Iran commander calls U.S. military in Gulf a target not a threat – The Mercury News

| May 13, 2019

Iran has been the major problem in the Middle East since the 1970’s.  They are constantly churning up mischief and threatening the rest of the world.

I doubt the current Administration will react in a Bengazhi like manner if they go too far with their target acquisition.

The U.S. military has sent forces, including an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers, to the Middle East in a move U.S. officials said was to counter “clear indications” of threats from Iran to its forces in the region.

The USS Abraham Lincoln is replacing another carrier rotated out of the Gulf last month.

“An aircraft carrier that has at least 40 to 50 planes on it and 6,000 forces gathered within it was a serious threat for us in the past but now it is a target and the threats have switched to opportunities,” said Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards’ aerospace division.

“If (the Americans) make a move, we will hit them in the head,” he added, according to ISNA.

Major General Hossein Salami, appointed head of the Guards last month, told parliament on Sunday the United States had started a psychological war in the region, the parliamentary spokesman said.

“Commander Salami, with attention to the situation in the region, presented an analysis that the Americans have started a psychological war because the comings and goings of their military is a normal matter,” spokesman Behrouz Nemati said, according to parliament’s ICANA news site.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a tweet on Sunday that John Bolton had planned the U.S. withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal and a more aggressive approach even before the U.S. national security adviser took up his post.

Zarif tweeted a link to a 2017 National Review article by Bolton headlined “How to Get Out of the Iran Nuclear Deal.”

“A detailed blueprint for #FakeIntelligence, #ForeverWar and even empty offers for talks-only phone numbers were not included,” Zarif wrote.

 

Source: Iran commander calls U.S. military in Gulf a target not a threat – The Mercury News

Category: Iran, Politics

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AW1Ed

How soon they forget.

Operation Praying Mantis

A Proud Infidel®™

Mot just that, we have a lot more precise Weapon Systems now than we did then and I’m sure they’ll keep talking shit even after they get their asses kicked, nuke ’em until they glow!

JimmyB

Nuke em!

5th/77th FA

Only after you gather up all the mooselims from around the world and put them back in the ME.

Anybody else of the opinion that the followers of that religion are the biggest overt threat to world peace? The commies are just covertly supplying them with the pieces and parts required.

Cameron Kingsley
Slow Joe

So racissss.
Think of the children.

Cameron Kingsley

Denied.

Hate_me

I realize the question wasn’t intended for academic rigor… but I argue that the communist/socialist/soviet threat is much greater than that of fundamentalist Islam or any other political zealot. I’d bet money on the average American joe against the typical anti-American muj or the average PLA trooper. I’d bet significantly less against the Russian or IRGC bubba. They define honor and duty by different metrics than we do, but they remain important concepts; we underestimate them to our peril.

I’d even suggest that the Wahhabist/Salafist movements have been artfully directed by the socialist agenda.

Sapper3307

Iran has been shopping at the Bass Pro Shop again.

MustangCryppie

Bring it on, motherfucker.

What you start, we will finish.

Mason

Alright, guys. Pack up the BUFFs and go back home. The Iranians are clearly the better at gamesmanship.

Oh wait, that was the last administration. Our ships and planes are there to stay as long as needed.

Wireman611

The headline should have been “Salami Spews Balogna”.

Skyjumper

“Major General Hossein Salami”

So many jokes waiting in the wings for a dude with that last name.

Trumps future tweet to the Ayatollah Khomeini:
“Mess with the US and we will beat your meat”

And then there is this:

Club Manager, USA ret.

Why doesn’t some country drop a nonattributable smart missile on this loud mouth’s house when he is asleep to send a message to his cohorts.

SFC D

Drop something like an optically guided 10-ton block of concrete. Maybe the ACME corporation can come up with a guided anvil.

Ex-PH2

No, no, no. You guys have no imagination. either round up every gone-feral hog you can find and dump them on Iran, in crates with parachutes that open upon touchdown, or shoot the hogs, grind up the porkers, and drop the frozen pork everywhere.

Remember that old Donna Summer tune: It’s rainin’ hogs! Hallelujah!

Club Manager, USA ret.

Had some Iranian students at Fort Lee when I attended the club managers course. They spent money like water and of course attracted all types of “friendly” attractive females. Apparently I offended one at the O Club by trying to pay him a compliment after a water polo game and also admiring one of the women. He told me in no uncertain terms they were not “rag heads”, were modern, and the women meant nothing to him. I would have laid him out on the spot but our LTC told me to sit down, have another beer and let it go. Guess he didn’t want to explain a brawl at the club. They all had a chip on their shoulder like they were above everyone else.

11B-Mailclerk

Leonidas grins.

Cameron Kingsley

I have seen my fair share of foreigners (mostly from Europe, mainly the UK but sometimes Oceania) who think their crap doesn’t stink on the internet. Commonly found on Facebook and YouTube (I love the ones that claim the US has no culture when they are using an American product or the ones that bash and make fun of the US for imperialism when ignoring their own history of it which is much much longer and far bloodier). I find them to be some of the most obnoxious and insufferable people. It honestly has seriously dampened my desire to visit Europe.

Slow Joe

I went to Europe once, and they tried to charge me for drinking water.

Also, restuarant management bitches and complaints when you take food out of the restaurant.

-“The check and a to-go plate, please.”
-“A to-go plate? This is a restaurant, not a McDonalds!”

NHSparky

What they fail to recognize is that this president is not afraid to use the big stick.

Iran is Carter’s legacy. 40 years later and we’re still dealing with his fuckups.

Fjardeson

Go ahead, Mr. Salami. Break one of our carriers, if you can.

Enjoy the Minuteman-III with your name on it. We know you don’t have ICBM’s, you silly person.

A Proud Infidel®™

Commander Salami is making himself a Military Version of Wile. E. Coyote.

Aysel

rrrrrriiiiiiiiiiggggghhhhhhtttttt

*slow blinks*

bring it motherfuckers

26Limabeans

Never bring a toothpick to a stick fight.

HMC Ret

Maybe they forget there is a new sheriff in town and he has a set. Bring it on, lunchmeat.

Eden

Be careful what you wish for, Iran. It might not be wise to start something you can’t finish.

Poetrooper

Iraq’s Revolutionary Guards fought Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to a standstill.

American forces completely destroyed Iraq’s Revolutionary Guards in somewhere around 24 hours with minimal friendly losses.

Should there be a lesson in there somewhere for General Salami and the mullahs?

A Proud Infidel®™️

Yes, but fools never learn.

Mason

And that was 30 years ago. They’ve been a third world country since then.

Slow Joe

Did you know the whole Scandinavian peninsula is la Florida?

There is only 300 miles across the North sea from Norway to England.

The baltic sea is no more than 200 miles across.

Europe is much smaller than it appears to be.

Slow Joe

*like

Slow Joe

*like Florida

A Proud Infidel®™

I’ve said it one and I’ll say it again, STOP huffing the floor wax before you post!!!

Slow Joe

Everything I said was factual, wasn’t it?

26Limabeans

You have the map upside down.