Iran says Patriot batteries in Turkey meant to protect Israel
Iran says Patriot batteries in Turkey meant to protect Israel | The Times of Israel.
Tehran claims NATO-backed anti-missile system not being used to shield Turkey from Syrian civil war
NATO-backed Patriot missile batteries stationed on Turkey’s border with Syria are actually meant to protect Israel from Iran, Tehran’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
The six long-range missile-defense batteries, which Ankara requested after Turkey was shelled on several occasions from inside Syria, are meant to keep Syria’s civil war from spilling across the border into Turkey, NATO officials say.
But Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the real reason behind them was to give the West a way to shield Israel from retaliatory Iranian missiles.
“Iranian military officials believe that the reason for deploying NATO’s Patriot missiles in Turkey is to prevent Iran from responding to the Zionist regime [of Israel] if it attacked Iran,” spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in Ankara Saturday, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV.
Israel does fear retaliation with mid- or long-range missiles should Jerusalem or the US choose to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, but NATO and Ankara have given no indication the batteries are in place to do anything but protect Turkey. Iranian missiles would not have to cross Turkish airspace in order to hit Israel.
Earlier this month, Turkey announced the locations for the three batteries, which are expected to be operational by late January.
“We made our application to NATO and they gave us six batteries and they will be deployed in Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras and Adana,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Turkish TV station.
Iran, which is Syria’s strongest backer but also maintains ties with Turkey, has decried the deployment of the batteries, which can also be used to shoot down aircraft, as a “declaration of war.”
In October, a Patriot missile battery was deployed near the Israeli port of Haifa, days after a unmanned aerial vehicle from Lebanon managed to traverse nearly the whole country. The Israel Defense Forces said the two events were unconnected.
Patriot missiles were used to protect Israel and Saudi Arabia from Iraqi Scud missile attacks during the 1991 Gulf War, with middling success.
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WarSclerotic 
December 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM
The iranian stupid propaganda is amusing us time and again.
December 30, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Once again, defensive moves by a nation trying to protect itself are offensive to the Iranians.
December 30, 2012 at 4:24 PM
They are well aware why the turks need those Patriots but the iranians want to be clever: ”you see, our dear turks, if you will put those Patriot in place you actually are protecting the Zionists, which you dont, do you ? So make us a big favor and cancel this move and let the syrians, our friends, to bomb the sh!t out of your towns.”
December 30, 2012 at 10:07 PM
i think the Iranians are now using the drugs they traffic all over the world themselves,the RGC cant cope with the stress lol
December 31, 2012 at 3:27 AM
Its most likey bull but read this for a fiction:
Clinton Injured, US Navy Seal Killed In Secret US Mission To Iran
A new Foreign Military Intelligence (GRU) report circulating in the Kremlin today is saying that United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was injured, and a top US Navy Seal Commander killed when their C-12 Huron military passenger and transport aircraft crash landed nearly 3 weeks ago in the Iranian city of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border.
The US Navy Seal member reported killed in this bizarre incident, this report says, was indentified as Commander Job W. Price who as a leader of this highly specialized American Special Forces unit protects high-ranking diplomats traveling in Middle Eastern and Asian combat zones.
Curiously, US media reports on Commander Price’s death say it being investigated as a possible suicide as he died from what the American Defense Department describes as “a non-combat related injury.”
Equally as curious, US media reports state that Secretary Clinton will return to work next week after her having suffered what they describe as a “nasty bout with stomach flu” and a “concussion” which have kept her missing from public view the past three weeks.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1641.htm
December 31, 2012 at 3:31 AM
Iran: US plane made emergency landing 3 weeks ago
http://news.yahoo.com/iran-us-plane-made-emergency-landing-3-weeks-092100005.html
December 31, 2012 at 4:46 AM
If this is true, my question is “Why all the sudden Iranian cooperation with the U.S.?” Obviously, there is so much we do not know, and probably never will.
December 31, 2012 at 3:22 PM
clinton is in hospital with a massive blood clot,typical injury after the kind of gforces in a plane crash you expect lots of internal hemorrhaging,speculate was it a hit,are we about to witness some form of repercussion,because the Iranians appear to be really shiting themselves,if t was a hit its russia that has a track record for that
December 31, 2012 at 3:33 AM
Hillary Clinton ‘in hospital’ with blood clot
Now breaking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20873318