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Iran Defense Minister: “Main threat” is from US and Israel, “we need to hit the enemy where it hurts the most”

Mar 5, 2017 9:01 am By Robert Spencer

This is the regime on which Barack Obama showered millions.

“Iranian Defense Minister: We Need to Surprise the Enemy, America, and Hit It Where It Hurts the Most,” MEMRI, February 7, 2017:

Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan recently said that the main threat to Iran was from America and its ally, Israel, and that in order to gain the upper hand in battle Iran should operate in a situation of asymmetric warfare, and have sufficient power to surprise the enemy in order to “hit it where it hurts the most.” He was speaking on IRINN TV on February 7.

Hossein Dehghan: Today, the main threat is from the arrogant regime, America, along with the Zionists and so on. When we consider how to fight such a threat, we need to find factors that will give us the upper hand in battle. There will be a situation of asymmetric warfare. We have several plans to develop [military] products and technology, to improve existing products, and to develop our industrial infrastructures. We must operate in such a way that strategically, we will not be surprised on the day [of battle], for example, by finding ourselves in a scenario that we did not think of, or by suffering damage that we did not anticipate. In addition, we need to have sufficient power to surprise the enemy. In other words, we need to hit the enemy where it hurts the most.

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 9:06 am

    Quote: “we need to hit the enemy (USA) where it hurts the most”.

    I suppose when Libtards hear that, they immediately go into denial and say, ‘Surely, he is just talking.’

    Yeah, German voters thought Hitler was ‘just talking’ when he laid out a detailed plan for Nazi Germany in his Munich beer hall speeches. Only the Munich Post believed he meant it. They were demonized, attacked, mocked and then arrested and ‘disappeared’.

    We in the counterjihad are the Munich Post of today. We must not fail in bringing the bad news to the government and the lame-stream compromised journalists.

    WHEN THE MUSLIMS SAY THEY WISH TO CONQUER THE WORLD AND IMPOSE SHARIA… THEY ACTUALLY MEAN EVERY WORD OF IT!

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 10:47 am

      The only question is were they :Guests” at the Opening of Dachau

    • Linnte says

      Mar 6, 2017 at 3:54 am

      Exactly Mortimer.

    • Frank says

      Mar 6, 2017 at 11:14 am

      Looks like Iran will get a powerful lesson before this year ends.

    • Gary says

      Mar 7, 2017 at 12:45 pm

      …and hopefully the world wakes up to that fact.

  2. Raymond Hietapakka says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 9:11 am

    Practically a declaration of war.

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 10:51 am

      YEP
      And a FEW DAYS AGO, a TOP Revolutionary Guards General BOASTED that they have CELLS,iow UNITS IN the United States.
      Serious Times
      What a Bastard Century
      Technology ENHANCED , War ,Chaos, Barbarism

      • umbra says

        Mar 6, 2017 at 7:51 am

        If iran hits the US with its terror cells and these cells are then traced back to iran, then Congress may very well deem this to be a declaration of war. After which, iran will be pounded by the US military.

        saudi arabia would be very happy if this happens and may in fact take actions to facilitate acts that lead to conflict.

        The reality is quite likely that iran is acting tough, but wetting its pants. It does not want to truly instigate conflict with the US and certainly does not want anyone else instigating a conflict between it and the US.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 9:18 am

    NATO countries should create and recognize an Iranian government-in-exile, create a new constitution for Iran and actively promote the Iranian government-in-exile as the official representative of Iran. When people in Iran realize that a legitimate government is in the wings, the mullahocracy will realize its days are numbered. The will all realize they are going to be arrested and tried for their crimes.

    This will transform the debate in Iran. The people of Iran are more than ready to revolt.

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 10:56 am

      Question:
      WHY did Iranian’s NOT OVERTHROWN the Islamic Rpublic as they did the Shah?
      Answer:
      THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT
      And they’re Crazy enough to Follow the 12th Hidden Imam Fanatics iinto Armeggedon , as did Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan populations WWII

      • Barz says

        Mar 7, 2017 at 5:34 pm

        Most of the iranians i have met dont want the mullahs

    • DFD says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 1:49 pm

      @mortimer
      =========.

