From
The Times Of Israel, By AFP and Lazar Berman, February 12, 2014
In
the latest in a series of warnings against the US, Iran’s chief of
staff Hassan Firouzabadi warned the Islamic republic’s foes that
Iran is prepared for a “decisive battle” if attacked.
Washington
has many military bases in the region, including in Bahrain, Kuwait,
the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
US
Secretary of State John Kerry said late last month that if diplomacy
with Iran fails, “the military option of the United States is ready
and prepared to do what it would have to do.”
But
Firouzabadi accused the US of bluffing.
“Over
the past decade, they brought their forces but came to the conclusion
that they can’t attack us, and left,” he said, dismissing the US
military threat as nothing but a “political bluff.”
Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the West should not
have any delusions about using a military option.
“I
say explicitly, if some have delusions of having any threats against
Iran on their tables, they need to wear new glasses. There is no
military option against Iran on any table in the world,” he said.
On
Sunday, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy Commander Ali Fadavi
said the US knows that its aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf
would be sunk if it launched a military strike on Iran.
“The
Americans can sense by all means how their warships will be sunk with
5,000 crews and forces in combat against Iran and how they should
find its hulk in the depths of the sea,” said Fadavi, according to
Fars news agency.
“They
cannot hide themselves in the sea since the entire Middle East
region, Western Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the
Strait of Hormuz are monitored by us and there is no place for them
to hide.”
Also
Sunday, Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan touted the Iranian military’s
ability to respond to an American attack, Fars reported.
“The
Iranian Armed Forces are an intertwined and coherent complex that can
give a decisive response to any threat at any level and any place
under the command of the commander-in-chief,” Dehqan said in a
ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the revolution that brought
the current Islamic regime to power.
“The
enemy can never assess and think of the range of the response given
by the powerful and mighty Armed Forces of the Islamic Iran,” he
added.
The
bellicose rhetoric follows Saturday’s announcement by an Iranian
admiral that Iran had dispatched warships to the North Atlantic,
while Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the
Americans as liars who, while professing to be friends of Tehran,
would bring down his regime if they could. He also said it was
“amusing” that the US thought Iran would reduce its “defensive
capabilities.”
On
Friday, Iranian state TV ran a documentary featuring a computerized
video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa,
Ben-Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a simulated
retaliation for a hypothetical Israeli or American strike on the
Islamic Republic.
Iran
is due to resume talks on Monday in Vienna with the P5+1 — Britain,
France, the United States, Russia and China plus Germany — aimed at
reaching a comprehensive nuclear accord following a landmark interim
agreement struck in November.
Western
nations have long suspected Iran of covertly pursuing nuclear weapons
alongside its civilian program, allegations denied by Tehran, which
insists its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful.
Neither
the United States nor Israel has ruled out military action to prevent
Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, if diplomacy fails.
My comments:
The only One trustworthy in the midst of all this rhetoric is God's Word.
God's Word has told us what happens in this Last Day.
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