Iran may have been threatened more times, but US have issued some strong threats to Pakistan during WOT. The first threat after 9/11 terrorist event is of very serious nature in particular. Threats can't get much worse then this one in particular.
US always takes its adversaries seriously. I am not surprised by this report.
However, according to CENTCOM assessment, US will destroy Iran in 3 weeks time. Now this is an eye-opening revelation.
Everyone can make allegations of 3 weeks war for their public consumption!
It took the US 10 years in Iraq, lost more than 50 000 soldiers (unofficial count by Iraqis but saying the truth about the almost 1 million martyred Iraqis too, so it is not that doubtful at all if one looks at the proportions and the almost too late Iraqi resistance fighting!), and ultimately lost the war!!!
While everyone is entitled to his own opinion, Here is what I think personally about the issue:
We say history tends to repeat itself for anyone who lacks prudence.
Muslims have a saying that a believer doesn't get bitten twice by a snake.
Iran is not Iraq, the context and the conjuncture are not the same at all:
In The Iraqi case, the invaders had the population support and complacency, until they found out that they were mistaken about the real intentions of the west, than they started a deadly fight and got rid of the Americans with all their "might".
The Iranian case is totally different, the fight of a whole nation will start at ounce from day one, if attacked, and the US knows it, it even told Israel to take a hike.
So, it is all talk but no war; the US can not afford to loose 4 super carriers and dozens of destroyers and warships (that means at least 30-40 000 American soldiers lost lives) in the Persian Gulf, just in a few weeks, it also needs the GCC fire power, which I doubt very much that it will get involved unless attacked outside the American bases.
With the US humiliated by the loss of its aircraft carriers, it will have to use Nuclear weapons, and that means WW3, since too many neighbouring countries including Russia, Pakistan and GCC will be contaminated as well, so the choices for a war are no choices a all.
US will not match Iran military power in Persian Gulf: Commander
A senior Iranian commander says the United States is not capable of military engagement with Iran in the Persian Gulf and this is why it has resorted to sanctions.
“The reason why Americans have resorted to economic sanctions and mischief is that they cannot take advantage of military leverage. If the [global] Arrogance and the US could achieve their goals through military action, they would have certainly done that,” said Commander of Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi.
Fadavi stated that Iran's missile power has greatly increased compared to the past and what US knows about Iran's missile capacities is much less than what it doesn’t know.
“The reason why the US has put its full force in oil and economic sanctions is that a military option against the Islamic Republic of Iran will be of no avail to them,” Fars News Agency quoted the commander as saying on Saturday.
Fadavi further noted that the US and the Zionist regime of Israel have had bitter experiences of 33-day war [with the Lebanese Hezbollah] as well as wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Over the past years, Iran has made important breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems.
On June 15, Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the Islamic Republic’s naval forces will firmly counter any threat and deal with insecurity single-handedly.
Tehran has repeatedly clarified that its military might is merely based on the nation's defense doctrine of deterrence and poses no threat to other countries.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/07/14/250863/us-cannot-face-iran-military-might-in-pg/
