Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Issues Military WARNING to the United States

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime’s boldest challenges yet to the United States.

AFP: Iran issues stark military warning to United States

Iran said it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime’s boldest challenges yet to the United States.

“You can start a war but it won’t be you who finishes it,” said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime’s most powerful figures.

“The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a pro-Palestinian conference in Tehran.

Right, and does not General Sfavi realize that an all out war scenario would involve the following:

And the delivery methods to affect the result……

From under the Sea:

• Sea-Based Strategic Weapons

• Ohio-class (Trident) SSBN
• Trident I C-4 SLBM
• Trident II D-5 SLBM

• Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons

• Tomahawk TLAM-N SLCM
• B61 Gravity Bomb (Tactical)

From the Air:

• Air-Based Strategic Weapons

• B-52H Stratofortress
• B-1B Lancer
• B-2A Spirit
• ALCM
• ACM
• B53 Gravity Bomb
• B61 Gravity Bomb (Strategic)
• B83 Gravity Bomb

From the United States mainland:

• Land-Based Strategic Weapons

• Minuteman III ICBM
• Peacekeeper (MX) ICBM

ANY attack on the United States, including its or its allies trrops in Iraq would unleash a state of war and would unlock America’s nuclear arsenal.

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT.

“I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one,” General Safavi said with a grin.

“We have American forces in the region under total surveillance. For the past two years, we have been ready for any scenario, whether sanctions or an attack.”

At a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati simply branded the US as a “decaying power” lacking the “stamina” to block Iran’s ambitions.

And hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told AFP that a US push for tough United Nations sanctions was of “no importance.”

“She is free to say whatever she wants,” the president replied when asked to respond to comments by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice highlighting part of the UN charter that provides for sanctions backed up by the threat of military action.

“We give no importance to her comments,” he said with a broad smile.

Sabre rattling by a third rate military power with no nuclear arsenal, further isolates Iran from the international community. Will these bloviations pursaude Russia and China to pursue sanctions in the United Nations Security Council?

Perhaps….

But, as Flap has stated over and over when the POINT OF NO RETURN is realized by the United States and Israel, a military operation to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and their military will occur.

For a piece on the feasibility of a military operation against Iran’s nuclear facilities:

The Weekly Standard: Target: Iran

A MILITARY OPTION AGAINST Iran’s nuclear facilities is feasible. A diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis is preferable, but without a credible military option and the will to implement it, diplomacy will not succeed. The announcement of uranium enrichment last week by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shows Iran will not bow easily to diplomatic pressure. The existence of a military option may be the only means of persuading Iran–the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism–to back down from producing nuclear weapons.

Stay tuned for the world’s response….which will be measured…….

Update #1

Wizbang: Iran Issuing Another Threat

Update: Raw Story is reporting that military actions in Iran are already underway. Via Stop the ACLU

Flap doesn’t necessarily believe lefty retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner. His piece in the Atlantic Magazine, Will Iran Be Next? is too defeatist.

But, does Flap think there are covert operations involving Iran?

You betcha……

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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