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Iran Threatens to Shut Down Persian Gulf Oil Lanes if Attacked

Sunday 29 June 2008

by: Borzou Daragahi, The Los Angeles Times

General Mohammad Ali Jafari. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Jafari Commander-in-Chief in September 2007. (Photo: Stringer / Reuters)

A military official is quoted as saying Tehran would respond to a confrontation over its nuclear program.

Beirut - The commander of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said the government might shut down vital oil lanes through the Persian Gulf if the country were attacked by the United States or Israel, according to a newspaper report Saturday.

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari warned that if there were any confrontation over Iran's nuclear program, Tehran would try to damage Western economies by targeting oil.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20199.htm

Catastrophic Déjà Vu

Debunking The Iran War Resolution

By August Wagele

289/06/08 "ICH" -- - The White House is currently conducting the same tactic on Iran that worked so well on Iraq. Despite the voluminous evidence that The White House lied and exaggerated to excuse the Iraq invasion, much of the American population (by way of the corporate media) are buying into the same rhetoric they foolishly failed to question only five years ago.

These grave threats against Iran are the culmination of 29 years of resentment. Started in 1979 when a frustrated faction in Iran overthrew the brutal yet obedient American puppet, The Shaw.

The White House is continually asserting that Iran is: a threat to America, a threat to its neighbors, harming Americans in Iraq, supporting terrorism, and illegally pursuing nuclear weapons.