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Iran again warns of Persian Gulf blockade if attacked
Nov 29, 2008, 11:45 GMT
Tehran - Iran has once again warned that it would blockade the oil export route in the Persian Gulf if its nuclear sites were attacked, Iranian media reported Saturday.
'We are capable of blockading the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf and whoever does not believe this should ... see what happens in reality,' Navy Commander Admiral Habibollah Sayari told IRNA news agency.
Iran's paramilitary revolutionary guards had several times in the past warned that if Israel carried out its plan to attack the country's nuclear sites, Iran would block the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which an estimated 20 per cent of the world's daily oil supply passes.
Such a blockade could trigger a worldwide energy crisis.
Admiral Sayari further told IRNA any aggressor should not forget that 2,000 kilometres of the Persian Gulf coast belonged to Iran, making the country capable of taking various initiatives.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has in the past also warned that the country would be justified in using all options in the case of an attack, including using controls on oil supplies as a weapon.
Israel and the United States have stated that a military strike against Iran would not be ruled out if the Islamic state did not suspend its controversial nuclear projects. Both countries believe Tehran is secretly working on an atomic bomb despite Iranian claims of pursuing a solely civil nuclear programme.
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Blah, blah, blah from the nutcase again. There will be no blockade. Because of our stealth technology including bombers and a new generation of stealth cruise missles and drones, we will have sunk their navy before they knew what him them. They will have virtually no way to blockade the strait. Anyone with any sense of military knowledge knows that. It will be one of the first things to happen.
...perhaps you should look at all the unchecked piracy going on right now and ask yourself what makes their claim so perposterous?
By all means, get back to us.
Simply flooding the strait with mines would severely hamper navigation, let alone cruise missiles launched from land, small boat attacks, etc. It'd be a snap.
When do we take this bunch of terrorists seriously? two years ago we were told, by the vaunted US intel agencies, twenty four of them, that Iran was not working on a bomb. Today, on this website, the UN IAEA says they now have enough material to make one.
That being the case, wouldn't you say they were working on a bomb?????
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tick Tock.
And good riddance.
This nasty little illegal nuclear power is fast sliding down a slippery slope.
A bunch of neurotics led by Zionist psychopaths. Do they think Jewish control of the MSM can control the truth?
The images of what this fascist regime is doing in Gaza is all over the internet. The bluff and bluster and the false flag attacks organized by Mossad is common knowledge.
Iran is too big a fish for Israel because the next time the Angel of Death flies over .. those things on which Israel thinks it can depend will be found to be nothing more than myth and evil legend.
Good riddance to this Israeli Cancer on the face of humanity.
..capping terrorists
..wiping out Saddam's nuke program
They just seem to be willing to take out the worlds trash. Better have another look at the scorecard, General Goebbels....
It's official America along with SP4 and BUSH who wishes to be remebered as a man who gave freedon to 50 million people( freedom from the mandane tasks of actually living,working and having and defining your own future ) will save the wold!
Give the world a brake, the masks are off, everybody knows that all you want its the resourses of energy and mineral wealth of this world for free, cause you are too broke to pay for them!
And you can't care less if you kill millions and destroy the lives of hundreds of millions more of inoscent people, to get them for free by use of violence and deadly force!
And tell your bosses not to think that cause you have a black guy playing president now that they are fooling anyone that you are democratic or free and fair, we all know them for what they really are, the whole world.
Americans are violating the world peace in order to get a beter life,
they are kiling our children and all kinds of our society complaining that they were ataked by terorist seven years back. who will stop the cowpoys, where is the said UN, when we expect an active UN responsible for all the wrld and give whole peoble the same rite and equality.
thanks
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SP4: TickNov 29th, 2008 - 18:00:57
...tock.
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