19 September 2007

Smack-talkin' Persians...

Are cruisin' for a bruisin'.
-- TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has drawn up plans to bomb Israel if the Jewish state should attack, the deputy air force commander said, adding to tensions already heated up by an Israeli airstrike on Syria and Western calls for more U.N. sanctions against Tehran.
The RAND Corporation thinktank was quick to put the Iranian rhetoric into perspective...
"If Israelis attacked Iran it would be with high precision weapons that could destroy military targets," he said. "They could destroy Iran's nuclear reactor and do damage to the enrichment."

"The Iranian response would be quite different," Ochmanek said. "It would be small numbers of highly inaccurate missiles and the intention would be to do this for psychological purposes rather than to destroy discrete targets."

"It's an asymmetrical relationship."
In brains apparently, as well as brawn.

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