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Haaretz ^ November 08, 2004
TEHRAN - Iran threatened on Monday to strike back at Israel or any other country that attacked its nuclear facilities.
U.S. and Israeli officials accuse Iran of seeking to develop atomic bombs under cover of a civilian nuclear program. Iran denies the charges saying it only intends to produce electricity from nuclear power plants.
"If Israel or any other country attacks any site in Iran, we know no limits to threaten their interests," Deputy Revolutionary Guards Commander Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr said.
Haaretz.com
Report: Iran admits to supplying Hezbollah with drones.
Haaretz ^ | November 10, 2004
A senior Iranian official has admitted that Tehran supplied Hezbollah with the drone that spent several minutes in Israeli skies in the north of the country on Sunday, an Arab-language newspaper reported Wednesday.
Haaretz reported Tuesday that Iranian drone experts from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards took part in the launch from Lebanon of a Hezbollah drone that spent several minutes over northern Israel this week.
On Wednesday, the Arab-language Al-Shark Al-Awsat newspaper, which is published in London, quoted a senior official in the Revolutionary Guards as saying that the drone was one of eight Iran-produced unmanned airborne vehicles that the country gave Hezbollah in August.
Iran also supplied Hezbollah with surface-to-surface missiles that have a 70-kilometer range, according to the report.
Haaretz.com
Originally posted by SiRiNO
Why the hell do you think thats funny? You should realise that they are dead serious, and if israel touches them then the missiles will fly.
And more power to them.
Originally posted by MrNice
Has anyone here studied the Iraq / Iran war? Iran has got to be the stupidest military power on earth. They kept religious leaders at all levels of command. Many times military commanders were overridden by the mullahs so that human waves could attack fortified Iraqi positions. Millions upon millions of Iranian�s died in futile attacks.
Originally posted by MrNiceIraq had trouble dealing with these massed waves because they had no decisive air power. We don�t suffer from that problem and any attack by Iran on our troops would be very unsuccessful and very bloody (for the Iranian forces).
Originally posted by MrNiceA few missiles (even nukes), will not alter the borders anywhere in the middle east. But it could signal the destruction of Persia and perhaps most of the Muslim world.
Iran is very stupid to try and play this game, but that is what you get when you let religious zealots run amok.
Originally posted by IAFthunderpilot
Iranian presdient and other officials stated few times in the last few years that "killing 5 million jews worth the death of 50 million Iranians"
Originally posted by Gazrok
It would seem that a direct and provable link to Iran of the drone flight, could easily justify (at least internationally), an Isrealli response of bombing the nuke facilities in Iran. Perhaps that's why the Isrealis didn't shoot it down???
Originally posted by ufo3
Originally posted by SiRiNO
Why the hell do you think thats funny? You should realise that they are dead serious, and if israel touches them then the missiles will fly.
And more power to them.
Are u stupid? If Iran attacks Israel then who else will they attack? I think that any COUNTRY should have access to nuclear power but not any REGIME which includes the Iranian excuse for a government. They wouldnt hesitate in giving terrorists access to nuclear arms because they really hate the US and west in general therefore they should be stopped from having these weapons. The US has the ability to stop Iran and they will use it, its just a matter of time.
Originally posted by MrNice
Our "problems" in Iraq are a low-level conflict with Iran not a rebellion by real iraqi's. If Iran want's to escalate the issue then fine with us.
Originally posted by MrNiceYes, our divisions could handle a major Iranian offensive. Probably less than one division could break up a cross-border assult..
Originally posted by MrNiceB-52's work amazingly well against large massed troop formations. Thier armor, what they have, wouldn't make it 2 miles into Iraq before a squadren or two of Cobras or Apaches mangled em. Airforce? Do they have one? Thier little navy would be wiped out very quickly.
Originally posted by MrNiceNow..if they threw say 3-4 million at us at once we'd be busy little beavers for about a month...but the outcome is not really an issue. Probably have to ship an extra division just to handle the sheer weight of numbers (ie: prisoners).
Originally posted by MrNiceI don't think thier military would obey an order to attack us. It would be the end of the mullahs most likely.