Iran Threatens U.S. With October 12 “Response”
Drudge has now picked this up.
J-Post:
Supporters of the “Zionist regime” will receive a response from Iran during the world Qods Day rallies on October 12, the IRNA news agency reported government spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Elham, saying Wednesday.
Qods Day is held each year on the last Friday of Ramadan as a day to voice Islamic opposition to Zionism.
“The US loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support a regime [the Zionist regime] which is now at its weakest political and social position,” Elham said. The spokesman, who was addressing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Israel, did not specify what an Iranian “response” would entail.
He also warned that Washington’s insistence on its wrong policies and arrogant approaches would have no result “but further political disgrace” for itself.
Elham’s remarks came hours after a report by the Fars news agency that the deputy commander of Iran’s air force said that plans have been drawn up to bomb Israel if it attacked Iran.
“We have drawn up a plan to strike back at Israel with our bombers if this regime (Israel) makes a silly mistake,” deputy air force chief, Gen. Mohammad Alavi was quoted as telling Fars in an interview.
The Fars news agency confirmed the quotes when contacted by the Associated Press, but would not provide a tape of the interview. The Iranian Air Force, for its part, had no immediate comment on the interview.
The announcement comes amid rising tensions in the region with the United States calling for a new round of UN sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program and Israeli planes having recently overflown Syria’s territory.
Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar, however, did tell the official IRNA news agency Wednesday that “we keep various options open to respond to threats … we will make use of them if required.”
Iran has threatened in the past that Israel would be Iran’s first retaliatory target if attacked by the United States. But Alavi’s comments were the first word of specific contingency plans for striking back at Israel.
Many in the region fear Israel could launch air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon.
Alavi also warned that Israel was within Iran’s medium-range missiles and its fighter bombers, while maintaining that Israel was not strong enough to launch an aerial attack against Iran.
“The whole territory of this regime is within the range of our missiles. Moreover, we can attack their territory with our fighter bombers as a response to any attack,” the general said.
An upgraded version of Iran’s Shihab-3 missile has a range of 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) capable of reaching Israel and carrying a nuclear warhead.
Alavi said Iran’s radar bases were monitoring activities at the country’s borders around the clock and boasted that it had the capability to confront US cruise missiles.
“One of the issues enemies make publicity about is their cruise missiles. Now, we possess the necessary systems to confront them (cruise missiles),” Alavi was quoted as saying.
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“Iran has threatened in the past that Israel would be Iran’s first retaliatory target if attacked by the United States. But Alavi’s comments were the first word of specific contingency plans for striking back at Israel”…
Well @ least we know where they will strike first.
Count down begins…
September 19th, 2007 at 9:18 amIts time to end these threats and proxy war that Iran has been putting forth for so many years, and especially now in Iraq.
Considering the fight Saddam’s elite “Republican Guards” put up when we went into Iraq, I’d be curious to see the effectiveness of the Iranian Quds Force.
IMHO, probably not even a match for a boy scout troop.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:19 amWow. So the pimple on the world’s ass is going to try something? Bwahahahahahahaha…
Doesn’t Ahmedthedickwad look like he’s having a bowel movement? Must be all that hot air comming from his ass…er I mean.. mouth.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:23 amAnd how would they refuel their aircraft? Or get past US and Israeli air defenses? Soon as they are over the gulf or Syria, if they get that far…their airforce will be no more.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:26 amSounds like a good reason to send a few more aircraft carrier battlegroups to the region.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:42 amBring it, bitches, this is loooooong overdue.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:46 amPerhaps they will test a http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Atom-Bomb-Poster-C10279625.jpeg
September 19th, 2007 at 9:56 amStop talking and do something, little Hitler bitch. You’ll just give us an even bigger excuse (as if we don’t have enough already) to obliterate you.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:05 amWhy in the wide, wide world of sports would Inneedofadikjob even consider attacking a country with a complete arsenal of nukes?? That is madness…
September 19th, 2007 at 10:08 amBoy I wish someone would shut that little shit up. He’s getting mighty boring.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:15 amTo be honest, I expect much of this is bluster on Iran’s part. If you look at the map, Iran is surrounded by 1) Iraq, currently housing American military, 2) Afghanistan, currently housing American military, and 3) the American navy off their coasts. And Syria has no friends in Lebanon or, of course, Israel.
