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Iran Threatens U.S. Interests, Again
More Rhetoric from the totalitarian regime in Iran. From News 24:
A top Iranian cleric said on Friday the United States was within Iran's "firing range", a day after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to hit back at US interests worldwide if attacked."Americans have surrounded us but it works to our advantage. They are within our firing range in the east, west and elsewhere," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in his Friday prayer sermon carried live on state radio.
He was referring to the US military presence in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the Gulf waters off southern Iran.
It is amazing how much the leaders in Iran sound like Baghdad Bob before and during Operation: Liberate Iraq in 2003. I guess he must have opened a propaganda school or is consulting with Iran n how to bloviate with the best of them.
Currently, there are no plans from the U.S. to invade Iran. Okay, more likely there are some plans on how to do it if the need arose, however, there are no intentions of executing such plans.
Meanwhile, Iran continues to posture as the "wounded victim" of "American aggression," and push hard on developing nuclear technology, and getting closer to either developing a nuclear weapon, or being able to produce sufficient quantities to pass of to terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda and Hezbollah who are more than willing to use it to attack Israel, the United States and other Western nations.
"In the worst situations we are able to turn the region into burning hell and take the possibility of using the Persian Gulf away from them forever," Rear Admiral Mohammad Ebrahim Dehghani said, quoted by semi-official Mehr news agency.
Is this guy hinting that they plan on using newly developed nuclear weapons, or threatening the use of chemical and biological weapons, or merely posturing. It's hard to say, as well as dangerous to guess, especially to guess wrong.
We need to take the question of Iran's nuclear enrichment programs far more seriously than we are. Doing otherwise could be disastrous.
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