Iran Flaunts Military Might

  • Threats and economic sanctions will not stop Iran's technological progress, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Saturday at a large parade featuring fighter jets and radar-avoiding missiles designed to show off the country's military might.

    The military parade outside the capital Tehran marked the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran that sparked the bloody 1980-88 war. Iran used the parade to display its latest weapons, including radar-avoiding missiles, super-fast torpedoes, unmanned surveillance drones, battle tanks and other domestically produced weapons.

    Some of the trucks carrying Iranian missiles were painted at the back the popular slogans: "Down with the U.S." and "Down with Israel."

    The parade also featured flights by two of Iran's new domestically manufactured fighter jets, known as the Saegheh, which means lightening in Farsi.


Meanwhile, the worst President of all time, Jimmy Carter, says Iran is not a threat to Israel.

Yeah, and if there's a guy who understands and knows how to handle crazies in Iran, it's Jimmy Carter.

But if you're Israel, I think it would be dangerous to think like Carter and err on the side of assuming that Iranians will behave rationally.

One nuclear attack could effectively destroy Israel, so the risk of allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons should be viewed as unacceptable.

This does not even take into account the possibility that Iran, consistently the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, would pass nuclear material to a terrorist group such as Israel's direct enemies Hamas and Hezbollah, which are provided weapons and financing from Iran.

Even if Iranians do neither of those things, the strategic leverage they would gain from having nuclear weapons by itself is enough reason for Israel to do whatever it takes to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.... assuming the U.S. does not act first.