They are back at it in Tehran and it is obvious, the mullahs are as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. It seems every day now, there is a new flurry of inflated defiance and threats coming out of Tehran, yet each day it sounds more and more like a little kid who doesn't want to have to go to the dentist. Here's the latest from Breitbart:
I've wondered at what point the Iranians would start to make this whole situation more of a global one and I think this is the first hint when they say "would hurt all". Up to this point they have been defiant but of course they are seeing the winds of war starting to really blow from the West and as their rhetoric increases, I predict they will try to include more world consequences trying to rally some other support for their cause.
Unfortunately for the Iranians, I think they have crossed the line and I'm not sure there is much anything short of their blowing up their nukes that is going to stop the evolving planning.
Iran on Saturday dismissed speculation that it risked being attacked by the United States over its contested nuclear drive, saying that a military strike would be "craziness."
"Any aggression or military action against Iran is an idiocy whose repercussions would hurt all," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters.
"I don't think that such craziness and nonsense will prevail or is do-able militarily," he added.
"If America and Israel shoot any bullets and missiles against our country, Iranian armed forces will target the heart of Israel and 32 US bases in the region before the dust from this attack has settled," the Fars news agency quoted Mojtaba Zolnoor as saying.
I've wondered at what point the Iranians would start to make this whole situation more of a global one and I think this is the first hint when they say "would hurt all". Up to this point they have been defiant but of course they are seeing the winds of war starting to really blow from the West and as their rhetoric increases, I predict they will try to include more world consequences trying to rally some other support for their cause.
Unfortunately for the Iranians, I think they have crossed the line and I'm not sure there is much anything short of their blowing up their nukes that is going to stop the evolving planning.
Iran says talk of US attack 'craziness'
Iran has repeatedly vowed a crushing response to any aggression against its soil and an aide to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Saturday that Iran would target US bases and Israel if it is attacked.
"If America and Israel shoot any bullets and missiles against our country, Iranian armed forces will target the heart of Israel and 32 US bases in the region before the dust from this attack has settled," the Fars news agency quoted Mojtaba Zolnoor as saying.
The United States and its top regional ally Israel have never ruled out attacking Iran over its nuclear drive, which the West fears could be aimed at making nuclear weapons.
There has been concern an attack against Iran could be imminent after it emerged Israel had carried out manoeuvres in Greece that were effectively practice runs for a potential strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.
Tensions over the nuclear standoff have surged again in recent days after Iran test-fired a broadside of missiles -- including one it says brings Israel within range -- in war games that provoked international concern.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has also warned that if the United States or its regional ally Israel attack Iran, "then our response to them will be harsh and devastating."
On Wednesday, Tehran said it test-fired its Shahab-3 missile -- the longest-range weapon in its arsenal -- and eight other missiles, adding it fired more missiles on Thursday in land manouevres at night and naval war games by day.
Mottaki described the missile firing as a show of "Iran's capabilities and ability in the military field."
Meanwhile, diplomatic efforts aimed at solving the five-year nuclear standoff have also continued.
World powers last month presented Iran with a package aimed at ending the nuclear crisis by offering Tehran technological incentives in exchange for suspending its sensitive uranium enrichment programme.
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