Kurt Nicklas
2008-11-02 21:27:49 UTC
Iran threatens suicide attacks against the US
posted at 10:45 am on
October 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/30/iran-threatens-suicide-attacks-
against-the-us/
Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Iran stepped up its rhetoric against
the US today by threatening to use suicide-bomber attacks against
America. Ari Larijani, the former nuclear negotiator, referred to the
13-year-old boy sent by the mullahs to disable an Iraqi tank in the
1980s as a model for the fight against the Americans. Larijani promised
an ?unexpected response?:
Referring to the US army?s attacks in Pakistan and Syria, Larijani said
they would not be answered with diplomatic protests.
?The US method and conduct, expressed by this aggression, will only be
stopped by a clear-cut and unexpected response, whose grounds were set
by the martyr Hussein Fahmida,? Larijani said during a parliamentary
session on Wednesday.
Fahmida was 13 when he detonated an explosive device he carried on him,
destroying an Iraqi tank during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
?America should be aware not to put its huge body on top of the suicide
bombers? explosive devices,? Larijani said.
Larijani was not alone yesterday in Iranian verbal volleys against the
US. Supreme leader Ali Khamanai spoke less literally when he warned
nations who didn?t respect Iran?s independence that they would ?have
their hands cut off?. Khamanai said that reconciliation between Iran
and the US would not be possible because Iranians hate America too much,
presumably because of our opposition to the ruling mullahcracy and our
support of the Shah ? although the latter occurred before most Iranians
were alive.
The threat to use suicide bombers marks a cassus belli, if the US wanted
one as a pretext for strikes. Openly threatening attack on a non-
belligerent nation gives that country a right to defend itself. Israel
didn?t take the bait with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s genocidal lunacy over
the last two years, and it would be madness to attack Iran now anyway.
However, that doesn?t diminish the seriousness of an Iranian leader
standing in its parliament and endorsing terrorism as a state policy.
That?s exactly what Larijani did in this statement today, and the US
should respond by placing Iran?s Revolutionary Guard on the list of
terrorist organizations in order to freeze its funds. The Kyl-Lieberman
bill would have done that last year, but it was opposed by Barack Obama
and most of the other Democrats in the Senate. Larijani?s threat is an
open declaration of Iran as a terrorist state, and a lack of response
would encourage others to follow suit.
posted at 10:45 am on
October 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/30/iran-threatens-suicide-attacks-
against-the-us/
Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Iran stepped up its rhetoric against
the US today by threatening to use suicide-bomber attacks against
America. Ari Larijani, the former nuclear negotiator, referred to the
13-year-old boy sent by the mullahs to disable an Iraqi tank in the
1980s as a model for the fight against the Americans. Larijani promised
an ?unexpected response?:
Referring to the US army?s attacks in Pakistan and Syria, Larijani said
they would not be answered with diplomatic protests.
?The US method and conduct, expressed by this aggression, will only be
stopped by a clear-cut and unexpected response, whose grounds were set
by the martyr Hussein Fahmida,? Larijani said during a parliamentary
session on Wednesday.
Fahmida was 13 when he detonated an explosive device he carried on him,
destroying an Iraqi tank during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
?America should be aware not to put its huge body on top of the suicide
bombers? explosive devices,? Larijani said.
Larijani was not alone yesterday in Iranian verbal volleys against the
US. Supreme leader Ali Khamanai spoke less literally when he warned
nations who didn?t respect Iran?s independence that they would ?have
their hands cut off?. Khamanai said that reconciliation between Iran
and the US would not be possible because Iranians hate America too much,
presumably because of our opposition to the ruling mullahcracy and our
support of the Shah ? although the latter occurred before most Iranians
were alive.
The threat to use suicide bombers marks a cassus belli, if the US wanted
one as a pretext for strikes. Openly threatening attack on a non-
belligerent nation gives that country a right to defend itself. Israel
didn?t take the bait with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?s genocidal lunacy over
the last two years, and it would be madness to attack Iran now anyway.
However, that doesn?t diminish the seriousness of an Iranian leader
standing in its parliament and endorsing terrorism as a state policy.
That?s exactly what Larijani did in this statement today, and the US
should respond by placing Iran?s Revolutionary Guard on the list of
terrorist organizations in order to freeze its funds. The Kyl-Lieberman
bill would have done that last year, but it was opposed by Barack Obama
and most of the other Democrats in the Senate. Larijani?s threat is an
open declaration of Iran as a terrorist state, and a lack of response
would encourage others to follow suit.