Although tomorrow they will have denied they ever said such a thing because of the bi-polar government and mind-games they constantly play, this could be crunch time for either side to call bluffs. Any guesses on who will blink first? I think the IRI has placed all thier bets on allah saving thier collective asses.


Iran threatens to close strait if new sanctions begin

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-threatens-close-strait-sanctions-begin-140804744.html;_ylt=A2KJ3Ccc1OhP6gEAljTQtDMD

With the failure of negotiations between Iran and six world powers last week, the Islamic regime now says it has the right, under international law, to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic should an embargo on Irans oil go into effect July 1.

The third round of talks between Iran and the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany ended in Moscow without any agreement on Irans illicit nuclear program. Iran continues to insist that the only way out of the impasse would be for the West to accept its nuclear program.

Hossein Shariatmadari, the chief editor of the Iranian Keyhan newspaper, which is directly under the supervision of the supreme leader, warned in a commentary on Saturday that not only will Iran not back down on what it sees as its right to become a nuclear power but that it has the ability to stop oil tanker passage through the strait should new sanctions take effect.

The enemy needs the negotiations just for the sake of negotiation as it knows that all its military threats are a bluff, Shariatmadari wrote. One thing is clear today: America and its allies, especially the fake government of Israel, are surely weaker and more despised than ever to even consider such stupid action.

Many within the Islamic regime believe that due to the deteriorating economic climates in Europe and America, and especially with President Obama facing re-election, the West will do everything it can to avoid military confrontation with Iran.

But the other option that America has used in facing defeat in the negotiations is sanctions, Shariatmadari said. Iran has so far faced 161 sanctions, but despite that, its economy is in better shape than those in America and Europe.

Shariatmadari cited a statement by the U.S. Treasury secretary that in todays free market, controlling almost $200 billion in trade with Iran and securing the participation of all American and European companies in sanctions would be a difficult task.

It is noteworthy that should the oil embargo on Iran by the European Union take effect on July 1st, then the Islamic Iran has the right to retaliation as the waters of the Strait of Hormuz are located within Iranian territory, Shariatmadari said. According to the Geneva 1958 Convention and the Jamaica 1982 Convention, which touches on the legality of the international waterways, Iran can close down the Strait of Hormuz to all oil tankers and even other commercial vessels if it is barred from selling oil.

The conventions allow passage of all vessels so long as the security of any country is not threatened. With these new sanctions, Iran would consider its security threatened.

Meanwhile, the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emboldened by praise of the Iranian media for not giving in to the world demands, called America and Israel the murderous enemies and promised their defeat.

The greatness of Irans Islamic nation is due to its action based on the holy Quran, Khamenei said Sunday in a speech to the participants of the 29th International Quran Competition, according to Fars News Agency, the media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guard. The Islamic nations must realize that if they have faith and believe the promises of Allah and have patience on the path of Quran and Islam, they will be victorious over the most complicated armies and over all economic, political conspiracies.

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Irans Revolutionary Guard and the author of the award winning book A Time to Betray. He is a senior Fellow with EMPact America, a member of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and teaches at the U.S. Department of Defenses Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA).
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With Syria and Turkey and this things could go downhill over there fairly quickly.

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"The chief aim of all government is to preserve the freedom of the citizen. His control over his person, his property, his movements, his business, his desires should be restrained only so far as the public welfare imperatively demands. The world is in more danger of being governed too much than too little. It is the teaching of all history that liberty can only be preserved in small areas. Local self-government is, therefore, indispensable to liberty. A centralized and distant bureaucracy is the worst of all tyranny. Taxation can justly be levied for no purpose other than to provide revenue for the support of the government. To tax one person, class or section to provide revenue for the benefit of another is none the less robbery because done under the form of law and called taxation." John W. Davis, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1924. Davis was one of the greatest trial and appellate lawyers in US history. He also served as the US Ambassador to the UK.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/06/25/uk-syria-crisis-idUKBRE84S0P320120625

The important point in the article is

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told a news conference that Turkey would protect itself within the framework of international law against what it called Syria's "hostile action" of downing its F-4 warplane last week.

Arinc said at the end of a seven-hour cabinet meeting dealing with the incident: "Everyone should know that this kind of action will not remain unpunished."

But he added,

"Whatever is needed to be done will definitely be done within the framework of international law. We have no intention of going to war with anyone. We have no such intent."

Looks like Syria punking wannabe regional power, Turkey, gave Iran a confidence boost as well.

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Why is vaseline in my sig? Because Turks don't want to read what I post. Hopefully the lube makes it easier for those criminal scum who are such great cry-babies to swallow.

Iran also has a long history of barking and then realizing that was a bad idea

Iran cannot accomplish that task, not against the USN.