Iran says it will strike U.S. and Israel if they make the 'slightest error'

[webfact]

Iran says it will strike U.S. and Israel if they make the 'slightest error'

 

Iraqi women gather at the scene where Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad airport, Iraq February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is ready to strike the United States and Israel if they give it any reason to do so, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a live speech on state television on Thursday.

 

"If you make the slightest error, we will hit both of you," Major General Hossein Salami said at a ceremony marking the 40th day since the death of top commander Qassem Soleimani.

 

Soleimani, who was head of the Quds Force, a branch of the Guards responsible for operations outside Iran, was killed by a U.S. drone in Baghdad on Jan. 3 along with Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

 

The killing of Soleimani will lead to the liberation of Jerusalem, the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guards said earlier, according to the Tasnim news agency.

 

"The cowardly and craven assassination of commander Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis by the Americans will lead to the liberation of Jerusalem, by the grace of God," Ramezan Sharif said.

 

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last week that Iran would support Palestinian armed groups as much as it could and urged Palestinians to confront a U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump announced a plan that would set up a Palestinian state with strict conditions but allow Israel to take over long-contested Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian leaders reject it as biased towards Israel.

 

On Thursday, Iranian state TV aired an interview with Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in which he described a close relationship with Soleimani, highlighting the key role Soleimani played in helping build up Hezbollah's rocket arsenal as well as his role in military operations during Hezbollah's war with Israel in 2006.

 

Founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Lebanese group Hezbollah is a critical part of an Iranian-backed regional military alliance.

 

Soleimani also played an important role in Iraq's battle against Islamic State, Nasrallah said, and asked for Hezbollah operational commanders to work with Iraqi security forces in battling the militant group when they first blazed across large swathes of Iraq in 2014.

 

Separately, Soleimani urged Iranians to support Khamenei and said political factions should put aside their differences. He made the call in his will, which was read by the new Quds Force chief, Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, at a ceremony in Tehran.

 

(Reporting by Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Giles Elgood and Daniel Wallis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-02-14

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[bluesofa]

49 minutes ago, webfact said:

"If you make the slightest error, we will hit both of you," Major General Hossein Salami said at a ceremony marking the 40th day since the death of top commander Qassem Soleimani.

Could be a job for Team America: World Police (2004), then those bad guys will know what it's like to be 'ronery, so ronery'.

[gk10002000]

So they rant and can say whatever they want, while ignoring all their past actions.

[lust]

Striking the USA and Israel? Lol, that would be their final mistake. 

[Puchaiyank]

Salami's last mistake will be to attacking the US or Israel...much less both.

 

Incredibly radical and destructive leadership in Iran since the 1970s...Militant mullahs rule without the support of many Iranians...

[RoadWarrior371]

For Sale:  Vacant Desert Land just north of Persian Gulf.  630,000 Sq Miles, slightly irradiated.

[Cryingdick]

Aren't they busy trying to launch satellites and shooting down commercial jets? I am hardly shaking in my little star spangled boots. 

[englishoak]

strike ? oh no please dont go on strike, the worlds dependent on your oil.... give me a break

[balo]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

"If you make the slightest error, we will hit both of you," Major General Hossein Salami said

Good luck with that, one mistake from you and your army and you will be erased from this planet. You will be dead before you can count to 10. 

[bkk6060]

I'll have the Salami on rye with a pickle and mustard please.

[canuckamuck]

Music to the ears of the military industrial complex.

[sammieuk1]

General Salami may end up General Meatball with talk like that also coincidentally by the grace of god who in turn may be quite busy in the near future???? 

[Nyezhov]

47 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

Aren't they busy trying to launch satellites and shooting down commercial jets? I am hardly shaking in my little star spangled boots. 

You could have left the boots out, thats a bit much. At least you had the class and decency not to mention the Star Spangled Mankini.

 

Personally, having listened to the Iranian babble for 40 years now is it, its so repeatedly tiresome as they are second rate little ranting chickensh*ts and probably couldnt even take on Israel by themselves Mano a mano. That further being said I wouldnt put it past them to try something before the election, especially with President Ts policy of no more wars, they would figure they could nip the big dog and get away with it. 

 

Then again, we have all those cool kinetic missles now that just chop a person into chunks while leaving others in the area unharmed. So Iranian dudes, Irant all you want about attacking, just keep an eye on the sky for the Flying Ginsu.

[Dustdevil]

I look forward to ordering bacon sandwiches and kissing my skimpily clad gf in public in Tehran.

Edited February 14, 2020 by Dustdevil

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

"If you make the slightest error, we will hit both of you," Major General Hossein Salami

For perspective: Is an error like downing a civilian airliner considered slight? 

