Yesterday I pointed out in my Diary that The Arab League is reopening their office in Iraq, do to the fear that Iran Shiites may have a strong influence on the Iraqi Shiites. Their fear is that a full fledge civil war could erupt out of the civil unrest do to the U.S. presence in the region. Now the Ayatollah, supreme leader of Iran is getting in on "The War of Words". Read on>>>
The Washington Post reports today that the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, Iran will bring attacks against U.S. interests around the world, if Iran is attacked over it's refusal to stop uranium enrichment.
"If the U.S. ventured into any aggression on Iran, Iran will retaliate by damaging U.S. interests worldwide twice as much as the U.S. may inflict on Iran," Khamenei said in a speech to a workers' assembly, according to the official news agency IRNA.
Now when the supreme leader of Iran speaks, does this bring some credibility to the threats coming out of Tehran? Or is it Iran's way of gathering support in the Middle East? What we have to remember, even though the administration would like us to believe different, the U.S. is not well liked in that region.
Earlier in the week Iranian officials vowed;
In a spate of statements this week, Iranian officials have also threatened to cut oil production, export nuclear technology, bar international nuclear monitors, make their nuclear program entirely secret and withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
While saying that they don't have plans to attack Iran, in the next breath they tell the world that military strikes are always on the table, and even more disturbing than that is the fact that those strikes could be nuclear. Yea that's right the administration thinks that tactical nuclear strikes won't be that bad. No I don't have a site for that, but just read all that they have to say on the subject and you will more than likely will draw the same conclusion.
Two main options are under consideration, say people familiar with Air Force thinking. The first would be a quick series of strikes against several dozen nuclear-related facilities, lasting only a few days and followed by a U.S. statement that the bombing would resume if Iran retaliated.
The second option envisions a lengthier, more ambitious campaign of waves of strikes by bombers and cruise missiles aimed at hundreds of targets, hitting not just nuclear-related facilities but also the headquarters of intelligence agencies, the Revolutionary Guard and other key government offices.
On Wednesday, now Ex- Press Secretary Scott McClellan said that he would venture a guess at what the report would say;
"which is that this is a regime that is in noncompliance with its obligations; this is a regime that is not abiding by the agreement it made with the Europeans to suspend all its enrichment and enrichment-related activities."
As we know by now Iran says that its intentions are pure, and is only enriching uranium for the purpose of electric plants, and the U.S. says that is hogwash. The administration along with the Germans and Brits feel that they are working towards a bomb. Sort of sharing those feelings, are most members of the UN Security Council.
Iranian authorities, playing to a domestic political audience, have cast the U.N. demands as an effort by the West to trample on its sovereign right to develop a civilian nuclear program. "The Iranian nation and its officials are peace-seekers and the Islamic republic would not invade anybody," Khamenei said Wednesday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on several occasions has called for the end to the State of Israel. Along with calling the Holocaust a hoax, which has prompted some countries to take a stance along the same lines of the Israeli Defense Minister.
"Of all the threats we face, Iran is the biggest," Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Tuesday as Israel observed Holocaust Remembrance Day. "The world must not wait. It must do everything necessary on a diplomatic level in order to stop its nuclear activity."
He added, "Since Hitler we have not faced such a threat."
I personally feel that with the Arabs getting back into the game, and the Ayatollah coming out and backing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and more of the words that have been coming out of Israel, backed by the Bush camp, that the "War of Words" is about to spill out in to the streets. Where the words could develop into deadly actions.
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