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Iran's Revolutionary Guards prepare for war

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ans-Revolutionary-Guards-prepare-for-war.html

By Con Coughlin
Last Updated: 12:06PM GMT 06/12/2011
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been put on a war footing amid increasing signs that the West is taking direct action to cripple Iran’s nuclear programme.

An order from Gen Mohammed Ali Jaafari, the commander of the guards, raised the operational readiness status of the country’s forces, initiating preparations for potential external strikes and covert attacks.

I hope this can be averted...

Comments?
 
If they really were preparing for war, would they tell us?
 
It is a show of power. The Chinese, Koreans and Russians do it every year. It is their version of a parade.
 
If they really were preparing for war, would they tell us?

It's not like they're going to sneak up on us. I think they're just trying to get the anti-war folks stirred up.
 
It's not like they're going to sneak up on us. I think they're just trying to get the anti-war folks stirred up.

More like by tracking troop movements towards more active and in defensive positions, you can extrapolate that there are war preparations...
 
I think it is kind of funny. Iran challenging and preparing for war against the US and Britain is like a Junior High football team challenging and preparing to play the Green Bay Packers.
 

According to the articles these idiots are already blowing themselves up.

They can prepare all they want, it will still take just a week or so before they´re toast anyway, less with the right technology

Then they should be hung by the lamp posts, liked Gays, or stoned to death like they treat their women.
 
According to the articles these idiots are already blowing themselves up.

They can prepare all they want, it will still take just a week or so before they´re toast anyway, less with the right technology

Then they should be hung by the lamp posts, liked Gays, or stoned to death like they treat their women.

You really think its going to be that simple???? We've been in Iraq for about 10 years...

Oh, and if they block the straight, well, you able to pay 200+$/ barrel of oil??

A war with Iran would more than likely go nuclear, also, there's a good chance that it would spill over into neighboring countries....
 
It's not surprising that they are doing something like this in the face of American aggression.
 
You really think its going to be that simple???? We've been in Iraq for about 10 years...

Honestly, though, this has a lot more to do with really bad strategy. The same thing could have been accomplished without the massive land occupation, and it'd definitely be an easy task for the U.S. military to render Iran useless. We're talking tactical strikes, really. It's not necessary to completely plow everything under and institute huge regime changes. Just strike all kinds of great targets from the air, run all kinds of special ops when something on the ground needs to happen, and sit back and wait to watch what happens next. If they start to get some kind of momentum, strike again. Repeat until things are more to your liking. ;)
 
If they really were preparing for war, would they tell us?

Blowhards always telegraph their intent just like a bully on the playground does..."I'm gonna' break your nose"...then dances around hoping to scare you. Strike first as with a bully and watch them cry. Wait and do it diplomatically and then..."here we go again".
 
You really think its going to be that simple???? We've been in Iraq for about 10 years...

Oh, and if they block the straight, well, you able to pay 200+$/ barrel of oil??

A war with Iran would more than likely go nuclear, also, there's a good chance that it would spill over into neighboring countries....

The problem has been that the US has been trying to fight wars while avoiding casualties on either side. This is not the way wars are fought, and with the current attitude it could be 100 years for any war to end. And we would lose the peace. You must act in such a manner that the enemy will never think going near a weapon of any sort ever again. I could name a couple of examples.

If lines are blocked you unblock them.

The war has already started. Are you so old fashioned that you feel it still has to be declared?
 
It's not like they're going to sneak up on us. I think they're just trying to get the anti-war folks stirred up.

Anti-War folks are part of Iran's war strategy, please don't tell me that being against a war with Iran is actually supporting Iran's plan?
 
Anti-War folks are part of Iran's war strategy, please don't tell me that being against a war with Iran is actually supporting Iran's plan?

well you know the bush doctrine: If you don't blindly support everything we want to do - then you're against us. :D Paraphrasing of course.
 
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well you know the bush doctrine: If you don't blindly support everything we want to do - then you're against us. :D Paraphrasing of course.

Agreed. That and wars run on energy so it's good business for the OIL companies and then after the war is over Iran's oil would be in their distribution network at maybe a nickel a gallon profit. All those war Corporations would make money building and using up weapons and "we" the taxpayer take it up the kazoo. That'd be business as usual. Very profitable for the status quo of a war making machine. Sorta like Hitler and fascism, don't you think?.
 

I wouldn't worry too much about it. There are some asshats in Iran who want war, just as there are some asshats in the United States who want war. But they aren't a majority...either in terms of public opinion or in terms of political power. Ali Khamenei knows perfectly well what would happen if he went to war with the United States, and he has no intention of doing anything to start one.
 
