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January 26, 2005

Iran will give 'astonishing' response

Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives

Iran promising a "mother of all responses." Haven't we heard this before from their neighbor?


IRAN will carry out an "astonishing" retaliation to any attack against the Islamic republic by Israel or the US, a top Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying today.


"We will counter any stupid action by Israel and its master with firmness and in an astonishing way," Brigadier-General Mohammad-Ali Jafari was quoted as saying by the Shargh newspaper.

The commander of the Revolutionary Guards' ground forces said Iran had the capacity to defeat any invader within months.

"We pushed the Baathist enemy from our country within one and a half years," he said, referring to the opening campaigns of the 1980-88 war with Iraq.

"With the experience and skills from that war and in the case of any invasion, the invaders will be defeated in less than one and a half months."        Read more...


Posted by Hyscience at January 26, 2005 5:47 AM



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