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NO ONE has said that so why would he suggest some one saying that???????

If the US decides it will take down the Iranian Air Defence network then they are fully capable of doing so. This is of course assuming that the purpose of air defnce network is to prevent the enemy from accessing your airspace and flying wherever he may want in order to drop ordnance on your head. If this is why the Iranians have invested in an Air Defence sytem and they try to use in this way then the US will overwhelm and destroy it. If however the Iranians have actually only invested in air defences so that in time of war they can run and hide and pop up occiasionally to take potshots for the sole purpose of embarassing the almighty NATO, oops I mean the US (dear me getting my conflicts mixed up) then I imagine the Iranians would be able to pull it off. Of course the US will still be able to fly around where ever it wants and drop heavy, blowy uppy stuff on the heads of whoever they deem deserves it.

Now this is all assuming an air only conflict. If for some reason (complete mental collapse of the entire National Security team perhaps) the US should conduct a land invasion of Iran then I feel quite comfortable in opining that they will defeat the Iranian Military fairly comfortably. Its after part that is the problem as I think we all know. Sure since the Iranians havent been softened up by years of tight sanctions and are possesed of somewhat more homogenous and probably better motivated population I would expect the US to suffer rather more casualties than Iraq, even running into the thousands but I’m afraid our friend White_Cloud, oops Clear_War (there I go again getting things mixed up) is just engaging in (rather questionable) wishful thinking suggesting 150-200 thousand,
Of course if the US did take it upon itslef to attck the Iranian nuclear program, for example, and the Iranians chose to invade Iraq with conventional miltiary forces I think they will have signed thier death warrant. The Euros and Arab states are already a tad ansty about possible Iranian nuclear ambitions so while they would probably make noise about unilateral actions etc etc from the US they would probably not be to upset to the strikes. On the other hand Iranian troops attempting (I doubt it would come to much else) to attack into Iraq could possibly swing quite a few opinions in the US’s favour. The Idea of Iranian control of Iraq is not something the Arab states will want to spend to much time entertaining and I don’t think the Euros will be terribly taken with the idea either.

Anyway getting back to the matter at hand. I certainly agree that the Tor-M1 is not silver bullet as far as stopping a US strike goes but if coupled with other systems it adds depth with capabilty not present in other foes of recent times while even alone the systems have the potential to lessen the impact of US cruise missile strikes, therby forcing the committment of additional resources. As has been noted, Iran is a big place with a lot of potential targets . The US has a lot of stuff it can throw at you but even its supplies are not limitless. Look at all the orders for new stuff and stories of depleted inventories after both of the Iraq wars. They do seem to use the stuff up at a prodigious rate. If Iran can soak up a few of those hits with these new missile systems then it might just buy them some time to do a few things they might consider worthwhile.

Daniel

You’re kidding RIGHT, you don’t REALY think that U.S. is going to lose little in this war do you right haha?? And I just know your just jokeing around when you say that the Iranians death warrent would come if they invaded Iraq, because if U.S. attacks Iran will strike back ina very bad way, and that is what will cause U.S. to strike in an even more hard way which will cause Iran to FULLY invade Iraq, which will cause U.S./ Isreal to counter invade, which will bring DEATH from the NORTH ( MIGHTY RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!) 😀