      You said: “….(1)…NATO countries should create and recognize an Iranian government-in-exile, create a new constitution for Iran and actively promote the Iranian government-in-exile as the official representative of Iran… (2)…. The people of Iran are more than ready to revolt.”

      Good post, excellent good suggestion, but problems.

      Referring to 1: Even if the NATO countries were to **agree** on a common cause of action {personal comment: Fat Chance!} the western media which is nearly 100% on Frankfurter/Antifa course will launch one attack after another, plus ‘celebrities’ speaking out and a lot of “exes-”, i.e., Obama, Hillary etc. The Nazi-maces and whips will be swung with the utmost ferocity. Existences, political and commercial ones, will be destroyed. Also, individual physical attacks and riots, i.e., Antifa (Berlin, Berkeley, Washington etc.) and the Muslims of course. France is just returning to a state that can be, barely, equated to normal. Normal means they are back under emergency regulations, in force since more than a year.

      Such riots and hate campaigns will also occur in Canada with equal ferocity, and to a somewhat lesser extent in the US – just check the representation of Soros NGOs and similar, plus the presence of Saudi/gulf monies, that is to say foundations, donations, scholar ships, etc. And by riots I mean **riots**! The anti-Trump demos were a friendly-neighbourhood-gathering by comparison.

      Moreover, consider this, LePen is actively courting the votes of the ‘modest’ French Muslims (???), despite this the press, or rather entire MSM, is labelling her Nazi practically everyday. Same as Wilders, AfD, and so on and so forth.

      So, whilst that suggestion is excellently, and I’d gladly cosign it, the chance for it is zero, I am afraid.

      Referring to (2): Yes, they are ready to revolt. But it would require **active, external help**! Otherwise, see Romania, Hungary, you know the list. In Iran Christianity is rising and so is Zoroastrianism as well as atheism – everything but the Mullahs. But they have the power! And it is very, very difficult to unsettle entrenched, tyrannical power. As an example take Nazi Germany, during Adolf’s 12 year reign there were 13 assassination attempts! Plus a host of resistance groups, such as “Die Weisse Rose” (The White Rose) of or by the Scholl siblings, Hans & Sophie, who were murdered by the Gestapo, as were many other members. Why using them as an example? The only surviving member has recently, together with AfD and Gruppe Identaire, re-founded The White Rose, to oppose the Merkel regime and her supporters. Guess what the media calls them: Nazis… The Antifa hordes have already issued threats – which they usually carry out. Same as everywhere else in Europe, WE Europe that is, since east of the Oder and south-east of the Alps they live in peace; Bastards! 🙂

      So, to summarize my reply, as a Christian I’d love to see that happen. But before we can even remotely think about such actions or operations, we’d better start to clean our houses first – with wire brooms and steam cleaners.

      Still, was nice to see somebody actually calling for the right thing.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 6, 2017 at 7:03 pm

        DFD wrote:

        The only surviving member has recently, together with AfD and Gruppe Identaire, re-founded The White Rose, to oppose the Merkel regime and her supporters.
        …………………

        This is true, DFD–the brave Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, who passed away in 2012 at 91. She was active in Pax Europa against the Islamization of Germany, seeing parallels between the subversion of democracy by the Nazis and the aims of the Jihad.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm

      I keep hearing that the Iranian people are poised to show the Mullahs the door, but I’ve been hearing that for forty years now. I’m not sure having some sort of “government-in-exile” would make much difference, either.

    • Linnte says

      Mar 6, 2017 at 3:56 am

      I agree! I have heard quite a few Iranians who want revolution to get their 1950’s Iran back.

  4. Somebody says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 9:26 am

    I hope they will try, than there will be no more 1 iran. Lets not forget 42% of iran are Turks and 10% are Kurds, iran must be divided into several countries. (But please do not involve saudi freaks in this matter because they are also satanic kingdom)

  5. Somebody says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 9:33 am

    Actually we should hit them first!!

