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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/wl_nm/iran_attack_usa_dc
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hit Tel Aviv, U.S. shipping in the Gulf and American interests around the world if it is attacked over its disputed nuclear activities, an aide to Iran's Supreme Leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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"The first bullet fired by America at Iran will be followed by Iran burning down its vital interests around the globe," the students news agency ISNA quoted Ali Shirazi as saying in a speech to Revolutionary Guards.
The United States and its allies suspect Iran is trying to build nuclear bombs. Tehran says its program is peaceful.
"The Zionist regime is pressuring White House officials to attack Iran. If they commit such a stupidity, Tel Aviv and U.S. shipping in the Persian Gulf will be Iran's first targets and they will be burned," Shirazi was quoted as saying.
Shirazi, a mid-level cleric, is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's representative to the Revolutionary Guards.
"The Iranian nation will never accept bullying. The Iranian nation is a nation of believers which believes in jihad and martyrdom. No army in the world can confront it," he added.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev, declined to comment on the threat to hit Tel Aviv, saying only: "Shirazi's words speak for themselves."
Israel, believed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed power, has vowed to prevent Iran from acquiring an atomic bomb. The United States says it wants to resolve the dispute by diplomacy but has not ruled out military action.
In April, Israel's Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is a former army general and defense minister, told Israeli media: "An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation."
Shirazi's comments intensified a war of words that has raised fears of military confrontation and helped boost world oil prices to record highs in recent weeks.
"We will make the enemy regret threatening Iran," Mohammad Hejazi, deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Mehr news agency on Tuesday.
ISRAELI MARKETS UNMOVED
Tel Aviv is an Israeli coastal metropolis of about 2 million people. It was hit in 1991 by Scud missiles launched by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein during a U.S.-led war with Baghdad.
Unlike other major Israeli cities such as Jerusalem and Haifa, it is home to relatively few Arabs.
The latest Iranian threats had little immediate impact on financial markets in Israel.
"This has no relevance on dollar-shekel trade. I assume if we see a strike, there will be a reaction," said Neil Corney, treasurer for Citigroup's Israel office in Tel Aviv.
"All this is sabre-rattling and Israel is trying to pressure the world to put some serious economic sanctions on Iran."
Joel Kirsch, head of equities trading at the Leader Capital Markets brokerage in Tel Aviv linked a market drop on Tuesday to banks selling off in Asia, not tension with Iran. "The conflict with Iran is somewhat priced into the market," he said.
Iran has previously threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz if it comes under attack. About 40 percent of globally traded oil moves through the Gulf waterway.
The Revolutionary Guards' commander of artillery and missile units, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi, said 50 brigades of his forces had been equipped with what he called smart cluster munitions.
"All our arms, bullets and rockets are on alert so that we would defend the Islamic Republic's territory," Hemayet daily quoted him as saying.
Senior officials from six world powers held a conference call on Monday to discuss the response Iran delivered on Friday to a revised package of incentives to curb its nuclear work.
The United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany offered the package last month and said Iran must suspend its uranium enrichment work before formal talks on implementing it.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday his country would not stop enriching uranium and rejected as "illegitimate" a demand by major powers that it do so.
We must hit Iran with force. These Muslims are crazy and we have to take then for their word. "When someone says they are going to kill you believe them" Auschwitz Survivor
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They want to be martyrs well lets help them bomb that hell hole and send them all to there 72 camel virgins
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I don't care if Iran says it wants to hit my pee pee...get them now before they get Israel or get another country to get Israel.
Threats like these have always been made by other stupid leaders.
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In April, Israel's Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is a former army general and defense minister, told Israeli media: "An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation."
Yeah, sure.
Israel couldn't destroy an area the size of Rhode Island two years ago.
I don't think that the Olmert regime is taking this matter seriously at all. >:(
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If Iran actually were to carry out such a threat, they would cause at least 50 billion dollars worth of improvement! :::D
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Level Iran till there is nothing left but sand
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Level Iran till there is nothing left but sand
Agreed
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Level Iran till there is nothing left but sand
Sand and nothing more. I totally agree.
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G-d help Israel and the U.S. if they approach whatever happens with Iran the same way they have approached all other recent "wars". The minute you start hearing rhetoric about the desire not to hurt or kill innocent Iranian civilians and that our issues are with the leaders of Iran not the Iranian people, that is the same minute you can kiss any chance of victory goodbye.
