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Garnet SpyIran warned on Saturday it would fire off 11,000 rockets at enemy bases within the space of a minute if the United States launched military action against the Islamic republic. “In the first minute of an invasion by the enemy, 11,000 rockets and cannons would be fired at enemy bases,” said a brigadier general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, Mahmoud Chaharbaghi.
“This volume and speed of firing would continue,” added Chaharbaghi, who is commander of artillery and missiles of the Guards’ ground forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
The United States has never ruled out attacking Iran to end its defiance over the controversial Iranian nuclear programme, which the US alleges is aimed at making nuclear weapons but Iran insists is entirely peaceful.
Iran has for its part vowed never to initiate an attack but has also warned of a crushing response to any act of aggression against its soil.
“If a war breaks out in the future, it will not last long because we will rub their noses in the dirt,” said Chaharbaghi.
“Now the enemy should ask themselves how many of their people they are ready to have sacrificed for their stupidity in attacking Iran,” he said.
Iranian officials have repeatedly warned the military would target the bases of US forces operating in neighbouring Iraq and Afghanistan in the event of any attack and already has these sites under close surveillance.
Chaharbaghi said that the Guards would soon receive “rockets with a range of 250 kilometres (155 miles)” whereas the current range of its rockets is 150 kilometres (91 miles).
“We have identified our targets and with a close surveillance of targets, we can respond to the enemy’s stupidity immediately,” Chaharbaghi added.
He said that the Guards’ weapons were spread out throughout the country and so would not be affected by any isolated US strikes against military facilities.
The Guards are Iran’s elite ideological army and responsible for its most significant weapons such as the longer range Shahab-3 missile which has Israel and US bases in the Middle East within its range.
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I hope to god the US gov’t doesn’t force its people into anymore conflict. What is this world coming to?
How reliable is this information from Mahmoud Chaharbaghi, remember the Iraqi information minister!
I think this is nothing more than spreading fear.
“remember the Iraqi information minister!”
Maybe he was right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzlgXPbGy-E
I dont condone attacking Iran, but they should keep in mind that the US uses EMP on weapon systems before actually crossing the border..
Attacking Iran would be stupid. However, it’s not very smart to poke a bear either.
What I find incredible is for people to react as if fighting an attack was an aggression on its own merits.
Regardless of the reasons, when a Military power attacks a Country with less than 30% of it’s own population and far from being an equal enemy, knowing fully well the implications and disregarding the disastrous outcome of an unilateral move… who is the imbecilic moron who gives the go ahead? as I that had to be asked….
I completely agree that attacking Iran would be a stupid thing, but they have to keep in mind that threatening this president is more likely to make him more resolute in his desire to rid the world of evil. And we all know the president is the one who declares wars. Besides, I don’t really think anyone doubts the US’s ability to destroy a country. It’s that part afterwards with all the securing and stabilizing and whatnot that presents a problem.
This article is from Jan 27, 2005 and is relevant more than ever.
http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=7606&IBLOCK_ID=35
@TJ:
No, Congress is the one that declares wars and it’s about time they remember that. The President is the one who starts “police actions.”
Though no one here sounds nearly as arrogant as the current U.S. President, there still seems to be some lack of perspective. These remarks were not just, or even chiefly, for worldwide consumption. Rather, these sorts of statements are how the existing Iraqi regime maintains the support of its own hardline base.
The people of Iran are frightened by a horrible threat. Unlike Al Qaeada, this threat really does have the power to bring an entire nation to ruin. Ever since that ridiculously ignorant Axis of Evil speech, the United States government has been instrumental in crowding rational calls for political reform out of the Iranian mainstream. This sort of claim may be spun as “fighting words” by American warmongers, but they are no more provocative than typical U.S. rhetoric about defending our homeland (and less so than sabre-rattling about the future of “pre-emptive” war.)
“I dont condone attacking Iran, but they should keep in mind that the US uses EMP on weapon systems before actually crossing the border..”
What makes you think that Iranian rockets rely significantly on electronics? Every heard of the V2? It might launch the rockets, but I somehow doubt it has much to do with their navigation.
