Will Iran Respond with Terror?

That is the question an article at MSNBC seeks to answer. It’s logical to prepare for that possibility given Iran’s past behavior. It seems the US is investigating this as the UN takes up the Nuclear Arms issue. Given Iran’s bragging this week about it’s military’s technical capabilities I find it a stretch that they Say, “Hey we love hi-tech stuff all of it except the bomb of course”. Let’s not forget Iran’s other military capabilities.

MSNBC : Before Sept. 11, the armed wing of Hezbollah, often working on behalf of Iran, was responsible for more American deaths than in any other terrorist attacks. In 1983 Hezbollah truck-bombed the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241, and in 1996 truck-bombed Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. service members.

Iran's intelligence service, operating out of its embassies around the world, assassinated dozens of monarchists and political dissidents in Europe, Pakistan, Turkey and the Middle East in the two decades after the 1979 Iranian revolution, which brought to power a religious Shiite government. Argentine officials also believe Iranian agents bombed a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994, killing 86 people. Iran has denied involvement in that attack.

Iran is a terrorist supporting state? Nah.

Iran's intelligence services "are well trained, fairly sophisticated and have been doing this for decades," said Crumpton, a former deputy of operations at the CIA's Counterterrorist Center. "They are still very capable. I don't see their capabilities as having diminished."

Both sides have increased their activities against the other. The Bush administration is spending $75 million to step up pressure on the Iranian government, including funding non-governmental organizations and alternative media broadcasts. Iran's parliament then approved $13.6 million to counter what it calls "plots and acts of meddling" by the United States.

Hey sounds like we can outspend em. But hey America is nothing but not the best in money politics. I reckon VOA booming over every square inch of Iran would be well worth the bucks. Meddle my ass, hold your dirty hands up to the light is more like it.

"Given the uptick in interest in Iran" on the part of the United States, "it would be a very logical assumption that we have both ratcheted up [intelligence] collection, absolutely," said Fred Barton, a former counterterrorism official who is now vice president of counterterrorism for Stratfor, a security consulting and forecasting firm. "It would be a more fevered pitch on the Iranian side because they have fewer options."

We should spell out very clearly how we would respond if the US were to be attacked by Iran or agents thereof, and pretty damn quick too!

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