two governments under the mutual defense pact they signed a year ago.

Their deliberations produced concurrence on the following issues:

1. Expanded economic cooperation, i.e. an enlarged Iranian aid package for Syria including monetary assistance and an extra 5 million tons of oil gratis per annum on top of the one million already guaranteed.

Syrian president Bashar Assad drove a hard bargain: He demanded a larger slice of economic aid as the price for entering into strategic cooperation with Iran for the coming war.

2. The Assad government agreed not to take any military - or other steps with military connotations - without prior notice to Tehran and its assent. This clause applies equally to activating the Lebanese Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas’ Damascus headquarters.

3. Reciprocal visits by Syrian and Iranian generals and political officials will be stepped up.

4. In Iraq, Iran and Syria agreed to jointly intensify their terrorist operations against US and British troops.

The regime heads in Tehran are basing their common front with Damascus on intelligence reports whereby the US and Israel have drawn up plans for coordinated military action against Iran, Syria and Hizballah in the summer.

According to this hypothesis, Iranian leaders foresee the next UN Security Council in New York at the end of June or early July ending with an American announcement that the sanctions against Tehran are inadequate because Russia and China has toned them down. Therefore, the military option is the only one left on the table. The ayatollahs have concluded that US president George W. Bush is determined to bow out of office on the high note of a glittering military success against Iran to eclipse his failures in Iraq.

They believe he will not risk the lives of more Americans by mounting a ground operation, but rather unleash a broad missile assault that will wipe out Iran’s nuclear facilities and seriously cripple its economic infrastructure.

According to the Iranian scenario, the timeline for hostilities has already been fixed between Washington and Jerusalem - and so has the plan of action. The US will strike Iran first, after which Israel will use the opportunity to go for Syria, targeting its air force, missile bases and deployments, as well as Hizballah’s missile and weapons stocks which Iran replenished this year.

Officials in Tehran and Damascus find confirmation of their intelligence evaluations in the visit Israel’s transport minister Shaul Mofaz paid to Washington last week at the head of a large military delegation. They are certain Mofaz, a former defense minister and chief of staff, used the strategic talks to tie the last ends of the planned offensive. They were perturbed in particular by the Israel minister’s reported advice to secretary of state Condoleezza Rice of the importance of setting a deadline, beyond which the US will abandon sanctions as ineffective and turn to its remaining options for dealing with Iran’s advance towards a nuclear weapons capability.

Considering the climate in Damascus and Tehran and their active pursuit of preparations for imminent attack, it is not surprising that Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert received no reply to the note he sent to Assad proposing peace talks and offering the Golan as an incentive. Assad was not inclined to take the Israeli prime minister seriously. According to DEBKAfile’s sources in Jerusalem, Olmert did not really expect him to. The offer was more in the nature of clearing the decks ahead of Olmert’s White House visit later this month.



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[Gedo_Boy]

Grant, I might need to start telecommuting for work if Iran gets hit.......gas would be too much for my 20-25 mile commute 1-way.

[new-york23]

if iran gets hit,that will be the end of the american empire..they have for the first time admited defeat in iraq..as we speak they are trying to hold talks with the resistance.
the iraq war proved that big ships,jets and tanks dont mean nothing anymore.all you need is a few determined man and couple of rocket loungers.from what i have learned from history the persians wont lay down.

[*Arabman]

As I have already stated, America cannot attack Iran. It's impossible.

[Gedo_Boy]

I have a feeling something will happen.......I just don't trust Cheney.

[paidmonk]

Here's the deal. US will bomb Iran's facilities, Iran will attack neighboring gulf states, without capability to strike Israel and Syria won't touch Israel either. The middle east will be in a mini-world war, just like the one in the Congo a few years ago. This will last until all sides run out of munitions, then the US will arm rebel groups inside Iran, whereby the Sunnis in Iran, at just ten percent of the population, will coup the government and the US will THEN create a reconciliation conference, calling for peace among Sunnis, and all will be fine.

A grim and real picture of the future, but hey, at least Iran will be a Sunni dominion now.

[FAH1223]

Persia isn't Iraq

[musika man]

israel will destroy iran's installations, iran will attack few sunni arab countries, and mujahidiins like arabman and salahudiin will go to fight with the shiats and protect their sunni brothers. game finished.