Iran General offers advice to US

AFP/Washington Times:

Iran boasted yesterday it could defeat any American military action over its nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime's boldest challenges yet to the United States.
"You can start a war but it won't be you who finishes it," said Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime's most powerful figures.
"The Americans know better than anyone that their troops in the region and in Iraq are vulnerable. I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error," he told reporters on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran.
"I would advise them to first get out of their quagmire in Iraq before getting into an even bigger one," Gen. Safavi said with a grin.
"We have American forces in the region under total surveillance. For the past two years, we have been ready for any scenario, whether sanctions or an attack."

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At a Friday prayer sermon in Tehran yesterday, senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad branded the U.S. as a "decaying power" lacking the "stamina" to block Iran's ambitions.
And hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Agence France-Presse that a U.S. push for tough U.N. sanctions was of "no importance."
"She is free to say whatever she wants," the president replied when asked to respond to comments by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice highlighting part of the U.N. charter that provides for sanctions backed up by the threat of military action.
"We give no importance to her comments," he said with a broad smile.
On Thursday, Miss Rice said that faced with Iran's intransigence, the United States "will look at the full range of options available to the United Nations."

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While their comments about the US military reflect their wishful thinking, they do appear to be in the real world on the impotence of the UN. However, the US dance is just part of the process now before taking effective military action. After that dance is done, they would be wise to be worried about their own servival, more than concerned about a US quagmire. Their rhetoric does point out how the neo quagmirest viewpoint is used by out enemies to thwart effective action.