Iran says U.S. bases and aircraft carriers within missile range

 

FILE PHOTO: A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA via REUTERS.

 

LONDON (Reuters) - An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that U.S. bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range of Iranian missiles, as tensions rise between Tehran and Washington.

 

"They are within our reach and we can hit them if they (Americans) make a move," Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' airspace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency.

 

Hajizadeh said the Guards had improved the precision of their missiles, and specifically said they could hit the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Al Dhafra base in the United Arab Emirates and Kandahar base in Afghanistan that host U.S. forces.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of an international agreement on Iran's nuclear programme in May and reimposed sanctions on Tehran. He said the deal was flawed because it did not include curbs on Iran's development of ballistic missiles or its support for proxies in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq.

 

The Islamic Republic's government has ruled out negotiations with Washington over its military capabilities, particularly its missile programme run by the Guards.

 

Iran, which says its missile programme is purely defensive, has threatened to disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf if the United States tries to strangle Iranian oil exports.

 

In October, the Revolutionary Guards fired missiles at Islamic State militants in Syria after the Islamist group took responsibility for an attack at a military parade in Iran that killed 25 people, nearly half of them members of the Guards.

 

(Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Hugh Lawson)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-11-22

46 minutes ago, webfact said:

Iran, which says its missile programme is purely defensive

defensive missiles ? uh huh; iran takes out a base or aircraft carrier and we would soon be calling them 'dead-iran'

What are you waiting for? Have a go!  Please!

Ok, so Iran has missiles and US bases are within its reach . Now how about missile defence systems? Only asking because double as many would be fired back ????

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Iran, which says its missile programme is purely defensive

If it is so, what are their missiles and rockets doing in Syria, Lebanon Iraq and Gaza?....

Iran can hit a number of targets... but highly unlikely much and certainly not American soil, yet America could annihilate much of Iran without much effort.

 

Go on Iran make Trumps day...

For domestic consumption. Iran has  some internal issues and needs a diversion.

Offensive post removed.

 

The Iranians are trolling trump they know that would be a major blunder

I always think the Americans have a paranoia about the Iranians , must go back to the Embassy hostage seige in 1979.

It was a truly shocking think to do , even Hitler respected the Embassies .

1 hour ago, Jim1000 said:

I always think the Americans have a paranoia about the Iranians , must go back to the Embassy hostage seige in 1979.

It was a truly shocking think to do , even Hitler respected the Embassies .

More like 1953 when the USA through the CIA, effected a regime change. In 1979 the Iranians wanted their country back for themselves which is perfectly reasonable. They way they did it and the mullahs didn't fit in with the USA way of thinking and relations went downhill from there.

 

In the last few years Iran complied with the EU and several other countries including the USA with the nuclear test treaty and were complying with it until Trump came along and unilaterally pulled the USA out of the treaty and he keeps threatening Iran.

 

What do you expect the Iranians to do?

4 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

For domestic consumption. Iran has  some internal issues and needs a diversion.

Could I change one word in your post?

 

For domestic consumption. The USA has  some internal issues and needs a diversion.

5 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

For domestic consumption. Iran has  some internal issues and needs a diversion.

i can say the same for Trump USA. lots of internal issues and needs a diversion.

 

US and Israel thinks like Iran is an easy pray.

but it is not the case. thos 80 million guys will protect their country forever there and it will be a Vietnam kid of defeat for US.

i mean, in a geography of millions of muslim, they have very less chance.

Only if Israel throws some Nukes which i dont get surprised if Us-rael does so as a rogue state with all those Jewhadists.

Troll posts with inflammatory language have been removed.   Continuing with such inflammatory terms as 'jewhadist' and face a suspension.  

 

12 hours ago, billd766 said:

More like 1953 when the USA through the CIA, effected a regime change. In 1979 the Iranians wanted their country back for themselves which is perfectly reasonable. They way they did it and the mullahs didn't fit in with the USA way of thinking and relations went downhill from there.

 

In the last few years Iran complied with the EU and several other countries including the USA with the nuclear test treaty and were complying with it until Trump came along and unilaterally pulled the USA out of the treaty and he keeps threatening Iran.

 

What do you expect the Iranians to do?

And indeed, in 1953, the CIA was "instrumental" in a coup that removed the Iranian government. That Iranian government was, near enough, a democratically elected one. And Washington then installed the puppet Shah to be the new ruler of Iran. It was all done, because of oil. It's not surprising that people feel that Washington removing Saddam of Iraq back in 2003, it was also, all about oil.

Back to Iran. It's not surprising that, even today, the Iranians have got something against Washington.
Here's the link from wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

 

18 hours ago, Tailwagsdog said:

What are you waiting for? Have a go!  Please!

Why on earth are you cheering on this confrontation between Iran and America ?

Russia is not going to let Washington destroy Iran, Russia will threaten a nuclear war with America if Washington tries to destroy Iran. And when World War Three happens, with America fighting against Russia, you'd better hope that "Adolf Xi" joins in with America. I don't think Xi will.  I think it's more likely that Beijing will jump in with Russia when or if World War Three breaks out.

Let's hope World War Three never breaks out. Let's hope Washington will not give the Iranians a reason to fire a missile at one of America's warships sailing near the Iranian coast. And let's hope Iran will never decide to sail it's own warships in the Atlantic, or anywhere near America.