 

[bluesofa]

3 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

For perspective: Is an error like downing a civilian airliner considered slight?

They probably saw it as a sleight of hand, assuming no one would notice.

[RichardColeman]

Time to get a large coke, some caramel popcorn and sit back and watch Allah and Jahovah slug it out

[Nyezhov]

8 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Time to get a large coke, some caramel popcorn and sit back and watch Allah and Jahovah slug it out

You should make it a small coke its gonna be a short show.

[Sujo]

Give them the address for mar a lago.

[Baerboxer]

Usually propaganda aimed at the mindless ones who believe what the regime and the clerics tell them without question.

 

 

[DPKANKAN]

3 hours ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

For Sale:  Vacant Desert Land just north of Persian Gulf.  630,000 Sq Miles, slightly irradiated.

And turned to glass!! ????????????????

[potless]

4 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Incredibly radical and destructive leadership in Iran since the 1970s...Militant mullahs rule without the support of many Iranians...

True. Although the Shah was none too popular either.

[rabas]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Iran says it will strike U.S. and Israel if they make the 'slightest error'

Yet there they sit with bone crushing economic sanctions to deter their foreign adventurism, even after lashing out by blowing up tankers and oil refineries.  Just yesterday the US stopped yet another ship full of Irani weapons destined for Yemen.  Good thing the US confiscated the weapons without making the slightest error.

[Ireland32]

Bla Bla Bla   for years 

[jany123]

Lmao... so much ra ra ra americar ????????????

 

assumedly all the folk talking up American military prowess are aware that after nearly 20 years of arguably ineffectual military intervention in Afghanistan, those Great War fighters are waving a white flag with the hope of extricating themselves from that war

 

losers! And now y’all think y’all will do better against a stronger opponent.... lmao.... what on earth are y’all founding your faith of a positive outcome on.... I hope it’s not past performance

 

 

[Puchaiyank]

5 hours ago, potless said:

True. Although the Shah was none too popular either.

I was in Iran when the Shah was disposed of.  The people liked Americans and were gaining more individual freedoms...becoming "Westernized"...

 

The Ayatollahs became threatened...they saw their iron grip and prestige among the people slipping away....the Muslim clergy whipped the people up into a frenzy...strikes crippled the country...it was a sad time...

 

Once they regained control...well you see they have become more isolated and withdrawn from the world polity...

 

The Iranian people have revolted and tried to wrestle control away from the clergy...they are silenced by thugs...like in other countries we know and love...

[Nyezhov]

4 hours ago, rhyddid said:

if attacked or similar has the full right to respond.

wont be much left to respond with if we attack.

 

3 hours ago, jany123 said:

20 years of arguably ineffectual military intervention in Afghanistan,

Our leaders, in their benign benevolance, thought they could subdue Afghanistan and bring them singing Kumbaya into the family of nations. Like the Afghans did to the Brits and Russians, they outlasted us. Certain places in the world are alwys going to remain s**tholes and its not the job of the USA to change that. Thank god the era of "nation building" and "exporting freedom" is at the cost of American lives and treasure is over.

 

Just dont mess with us. We just want to chill.

 

[jany123]

24 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

 

 

Our leaders, in their benign benevolance, thought they could subdue Afghanistan and bring them singing Kumbaya into the family of nations. Like the Afghans did to the Brits and Russians, they outlasted us. Certain places in the world are alwys going to remain s**tholes and its not the job of the USA to change that. Thank god the era of "nation building" and "exporting freedom" is at the cost of American lives and treasure is over.

 

Just dont mess with us. We just want to chill.

 

Which was the point of comparison. Your leaders were wrong then, but your cheering attacking a stronger foe, whilst assuming it will be different. They will outlast you, just as the others did.... and the next generation of Hollywood films will be about the horrors of American boys dying in Iran. Wonderful

 

Nation building what?... not at the cost of American lives?... this thread is specifically about the potential loss of American lives 

 

dont mess with us? Come on... why not? Don’t you have enough drugs to share, cause dude... it’s yall messing with them. There’s no Iranian military in the US.... which applies to wherever your forces are messing with others outside of your sovereign territory...

 

perhaps if your forces go home, none of those folk will mess with you.

 

Crazy is not learning from your mistakes... cheering on crazy is imbecilic.

[observer90210]

This Iranian statement will strongly help boost oil prices that are harshly low due to the CoronaV ????

[Roadkillaf]

Yeah, yeah, fk around, and find out. 

Edited February 14, 2020 by Roadkillaf