US Iran strike against Iran unlikely
Regional-Iran-USA, Politics, 1/20/2007

Iran's parliament speaker Gholam- Ali Haddad-Adel said yesterday that the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting Middle East to give distort image on Iran and Shiites and get regional states against Iran.

Haddad-Adel told a group of provincial officials that no coalition against Iran will be effective and the Iranians should be aware under the circumstances.

"The Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution has said on the issue that coalition against Iran will not be helpful and we should be aware under such conditions."

He said no threat will be effective as long as people believe in the government and there is a strong link between them.

Iran's Supreme Leader's representative in Syria Ayatollah Mojtaba Hosseini on Thursday ruled out possibility of the US military strike on Iran.

"The US has done whatever in its capacity; what it has not yet done is beyond its capacity," said Ayatollah Hosseini on the sidelines of the International Seminar on Great Prophet of Islam Hazrat Mohammad (SAWA).

Ayatollah Hosseini said Iran does not trust in the US, believing that it can not launch any military aggression on the country due to the problems Americans are facing.

"Experience has shown that the US will do without speaking whatever it can and will speak about what it can not."

He went on to say that the Islamic Republic of Iran will give a crushing response to any aggression.

The feeling that the US does not have many options when it comes to Iran was confirmed by the comments of the US defense Minister Robert Gates. A New York Times report yesterday said Gates " played down the possibility of American military action against Iran but said it was not the right time for diplomatic engagement, either," with the report acknowledging that his comments show the US "has limited options to compel its leaders to halt their nuclear program or to play a more supportive role in Iraq," due to the weak position the US is seen to be in.

The report noted that on the regional level, a senior US Defense Department official said that Gates told Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah that "the United States viewed Iraq, despite the close ties between some in its Shiite-dominated government and Shiite Iran, as a bulwark against Tehran."

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