  6. vladkoval says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 10:17 am

    Very soon in USA (could be), if not nuke the whole Iran and the rest of the Dar-Al-Islam

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 11:09 pm

      And, of course, they are screaming “Allahu Akbar!” as they watch these people being murdered. *Ugh*.

  7. Gene says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 11:38 am

    Headline should read “Iran Poised to Become World’s Leading Producer of Glass.”

  8. Westman says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 11:55 am

    No Fear – Patrick (Picard) Stewart will overwhelm Iran with his Muslim Minions right after becoming a US citizen and deposing President Trump.

    What a disappointment he has become, obviously not anything like the character he so famously portrayed. Perhaps that is the destiny of actors – to never find their own soul or be able to accurately assess reality.

  9. HugoHackenbush says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    Prescient article from 2006 that is well worth reading today:
    https://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2006-winter/no-substitute-for-victory-the-defeat-of-islamic-totalitarianism/

  10. Peter says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    This is just Hudna. The nuclear treaty between the US and Iran is in emulation of the Prophet’s treaty with the Meccans in 628, otherwise known as the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. The nuclear treaty will not be honoured by the Iranians, because Muhammad did not honour the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. It is the goal of all pious Muslims to emulate the life of the Prophet. If the Prophet did it, then a pious muslim will aspire to do it. Hudna is merely a truce or an armistice, whose purpose is to take stock, to regain strength, and to prepare to re-prosecute a war.

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 5:54 pm

      FOISTED on the world by Hussein Obama and Iran Raised Valerie Jarrett

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 5, 2017 at 11:10 pm

      All true.

  11. Angemon says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 2:52 pm

    We have several plans to develop [military] products and technology, to improve existing products, and to develop our industrial infrastructures.

    Plan whatever you want – if economic sanctions are in place, you won’t get past the drawing board. Well, you wouldn’t, were it not for rogue states like Russia defying those sanctions…

    • umbra says

      Mar 6, 2017 at 7:41 am

      You are being overly generous. Camel piss technology is evidently deficient. Hence, those mullahs are importing Russian, North Korean and perhaps Chinese tech and weapons.

      iranian homegrown and manufactured fighter jet is a rehashed circa 1960s US F5 jet. Their homegrown MBT is a chimera of 1960s M60 and 1970s T-72.

      Any effective weapons systems deployed by iran is imported, mostly from Russia (ATGM, SSM, SAM). If and when new embargoes are in place, iran will lose access to many weapons suppliers. Only North Korea will sell them tech and weapons.

  12. Matthieu Baudin says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 9:37 pm

    We should never again turn a blind eye to the officially sanctioned bellicose language emanating from the Islamic Republic of Iran; we should be standing up to it and catching the ear of the millions of Iranians utterly tired of their ongoing political charade.

  13. gravenimage says

    Mar 5, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    Iran Defense Minister: “Main threat” is from US and Israel, “we need to hit the enemy where it hurts the most”
    …………………..

    Never mind that pious Sunnis are raping Shia and just recently issued a Fatwa saying they can be *killed and eaten*–instead, it is the civilized Americans and Israelis who are the “main threat”–because we are “filthy Infidels”.

    God, I hate Islam.

  14. SM says

    Mar 6, 2017 at 3:32 am

    “Surprise the enemy” …”..hit where it hurts the most,,,,” The execution of this ‘surprise’ will be the very last thing anyone in Iran – does.

  15. underbed cat says

    Mar 7, 2017 at 2:14 pm

    What concerns me is the diversity of muslims, some Iranians etc. in the U.S. military, with access to some dangerous items, intelligence computers, and contacts. Add to that individuals with skills in every other area of American life, with the label of peace, knowing full well their religion and sharia and floating until the attacks in the U.S. begin……we will be fighting incoming and locals. With all the health care transition issues major work, hopefully Trump is aware and is not distracted…by protests and legal issues.

    I believe we need a domestic military large enough to handle domestics attacks with technical skills.

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