Of course, if that windbreaker-wearing kook is really insane and believes that he will be saved by the rise of the Twelfth Imam, or if he thinks he can initiate a global jihad, he may just pull the trigger.
Personally, I hope he does. I can’t wait for him to get smoked. Then we just take their oil and flip Putin the bird.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:25 amWhy wait? Lets dance now.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:43 amIranian fighter/bombers…… (snicker, snicker..)
September 19th, 2007 at 10:44 amSurprise!!! “we got nothing”… move along.. Nothing to see here.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:58 amI can almost understand letting President Imafuckhead into this country. It’s the letting him back out part I’m having serious trouble with….
September 19th, 2007 at 11:10 amThe part about “drawing up plans” and Iranian Air Force: Should I shit myself now? OK, I’ll wait.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:01 pmHey, my webster’s says “Iranian Fighter/Bombers” translates to “smoking holes”! Bring it on Ahmadickwad!
September 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pmDan (TheInfidel)
It looks to me like he is saying “and then my gay lover shoved his fist up my ass like this….”
September 19th, 2007 at 1:04 pmramadamadingdong is a classic example of moe slum logic. No eating sunrise to sunset. If I had the misfortune to have been born into the seventh century I think I would have at least thought why don’t we do this during the month that has the shortest days. No wonder they’re so dam cranky.
September 19th, 2007 at 1:08 pmBradW(The Infidel):
ROFLMAO
September 19th, 2007 at 1:17 pmDan(The Infidel)
Thanks!
September 19th, 2007 at 1:44 pm“(Israel) makes a silly mistake,”
Really sophisticated language…Are they drawing the plans up on an etch a sketch as well?
September 19th, 2007 at 3:07 pmIsrael National News used this quote that sounds ominous.
(IsraelNN.com) Iran has promised a devastating “final response” to supporters of the Jewish State on October 12, the Islamic Republic’s Quds (Jerusalem) Day.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123724
September 19th, 2007 at 3:57 pmPark a couple of subs and carriers in the gulf.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pmDON’T TASER ME BRO!!!!
September 19th, 2007 at 8:17 pmOne more thing I forgot on my entry about Iranian statements that is also ominous. October 12, 2000 7 years ago was the date of the attack on the USS Cole.
Ralph
September 19th, 2007 at 9:11 pmAmerican military cannot stop cruise missiles, so I am wondering how Iran’s could?? Also, if the Shahab3 can change its trajectory even once enroute to its target, no American Patriot interceptor missile, or Israeli Arrow interceptor missile, can defeat it. Antiballistic missile systems ONLY work if the incoming missile is not able to change its trajectory in flight. As for Iran’s threat to America, it’s greatest threat is its willing martyrs world-wide. These WILL present a significan problem. It is most likely that to win this war against terror, we properly define the problem as Islamic terror. There will come a time when Americans, and the whole freedom loving world will have to recognize Islam for the threat it actually is. It’s too bad that Islam is so hell-bent on waging war against non-Muslims. But history proves that wherever Islam gains enough strength, it persecutes and kills non-Muslims. It is NOT a religion of peace. If it were, it would let people believe what they want to believe. Why it feels the need to SLAUGHTER non-Muslims ought to tell the thinking person what is at its core.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:00 pmI wish the USA and us (israel) will attack him by 12th of october before its too late.
I am ready for it, got my “protests against chemical”
shelter ready
September 21st, 2007 at 7:57 pmEric, could not have said it better myself…
September 23rd, 2007 at 1:54 amHi Natalie,
Yes, I wish others would connect the dots and recognize the threat to world peace Islam presents. A study of what happens in countries where Islam has gained power reveals its true intentions. History speaks volumes and shouts down the claims of Muslims that Islam is a religion of peace. History shows us that wherever Islam gains enough strength in a country, it always begins to persecute and kill those who are unwilling to convert. Why it does so, reveals what is at the core of Islam.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:20 pm