{"id":797,"date":"2007-10-26T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/iran-dismisses-chance-of-an-us-airstrike\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:29:33","slug":"iran-dismisses-chance-of-an-us-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Republic dismisses chance of an US airstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071026\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iran_sanctions\" target=\"_blank\">AP reports<\/a> that the Islamic Republic\u00c2\u00a0dismisses any chance of a US airstrike against Islamic Republic\u00c2\u00a0nuclear facilities or the Qods Forces;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The head of Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guards dismissed the possibility of a U.S. military action against Iran and warned that his forces would respond with an &#8220;even more decisive&#8221; strike if attacked, an Iranian news agency reported Friday.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari came after the United States announced sweeping new sanctions against Iran focusing on the Revolutionary Guards, a force that is tasked with protecting Iran&#8217;s Islamic government and reports to the country&#8217;s supreme leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/meast\/10\/26\/iran.sanctions\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN reports<\/a> that the Iranian foreign ministry called the Bush Administration&#8217;s latest sanctions &#8220;doomed&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman also said sanctions were &#8220;doomed to fail,&#8221; calling them &#8220;worthless and ineffective&#8221; and criticizing the U.S. for pursuing confrontational policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, how far down the third world food chain can you go? \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, speaking Thursday in Kuwait, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi warned that any military attack on Iran would be met with a &#8220;crushing response.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/kamangir.net\/2007\/10\/25\/iranian-citizens-or-american-soldiers-who-are-they-preparing-to-fight-against\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamangir<\/a> won&#8217;t mind if I steal\u00c2\u00a0more of his pictures today to illustrate the Islamic Republic&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0idea of &#8220;more decisive strikes&#8221; and &#8220;crushing response&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image794\" style=\"width: 540px; height: 405px\" height=\"405\" alt=\"306825_orig.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/306825_orig.jpg\" width=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Anyone else think these guys look a little too old and too fat to be called part of a decisive strike? I guess when your revolution ages 30 years, so do it&#8217;s soldiers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And I don&#8217;t think anyone is too worried about being hit by a &#8220;Retard Missile&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image795\" style=\"width: 606px; height: 367px\" height=\"367\" alt=\"19_8607030607_L600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/19_8607030607_L600.jpg\" width=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Maybe the Islamic Republic\u00c2\u00a0should remind themselves of what used to stand on this knoll in Syria before they start talking smack (photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetness-light.com\/archive\/shocker-syria-had-nuke-site-despite-nancy-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\">Sweetness and Light<\/a>);<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image796\" style=\"width: 391px; height: 196px\" height=\"196\" alt=\"weapons_600_2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/weapons_600_2.jpg\" width=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kamangir.net\/2007\/10\/26\/on-the-islamic-republic-press-tvs-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamangir<\/a> also writes that the Islamic Republic\u00c2\u00a0may have found a new ally to help them build their nuclear arsenal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store has urged the West to dismantle their nuclear arsenals instead of exerting pressure on Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That almost makes sense &#8211; in fact why don&#8217;t we just hand over our weapons to the Islamic Republic, the same way the KosKids <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/26\/daily-kos-diarist-we-can-end-the-war-on-terror-by-converting-to-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">think we should all just convert to Islam<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(from HotAir).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/kamangir.net\/2007\/10\/26\/did-irna-change-norwegian-foreign-ministers-intent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kamangir<\/a> just emailed me that\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Islamic Republic news agency reporting\u00c2\u00a0of the Norwegian Foreign Minister was probably tampered with at it&#8217;s source. The line I quoted above doesn&#8217;t appear in the orginal transcript of the Norwegian&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP reports that the Islamic Republic\u00c2\u00a0dismisses any chance of a US airstrike against Islamic Republic\u00c2\u00a0nuclear facilities &hellip; <a title=\"Islamic Republic dismisses chance of an US airstrike\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=797\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islamic Republic dismisses chance of an US airstrike<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}