As Promised – Blow Hard Rhetoric out of Red Faced Iran!
September 18, 2007
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Iran is whistling loudly in the graveyard, trying to artificially keep up its faded courage. Iran discovered its nuclear and military sites do not have the great protection from aircraft and missile attacks, which was promised to them by the recently acquired Russian Detection Systems.
Syria’s protection was proven to be a myth by the success of the Israeli air strike in northern Syria.
Their anticipated whistling is in the form of threatening rhetoric against Israel. It is blow hard, hot air, rhetoric.
They do not have 600 launch proficient Shihab-3’s to send up. Even if they did, none of them have nuclear warheads – Israel’s do! The Shihab-3 testing has been limited. Israel has a missile detection and destruction system that works.
Blow hard rhetoric, the U.S. and Israel know is all hot air, is all that Iran can launch upwards at the present time. Who knows, this might cause even a man as fanatical as Ahmadinejad to back off. I imagine his religious superiors are all over him now like a duck on a June bug. If Syria and Iran want to win a war with Israel they had better back up, develop an effective air and missile shield, allow UN inspectors back into Iran, find a way to secretly develop a deterrent nuclear weapon, and employ some of their well known Persian and Syrian cunning to lead Israel down a dead end peace path of deceit. If they start a war now they will flat lose it, which is one of the reasons I chose the time frame of 2008 to the end of 2012 as the most likely time frame of an Islamic attack against Israel, with the most favorable part of it being from 2010 to 2013.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 1
600 Iranian missiles said to be pointed at targets in Israel
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 17, 2007
Six hundred Iranian Shihab-3 missiles are pointed at targets throughout Israel, and will be launched if either Iran or Syria is attacked, an Iranian website affiliated with the regime reported on Monday.
“Iran will shoot at Israel 600 missiles if it is attacked,” the Iranian news website, Assar Iran, reported. “600 missiles will only be the first reaction.”
According to the report, dozens of locations throughout Iraq, which are being used by the US Army, have also been targeted.
The Shihab missile has a range of 1,300 km, and can reach anywhere in Israel.
On Sunday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that the nuclear Iranian crisis forces the world “to prepare for the worst,” and said that in this case it “is war.”
Kouchner emphasized, however, that negotiations should still be the preferred course of action.
Kouchner, quoted by French daily Le Figaro, added that “Iran does whatever it pleases in Iraq … one cannot find in the entire world a crisis greater than this one.”
In response to Kouchner’s comments, Iran’s state-owned news agency accused France of pandering to the interests of the United States.
“The new occupants of the Elysee (Presidential palace) want to copy the White House,” the IRNA news agency said in an editorial.
The editorial added that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was taking on “an American skin.”
Kouchner’s statements came just hours after US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated the Bush administration’s commitment, at least for the time being, to using diplomatic and economic means to counter the potential nuclear threat from Iran.
Begin Jerusalem Post Excerpt 2
Olmert is prepared to enter unconditional talks with Syria
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
September 17, 2007
Nearly two weeks after reports surrounding an alleged IAF incursion into Syrian skies began circulating, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday that Israel was prepared to hold negotiations with the Damascus.
The prime minister also addressed the Iranian threat, asserting that Israel “is not afraid.”
” We want to make peace with everyone.
If the conditions allow for it, we are ready to make peace with Syria without preconditions and without ultimatums. I have a lot of respect for the Syrian leader and for Syrian policy” said Olmert.
The prime minister was addressing Russian-language media outlets when he said that although the Syrians “have an internal problem, there is no reason to reject dialogue with the country.”
Olmert said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “is trying to create a psychology of fear. [He is doing] this to convince the international community to enter talks with him.
“There are exaggerations here. We are not afraid, we are worried,” Olmert argued. We don’t need to lose our senses,” he added.
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