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[Hostile]

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury U.S. troops in case of any American attack on the country, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday, warning that a military strike would spark an "extensive war" in the region.

The announcement appears to be a show of bravado after the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said last week that the U.S. military has a contingency plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a military strike is probably a bad idea.

The U.S. and some of its allies accuse Iran of using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to build nuclear weapons. Iran has denied the charges, saying its nuclear program is geared merely toward generating electricity, not bomb.

The deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Kan'ani Moghadam, said graves for any attacking U.S. troops have been dug in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, where Iran buried Iraqi soldiers killed during the ruinous 1980-88 war between the Islamic republic and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime.

"The mass graves that used to be for burying Saddam's soldiers have now been prepared again for U.S. soldiers, and this is the reason for digging this big number of graves," Moghadam said, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency.
Moghadam, however, said American troops would likely not be able to set foot on Iranian soil, repeating warnings that Iran will retaliate against U.S. bases in the Gulf if there is an attack on Iran. The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters is based just across the Gulf from Iran in Bahrain.

"I assume that the enemy will be hit in its own military bases out of our borders and will not have any chance to have its forces land in Iran," he said.

"If the U.S. decides to take a pre-emptive action and attack Iran, Iran will have no choice but to strike the American bases in the region," he said. "The heavy costs of such a war will not be just on the Islamic Republic of Iran. America and other countries should accept that this would be the start of an extensive war in the region."

The war of words has intensified between Iran and the United States after the U.N. Security Council imposed a fourth round of tougher sanctions in June in response to Iran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used to produce nuclear fuel or material for an atomic bomb.

The U.S. and Israel have said military force could be used if diplomacy fails to stop what they suspect is an Iranian nuclear weapons program.

Iran put the Guard -- its most powerful force -- in charge of defending the country's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf in 2008. Iran has sought to upgrade its air defense systems and naval power, saying any possible future attacks against Iran will be air and sea-based.

[ambershee]

Cold War, round 2, coming right up.

[Hostile]

Maybe a luke warm war? I'm not sure Iran is large enough to make it a cold war.

[Mathijs]

Just leave the fuckers alone. Goddamn.

[mike_]

Why can't they just accept the superiority of Eagleland? Patriiiiiiiiiioooooooooooooooooooootissssssssssssmmmmmmmmmm!

[Beowulf]

Just leave the fuckers alone. Goddamn.

Something we finally agree on.

[ambershee]

Maybe a luke warm war? I'm not sure Iran is large enough to make it a cold war.

Give it time, parts of the middle east and south Asia are already nuclear or suspected to be nuclear powers. Give it a couple of decades more of pointless policing by the US, and you might start to see a Soviet+ sized alliance start to form, despite the fact they've been busy bickering amongst one another for as long as anyone else can remember.

[duke_Qa]

Iran won't cooperate with Arabs any more than they will cooperate with the West. It's the closest enemies they got, they look upon each-other as heretics. After all, you get the biggest fights when you believe ALMOST the same.

I think we are doing something partially right on Iran these days: Political overt pressure and indirect support to those working against them from the inside. The more they beat their chest against outside influences, the more worried they are about their own internal affairs.

[Caspa]

Just leave the fuckers alone. Goddamn.

Something we finally agree on.

I'll agree on that too.

[Mathijs]

Shit. I'm with them now.

Edited by Matias, 12 August 2010 - 02:20 PM.

[Caspa]

I know. I feel so dirty now Matius.

[Hostile]

I know. I feel so dirty now Matius.

Welcome to the team.

[Romanul]

Just leave the fuckers alone. Goddamn.

Something we finally agree on.

I'll agree on that too.

I'll agree too.

Tho I'd love to see Ahmadinedjad sent somewhere to hell.

[Mathijs]

I know. I feel so dirty now Matius.

Still, it's a good kind of dirty, right, Caspa Capsa?

[Caspa]

Just to satisfy my curiousity here, can anyone tell me just how much oil Iran has?

Edited by Caspa, 12 August 2010 - 07:04 PM.

[ambershee]

Oil is Iran's biggest export.

Funny that.

[Imagine]

Oooh! Shit's getting real now.

Iran won't cooperate with Arabs any more than they will cooperate with the West. It's the closest enemies they got, they look upon each-other as heretics. After all, you get the biggest fights when you believe ALMOST the same.

Well Iran isn't really Arab they're truly Persian which could be the reason. Besides most of the middle east turning their backs in Iran especially Saudi who have already stated they will allow Israel to use their airspace if an invasion on Iran should take place. If Iran does manage to secure some S400's from Putin and his boys, and American invasion would be impossible. Those S400's will rip apart the American air threat long before they reach Iranian airspace.

[ambershee]

Just so you know, in increasing order of oil reserve size:

Iraq -> Iran -> Canada -> Saudi Arabia.

You've got about ten years to prepare, canucks.

[Caspa]

Would anybody notice if something happened to Canada, apart from half the internets population of teenage camwhores going missing?

Still, looks like my World War III prediction could be coming true very soon.

Edited by Caspa, 12 August 2010 - 09:24 PM.

[Romanul]

Would anybody notice if something happened to Canada, apart from half the internets population of teenage camwhores going missing?

Still, looks like my World War III prediction could be coming true very soon.

Naaah, no WW3 coming. Iran will be only a regional conflict. I bet that the Russians will next attack ex-USSR countries, hell, doesn't Kazakhstan have oil too?

EDIT: It seems it does:

http://en.wikipedia....leum#Production

Edited by Romanul, 13 August 2010 - 08:16 AM.