Iran Mulls First Strike Against US

Those Mullahs are very jittery. Spectre of Middle East Nuclear desert comes closer... Ironic indeed if Muslims are responsible for turning Mahommed's tomb into glass and drastically reducing their own
numbers.

Bring it on.

Let them glow in the dark

Please Iran, I'm beggin' ya, throw the first punch..

Are these the same Iranian butt monkies who were threatening to nuke Israel, last week? They're begging for smack down.

I think Iran may get their wish but not from the US. I would say that Israel is allready planning some fireworks.

Now this rhetoric coming from the Mullahs in Iran from the last few weeks, only highlights the mentality of these warmonger,Imagine if and when they get their hands on nuclear weapons??

If they ever acquire nuclear Bobms it wont be a matter of when they will use them, but rather on "Who" they will use it on.

This is serious stuff, a pre emptive strike on Iran by any one could be the turning point and the catalyst for "The" confrontation of the two civilisations, not doing anything though will in a very short time lead to catastrophies on an unimaginable scale.

Iran has already stated that once they have nuclear arms they will be ready to suffer as "material damage", this really means that they are ready to sacrifice Palestine, and any one else of heir kind, as long as Israel is finaly destroyed.

This mindset is all too familiar with terrorists whoa re willing and eager to kill their own for the greater "cause"....now add nuclear weapons to their arsenal, and the mathematics are bone chilling.

Time is ticking away.

From Iran to Syria, Saddam's Iraq to Somalia or Sudan, there is something in the Muslim psyche that demands that they utter the most vain of boasts. They seem to think that as they are Muslim, Allah will grant them victory. The fact that Allah continues to studiously ignores the supplications of Muslims, does not seem to register. It is good for them that the West also does not take them seriously; though I think in the case of Iran, it may be politically expedient to do so.

...some Iranian generals believe they should strike first if they sense an imminent U.S. threat.

So, they have also adopted the "Bush Doctrine". Fair enough. The threat to Iran is imminent so they had better act now.

The same mighty Iraqi army that Iran could do no better than fight to a stalemate for eight years, was crushed by the US in eight days. As President Bush has often been quoted to say, "Bring it on."

Ali Shamkhani is a bit of a plonker. Saying stuff like that is tantamount to a delcaration of war and makes it even easier for a civilised country to attack Iran.

Iran hasnt got many friends at all. The Russians resent their funding of Chechnya, a lot of Eastern Europeans bear a grudge over their role in Bosnia. Even the most fundamentalistic Arab states view the mad-mullahs of Shia Iran as a threat to their Sunni Pan-Arabism. The only exception are perhaps the Saudis. As for the South East Asians, Mussharaf is unlikely to want any of his neighbours to get atomic weapons, and I doubt Indonesia is much of a worthwhile ally for Iran. Turkey hates Iran over its encouragment of Kurdish militancy.

In short Iran's only allies are Azerbaijan, Bosnia, perhaps Albania and then all the muslim immigrant communities in Western europe. None of these have much power or influence.

It short if the US car-parked Iran it would get an angry vocal response and the usual lefties would kick up a fuss, but no one of any importance would care. Its not like say doing it to North Korea (which might piss off the Chinese) or Saudi Arabia (which would be the simply the greatest thing ever, but would cause major agro).

And hey with armies in Afghanistan and Iraq it would be easier than it might have been 5 years ago.

If Iran will strike us first,i`m willing to bet anything that our beloved democrats,the leftist media and civil rights organizations will put the blame on Bush,on the war in Iraq,on the "opression" of muslims,on out friendship with Israel,etc...and they will also do everything in their power to prevent us from striking back.

The threats from Iran to use nuclear weapons have multiplied in the last couple of weeks. Just like Saddam when he was getting very close (few months, maybe even weeks) to building his nuclear bomb (brought to you by he French government). And we all know now that Saddam meant it, he was serious about building his own atomic bomb (and Europe was bending over backwards to help him), and if it wasn't for Israel he would have gone through with it.

