Rome within Iran missile range: Israeli Foreign Minister warns Italy

TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Rome is within range of Iran's nuclear-capable missiles, Israel's foreign minister has warned.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom gave the warning Tuesday to his visiting Italian opposite number, Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, during a discussion on the Iranian nuclear crisis, the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported on its ynet.com Web site.

Fini told a press conference following their meeting that should Iran acquire nuclear weapons, it would severely threaten not only Israel but the entire international community. He said the United Nations Security Council must deal with the Iranian matter as soon as possible.>>>>snip

http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051101-064102-9618r

Seems they didn't have a problem making pre-emptive attacks in the 1980s.

Sounds like a telling lack of confidence in the ability of the USA to
stand in the background saying "That's ma boy!" while they go rogue.

(Not forgetting the old "Hey, it worked with Iraq, it's working with
Syria, why not try it again?" attitude.)

Maybe Israel has finally realised that although they have had some
damn good victories in the past, it only takes one successful
retaliation to really spoil their day?

1) Iran will get nuclear weapons

2) Iran will then use those nuclear weapons preemptively

3) Iran will, of all places, nuke Rome.

That's an awful lot of assumptions, no?

We must kill now so they don't kill later! It all makes perfect sense, if you're a warmongering psychopath, anyway.

Stop investigating and raising a stink. Or else. How's that for an assumption?

they'd keep their mouths shut and let it happen. This is a political stunt.

SHIPS are carrying WMDs and may attack from the Sea!!!

"Rome is within range of Iran's nuclear-capable missiles, Israel's foreign minister has warned"

Oh so they have nuclear-capable missles? Well golly!

Gotta watch that media every minute....i mean, how misleading is that...5 lines down you find:
"that should Iran acquire nuclear weapons"

Can they be that stupid to try and sell us a WAR in the same way the tried with Iraq?

I have seen some posts here regarding PNAC(Project For New American Century) and all this arguing over Libby, Cheney, Rove, Bush...it's pointless...

They said what they were going to do in PNAC, and have done it and continue until they are stopped or completed...don't need a lawyer for that, THEY ANNOUNCED IT, ALL OF IT!

Would this mean that Israeli nukes could reach Rome?

Add in Russia, China, US, GB, France, and sooner or later India and Pakistan to the 'we can nuke the planet' club.

Gosh the world is just a dangerous place. Perhaps we should work on building international organizations for peaceful resolution of differences.

Or then again perhaps we should go about wrecking existing international institutions, ignoring international treaties that we are signatories to, refusing to sign on to all new international treaties that might conflict with our empire building, and spend our time instead unilaterally toppling nations we don't like that are in control of resources we want. That seems like a real good way to avoid getting nuked.

sophisticated ones, who is treatening to use them in the near future and has used them in the past is ............................ (fill in the blank.) Of course they are the good guys who never would use the first strike capability.

That's what i thought the most recent accord stated...

Whatever countries currently have them fine, but no new development from anyone...wish i remember the accord or UN Resolution...

Feel free to clarify this if I am wrong, but i thought that was the case....

like the Geneva Conventions are oh so "quaint".

So might AG Gonzales tell us.

We don't need no stinkin treaties.

Some sarcasm, but not all.

180

It has been put on the back burner. There were/are going to be nuclear weapons in space. Those are the ones reported in the news that I know of.

Truman was a Dem... you know the right would rifle that right back if you used that line in an argument. To be technical every country with Nukes has used them (that's how you know they work) underground detonations... islands in the middle of nowhere blah blah blah.

The USA is the only country confirmed to have used them against a population center. But I personally believe Truman did the right thing.

It should be noted that it is a very good testament to each Nuclear nation that those weapons haven't been used as intended. Especially in the case of India and Pakistan.

(OMG Muslims have NUKES :sarcasm: )

There was no need, Japan was close to surrendering anyway, but of course, American History needs to justify it, so that part of WWII you won't find easily...

And the U.S. nuclear tipped missiles, and France's, and Russia's, and Britain's, and China's. I don't know about India and Pakistan for sure, though.

Arriverderci, Roma
Goodbye, goodbye to Rome
City of a million moon lit faces
City of a million warm embraces
Where I found the one of all the faces
Far from home

Arriverderci, Roma
It's time for us to part
Save the wedding bells for my returning
Keep my lover's arms outstretched and yearning
Please be sure the flame of love keeps burning
In her heart

(Arriverderci, Roma
It's time for us to part

Save the wedding bells for my returning
Keep my lover's arms outstretched and yearning
Please be sure the flame of love keeps burning
In her heart

has disavowed Bush's war could you see a MIHOP in Rome? Vatican City would generate quite a bit of support for the crusade too.

nuked :nuke: and its been brought up in the book

DaVinci Code!!!

This Pope is one of the first who has visited Israel!!!

more war drums? this is getting beyond silly. surely they aren't going to play EXACTLY the same game as before? what happened to syria being the designated asshole ?

have to get the ball rolling

that North Korea is building from popsicle sticks, and any other weapon that doesn't exist right now.

Why, I'm in range of my neighbor's automatic weapon that he doesn't own! GASP!

Terra! Terra!

:yoiks:

while the U.S. takes Syria. Israel's still a wild card, since it's saber-rattling against Iran but is next to Syria.

Lions and tigers and bears!

Must kill everyone who doesn't like Israel. Must seize all oil. Must show everyone how tough we are. Must, must, must!!!

They shot their wad in Iraq. I won't believe any claims of WMDs made by the US, UK, or Israel until I actually see a mushroom cloud.

Often, when I go to work I have this thought looking at the hills south or town, where the silos are.

US/UK/Israeli media use to present Iranians and N.Koreans as "unpredictable crazies". However, on the ground, both are isolationist revolutionaries who are driven by their ideologies without much concern for the outer world.

The difference is, instead of N.Korean powerful military, Iranians have huge economic and ideological influence. They can drive oil prices sky high and incite Muslim revolutionaries all over the world - starting from Iraq. Unlike Al-Queda, Khomeinists have quite real ideological clout!

1. UPI. Rome within Iran missile range: Israeli FM http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051101-064102-9618r
Rome is within range of Iran's nuclear-capable missiles, Israel's foreign minister has warned.
Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom gave the warning Tuesday to his visiting Italian opposite number, Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, during a discussion on the Iranian nuclear crisis, the Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported on its ynet.com Web site.
2. AJ. Diplomat: Iran to restart nuclear work http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/137D7664-7CB5-49B0-9031-8491B56141DE.htm
Iran on Wednesday granted UN nuclear inspectors access to a high-security military site as part of efforts to avoid referral to the Security Council, the atomic watchdog says.
However, Tehran has also told the IAEA that it will soon resume converting uranium into a gas that can be enriched either to generate energy or produce nuclear weapons, a diplomat close to the agency said.

I am sure that Iran would have targets in the mideast that it would prefer to neutralize before taking out the Vatican.

:puke:

Booga. Booga. I suppose Israel's 200 nukes can also reach Rome.

(sarcasm) Come on, now.

This appears to be nothing more than the latest episode in the Israel/PNAC international hooting-and-hollering strategy aimed at nations they've targeted for "regime change."

Thanks for posting this IChing.


Edited for grammar and clarity.