Consequences Of Attacking Iran And Why Tehran Is Not Worried

[KanadaHye]

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Finally one Armenian that has fallen in love with Islamic Republic. I wish every Armenian would think like you.

Iran is not a country to live in anymore. Since 1979 it is getting worse everyday. Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmadinejad made the worst of IR. No wonder millions of Iranians have left Iran and still more and more people leave IR of Iran.

Nah, they just need to get rid of the Israeli government and all will be well.

[Jam]

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Oh yes the great Republic. A Republic in which my mother wasn't allowed to practice medicine on males. A revolution after which she would be beaten physically even if she showed a strand of hair in public. Yes it was a great revolution indeed. I don't think my mother was asking to be allowed to wear mini skirts. Just being treated as a human being would have been enough for her.

I am very glad we left that dump. They can take their Islam and stick it up their own rears.

Finally one Armenian that has not fallen in love with Islamic Republic. I wish every Armenian would think like you.

Iran is not a country to live in anymore. Since 1979 it is getting worse everyday. Ayatollah Khamenei and Ahmadinejad made the worst of IR. No wonder millions of Iranians have left Iran and still more and more people leave IR of Iran.

[Jam]

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That part, I'm aware of

But the azeri Shahs of Iran have been friendly too.



I don't believe in the ZOG "theory". I Think it has alot to do with turkey being a member of NATO, Republic of Azerbaijan oil and their pipeline ...



I don't want Iran to be islamist so I can't agree with you. I think the armenians of Iran agree with me. The good relations between Armenia and Iran can be kept after the fall of the islamofascist regime.

What I also want to know was how come iran helps armenia, if we forget the historical relations? What's in it for iran? Turkey and azerbaijan are muslim countries at least. It must also have strategic importance, the help ...

Never trust mullahs

Exactly. Nobody should ever trust Mullahs. You are right with what you have written.

[KanadaHye]

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Just in case the American public forgot about the threat to the world that overshadows their personal and financial problems... leave it to CNN and FOX news to remind them... lol


Revolutionary Guard leader: We can hit Israel's nuclear facilities

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that Iran will strike Israel's nuclear facilities if the xxxish state attacks Iran, a semi-official news agency reported.

"If the Zionist regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," said Gen. Mohammed Ali Jaafari, according to the Iranian Labor News Agency, referring to Israel.

"Our missile capability puts all of the Zionist regime within Iran's reach to attack," Jaafari said, according to ILNA.

The military chief said calls against Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran maintains is for peaceful purposes, are part of the "psychological war that the West has launched against Iran."

Iran has refused international calls to suspend its production of enriched uranium, which it insists will be used to fuel civilian nuclear power plants.

Jaafari has said in the past that any strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be regarded as the beginning of war.

"We have no illusions whatsoever as to the hostile intentions of the theocratic radical regime in Iran," said Mark Regev, the spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister, about Iran's threat.

Israel, which regards Iran's nuclear program to be a considerable threat, is widely believed to have nuclear weapons itself.

Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a nuclear-armed Iran would destabilize the Middle East and threaten the entire world by triggering an arms race and supplying catastrophic weapons to terrorists.

"The goal is to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said, adding that most governments in the Middle East, Europe and elsewhere agreed.

"It's not merely an interest of Israel," he said.

Pressed on whether Israel would launch a unilateral attack against Iranian nuclear facilities, Netanyahu said Israel "always reserves the right to defend itself."

He said, "We are threatened as no other people are threatened," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/...ear/index.html

[hipeter924]

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Yeah, the US just follows its established policy. Don't forget that they were supporting Saddam Hussein's regime during the war between Iran and Iraq. Everyone knows what happened later. Since they do not dare attack, they do their best to destabilise the country.

It is the way of all great powers. USSR did the same things in the Warsaw Pact countries and of course to Poland.

Also I agree with you Federate. The middle east governments that support Israel are hypocrites though. They support the Palestinian cause on principle but not in practice. The people do not like what Israel is doing but its not like they have a choice, they live in dictatorships or monarchy's.

[Federate]

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Anyone who still thinks the Arab countries are still at war with Israel or that they care about the Palestinian cause is living in a dream.
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Israel: S. Arabia's airspace ready for Iran attack


Saudi Arabia will allow Israeli bombers to use its airspace for an aerial attack on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, diplomatic sources say.

Director of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, has assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Saudi airspace would be available for Israel in case it plans to move forward with a long-threatened military foray into Iran, reported The Sunday Times.

According to the report, Saudi officials, in secret talks held earlier this year, have agreed to “turn a blind eye” to Israeli bombers flying over the kingdom to strike Iran's nuclear sites.

“The Saudis have tacitly agreed to the Israeli air force flying through their airspace on a mission which is supposed to be in the common interests of both Israel and Saudi Arabia,” the newspaper quoted an Israeli diplomatic source as saying.

While Saudi officials deny having diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv, an Israeli defense source recently confirmed that the Mossad spy agency maintained “working relations” with the kingdom.

