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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says expects Israel to launch war
Israel will eventually go beyond threats and will attack Iran, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Saturday.
As speculation mounts that Israel could launch air strikes on Iran before U.S. elections in November, Mohammad Ali Jafari told a news conference that the Jewish state would be destroyed if it took such a step.
“Their threats only prove that their enmity with Islam and the revolution is serious, and eventually this enmity will lead to physical conflict,” Jafari said when asked about Israeli threats to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported.
“We are making all efforts to increase our defensive capabilities so that if there is an attack … we could defend ourselves and other countries that need our help with high defensive capabilities.”
Jafari’s comments, made at an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) military exhibition, come as Israeli leaders have increased their rhetoric against Iran.
“A war will occur, but it’s not clear where or when it will be,” Jafari was quoted as saying on Saturday. “Israel seeks war with us, but it’s not clear when the war will occur.”
“Right now they see war as the only method of confrontation,” he said.
Israel, which bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 and launched a similar strike against Syria in 2007, has threatened to do the same in Iran if diplomatic efforts fail to stop the nuclear work it believes is aimed at getting weapons capability.
Iran, which says its nuclear work is for peaceful means, has said it could strike U.S. military bases in the region as well as Israel if attacked.
“If they (Israel) start something, they will be destroyed and it will be the end of the story for them,” Jafari said, according to ISNA.
5 Comments on "Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says expects Israel to launch war"
Plantagenet on Sun, 23rd Sep 2012 4:10 am
In 2008 Obama promised to stop iran from getting the bomb.
In 2012 Obama marks his fourth year of doing nothing to stop Iran from getting the bomb.
BillT on Sun, 23rd Sep 2012 5:29 am
Planet, what gives America the right to say who has one and who doesn’t? After all America is the ONLY country that has used them in war. Iran is a signatory of the Nuclear treaty, Israel isn’t. Israel is the real enemy here. And if they start something, it WILL be the end of Israel as a country.
And consider that North Korea definitely has more than one but we are not threatening them with bombing even though they have threatened war numerous times. WHY do we ignore one and not the other? OIL!!!!
Ken Nohe on Sun, 23rd Sep 2012 9:48 am
The question is not who is right and who is wrong in the Gulf. Everyone is both right and wrong depending on how you read the facts and there is therefore very little chance that one side will convince the other.
The real question is what is the risk for everyone and it looks more and more that the answer is: immense. Our economic model is outdated and on the brink. Our financial system is floating two steps beyond the cliff frantically running on thin air, our social system is cracking as people will not accept much longer that rich people continue to game the repartition process, our political system is less and less representative and less and less democratic. Our dependence on fossil fuel has increased in spite of all the hot air generated by alternative energies. But worse of all, our resilience has been destroyed on the altar of half-baked and simplistic economic theories which emphasize just one aspect: productivity and profitability against all the rest.
The result is factories with no stock, relying on parts and raw materials half a world away. A countryside with no farms left, to speak of. Just miserable chickens raised in factories, giant tractors applying huge doses of pesticides on over fertilized soils to produce at very low costs but intensive energy use mountains of grains to feed exploding cities in the developing world. People left with no practical knowledge and almost no abilities to live on their own and produce what they need.
It does not take advanced calculations to understand that even a small disruption of all this will result in a major catastrophe. And a war against Iran would be anything but a small disruption, even if things go exceptionally well for the other side. Iran has no chance to win a war against the US and they know it, but they do not need to win, just to survive the onslaught, and that is much easier since the country is too large to be occupied.
The fact that everybody on both side is aware of all this has prevented a war to take place for now but it has also helped both side to play a game of chicken. And this will go on until the dreadful alternative suddenly becomes attractive to short term and ill advised interests. Then what? The law of unexpected consequences will be in full swing. Yes the Gulf may be closed for less than a month, maybe just a week, but the damage will be done. Some countries will stop accepting some currencies, smaller states will seize the opportunity to secede, trade will slump, unemployment will explode… then who knows? There will be no winners. If you see things differently, please explain!
Welch on Sun, 23rd Sep 2012 3:41 pm
“In 2012 Obama marks his fourth year of doing nothing to stop Iran from getting the bomb.”
So you sit in on the national security briefings? You’re aware of the operations of the CIA? What do you want, endless war? Maybe if you yanks hadn’t overthrown their democratically elected govt. for greed and empire we would not be in this situation. If they even are pursuing a bomb it’s no wonder–it’s pretty well the only thing that will keep Americans from interfering in a country’s affairs.
Arthur on Sun, 23rd Sep 2012 9:44 pm
Plant, all US intelligence bureaus report that according to their best information Iran is not working on a nuke. Since Saddam at the latest we should now realize that it is fundamentally impossible to prove that you do not have something.