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Allegations that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons last month are a "pretext" by the West to attack the country, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said.
Iran is Syria's main regional ally and has warned Western powers against intervening in the country's civil war, as the United States edges towards launching strikes against the Damascus regime.
The aim of the United States is not to protect human rights... but to destroy the front of resistance [against Israel]," the Quds Force commander was quoted as saying by the media on Thursday.
"We will support Syria t
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by sir_slide
ETA : I don't say this often..but seriously.we need to bomb the middle east back into the stone age. They want to threaten us? Lets show them what we can REALLY do.
edit on 6-9-2013 by nightstalker78 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by sir_slide
In many ways this seems to be a proxy war between Iran and the Saudi's for regional dominance.
Originally posted by Nyiah
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by sir_slide
ETA : I don't say this often..but seriously.we need to bomb the middle east back into the stone age. They want to threaten us? Lets show them what we can REALLY do.
edit on 6-9-2013 by nightstalker78 because: (no reason given)
What good will that do? It would just be proof positive yet again that we're a power & control hungry country hellbent on dominating anything not exactly like us, anywhere we can find it. One of these days, in one of these ill-gotten fights somewhere, we'll get our ass handed to us, and be reminded rather painfully that we are not King of Everybody.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by sir_slide
I'll just say this :
at Iran.
Who cares. They need to blow themselves up already.
ETA : I don't say this often..but seriously.we need to bomb the middle east back into the stone age. They want to threaten us? Lets show them what we can REALLY do.
edit on 6-9-2013 by nightstalker78 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by Rodinus
No.
The Iranian people are not at fault.
Nor are us Americans for what our government does.
See my point now?
Originally posted by nightstalker78
ETA : I don't say this often..but seriously.we need to bomb the middle east back into the stone age. They want to threaten us? Lets show them what we can REALLY do.
Originally posted by nightstalker78
reply to post by Rodinus
No.
The Iranian people are not at fault.
Nor are us Americans for what our government does.
See my point now?