Why does this remind me of Hitler and the burning of the Reichstag?

Wow, that took six whole posts. :roll:
That's right kids, it's time to play "Who is Exactly Like Hitler?" This week the winner is...IRAN! Maybe next time it will be North Korea, Burma, the Castro Brothers, Hugo Chavez, Barack Obama, or Mitt Romney. Stay tuned for next week's episode.
 
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Wow, that took six whole posts. :roll:
That's right kids, it's time to play "Who is Exactly Like Hitler?" This week the winner is...IRAN! Maybe next time it will be North Korea, Burma, the Castro Brothers, Hugo Chavez, Barack Obama, or Mitt Romney. Stay tuned for next week's episode.

But this time it's an accurate comparison.
 
But this time it's an accurate comparison.

Sure it is. Just like it was an accurate comparison when applied to Nikita Kruschev, Saddam Hussein (after he was our friend), Slobadon Milosevic, Saddam Hussein (again), Moammar Gaddafi (before he was our friend), Kim Jong-il, Moammar Gaddafi (after he was our friend), and every US President in the last 70 years! And I'm sure it will be an accurate comparison next week too, when the label is applied to someone else who is undoubtedly plotting to unleash carnage on the world and must be dealt with immediately. :roll:

Comparing people to Hitler who AREN'T Hitler is retarded, and is a substitute for actually thinking about foreign policy.
 
This has got to be the quietest build up to armed conflict ever.
 
Sure it is. Just like it was an accurate comparison when applied to Nikita Kruschev, Saddam Hussein (after he was our friend), Slobadon Milosevic, Saddam Hussein (again), Moammar Gaddafi (before he was our friend), Kim Jong-il, Moammar Gaddafi (after he was our friend), and every US President in the last 70 years! And I'm sure it will be an accurate comparison next week too, when the label is applied to someone else who is undoubtedly plotting to unleash carnage on the world and must be dealt with immediately. :roll:

Comparing people to Hitler who AREN'T Hitler is retarded, and is a substitute for actually thinking about foreign policy.

I wasn't making a comparison with Hitler so much as contrasting this situation with everything that came from the burning of the Reichstag - which wasn't just a Hitler thing. Exploiting a single event for political and militaristic purposes

You can get frustrated with the comparison all you want: doesn't make it any less accurate of a comparison in this situation as I meant it.
 
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The problem has been that the US has been trying to fight wars while avoiding casualties on either side. This is not the way wars are fought, and with the current attitude it could be 100 years for any war to end. And we would lose the peace. You must act in such a manner that the enemy will never think going near a weapon of any sort ever again. I could name a couple of examples.

Let me get this straight... you are in favor of pre-emptive wars??

What have they done to deserve this?? Built a nuclear power plant?? (A plant which was built in such a way that Iran would NOT be able to get weapons grade uranium, Russia would get that material)

If lines are blocked you unblock them.

Military strategists have estimated that it would take MANY MONTHS JUST to clear that straight... meanwhile, all that oil is being held up... Since that also blocks trade coming out of the entire region, that would cause unrest in neighboring countries which would spill over.

So, you now have a world war on your hands... except this time the US/ Euro / NATO is the Axis and the Middle East is the "allies".

The war has already started. Are you so old fashioned that you feel it still has to be declared?

There's reasons why wars were DECLARED... and not simply waged. I guess we're going to, as a society, have to relearn those lessons.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. There are some asshats in Iran who want war, just as there are some asshats in the United States who want war. But they aren't a majority...either in terms of public opinion or in terms of political power. Ali Khamenei knows perfectly well what would happen if he went to war with the United States, and he has no intention of doing anything to start one.

See but now the US is SO HEAVILY propagandized that they are just going to push Iran into a corner UNTIL they are FORCED to retaliate, THEN they are going to declare this retaliation an attack and then they go in full force.

Let's be clear, EVERY analyst will tell you that the SECOND you get boots on the ground in Iran there is NO WAY to win short of this becoming a nuclear war.

I do hope and pray that this buildup can be diverted from turning into a full blown conflict.
 
"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end." Matthew 24:6

And the beat goes on... <yawn>

Surely, nation shall rise against nation. I think Iran has more to worry about in their own back yard than they have to worry about from any of us.
 
Surely, nation shall rise against nation. I think Iran has more to worry about in their own back yard than they have to worry about from any of us.

I agree. When the theocracy falls (which will happen sooner or later), it's far more likely that it will have been brought down by its own people, rather than outside powers.
 
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