Iran: “We Can Blow Any Ship Out Of The Gulf We Want”
Commander of Revolutionary Guards also says his ground forces have missiles that could penetrate armor plating fitted to Israel’s Merkava tanks, US Abrams tanks
Reuters
Published: 08.15.07, 21:17 / Israel News
Iranian missiles can hit warships operating anywhere in the Gulf and Oman Sea, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday, the day US officials said they might label his forces “terrorists”.
But the speech by Commander-in-Chief Yahya Rahim Safavi, according to a report carried by Iran’s Fars News Agency, made no mention of the US threat to brand his units.
“Our coast-to-sea missile systems can now reach the breadth and length of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea and no warships can pass in the Persian Gulf without being in range of our coast-to-sea missiles,” Safavi said in his speech, Fars reported.
Iran, locked in a standoff with Washington over its nuclear plans, has previously boasted it had missiles that could sink “big warships” in the Gulf, a region where US aircraft carriers and warships operate.
The United States is seeking to isolate Iran over what it says is Tehran’s bid to build nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear program. Iran insists its atomic plans are directed at making electricity to preserve its oil and gas for exports.
Safavi also said Iran’s missiles with a range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles) were fitted with equipment that enabled them to be remote controlled, an apparent reference to the Shahab-3 missile, although he did not name it. That missile could hit Israel.
Safavi said the Revolutionary Guards ground forces had missiles in its arsenal that could penetrate the armor plating which he said was fitted to Israel’s Merkava tanks and the US Abrams tanks.
US officials said on Wednesday they may soon designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization in a move targeting the finances of the group. An Iranian Foreign Ministry source called the report “psychological warfare”.
“Such reports are published as part of the US leaders PR and psychological activity against Iran and are worthless,” the sources told IRNA news agency.
Dudi Cohen contributed to the report
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I wonder what Safavi would look like with a 5000lb JDAM shoved down his throat?
August 15th, 2007 at 1:57 pmBring it on!
August 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pmWell whether its good or bad, I have to say it looks like we’re in for a war with Iran soon..I know these assholes deserve but it will be a tough fight..We should just work with Israel and bomb them back to the stone age
August 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pmIran is talking out their ass. They don’t have weapons that can do anything they say they can do. Iranians can’t even shoot straight, let alone aim a missle!
August 15th, 2007 at 3:03 pm“Our coast-to-sea missile systems can now reach the breadth and length of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea and no warships can pass in the Persian Gulf without being in range of our coast-to-sea missiles,” Safavi said in his speech, Fars reported.”
Oh really? And our planes can hit any of your cities…any time, any place that we want. Hell, we could reduce your goat-fucking country to a glass factory if we felt like it…you sand licking camel jockey.
Fuck him. It’s way past time for a Fire Mission on Tehran.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:25 pmFuck the JDAMs, Cruise missiles are better. 1K of fine American HE whoop-ass on his women-beating Presidential Palace…or on his camel dick sucking Al Quds bases…would make my day….
At what point do they call us “poopy-heads”?
August 15th, 2007 at 4:19 pmIran would be extroadinarily stupid to actually try a stunt like this. The goat fuckers are like vultures or jackals. They go for easy targets. My guess is that Ahma-Blowjob is praying to Allah for Hilary or Obama to take office in 08 and withdraw from Iraq. THEN they will try some idiotic stunt.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:21 pm… so by extrapolation this must mean that they WANT us to police the Persian Gulf - simply because if they didn’t they would sink our battlegroup.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:22 pmRight?
Problem: Iran.
Solution: A bunch of F-22s and a bunch of B-2s for a little 30,000lb bunker buster crater creation party.
Case closed … thanks for playing.
August 15th, 2007 at 8:14 pmFrom what I understand about screwing with the finances of that al-dud part of the Iranian army the President signed off on we have to be patient until it takes effect. The mad mollusks and immadinnerjacket will become increasingly desperate. I’m just putting this out. Glenn Beck today made mention of this frantic computer trading that happens around 3pm and it can’t be traced. I wonder if it actually has been traced and the Irainians in China have done something to bring down the stock market this past week and this is a retaliation for that. I know nothing about finance so I may be just talking out my ass. I left the house at 10.30 so I don’t know if anyone may have touched on this after I left. I’m just saying.
August 15th, 2007 at 11:32 pmthe stupid bastards seem to forget that we are already at there doorsteps
August 16th, 2007 at 4:36 amI have to believe that our military has all the Iranian missile sites targeted. If one launches, they all melt.
So if some asshole gets a chubby by rattling his saber, oh well.
August 16th, 2007 at 7:28 amWell… attack Iran and let us see how many more US soldier going home in Big Black Plastic Bag like what happen in Iraq right now..
September 25th, 2007 at 7:38 amYou cannot win a War without going to the ground and Iran is one of the world experienced ground fighter, simply analyze what happen to Israel soldiers during Hezbollah conflicts with Israel. winning a war in Iran is possible but it will cost a lot of price.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:53 am