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G_d willing after all Iran has to be done with on some good day. The earlier it is the better.
Extremely heavy preemptive strikes with precision are to be the key words associated with the adjective of surprise.
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In April, Israel's Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who is a former army general and defense minister, told Israeli media: "An Iranian attack will prompt a severe reaction from Israel, which will destroy the Iranian nation."
Yeah, sure.
Israel couldn't destroy an area the size of Rhode Island two years ago.
I don't think that the Olmert regime is taking this matter seriously at all. >:(
Well put and I agree!
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Iran does not have the "cogliones" to touch a United States interest. IRAN IS NO MATCH FOR THE UNITED STATES MILITARY!!!!
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran,
Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb... Let's Bomb Iran!
Let's take a stand and Bomb Iran!
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Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran,
Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb... Let's Bomb Iran!
Let's take a stand and Bomb Iran!
Now Now Now Now
Immediate Immediate Immediate
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bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran
Oh bomb Iran, take a stand
Bomb Iran
You got me rockin' and a-rollin'
Rockin' and a-reelin'
Bomb Iran ba ba
Ba Bomb Iran
Went to a dance, lookin' for romance
Bomb Iran, so i thought i'd take a chance
With Bombing Iran, Bombing Iran
Take my hand
You got me rockin' and a-rollin'
(oh! oh!)
Rockin' and a-reelin'
Bomb Iran ba ba
Ba ba ba ba black sheep
Ba ba ba ba Bomb Iran
Ba ba ba ba Bomb Iran
Bomb Iran, chop your hand
Bomb Iran
You got me rockin' and a-rollin'
Rockin' and a-reelin'
Bomb Iran ba ba
Ba Bomb Iran! :::D
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Iran does not have the "cogliones" to touch a United States interest. IRAN IS NO MATCH FOR THE UNITED STATES MILITARY!!!!
Do you mean the U.S. military that hasn't beaten a very crude and primitive insurgency in five years of fighting?
Or do you mean the U.S. military that is too busy trying its soldiers for "atrocities" to actually conduct a war?
Or do you mean the U.S. military that halts most big operations during Ramadan?
You've gotta be kidding me if you think we have any deterrent cachet left in the Muslim world whatsoever.
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Iran does not have the "cogliones" to touch a United States interest. IRAN IS NO MATCH FOR THE UNITED STATES MILITARY!!!!
Do you mean the U.S. military that hasn't beaten a very crude and primitive insurgency in five years of fighting?
Or do you mean the U.S. military that is too busy trying its soldiers for "atrocities" to actually conduct a war?
Or do you mean the U.S. military that halts most big operations during Ramadan?
You've gotta be kidding me if you think we have any deterrent cachet left in the Muslim world whatsoever.
That is why America should let Israel turn that waste dump iran into glass
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That is why America should let Israel turn that waste dump iran into glass
Israel's military is ten times more rotted out than ours. America for sure can pull it off, if Bush's number one foreign-policy objective ceases to be fellating the Saudi royals at every turn.
Israel might be able to pull it off. It should certainly try. The question is--even if Olmert suddenly grows a backbone, would the Israeli public tolerate massive Iranian "civilian" casualties?
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Israel only needs to take a fresh deep breath and take a firm decision to strike. O0
What is the use of existence of Iran, when it does not accepts the existence of Israel on this earth. ::)
With regards... :)
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That is why America should let Israel turn that waste dump iran into glass
Israel's military is ten times more rotted out than ours. America for sure can pull it off, if Bush's number one foreign-policy objective ceases to be fellating the Saudi royals at every turn.
Israel might be able to pull it off. It should certainly try. The question is--even if Olmert suddenly grows a backbone, would the Israeli public tolerate massive Iranian "civilian" casualties?
Great analysis - right on the mark!
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Gear up for WW3 people.
I will
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I believe that the situation is going to spread to Iraq also where Iran will play a much bigger role + on top of that the world's oil supply will be greatly reduced by what is going to happen in Basra (Iraq). I think oil is at around 150$ , it will maybe be double then that. And when oil surges so does the prices of everything- Hyperinflation.
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Gear up for WW3 people.
Hey, we are in JTF we have been ready since the 80s. ;D