Iran: We Can Fire 11,000 Missiles A Minute

Saber Rattling From Military Commander Promises A Quick Response To Any Attack

(AP)  Iran is capable of firing 11,000 rockets into enemy bases within the first minute after any possible attack, state-run television quoted a top Revolutionary Guards Corps commander as saying Saturday.

Gen. Mahmoud Chaharbaghi, the missile commander of the Guards, said Iran has identified all enemy positions and was prepared to respond in less than a minute to any possible attack.

"Enemy bases and positions have been identified. ... The Guards ground force will fire 11,000 rockets into identified enemy positions within the first minute of any aggression against the Iranian territory," the television quoted Chaharbaghi as saying.

Chaharbaghi did not specifically identify the bases or the enemy and did not refer to arch foes Israel or the United States by name. But the U.S. has 40,000 troops on various U.S. bases in other Persian Gulf countries and 20,000 in Mideast waters. Another 160,000 U.S. troops are in neighboring Iraq and about 25,000 are in another one of Iran's neighbors, Afghanistan.

Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency also quoted Chaharbaghi as saying that Iran's radar-avoiding rockets cover the entire Persian Gulf and the entire Iran-Iraq border. Both on state-run TV and in Fars, he only used the word rocket, not missile. A rocket is normally an unguided weapon whereas missiles usually have guidance systems.

Chaharbaghi was quoted by Fars as saying that rockets with a range of 155 miles will be delivered to the Guards ground force soon. He didn't elaborate.

Iran has periodically raised alarms over the possibility of war, particularly when the West brings up talk of sanctions over Tehran's rejection of a U.N. Security Council demand that it halt uranium enrichment.

Tensions are high between Washington and Tehran over U.S. accusations that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weapons and helping Shiite militias in Iraq that target U.S. troops. Iran denies the claims.

Washington has said it is addressing the Iran situation diplomatically, rather than militarily, but U.S. officials also say that all options are open.

Last month, a top Iranian air force general said Iran has drawn up contingency plans to bomb Israel should the Jewish state attack Iran. He made the comments days after French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that the international community should prepare for the possibility of war in the event Iran obtains atomic weapons, although he later stressed the focus is still on diplomatic pressures.

Iran on Thursday denounced a warning by U.S. President George W. Bush that the Iran's nuclear activities could lead to World War III, saying the statement was warlike rhetoric geared at diverting U.S. attention from White House failures in Iraq.

The White House said Bush was simply making "a rhetorical point" when he suggested that if Iran could make nuclear weapons, it could lead to World War III.

Another top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander warned last month that U.S. bases around Iran would be legitimate targets.

"Today, the United States is within Iran's sight and all around our country, but it doesn't mean we have been encircled. They are encircled themselves and are within our range," Gen. Mohammed Hasan Kousehchi told IRNA in September.

Last month, Iran showed off its military might during a parade that included torpedoes, surveillance drones and what Iran called its new domestically manufactured warplanes.

Iran also has upgraded its Shahab-3 missile to range of about 1,250 miles, capable of reaching Israel and carrying a nuclear warhead.

But last month, Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, said he believes Iran is not as strong as it portrays itself. "Not militarily, economically or politically," he said.

[ace3160]

".....Al Qaeda will rise up from hiding, overthrow the current regiem then it''''s everybody for themselves because these kooks really think they control God.

Posted by Toolmangler at 03:55 PM : Oct 20, 2007"

The only kooks that think they control God are Conservative Christians....and they always have: from the Crusaders all the way to Dubya.

[v_1618]

WELL I THINK 11,000 IS NOT ENOUGH .. RETHINK THIS POSITION TO A NUMBER OF 100,000 PLEASE...

[grazinggoat]

-tbweb, you want me to believe this person in the picture is AhMandyNJad? Come on, ...

Posted by grazinggoat at 12:23 PM : Oct 21, 2007,,,

I know for a fact thats Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with American hostages in that picture, its reported that when his kids were surfing the Internet they ran to him and said daddy daddy, look! we found you on the Internet holding this man, you and him were playing pin the tail on the donkey! Kids know their own father and kids don''''t lie! :)
Posted by tbweb at 01:42 PM : Oct 21, 2007

-Did you ask your neighbors'' daughter who works as a nanny for Mahmooth''s Family? Kids don''t lie. Grown ups do!

[grazinggoat]

-tbweb, you want me to believe this person in the picture is AhMandyNJad? Come on, ...

Posted by grazinggoat at 12:23 PM : Oct 21, 2007,,,

I know for a fact thats Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with American hostages in that picture, its reported that when his kids were surfing the Internet they ran to him and said daddy daddy, look! we found you on the Internet holding this man, you and him were playing pin the tail on the donkey! Kids know their own father and kids don''''t lie! :)
Posted by tbweb at 01:42 PM : Oct 21, 2007

-Did you ask your neighbors'' daughter who works as a nanny for Mahmooth''s Family? Kids don''t lie. Grown ups do!

[rhs648]

The world has witnessed the defeat of rogue states such as Iran in the past. All of this sounds like Saddam Hussein before his military was defeated within hours. Our mistake, hopefully to never be repeated, was to stay in Iraq after the government and military were toppled.

[ov442]

Posted by MCVett at 12:43 PM Roll around on the floor laughing out of your ****** - when you get some real american patriotism in you and you can start speaking from a point of view other than a criminal political party of evil bent on the destruction of all mankind including our people, maybe you can have the right to spew some more anti-american junk.
Repugnants, GOPpers, wake up and stop being the mules for your party''s agenda to destroy our nation by their unending desire for personal greed and hatred. They''ll put you and your family''s lives on the line every time while they bask in your tax dollars going to their buddies and family and friends.

[ov442]

Posted by MCVett at 01:52 PM
Only a republican spin mouthpiece with no facts and only the ability to lie like a rug, while facing bent over in front of GWB would say something so rediculously ignorant and completely useless as you have spewed forth from your gaping stench filled maw.

[tbweb]

-tbweb, you want me to believe this person in the picture is AhMandyNJad? Come on, ...

Posted by grazinggoat at 12:23 PM : Oct 21, 2007,,,

I know for a fact thats Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with American hostages in that picture, its reported that when his kids were surfing the Internet they ran to him and said daddy daddy, look! we found you on the Internet holding this man, you and him were playing pin the tail on the donkey! Kids know their own father and kids don''t lie! :)

[mcvett]

Muslims are following a false prophet & are lower than dogs

And I apologize to any dogs I may have offended.

ROTFLMAO.....Seig Heil, Hillary!

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11,000 missiles per minute ?!?!?

Only an American liberal would be ignorant enough to believe this B.S.

ROTFLMAO....Seig Heil, Hillary

[grazinggoat]

This link clearly shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with American hostages, and trust me that is Ahmadinejad in that picture, look closely!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostag
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Posted by tbweb at 09:09 AM : Oct 21, 2007

-tbweb, you want me to believe this person in the picture is AhMandyNJad? Come on, I can find one million now-living Iranians that may very well be that person! You want to believe that we have established a colony on Mars, it''s up to you, but please stay constant with yourself. Iran has always played inteligent games. Taking care not to spill anyone''s blood. They play the same way Israelis do with their secret services. They give sub-contracts, if any at all! They''d scarecely involve their shadowy agents. And all that was taught to them by the Israeli agents who used to have full access to Iran''s Savak in Shah''s time.