Zip:
Poor Lurch gets no respect.
Via Daily Caller:
The chief commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned the United States yesterday that if it attacked the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, it would blow back in America’s face.
Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari was responding to a statement by Secretary of State John Kerry made on Thursday to Al Arabiya that if Iran does not abide by the interim Geneva agreement with the 5+1 world powers reached in Geneva, “the military option of the United States is ready and prepared to do what it would have to do.”
But… but… why would anyone attack? They are not developing weapons and don’t even WANT weapons. What have they to fear?
Iran sure is in awe of the might of the US under Obama and Kerry. Didn’t they learn anything from our iron resolve in dealing with Syria? Well, maybe they did.
Bill
do we think the other countries will join OBAMA’decisions,
after all those talk they had together thinking they had a deal,
not so sure,
BYE
Reza Kahlili, author of the original article, is not a reliable source of factual information. He gives talks and writes books that target a specific market. That’s what he does for a living, in lieu of writing straightforward espionage thrillers. Nothing that he claims, including his own identity and personal history, are verifiable. He has stated in the past that Iran already has nuclear weapons. I especially like the following Kahlili fantasy, reported in a Washington Post article, which he delivered in the context of a Washington think tank presentation in 2010:
As a double agent I am guessing that, without his false name and secret identity, Reza Kahlili would already be dead.
http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=13921105001430
That is a link to the original story in Iran’s Farsi language.
You can ask Google to ”translate this page.”
Reza’s quote is accurate as well as more conversational.
Here’s Google’s rougher version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&u=http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php%3Fnn%3D13921105001430&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php%253Fnn%253D13921105001430%26hl%3Den%26gl%3Dus%26authuser%3D0%26tbm%3Dnws
@Greg#3 – Aside from shooting down an article (by Reza Kahlili) that just ‘may’ have a lot of weight to it…What do YOU actually think?
@FAITH7, #5:
I think it’s predictable that a chief commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards would say things like this. No doubt the people in the revolutionary peanut gallery find it stirring. What he fails to mention is that the United States wouldn’t fight a war against Iran on Iran’s terms—at least so long as the current U.S. administration is in power. Nor is the United States likely to be deterred from bombing their nuclear facilities by the threat of increased terrorism. Actually, talk of increased terrorist attacks on behalf of Iran by like-thinking fanatics only adds to the argument that blowing their nuclear infrastructure to hell might be a good idea. Smarter people in Iran probably realize that.
Mohammad Ali Jafari’s comments were probably intended for an Iranian audience. They have more to do with internal politics than Iranian foreign policy. Khalili is using them for his own purposes.
GREG
yes it”s a good idea, and I think BENYAUE IS HAVING THE SAME IDEA,
ABOUT IT ALSO,
@Greg#6-
“Jafari warned Kerry of a massive retaliation from its proxies if Iran is attacked.”
Sounds like we have a stand-off then…or just as you imply ‘tough’ talk by Jafari to the masses…
The question becomes who is bluffing?
I would suspect and do not doubt there are ‘sleeper cells’ dotted about the U.S. and I suspect, unless I am mistaken, this is what Jafari means by “proxies”… After 9/11 this should be of great concern to everyone…
I cannot fully agree with this…the “war on terrorism” has been fought on (the) “Terrorist” terms by the United States….(beginning with Iraq) there was a check list of ‘you can not___” our Brave soldiers had to follow just to fight these various ‘wars’ with the terrorists….in my view this was non-productive… and actually leads me to agree with you on the following….
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/25/top-iranian-military-official-warns-kerry-against-attacking-irans-nuclear-facilities/#ixzz2rjTLlv5x
Most Americans do not realize the amount of Sunni-Shia violence on the ground in the ME/North Africa.
Iran is Shia.
Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia are majority Shia BUT RULED by Sunni!
Those Sunni sheikhs claim they fear armed invasion or bombing by Iran.
But the fact is their real fear is that Iran will induce their own Shia subjects to revolt and demand democracy.
Sunni sheikhs cultivate the US supposedly to keep Iran at bay.
But this hasn’t stopped Shia in all of the ME/North Africa from rising up against their various rulers.
Obama, being a weak ally, hasn’t helped.
Iran’s goal is a completely Shia-ruled Gulf.
Obama seems to have buckled to that desire.
Iran threatens to attack via proxies.
The US has proxies in the ME, too.
Israel as well as all of these Sunni-ruled oil-rich exporters.
Even one of Obama’s own 1/2 brothers was photographed recently wearing a Hamas sash which showed no Israel, and read, Jerusalem will be ours and From the river to the sea.http://www.barackhobamafoundation.org/project_photos_8.html