TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- A senior Iranian air force commander said his troops have prepared operational plans to retaliate against Israel’s possible air strikes on the Islamic Republic.
“Israel’s rhetoric about air strike (on Iran) is just psychological warfare, because this regime does not have the power to launch air strikes on Iran. Israel is not capable of posing a serious threat to Iran because it does not have the actual power and capabilities needed,” Air force lieutenant commander for operations General Mohammad Alavi told FNA here on Wednesday.
He reminded that Israel is within the range of Iranian missiles while “we can also attack them by our fighter planes and respond to their possible air strikes,” although Israel is unlikely to launch a strike on Iran.
The General warned that the Iranian air force is not boasting, and said, “Such a plan is not just a hollow threat and we do everything on the basis of correct and precise planning and we have gained the needed readiness. Thus, Israel should give up foolishness.”
He further dismissed enemies’ propaganda about blitzkriegs on specific Iranian targets, and said, “We have gained the required preparedness to confront different plans and strategies and we do not allow their fighters to launch such easy attacks on our country as they allege.”
The senior commander assured that enemy air force will lose average 30% of its fighters during any possible blitzkrieg on Iran.
He said that Iranian air force has distributed its RADAR sites according to a special pattern that it can pick up any belligerent move on the screen immediately.
“A majority of our blind points have been covered and all flying objects are under our control. Our air defense plans are also of variety and use such special tactics that have placed us in a unique position,” he continued.
The General said that all the country’s borders are controlled by Iranian RADAR systems and other electronic equipment 24-hour a day, adding that alien troops in the region are well informed of the said capabilities of the Iranian army.
He said Iran monitors all activities round the clock and would provide immediate response to any air intrusions.
The General further dismissed some recent reports that Iran is not equipped with the needed capabilities to counter Cruise Missiles, and said, “We have gained the required preparedness to confront these missiles, we have studied their performance and volume and range of fire and we have the needed systems to confront them.”
“Children of the army are ready to respond to any enemy attack, irrespective of the number of missiles and fighters used by the enemy,” he continued.
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(Note: while Iran can definitely strike Israel with missiles, the general’s words that “we can also attack them by our fighter planes” are simply not credible. There is no way that the Iranian Air Force could successfully send aircraft to strike Israel, or even just get passed CENCTOM forces without being shot down. Iran’s Air Force would even be hard pressed to defend its own air space from an Israeli airstrike as such as strike would have full US support and therefore would be conducted under USAF and USN protection – VS).
It’s obvious that Iran has forgotten the 1973 Yom Kippur war,when Syria and Egypt tried to invade Israel on a suprise attack and failed miserably. The bible say’s,”God will bless those who bless Israel and God will curse those who curse Israel”. So I say to the president if Iran,”Bring it on”.
Indeed, and to you think that He had the modern State of Israel in mind?
Since you like the Scripture, you might want to ponder these quotes:
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer . . . be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. . . . Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Revelation 2:9-10, 3:9.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Matthew 23:27-33.
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. John 8:39-47.
You know, you cannot simply take one small quote from the Bible and then base an entire political agenda on it. Actually, you can, I suppose – but not in any intellectually honest way.