'Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11'

[charley]

In the eyes of many intelligence experts, Mossad are grossly overrated and the myth of their omniscience and omnipotence is just that - a myth.We;re talking about the clowns who kidnapped a grocer iin Baalbeck because he had the same name as the Hizballah leader. Kid you not.

during the baltic wars the sun newspaper harassed a man in london who was called sloboden milosevic ,research is the base of good intelligence,

[Interista]

during the baltic wars

Baltic wars? Slobodan Milosevic? You don't work for Mossad by any chance, do you? You'd be perfect for them!

[Aristodemus]

I'm not sure if you're being sacarstic there or not, but let us assume that Irans S-300's and TOR-M1's are eventally swarmed:

1) They'll lock down the Hormuz Strait and strike Iraqs Kaaot platform. That spells a halt to 40% of the worlds oil.
2) They'll have their proxy armies fire tens of thousands of rockets at Israel out of Lebanon. This is what the 2006 invasion was about. Israel failed to removed that deterrant.
3) They'll have their proxy armies in Iraq slaughter US G.I.'s
4) They'll hit refineries in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with MRBM's
5) They'll hit US Warships.

Those are just for starters and it'll be within the first week when we'll see whether or not Iran has chemical weapons. Because if they have WMD in any form, that will be it.

I think you overestimate their abilities. Like all vicious regimes they are actually only good at repressing their own people. The same guff was said about Saddam's Republican Guard who we were assured were a crack force. They were pussies and disappeared at the first sound of gunfire

[Cassandra Syndrome]

Iran to finally prove that they can build a balloon sculpture of a wiener dog?

[Interista]

The same guff was said about Saddam's Republican Guard who we were assured were a crack force.

I don't remember being 'assured' of any such thing. It was always a foregone conclusion that the invasion of Iraq would be a walkover, but the occupation would be rather more tricky. That was why Iraq was invaded and why Iran, despite all the bluster, will not be. They can fight back.

[charley]

everyone is leaving out the big player here, china will let him sabre rattle all he wants but the second he endangers oil flow things will get messy

[collina]

during the baltic wars the sun newspaper harassed a man in london who was called sloboden milosevic ,research is the base of good intelligence,

[Sailor]

I suspect something has been lost - or more likely gained - in the translation of what he actually said

[jcdf]

I'm not sure if you're being sacarstic there or not, but let us assume that Irans S-300's and TOR-M1's are eventally swarmed:

1) They'll lock down the Hormuz Strait and strike Iraqs Kaaot platform. That spells a halt to 40% of the worlds oil.
2) They'll have their proxy armies fire tens of thousands of rockets at Israel out of Lebanon. This is what the 2006 invasion was about. Israel failed to removed that deterrant.
3) They'll have their proxy armies in Iraq slaughter US G.I.'s
4) They'll hit refineries in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia with MRBM's
5) They'll hit US Warships.

Those are just for starters and it'll be within the first week when we'll see whether or not Iran has chemical weapons. Because if they have WMD in any form, that will be it.

Unless Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is as stupid as Saddam Hussein (cannot be ruled out) or more so, this hypothetical scenario of yours will not happen! If the Iranians accomplished even a few of the items on your list, particularly the first item, the US along with an enormous list of allies would crush Iran. Unlike the last Iraq war there would be negligible opposition in the UN except for OPEC and Russia perhaps; by themselves they do not count enough to stop all the others.

[Border-Rat]

I think you overestimate their abilities. Like all vicious regimes they are actually only good at repressing their own people. The same guff was said about Saddam's Republican Guard who we were assured were a crack force. They were pussies and disappeared at the first sound of gunfire

Firstly no 'guff' was stated about the Republican Guard. Nobody expected them to be a serious threat. Secondly, I don't know which war you're referring to, but they didn't 'dissappear' at the first round. They fought a pretty stiff fight up untill the 9th of April with ancient weapons.

They rendered the Apache all but useless. Using weapons nowhere near as dangerous as Irans, the Republican Guard for example mauled 34 Apaches in one night, on the 24th/3 I believe.