On Thursday, John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, said it was “entirely logical” for the Israelis to use Saudi airspace to attack Iran.

Bolton said he had discussed the possibility with Saudi officials in closed-door meetings. “None of them would say anything about it publicly but they would certainly acquiesce in an overflight if the Israelis didn't trumpet it as a big success.”

Tel Aviv accuses Tehran of nuclear weapons development - a charge rejected by both Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog, which has so far made "21 unannounced inspections" of the country's nuclear facilities.

With eyes firmly fixed on Iran's nuclear progressions, the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly threatened to bomb the country's enrichment facilities out of existence.

There are three main routes for Israel to launch go-it-alone air strikes on Iran.

The northern route would take Israeli fighter jets to the north toward the corner of the Syrian-Turkish border, then turning east, along the Syrian border.

The central route would go over Jordan and iraq, while the southern route would entail flying through Saudi Arabia and then to Iran via iraq or even Kuwait.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99822&sectionid=351020104

[retro]

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Yeah, the US just follows its established policy. Don't forget that they were supporting Saddam Hussein's regime during the war between Iran and Iraq. Everyone knows what happened later. Since they do not dare attack, they do their best to destabilise the country.

Well Iran's economic and political isolation is intended to demoralise and weaken it's regime. Iran is however is a far more stable and powerful state than Iraq, which was weakened by the Iran-Iraq war and it's inter-communal divisions.

[meline]

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Yeah, the US just follows its established policy. Don't forget that they were supporting Saddam Hussein's regime during the war between Iran and Iraq. Everyone knows what happened later. Since they do not dare attack, they do their best to destabilise the country.

[KanadaHye]

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"Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now "no great secret"

It's about time that they started reporting on the "no great secrets"

[robertik1]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1543798/US-funds-terror-groups-to-sow-chaos-in-Iran.html

US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran

By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman
Published: 12:01AM GMT 25 Feb 2007



America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.

In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions.

The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime.

In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials.

Such incidents have been carried out by the Kurds in the west, the Azeris in the north-west, the Ahwazi Arabs in the south-west, and the Baluchis in the south-east. Non-Persians make up nearly 40 per cent of Iran's 69 million population, with around 16 million Azeris, seven million Kurds, five million Ahwazis and one million Baluchis. Most Baluchis live over the border in Pakistan.

Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now "no great secret", according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington who spoke anonymously to The Sunday Telegraph.

His claims were backed by Fred Burton, a former US state department counter-terrorism agent, who said: "The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime."

Although Washington officially denies involvement in such activity, Teheran has long claimed to detect the hand of both America and Britain in attacks by guerrilla groups on its internal security forces. Last Monday, Iran publicly hanged a man, Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi, for his involvement in a bomb attack that killed 11 Revolutionary Guards in the city of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchistan. An unnamed local official told the semi-official Fars news agency that weapons used in the attack were British and US-made.

Yesterday, Iranian forces also claimed to have killed 17 rebels described as "mercenary elements" in clashes near the Turkish border, which is a stronghold of the Pejak, a Kurdish militant party linked to Turkey's outlawed PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party.

John Pike, the head of the influential Global Security think tank in Washington, said: "The activities of the ethnic groups have hotted up over the last two years and it would be a scandal if that was not at least in part the result of CIA activity."

Such a policy is fraught with risk, however. Many of the groups share little common cause with Washington other than their opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose regime they accuse of stepping up repression of minority rights and culture.

The Baluchistan-based Brigade of God group, which last year kidnapped and killed eight Iranian soldiers, is a volatile Sunni organisation that many fear could easily turn against Washington after taking its money.

A row has also broken out in Washington over whether to "unleash" the military wing of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iraq-based Iranian opposition group with a long and bloody history of armed opposition to the Iranian regime.

The group is currently listed by the US state department as terrorist organisation, but Mr Pike said: "A faction in the Defence Department wants to unleash them. They could never overthrow the current Iranian regime but they might cause a lot of damage."

At present, none of the opposition groups are much more than irritants to Teheran, but US analysts believe that they could become emboldened if the regime was attacked by America or Israel. Such a prospect began to look more likely last week, as the UN Security Council deadline passed for Iran to stop its uranium enrichment programme, and a second American aircraft carrier joined the build up of US naval power off Iran's southern coastal waters.

The US has also moved six heavy bombers from a British base on the Pacific island of Diego Garcia to the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which could allow them to carry out strikes on Iran without seeking permission from Downing Street.

While Tony Blair reiterated last week that Britain still wanted a diplomatic solution to the crisis, US Vice-President xxxx Cheney yesterday insisted that military force was a real possibility.

"It would be a serious mistake if a nation like Iran were to become a nuclear power," Mr Cheney warned during a visit to Australia. "All options are still on the table."

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany will meet in London tomorrow to discuss further punitive measures against Iran. Sanctions barring the transfer of nuclear technology and know-how were imposed in December. Additional penalties might include a travel ban on senior Iranian officials and restrictions on non-nuclear business.

Additional reporting by Gethin Chamberlain.