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this is not the US military on how many soldiers have died in Iraq.. this is just their assessment of Israeli military capability.. if anything you’d expect them to exaggerate it..
but if u want a conspiracy, you got it.. they failed to mention that the US has already supplied IAF with giant refueling tankers… so it’s very much within their capability to strike Iran and return.
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Iran spends all this money on these weapons rather than updating the villages that are so prone to earthquakes, sounds like misplaced prorites. When the next large Iran earthquake kills 10,000-40,000+ at least the the realtives of the dead can be thankful that their goverment has spent the money on weapons programs.
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smart thinking.. let’s ask the same of our own politicians first shall we? one country spending more than half of the entire earth’s combined military budget doesn’t bug you, Iran spending to defend it’s existence does?
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Who said it didn't bug me?
Iran is spending to defend it's existance? It's a country hellbent on war, see it's comments about Israel and it's support of terror against Israel.
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Defend its existence? 
From what? Little Israel?
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Israel has threatened to attack Iran as well! 
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unless you've been living in cave with Bin laiden the last decade, it's pretty evident who has the military might in that region and who needs to be afraid of whom..
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about the Israeli foreign policy iniatives that include attacking and occupying Iran to become part of greater Israel.
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Iranian Maulana Prez is on record saying “Israel should be wiped out”. Based on your post, Sharon has already replied in kind. I may have missed this news BK!
It is not the armor pappoo! Read again, it is the US-allies’ capability to defeat their opponents in the Middle East.
I agree that modern day Arab armies are the worst in the whole world. Sadat, and Nasir were Russian puppets for sure. Still they were defeated squarely on the ground as well as in the air.
The problem with Maulanas is that they still think of war as a tool based on 1000 years old strategy. Back then, you took your tribe along, threatened the heck out of your opposing tribe, and brought home their women as slaves.
Modern day wars are way beyond those tribal minds. These wars are fought by both civilian war-making machine, and the military machine. Most of the Maulanas ignore the first and important leg i.e. civilian war-making machine and rely solely on the military machine. The result is utter defeat every time they challenge the modern armies.
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Israel has been the greatest terrorist state in the Middle East for decades, and only after suffering a crushing defeat in Lebanon at the hands the "Iranian-backed" Hezbollah has it started realising that it must leave lands it has illegally occupied for so long. First South Lebanon, then Gaza, onto the West Bank and further in due time. It can carry on making empty threats against Iran, it has done that for many years, but it's all bluster and they know they can do nothing much it.
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I agree that modern day Arab armies are the worst in the whole world. Sadat, and Nasir were Russian puppets for sure. Still they were defeated squarely on the ground as well as in the air.
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The same Sadat (or should I say russian SAMs) busted a new funhole in IDF when destroyed more than 180+ israeli american planes in 1973.
Had it not been for US resupply, israel was getting ready to surrender (ask golda meir) and might've used some nukes as a going-away present!
Even look today as how IAF flankers beat the USAF F-15s so don't underestimate / ridicule russian weapons as PAF is gonna get russian / chinese weopons!
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Quite a collection of victories you have assemble here. But victory doesn’t mean much if you don’t do anything with it. It’s a one time thing. Hopefully the Palestinians will seize the opportunites that are here today and Iran will stay out of their way or there will only be losers. It’s a fleeting moment.
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Hezbollah taught Israel a befitting lesson. The zionists can have one of the most powerful militaries in the world, but it can never successfully achieve victory over a determined resistance force and people. For it’s own long term survival I hope Israel get’s the hell out of lands that don’t belong to it - the West Bank, Jerusalem and Golan etc, and gives the Arabs within their “legal” bounadries equal rights. Or else will it will fast go the way of those Boers in Sud-Afrika.
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Israel is not a terrorist state. The Israelis have managed to turn arid deserts into prosperous cities that produce high technology. The Arabs have too much pride.
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There are many great terrorist states in the Middle East, I hardly think Israel deserves the title of the 'greatest'. In spite of attacks from every angle over the past 60 years she has managed to repel the agressors and even expand her territory by necessity to keep the terrorists from killing even more of her citizens.
The threats have come from Iran, including the backing of the terrorist group Hezbollah and a promise to push Israel into the sea. Hopefully soon the terrorist government of Iran will be overthrown and democracy led by the younger, better educated citizens will take hold. And hopefully this will take place before the ayaterrorists get a chance to use or blackmail with nuclear technology it is not stable enough to even posess.
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How many years has the Terrorist State of Israel been threatening to attack The Islamic Republic of Iran? A year, two, three, four, five?
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That is so true even the Bekea valley results were not as one-sided as claimed by western media.There were a lot of syrian claims of F-16s even F-15s.
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Israel has threatened to attack the nuclear facilities of a terrorist state that has said it wants to destroy her. What's the big surprise there?
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Most European’s continue to do business with Iran.
http://www.iran-daily.com/1384/2444/html/economy.htm#s111054
**Shell, Repsol in New Downstream S. Pars Projects **
TEHRAN, Dec. 6–Oil giant Royal/Dutch Shell and Repsol/YPF of Spain have signed an agreement to participate in downstream projects in phases 13 and 13A of the world’s largest offshore gas field, South Pars, said a senior oil industry official here on Tuesday. Akbar Torkan, managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company, told ISNA that the two companies are currently conducting engineering studies on the fields. “These companies are involved in the project to extract gas from the fields for producing LNG (liquefied natural gas) and that they are not involved in upstream projects,“ he said, adding that Shell is a general contractor in the project to develop phases 13 and 13A and that the joint ventures has taken 50 percent stakes in downstream projects in the two fields. He said the French oil and gas giant Total has won the project to develop Phase 11.
It was earlier reported that Repsol/YPF and Royal Dutch/Shell Group plan to invest $4 billion in an integrated natural gas E&P and LNG export project in Iran. Persian LNG, as the project is known, is a joint-venture between Repsol, Shell and the National Iranian Gas Export Company, which is a subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). However, Torkan refused to disclose the financial details of the project. Shell is currently under fire in Iran for repeated delays in completing the project to develop the key Soroush and Norouz oilfields. Shell has a 60-percent stake in the project.
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That is the point It’s been threatening it for many, many years, but it does not have the guts to actually do anything. F’raidy cats.