The Americans should see the light of the day behave in a manner that does not call for all out war with Iran and also is not doing the mussle flexing to intimidate the enemies.Keep diplomatic channels , tlak continuously, build public openion,help the needy monetarily and materially, throw your lot with the right people and do not over all enage youself in to stealing others money through complex mannerinsm.
We don’t want to attack them. Bush does.
Now that would be a holocaust Ahmadinejad would believe in.
@ John Mandrake
The V2 used basic circuitry and would still be effected by EMP.
Iranian missile systems, based off of and bought from Russia use pretty sophisticated circuitry to drop in on persons. To assume they’re equivalent to a V2 is a far beyond the point of absurdity. Rockets - regardless of their age, are years beyond dumb bombs and are highly effected by EMP. The sheer fact that all electrical circuits are disabled by EMP should provide the notion to even the greatest simpleton that they would be unable to launch any sort of counter attack that involved an electrical circuit.
One couldn’t even push the ignition button on the rocket system and expect it to fire after an EMP strike.
I couldn’t drift off to rest without correcting the confusion of “Iraqi” with “Iranian” I made earlier. In spite of some Persian overlap, obviously the terms have very different meaning today. My point there was that Iran was making excellent progress toward democracy prior to the Axis of Evil speech. Decades of progress were lost as fear drove Iran to ban many reform candidates and vigorously censor what had become a de facto free press. The very real threat a bellicose American President presented cause the Iranian people to rally around militant leadership.
However, again, I believe boasting of Iranian military capabilities is wildly different from the Iraqi propaganda predicting a swift Coalition defeat. Among other things, no serious force would be contributed by any ally to support an American attack on Iran. The Iranian economy has not been devastated by severe global trade sanctions, and the worst excesses of Iranian corruption do not begin to rival those of Saddam Hussein’s regime. More importantly, Iranian military leaders have, perhaps more to their horror than edification, been given a front row seat to American invasion and occupation methods.
In addition to a ridiculous amount of rocket artillery (perhaps there is a Napoleon devotee amongst the Iranian senior brass,) there are other measures in place. It is known that many large lots of .50cal extreme long range sniper rifles have been obtained by Iran. Loyal soldiers cut off from their commanders may yet defend their homeland by forming into two man teams and taking to the hills with the firepower, and by this point presumably also the professional training, to pick off individual soldiers or shoot through lightly armored vehicles while making use of camouflage and guerrilla tactics.
The daily death tolls might not be as enormous as those involved with counterinsurgency operations in Iraq, but professionals so equipped would be able to focus their violence keenly on invaders. Fewer Iranian non-combatants would be killed as is the case with Iraqi civilians in that cauldron of violence, but occupying soldiers would face much greater peril than in Iraq.
Also, whether or not Iran actually has completed any nuclear devices, there is the matter of how much radiological material they control. Given sufficient desperation, military encampments far from Iranian population centers could be the targets of dirty bomb attacks. A fairly simple device could render an entire airfield (and many billions in combat aircraft) useless for future combat operations.
Then there is the public relations issue — what would it do for recruiting into extremist organizations if Iran were invaded, or even merely attacked, by the United States? For all its faults, Saddam Hussein’s government was a stable secular regime. Throughout the 90s, it seems far more Al Qaeda operatives were American residents than were visitors to Iraq. Certainly a terrorist organization dedicated to the overthrow of secular regimes in the Middle East was not conducting operations under the nose of a fascist police state very much intent on self-preservation. Every strategic analysis that is even remotely sensible concludes war with Iran would be historic folly with no upside for anyone but terrorists and defense contractors. We can only hope senior White House officials have overcome their strong allergy to sensible strategic analysis.
Is this really possible? if yes, then a humble request to mr. ahmeadinejaad, Please limit your 11000 rockets to army bases only don`t target the common people like us.
11,000 rockets and cannons… I didn’t think bottle rockets and potato cannons could even make one mile, let alone 91 or 155 miles.
He must have gone to the same school as the IIM.
