Iran: Ready To Go To War With The West
Iran Ready Too Go Too War With The West? Whill Iran This Week Sayed: that his country has detailed contingency plans to strike nearly three dozen U.S. military bases in the region should Iran be attacked. As Iran Is Closeing The Borders Of Oil Supplise That The World Gets Over 40% Of The Oil. An Iranian military commander said that his country has detailed contingency
plans to strike nearly three dozen U.S. military bases in the region should Iran
be attacked, Iranian media reported Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, told reporters the U.S. has 35 bases around
Iran and all are "within the reach of our missiles" and could be hit "in the
early minutes after an attack," according to an English-language report from
Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. The bases were no threat but instead an
"opportunity" for the Iranian military, Hajizadeh said last month, according to
Fars.
Hajizadeh's claims come as the IRGC conducts a major military exercise
in which it has fired a barrage of missiles at "mock enemy bases" set up in the
Iranian desert. Another IRGC commander, Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, told
reporters Tuesday the main aim of the drill "was to demonstrate the Iranian
nation's political resolve to defend [its] vital values and national interests,"
according to Iran's state-run Press TV.
Press TV paraphrased Salami's description of the drills as a "firm response
to those who threaten Iran with the option of military action."
The United States and Israel have for years been locked in a struggle with
Iran over its nuclear enrichment program and the leaders of both the Israeli and
American governments have said that any option -- including military action --
was "on the table" should it
become clear Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. Iranian officials have denied the
nation seeks nuclear weapons and said Iran is only enriching uranium for
domestic nuclear power purposes.
PressTV
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps shot... View Full Size
PressTV
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps shot off
missiles during a televised military drill.
Press TV said that several different missile types were tested, including the
Shabab-3, which reportedly has an operational range of over 900 miles, meaning
it could reach potential targets throughout the Middle East. The U.S. and its
allies have several military bases in the region, including the home of the
Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, a little over 120 miles from Iran's southern
border. Israel's eastern border is about 600 miles from Iran's mainland.
Another base used by the U.S., the United Arab Emirates' Al Dafra air base,
lies less than 200 miles from Iran's southern coast. In April, multiple American
next-generation F-22 stealth fighters were sent to Al Dafra but an
Air Force spokesperson stressed at the time that the jets should not be seen as
a threat to Iran. However, a top official for the jets' manufacturer, Lockheed
Martin, told ABC News in April 2011 that the planes -- which have never been used in
combat -- could find a home in quick strike missions in
countries like Iran or North Korea.
Iran's new drills also coincided with fresh tensions that followed a new round of harsh
sanctions against Iran that targeted the country's oil exports to
Europe. Dozens of Iranian lawmakers have reportedly called on the Iranian
military to shut down the Strait of Hormuz -- a narrow, strategic waterway that
connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea through which an estimated
one-fifth of the world's oil travels. As an apparent precaution against such
action, the U.S. has quietly been building up its military
forces in the Persian Gulf.
The Department of Defense declined to comment on Hajizadeh's claims.
ABC News' Martha Raddatz and Luis Martinez contributed to this
report.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/iran-hit-35-us-bases-minutes/story?id=16716804
plans to strike nearly three dozen U.S. military bases in the region should Iran
be attacked, Iranian media reported Wednesday.
Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force, told reporters the U.S. has 35 bases around
Iran and all are "within the reach of our missiles" and could be hit "in the
early minutes after an attack," according to an English-language report from
Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. The bases were no threat but instead an
"opportunity" for the Iranian military, Hajizadeh said last month, according to
Fars.
Hajizadeh's claims come as the IRGC conducts a major military exercise
in which it has fired a barrage of missiles at "mock enemy bases" set up in the
Iranian desert. Another IRGC commander, Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, told
reporters Tuesday the main aim of the drill "was to demonstrate the Iranian
nation's political resolve to defend [its] vital values and national interests,"
according to Iran's state-run Press TV.
Press TV paraphrased Salami's description of the drills as a "firm response
to those who threaten Iran with the option of military action."
The United States and Israel have for years been locked in a struggle with
Iran over its nuclear enrichment program and the leaders of both the Israeli and
American governments have said that any option -- including military action --
was "on the table" should it
become clear Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. Iranian officials have denied the
nation seeks nuclear weapons and said Iran is only enriching uranium for
domestic nuclear power purposes.
PressTV
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps shot... View Full Size
PressTV
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps shot off
missiles during a televised military drill.
Press TV said that several different missile types were tested, including the
Shabab-3, which reportedly has an operational range of over 900 miles, meaning
it could reach potential targets throughout the Middle East. The U.S. and its
allies have several military bases in the region, including the home of the
Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, a little over 120 miles from Iran's southern
border. Israel's eastern border is about 600 miles from Iran's mainland.
Another base used by the U.S., the United Arab Emirates' Al Dafra air base,
lies less than 200 miles from Iran's southern coast. In April, multiple American
next-generation F-22 stealth fighters were sent to Al Dafra but an
Air Force spokesperson stressed at the time that the jets should not be seen as
a threat to Iran. However, a top official for the jets' manufacturer, Lockheed
Martin, told ABC News in April 2011 that the planes -- which have never been used in
combat -- could find a home in quick strike missions in
countries like Iran or North Korea.
Iran's new drills also coincided with fresh tensions that followed a new round of harsh
sanctions against Iran that targeted the country's oil exports to
Europe. Dozens of Iranian lawmakers have reportedly called on the Iranian
military to shut down the Strait of Hormuz -- a narrow, strategic waterway that
connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea through which an estimated
one-fifth of the world's oil travels. As an apparent precaution against such
action, the U.S. has quietly been building up its military
forces in the Persian Gulf.
The Department of Defense declined to comment on Hajizadeh's claims.
ABC News' Martha Raddatz and Luis Martinez contributed to this
report.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/iran-hit-35-us-bases-minutes/story?id=16716804