Iran threatens Gulf blitz if US hits nuclear plants

[TexasLawyer]

Source: The Sunday Times

June 10, 2007
Iran threatens Gulf blitz if US hits nuclear plants
Michael Smith

IRAN has threatened to launch a missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities.

Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a senior defence adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Gulf states providing the US with military cooperation would be the key targets of a barrage of ballistic missiles. Shamkhani told the US journal Defense News that missiles would be launched not only at US military bases but also at strategic targets such as oil refineries and power stations.

Qatar, Bahrain and Oman all host important US bases and British forces are based in all three countries. Any Iranian attack would be bound to draw in the other Gulf Cooperation Council states: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.

The attacks on Arab states would be in addition to airstrikes on Israel, which have been threatened repeatedly. An Iranian foreign ministry official said: “The objective would be to overwhelm US missile defence systems with dozens and maybe hundreds of missiles fired simultaneously at specific targets.”

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[Amonester]

1. That's exactly what Darth Cheneyous and his puppet$ want:

15.00++/gal.

They don't care about anything else.

[Eurobabe]

3. Cheney better be careful, he's got a dead battery in his chest

no guarantee that thing will give him a jump should he get all worked up over something stressful like a little war. :eyes:

[billyoc]

2. Get your long war on.

[Posteritatis]

4. "Hundreds of ballistic missiles" implies a rather short war (nt)