It’s amazing how many people don’t understand the Middle East mentality. This General isn’t making a threat for the sake of threatening America or any other country. This is 100% typical of their barbaric nature of puffing up their chests to gain their own public support. It also serves to imply to their neighbors that they are tough guys and in order to get that message across, they overcompensate with strong loud voices.
If you have EVER heard an Iranian or Iraqi in a conversation, as soon as they feel insecure (which is always) or overcome by an opposing force, they immediately get loud, start interrupting, start speaking like the big bully on the block about how powerful they are, etc. They thrive on the effects of a loud bark. Or at least in their own minds think its effective.
Now, Iran does have a goodly amount of artillery and mobile weapons, but the whole tactic is for their bark to be louder than their bite, so that you can’t tell just how weak they are. These people are street fighters who win half the battle by being loud, wild, crazy and unpredictable, because they aren’t going to win on sheer might and force alone. They KNOW they are in a world society of High tech, extremely effective technical warfare that could annihilate them, so their first defense is be louder than anyone else.
Iran in a war with anyone would not be like taking a bite out of an apple, Iran would be more like trying to get rid of the flu. It’s annoying, painful and miserable for quite a long time, but eventually you get rid of it.
You don’t attack the flu before you get it. It comes to you first then you deal with it. (unless you have had your shot first ) :D
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Once upon a time, there was a retired general named Paul Van Riper. In 1966, as a young Marine officer and American advisor in Vietnam, he was wounded in action; he later became the first president of the Marine Corps University, retired from the Corps as a Lieutenant General, and then took up the task of leading the enemy side in Pentagon war games.
Over the years, Van Riper had developed into a free-wheeling military thinker, given to quoting Von Clausewitz and Sun-tzu, and dubious about the ability of the latest technology to conquer all in its path. If you wanted to wage war, he thought, it might at least be reasonable to study war seriously (if not go to war yourself) rather than just fall in love with military power. It seemed to him that you took a risk any time you dismissed your enemy as without resources (or a prayer) against your awesome power and imagined your campaign to come as a sure-fire “cakewalk.” As he pointed out, “Many enemies are not frightened by that overwhelming force. They put their minds to the problem and think through: how can I adapt and avoid that overwhelming force and yet do damage against the United States?”
As a result, Van Riper took the task of simulated enemy commander quite seriously. He also had a few issues with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s much vaunted “military transformation,” his desire to create a sleek, high-tech, agile military that would drive everything before it. He thought the Rumsfeld program added up to just so many “shallow,” “fundamentally flawed” slogans. (”There’s very little intellectual content to what they say … ‘Information dominance,’ ‘network-centric warfare,’ ‘focused logistics’ - you could fill a book with all of these slogans.”)
In July 2002, he got the chance to test that proposition. At the cost of a quarter-billion dollars, the Pentagon launched the most elaborate war games in its history, immodestly entitled “Millennium Challenge 02.” These involved all four services in “17 simulation locations and nine live-force training sites.” Officially a war against a fictional country in the Persian Gulf region - but obviously Iraq - it was specifically scripted to prove the efficacy of the Rumsfeld-style invasion that the Bush administration had already decided to launch.
Lt. Gen. Van Riper commanded the “Red Team” - the Iraqis of this simulation - against the “Blue Team,” U.S. forces; and, unfortunately for Rumsfeld, he promptly stepped out of the script. Knowing that sometimes the only effective response to high-tech warfare was the lowest tech warfare imaginable, he employed some of the very techniques the Iraqi insurgency would begin to use all-too-successfully a year or two later.
Such simple devices as, according to the Army Times, using “motorcycle messengers to transmit orders, negating Blue’s high-tech eavesdropping capabilities,” and “issuing attack orders via the morning call to prayer broadcast from the minarets of his country’s mosques.” In the process, Van Riper trumped the techies.
“At one point in the game,” as Fred Kaplan of Slate wrote in March 2003, “when Blue’s fleet entered the Persian Gulf, he sank some of the ships with suicide-bombers in speed boats. (At that point, the managers stopped the game, ‘refloated’ the Blue fleet, and resumed play.)” After three or four days, with the Blue Team in obvious disarray, the game was halted and the rules rescripted. In a quiet protest, Van Riper stepped down as enemy commander.
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