Now it's the same story with Iran: no matter how frequent the threats are becoming, Europe is turning away, and pretending that they don't hear these threats. (They have always ignored the awkward question, why an oil rich nation needs such an extensive nuclear energy program. Yes they ignored the question, but nevertheless helped in any way they could.) Not one European country is objecting, or seriously calling for Iran to end its nuclear program. Not one mayor European news channel, or paper is reporting about the threat (not even a fraction of the time they spend on bashing Israel).

Europe got her priorities right: let's bash and condemn Israel for building a security fence for self defence, and let's assist the Iranians building a nuclear bomb. Nice.

I think that Iran won´t make anything, because If they are something, the answer would be very strong, and many americans hate more Iran than Iraq, the bad relationships are very older, what a question, how did you end the kidnapping of americans in the american embassy in Iran, I say, because I remember that It was more than a year but I don´t know a lot, someone can explain me, thanks

In my opinion, it would be unlikely that Iran would first strike the USA with a small nuclear weapon.

First off, if a major city such as New York, LA, or Washington DC were hit by Iran along with the staggering human and economic loss, not to mention the probable interruption of our government, the retaliation by the USA would be broad and disproportiantely devastating, probably not only striking Iran but a sweeping portion of the Islamic world perceived as supporting Islamic Fascism (i.e. Syria, Sudan).

The Democratic Party appeasers may equivocate if we are struck on the homeland by a series of relatively small attacks, say truck bombings and homicide bombers, but I do not believe that any bipartisan bickering could occur after a nuclear strike on hour homeland.

The scary thing is that the mad mullahs in Iran certainly know this, but are basically willing to take most of the moslem world down with them if they sense immpending defeat by the USA. I, for one, wouldn't miss the f**kers in the whole of the Islamic world, but a nuclear strike here in the USA is a scary possibility.

Iran considering carrying out a first strike? Make my day!

how did you end the kidnapping of americans in the american embassy in Iran, I say, because I remember that It was more than a year but I don´t know a lot, someone can explain me, thanks

Think it was done thru mediation via the Swiss embassy, they were released just after Carter left and Regan came in. Subsequently other dealings involving US hostages taken by Iranian groups in the Middle East involved various arms trades (known as "Iran Contra") which nearly brought Regan down but I think he claimed he didnt know. There was an attempt to solve the embassy crisis by force (snatch operation), but it went wrong and the helicopters crashed in Iran.

All of this demonstrated that Islam/Iran etc were incompatable with the West/Civilisation. IMO in 1979 the West should have given higher priority to eliminating Islam than fighting communism... but thats all in the past now.

A preemptive strike by Iran against the US? We should be so lucky.

If they did, $100 bucks says that the American Left and their European do-nothing, pseudo-intellectual, cafe-squatting comrades would protest any reliation from our side--and $200 bucks says they would say it was our fault in the first place for provoking those poor Iranians.

I know their playbook--because I used to be one of those lefty morons on college until I left the ivory tower and escaped the daily brainwashing by liberal college professors.

Re: Iran - There is a pertinent article By Steven Stalinsky,
"Iranian talk of an attack on America". It can be found at http://jewishworldreview.com/0804/memri_iran_attack.php3.
Stalinsky is an officer of Memri.

Fritz

Like the bumpster sticker used to read, "visualize whirled peas."

As for the Shehab-3 missile (actually its North Korea's "ding dong flying tube" on steroids) whose 1300-km range covers every part of Israel and lots of other places -- it now sports a GPS navigation made in China.

This new feature is courtesy of President Clinton who allowed the American manufacturer of the system to it sell directly to China's Air Force. They in turn have sold it to Iran.

Smart move, Mr. Clinton -- thanks Mr. President.

But please consider the fact that there is a lot of hot air blowing around the desert these days.

If you think for one minute about:
the airborne GBI-28 bunker busters,
or the cruise missile-carried BLU-114B bomb -- capable of knocking out the electricity grids of whole cities (not to mention missle batteries), and the “E-bomb” under development, whose microwave beams can massively damage electronic circuitry over a large area -- then
I wouldn't get too worked up over the mulla's rants.

As I said, there is a lot of hot wind blowing in the desert these days -- then there are realities.