Analysis: Iran Not Fazed By Kerry’s Threat of Military Option
(Any other result would surprise me. Artaxes)
Analysis: Iran Not Fazed By Kerry’s Threat of Military Option – Washington Free Beacon.
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
January 30, 2014 12:14 pm
An analysis of statements made by top Iranian officials shows that Iran does not take Secretary of State John Kerry’s threat of military force seriously.
Kerry warned in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya channel that if Iran were to restart its uranium enrichment program that the United States military option is “ready and prepared.”
“If they decided they’re going to throw this agreement away and go start enrichment again, sure, they can turn around,” said Kerry. “But guess what? If they do that, then the military option that is available to the United States is ready and prepared to do what it would have to do.”
An analysis by the Middle East Media Research Institute of comments made by top Iranian officials in reaction to Kerry’s statement shows that Iran thinks Kerry is bluffing.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said earlier this month that the United States doesn’t have the ability to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program.
“If the Americans are not acting in a [particular] issue, the reason for this is lack of capability, not lack of hostility,” said Khamenei. “They [the Americans] have said, ‘If we could, we would dismantle Iran’s nuclear industry’–but they cannot … The recent talks showed both America’s hostility and its impotence.”
“What kind of action–or mistake–could they possibly take against Iran?” said Khamenei on Sunday.
Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohammad Ali Ja’fari, said that Iran has no fear of the United States’ “miniscule and shabby” military threat.
“Mr Kerry, in the eyes of the true fighters, the U.S., with all its military force, is miniscule and shabby,” said Ja’fari. “Your military option will remain only on the table.”
“Iran has no fear of this threat, and it and its revolutionary allies worldwide will unite to respond,” Ja’fari said.
On Tuesday, Iranian Army Chief of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi said that the “military option that is today on the table in the U.S. has become a joke among the nations.”
Top adviser to Khamenei, Ali Akbar Velayati, said that Kerry’s declarations are a bluff.
“These declarations are more of a bluff,” said Velayati. “Obviously the Americans do not have this capability, because if they did, they would not have been expelled, completely weakened, from Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi expressed disbelief that Kerry was anointed U.S. Secretary of State.
“People are wondering how a man who does not know how to speak was appointed Secretary of State,” said Shirazi.
WarSclerotic 
January 31, 2014 at 4:16 PM
“These declarations are more of a bluff,” said Velayati. “Obviously the Americans do not have this capability, because if they did, they would not have been expelled, completely weakened, from Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Actually this is a good thing. Apparently, Tehran still underestimates the capability of the US military. Their budget is greater than Iran’s entire GDP. Political weakness yes, but not military capability. One bad move by Iran can turn this entire political picture around in a day. Besides, the recent wars in the Mideast afforded the US military a unprecedented opportunity to refine and develop more deadly weapons systems.
January 31, 2014 at 5:37 PM
1. There never was a doubt and there is no doubt that the US military is number one in the world and that it still can kick the ass of virtually every other military. Even the Iranians know this.
2. The usual Iranian boasting. Remember their photoshopped toy ‘stealth fighter’?
3. They are correct in their assesment that the current US govermment has neither the backbone nor the will for any kind of military action.
4. They are correct in their assesment that anyone with cojones can defy and humiliate the Obavez team.
5. They know that team Obavez is only tough on allies of the US, not on the enemies of America. Obavez’ reflex is always to try to appease the enemy, try to make peace with him.
January 31, 2014 at 6:40 PM
Obama and kerry are increasingly losing there voice as there is now a growing consensus in NATO and the usa that iran will face military action in the next few months unless there is az dramatic uturn by iran,there is talk of strikes on syria as early as next week if you believe it ?.The rift between the USA Nato and russia became public today expect a rapid breakdown of trust over the next few weeks
January 31, 2014 at 4:42 PM
And now’ something completly differnt!!!
http://blog.petflow.com/i-cant-believe-how-funny-this-is-i-am-in-tears-make-sure-your-sound-is-turned-on/
January 31, 2014 at 5:35 PM
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Analysis: Iran Not Fazed By Kerry’s Threat of Military Option