It is my judgement that Iran, while blustering, IS FULLY confident of victory in any set of circumstances, and this guides their policy
Now we can either see this stuff as Saddam like WMD emptiness or not, but if it's a bluff, it is one which will guarantee actions by the people which it is intended to fake out, thus guaranteeing its own failure as a policy.Iran threatens counterstrike at Israel with 600-missile arsenal
Iran has prepared a vast intermediate-range missile arsenal for an attack on Israel and U.S. targets throughout the Middle East. Iranian military sources said Teheran has amassed an arsenal of 600 Shihab-3 and -4 missiles, with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers.
"A key target will be Israel's nuclear site at Dimona," a military source said.
The sources said Teheran has deployed its arsenal in both western and northern Iran. They said much of the arsenal has been directed toward Israel and could destroy the Jewish state in a first strike.
Iran missile test in 2004 [ZOOM].
Iran's missile arsenal has been tested several times. In January 2007, Teheran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conducted a massive missile exercise that demonstrated its capability to fire more than 100 missiles in a single salvo.
Capt. Mohammed Rostami, a member of the Iranian Center for Military Studies, said Iran has developed an arsenal that does not depend on Western suppliers. Rostami said Iran has developed an advanced command and control system that could ensure the launch of 600 Shihab-3 and -4 missiles within a minute.
The first salvo, Rostami said, would be followed by others as mobile launchers concealed by the huge Iranian mountains in the north and west of the country. He did not rule out that Iran would install nonconventional weapons in missile warheads.
Today Ahmadinejad announced that the US govt was responsible for 9/11 as a pretext for invading the middle east (Afghanistan and Iraq among others).
What shall we make of such people who believe this stuff, threaten our people and our allies with extinction for 28 years WITHOUT CESSATION , and believe fervently that in the event of Armageddon, a perfect being will come out of a well to bring peace and happiness? Will the world be more stable if they do all this AND have nuclear weapons? Will our lives be better? WIll even people in the street in Teheran be better off if Israel maintains all 300-600+ nukes on launch on warning status? Who, there, would hesitate 5 seconds over a radar signature arcing towards a state a few miles wide given what all leaders there in Iran say and profess for more than a generation?
A claim, given what has happened in the Eastern province of KSA thru history, is all too believable. Are we to be stuck with the Al Saud as "allies", while their private donations to hate, racism, and murder STILL LEAD THE WORLD?Another military researcher, Zainuddin Mestefoi, agreed. Mestefoi said Iran has also been planning to respond to any Israeli strike against Syria. Already, he said, Syria has acquired advanced Iranian weapons.
"Iranian military leaders believe that Israelis live in a glass house, and the results would be grave if Israel attacked Iran," Mestefoi said.
Saudi Arabia is scared
Saudi Arabia might not be the prime target of Iran, but it is scared of Iran. Saudi Arabia has increased its monitoring of Iranian visitors who seek to reach Mecca for an Islamic pilgrimage.The Saudi Interior Ministry has ordered that all Iranian pilgrims who arrive in Jedda undergo fingerprinting. The measure has been unprecedented and comes after years of allowing Iranian pilgrims access throughout the kingdom.
Saudi authorities have been ordered to monitor Iranian pilgrims to ensure that they don't relay weapons, funding and instructions to the large Shi'ite minority in the east. The ministry has also begun scanning passports and other travel documents of Iranians.
That means that Iranian visitors have been stopped on the streets during Saudi police patrols. In some cases, the Iranians have been treated roughly. The Teheran regime has protested the latest Saudi measures. Teheran has charged that Iranians have been discriminated and even abused in Saudi mosques, particularly during the pilgrimage season in Mecca.
Isolationism appealing yet?
WE have only one real and dependable ally in the middle east, and it is NO COINCIDENCE that THEY are so hated among such peoples. I wish this were not so, but it so obviously is.
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Lord, I'm going to stop coming here.
If Iran launches 600 missiles at Israel, that's the end. It doesn't matter if the Iranian missiles turn out to work as ineffectively as the "state of the art" Syrian radar, you're right, once they're launched, Israel will let loose.
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