According to the AP writer and published in Wapo, Iran's Revolutionary Guards say they will "Punch the U.S.,because they don't like that they might be listed as a terrorist group by the U.S..
Tough.
Give it your best shot you pathetic bunch of murdering terrorists.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they would not bow to pressure and threatened to "punch" the U.S., in their first response to Washington's plan to list them as a terrorist organization, newspapers reported Saturday.
Local press in the Iranian capital of Tehran quoted Revolutionary Guards leader Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi saying that he could understand Washington's ire toward the group because of their "leverage" against the U.S.
"America will receive a heavier punch from the guards in the future," he was quoted as saying in the conservative daily Kayhan. "We will never remain silent in the face of U.S. pressure and we will use our leverage against them."
There was no elaboration on what Safavi meant by the punch or the organization's "leverage."
Washington has accused the Guards of supporting militias and insurgent groups attacking U.S. forces in Iraq _ charges Iran denies.
The fact that the remarks, made on Thursday in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, appeared in local newspapers rather than the official state news outlets suggest the comments are for domestic consumption.
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The estimated 200,000-strong Revolutionary Guards is an elite force separate from Iran's regular military and has its own ground, naval and air units.
The United States will possibly designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group's business operations and finances.
They can complain, they can threaten, they can bark at the moon and die for all I care, but unless they stop training terrorists and participating in killing our American soldiers in Iraq by providing funds and weapons as well as training and as long as the UN is going to let the sanctions be watered down to the point that they will not be effective, this move by the U.S. is the next logical step in choking off their funds.
I said it the other day and I will say it again, ABOUT DAMN TIME.
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Iran is punch drunk from Faultline USA...
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