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Iran threatens to target US bases if attacked
Iran has warned the United States not to resort to military action a gainst it, saying U.S. bases in the region were vulnerable to the Islamic Republic’s missiles, state media reported on Saturday.
The comments by a senior Iranian military commander were an apparent response to U.S. officials who have said Washington was ready to use military force to stop what it suspects is Iran’s goal to develop a nuclear weapons capability.
World powers held talks with Iran in Baghdad on May 23-24 in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to their concerns over its nuclear programme, which Tehran maintains is entirely peaceful. Another round was set for June 18-19 in Moscow.
“The politicians and the military men of the United States are well aware of the fact that all of their bases (in the region) are within the range of Iran’s missiles and in any case … are highly vulnerable,” Press TV reported Brigadier-General Yahya Rahim Safavi as saying.
Safavi is a military adviser to Iran’s clerical Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and was until 2007 the commander in chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the force that protects Iran’s Islamic system of governance.
He also warned that Iranian missiles could reach all parts of Israel but played down any possibility of military action against his country as “faint” because of the current economic condition of the United States.
Analysts say Iranian military officials use such fiery rhetoric as a way of keeping the West on edge over the possible disruption to global oil supplies in the event of U.S. or Israeli military action.
Tehran has previously threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz – a vital crude shipping lane – if it is attacked, which experts say would result in a spike in the price of oil and could hit the U.S. economy as it seeks to recover from the financial crisis.
Last month the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, said plans for a possible military strike on Iran were ready and the option was “fully available”.
U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Iran needed to take steps to curb its nuclear activities during the next round of talks in Moscow. Israel is sceptical any progress can be made and has accused Tehran of simply buying time.
4 Comments on "Iran threatens to target US bases if attacked"
BillT on Sun, 3rd Jun 2012 1:43 am
Perhaps threats also have the means behind them to make them real. In this case, they do. While Iran may not close the Strait, (they need to ship oil also) they could do so and they definitely could hit Us bases and the Saudi ports and oil fields. Not to mention the Us fleets in the Gulf.
Harquebus on Sun, 3rd Jun 2012 3:08 am
Bang! We’re all dead.
Arthur on Sun, 3rd Jun 2012 11:05 am
Iran will always be able to sink a few oiltankers, effectively halting oiltransport from the Gulf. At the same time Iran can garantee safe passage to oiltankers heading for China. If the US would obstruct these tankers, than a casus belli would emerge between China and the US, which is exactly what Iran wants. And Europe and Russia, although they would never admit it. Time will work in the advantage of Iran and against ‘the West’. In the end a war would lead to a breakup of the western alliance and a war between zionist lead Anglosphere against the rest of the world, a war Anglosphere cannot win. It will lead to the end of AIPAC Washington, the breakup of the US and the takeover of Australia by China. The end result will be a bipolar world Greater Europe + Euro remnants from the American carcas and China + Australia.
Here a recent strategy paper by Wladimir Putin about the European identity of Russia:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31174
He has said similar things in the past. Greater Europe has 750 million people, China 1.3 billion. Oh, and more than 1 billion muslims who are deeply anti-western. In contrast AIPAC has 180 million aging Euros plus ca 80 million other Anglos. Good luck Anglosphere.
Arthur on Sun, 3rd Jun 2012 10:20 pm
http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan243.html
Pat Buchanan explains that president Romney will increase defense spending. Mind you, the US alone already spends more on ‘defense’ than the rest of the planet combined, leaving no doubt about the true intentions of the american terror state. The ultimate victim will be the american population, that is going to be sacrificed on the altar of the unlimited power dreams of the zionized elite that wants to control the entire planet. But they are going to fail due to numbers and lack of motivation of the american population.