This is preposterous. Iran is not crazy enough to strike first and all its "threats" are a promise to respond to American aggression. Note, the map shows quite clearly that Iran is encirlcled by US military bases. IRANIAN
ARMY GENERAL GOES ON TV; REVEALS PLANS TO MISSILE STRIKE U.S. BASES
IN QATAR, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND AFGHANISTAN
A leader in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards publicly told Iranian TV viewers on their evening news, that Iran is preparing to hit US bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan. He also pointed out that the base at Al-Dhafra is only 300 kilometers from Iran and said "our missiles will reach these bases."
The map below shows the location of US military bases around Iran:
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh is the commander of the cavalry force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Appearing on TV news, the General makes clear what Iran intends to do. Here's video proof:
In the meantime, Iranian tanks, armored troop carriers and other heavy weapons were video recorded on the roads in Abadan, Iran near the Kuwait and Iraq borders. The scalable map below shows the area:
The video below shows the Iranian military hardware moving toward the Basrah Bridge:
If those troops cross into Iraq via the Basrah Bridge, they could physically attack the US base at Basrah within hours.
Whatever Iran is thinking, if their plans include actual attacks on US bases, they will consign their entire nation to the ash heap of history.
"Billion-Dollar
Fleet Destroyed With One Missile" - Iran Cleric Threatens To
Sink US Carrier
At a moment the US carrier strike group ordered deployed to the CENTOM Persian Gulf region area of command has traversed the Suez Canal, and as multiple B-52 bombers have also landed in Qatar in response to "troubling and escalatory" threats by Iran against US troops in the region, a top American military commander in the region has threatened he's ready to send an aircraft carrier through the vital Strait of Hormuz "if needed".
But should the US send a carrier through the key narrow oil shipping Persian Gulf choke point which is routinely patrolled by IRGC boats, one senior cleric has vowed the US Navy's...
"Billion-dollar fleet can be destroyed with one missile"— according to Iran's ISNA News Agency
Vice Admiral Jim Malloy, commander of the US Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet, made the statements to Reuters on Friday.
He oversees all US naval forces in the Middle East, and at the very moment the USS Abraham Lincoln Nimitz-class carrier makes its way into the area, the commander said, “If I need to bring it inside the strait, I will do so.” He added, “I’m not restricted in any way, I’m not challenged in any way, to operate her anywhere in the Middle East.”
He didn't specifically name the USS Abraham Lincoln during the telephone interview, but certainly the remarks were intentionally timed as a part of the White House's ongoing "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.
Iran, for its part, has dismissed the "deployment" and the underlying threat Bolton touted Sunday night as requiring a response as "fake intelligence" and part of a US “psychological warfare” campaign - further noting the carrier strike group's embarkation was pre-scheduled and merely used as a pretext for escalating threats.
Of the latest claims that credible intelligence indicates Iranian actions against Americans in the region could be imminent, Malloy said the intelligence was linked “with actual activity that we observed.”
“And that was certainly enough for me... to say that we saw this as a threat,” he said. Addressing the question of Iranian ICBM's and recent statements of intelligence officials saying they'd observed Iran transferring missiles on boats, the top admiral said further, “It might be a new fielding of technology by Iran,” Malloy said, adding the weaponry “falls under the category of destabilizing and offensive in nature.”
Meanwhile, on Tuesday US defense officials indicated a number of B-52 bombers would be part of "additional forces" sent to the region in response to the new intelligence demanding heightened readiness against Iran.
US CENTCOM posted images confirming the bombers' arrival this week to its official social media accounts. The images showed B-52 Stratofortress bombers landing in Qatar.
U.S. B-52H aircraft assigned to 20th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron arrived in CENTCOM AOR May 8. The Bomber Task Force is deployed here to defend American forces and interests in the region. For more photos go to http://ow.ly/Jouj50u3YKo
Meanwhile, even after all this Trump in somewhat off-the-cuff remarks said Iran should call him if its leaders want to talk, and further said he doesn't ultimately want military confrontation.
Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responded to the statement on Friday, rejecting any possibility of talks while a military threat looms.
“No talks will be held with the Americans and the Americans will not dare take military action against us,” Yadollah Javani, the Guards’ deputy head for political affairs, said according to Tasnim. “Our nation... sees America as unreliable.”
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