Iran shows off 'high destruction' speed boats in war games

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk An Iranian warship and speed boats take part in a naval war game Photo: REUTERS Ali Reza Tangsiri, spokesman for the exercise. "Since the boat has high speed, it is less detectable by radar." Ali Shirazi, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, described the naval exercises as a specific response to Washington's "nuclear threats." He said: "The most important message from the exercises in the face of American nuclear threats is that we will strongly resist them." The new vessel was tested in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow, strategically important waterway between the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Nearly 40 percent of world's seaborne oil shipments pass through this waterway. Iranian military officials have previously warned that if their country were attacked, their forces would hit back by blocking the Strait of Hormuz. The military exercise also marked the 31st anniversary of the Guards, which were set up soon after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

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Israel distributes biochemical war protection kits

clipped from www.breitbart.com Israel Tuesday began distributing millions of protection kits against biochemical warfare, Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai announced, stressing the campaign was not linked to any imminent threat. "We have equipped ourselves with millions of protection kits against biological or chemical warfare, and a massive distribution programme for the population started today," Vilnai told army radio. "Every family in Israel can receive these kits at home and be instructed on how to use them by Israeli postal workers, at an average cost of 25 shekels (five dollars), or pick them up free of charge at post office counters." The distribution came as an aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, quoted by the Islamic republic's Fars news agency on Tuesday, warned that his country would hit Tel Aviv with missiles if it came under attack. Iran has regularly boasted of its missile capability, saying it has an arsenal which can strike Israel

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Iran missile will strike Tel Aviv if hit: Khamenei aide

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clipped from www.google.com TEHRAN — An aide to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that the Islamic republic will strike Tel Aviv with its missiles if it comes under attack, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. "If the enemy takes its chance and fires a missile towards Iran, the dust from an Iranian missile strike will rise in the heart of Tel Aviv even before the dust from the enemy attack settles" in Iran, said cleric Mojtaba Zolnoor, who is Khamenei's representative in the elite Revolutionary Guards. Fars reported that Zolnoor made the comments at a mosque late Monday, where he also said Iran's foes were aware that Tehran "has become a ballistic power." Iran has regularly boasted of its missile capability, saying it has an arsenal which can strike regional arch-foe Israel.

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Iran supreme leader lashes out at Clinton 'lies'

clipped from uk.news.yahoo.com Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, saying she had spread "lies" against the Islamic republic during a tour of the Gulf. Skip related content Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Enlarge photo Clinton said that Iran was moving towards a "military dictatorship" Enlarge photo Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Enlarge photo "Those who have turned the Persian Gulf into an arms depot in order to milk regional countries for money have now dispatched their official to go around the Persian Gulf and spread lies against Iran," Khamenei said, referring to Clinton at a meeting with visitors from the northwestern city of Tabriz. "If anybody seeks to create problems for Iran, our response will not be like before. Something in response will be done which will make them (the world powers) regret" their move, Ahmadinejad told a Tehran news conference. During her trip, Clinton said that Iran was moving towards a "military dictatorship"

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Iran Ramps Up Nuclear Program, Threatens Israel!

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clipped from bible-prophecy-today.blogspot.com On the same day that Iran announced it would begin enriching its uranium stockpile, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei declared that not even the might of the West can save Israel now. Iranian media cited Khamenei as telling the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement on Sunday that Israel's destruction is imminent according to the will of Allah, and that the support of America and certain European nations could do nothing to thwart the Jewish state's downfall. Also Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to begin enriching the nation's uranium stockpile to a level of 20 percent and to build an additional 10 uranium enrichment facilities. The looming threat is escalating the likelihood that Israel will be forced to intervene militarily to at least set back Iran's nuclear program, lest it face a very real existential threat.

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