Who Wants to Bomb Iran?

What all of these people fail to realize is the Iranian population's determination in building a nuclear program of their own. The uranium enrichment process is not just supported by a few elite Revolutionary Guard Commanders...nor is it only advanced and protected by Ahmadinejad and his conservative allies in the Iranian Government. All Iranians- regardless of political affiliation or ideological intrigue- are standing up for their nuclear rights under the NPT. Mousavi, Karroubi, and former President Khatami- the most powerful members of the Green Movement- have said so themselves. In fact, it was Mousavi that publicly opposed last fall's nuclear plan by the United Nations; a political move that all but forced Ahmadinejad to back off his original decision to accept the deal "in principle."

So with most people viewing the nuclear program as an inherent part of Iranian nationalism, it seems more than counterproductive to launch a preventive air-strike. Wake up people. It appears that neoconservatives don't understand the basics of the debate. Do your homework and maybe your camp will gain some credibility.

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It is always intriguing that US Policy seems to be driven by failed experts! When many of those experts were pushing for the topppling of Saddam, all manner of lies were fabricated against the dictator. The US Secretary of State even lied to the UN about the Iraqi WMD programme. The end result? Over a million Iraqi casualties, a preponderant majority simple civilians caught up in viciuos war on terror they knew nothing about. To compound the situation, an ethno-sectarian shcism has torn Iraqis apart and the US is unlikely to settle that ever.
It is indisputable that Iran cannot stand up to the US in an open war but this will only confirm the suspicion that the US war on terror is really a war against Islam. All the Sunni/Shiah rancour raked up by the propagandist of the US will not prevent rational human beings from reaching this conclusion - including your so-called consevative and dictatorial allies - Saudis and Egyptians. After the bombing, then what? A ground force to occupy Iran on behalf of Israel and Saudi Arabia? Come to think of it, Iran has not been a part of AlQaeda or Taliban; in fact they are mortal enemies, yet to satisfy Israel, the US is getting ready to open up a third battle front on flimsy excuses in a MUSLIM country. So much for liberty and freedom.

Israel and the AIPAC driven fear mongering that is allowed to happen in the US media are the ones trumpeting the so called Iran threat.

Iran is not threat to the US. The Iran issue is 100% Israeli created.
When Iranian nukes are mentioned the double standard with Israel should be immedietly pointed out.

Israel pre-emptively invades their neighbors and is the unstable, belligerent, aggressive, apartheid force in the Middle East.

Demonizing and warmongering Iran to protect Israel is wrong. Again, the Iranian ‘issue’ is 100% Israeli.

Unlike Iran, Israel simply has way too much to hide and wants to keep it that way.

When is Israel going to sign the NNPT and allow IAEA inspections ? Which Iran has done.

The US and Israel want Iranian nuclear transparency? Then Israel better be just as transparent.

Silence about Israelis nuclear weapons and lack of membership to the NPT while maintaining such harsh rhetoric towards Iran’s nuclear program, which is legally allowed to enrich uranium as a NPT member is an example of the kind of outright double standard BS that the United States has been following in its foreign policy.

When will Obama hold Israel to the same standards that Israel is demanding of Iran and anyone else who threatens Israel’s hegemonic agenda? Level the nuclear playing field or get rid of it.

It is in line with Israeli rhetoric to demonize Iran. It takes the focus off them and it’s their intention to agitate elsewhere so the world does not focus on their ulterior hegemonic motives.

Let’s not forget, whatever Israel accuses another country of doing you can bet they themselves have already done it.

To wit, Mordecai Vanunu provided info and photos to the London Sunday Times in 1986 about Dimona.

During the Kennedy years,Israel allowed American nuke scientists to make ‘visits’ to Dimona but these proved to be so ineffective they were eventually discontinued.

When the scientists were allowed into the plant they were rushed through and never allowed to see what they needed to see to confirm that Israel was not developing nuclear weapons.

Of course, a full inspection of the Dimona plant would have revealed that this was exactly what Israel was doing.

Tel Aviv needs to be dealt with before Tehran.

It is telling that President Ford, in 1976, encouraged Iran (then under the US-backed shah) to build both uranium enrichment as well as plutonium processing plants. How is it that what was permissible then under the 1970 NPT, has now become forbidden – under the very same treaty?

Because Israel wants nuclear monopoly in the Middle East even as it breaks international law with impunity and no consequences.

Ahmadinejad is not liked in Tel Aviv because of his strong criticism of the long and brutal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for a democratic one-state solution for the Middle East conflict, which means that Israel as a “colonial entity” or a “racist sate” will be “wiped off the map” and replaced by a state where Jews and Arabs live side by side peacefully and equally.

But Israeli officials and their media pundits kept misquoting the Iranian president, who has recently suggested that he even accepted the two-state solution, if it brings justice to all Palestinians.

Israel will not even deny or admit to its truly “clandestine” nuclear program. If you want to talk about nuclear ambiguity, look to Israel.

Much of Iran’s willingness to divulge its civilian nuclear program has been exactly that—Iran willingly, and not by any requirement of the NPT, to disclose its nuclear activities.

Why has Iran crossed the supposed rubicon of trust. Because it is not an ally of the U.S. or Israel.

Because it may give a terrorist organization a nuclear weapon? These are ignorant and essentialist views that do not stand up to the facts. It’s not Iran that preemptively invades, threatens, taunts, and warmongers their neighbors. That’s Israel

The Senate approved an Aipac-inspired Iran sanctions bill with only FIVE MINUTES of debate and only three senators on the floor! How’s that for democracy?

Obama knows that the ‘Iranian threat’ is being used by Israel in the same way it has used other ‘threats’ in the past either to justify what it wants to do or what it does not want to do. We fought their war in Iraq and that is enough.

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If Israel would not have been around to blame all their ills and failures, sure enough, Arabs and Islamist Akhoonda in Tehran would have invented one.

It is not Israel who called for elimination of Iran. It is the other way, Akhmagh-e'-nejad who called on removing Israel.

Israel's purported nuclear arsenal have been a public knowledge since early 60's. All throughout these years, this allegations did not seem to bother, neither its Arab neighbors, (not even Iran until recently), nor the rest of the world.

Iran's nuclear program is more concern to Iran's own Muslim brethren, then to Israel.

In Israel, the decision to use military power is made through democratic precess of deliberation and consensus. In Iran, such decision is made by ONE 73 year old caricature, who answers to no one except his own delusional fantasy.

Everyone agrees that, Iranian people deserve to develop nuclear technology. A fanatic religious regime does not. Simply, you can not trust a man whom one day may get up and decide to pull the trigger on Israel, because Allah had revealed to him to do so.

Israel is not your scapegoat. With or w/o Israel in the region:
- Shi'ites and Sunnis would still slaughter each other, as they have been doing for 1400 years..
- Farsis would still loath and look down their nose at the Arabs.
- Sharia Law of stoning woman because she fell in love with man of her choice, would STILL go on in Iran.
- Poor and defenseless Iranian people, would STILL be oppressed by this despotic regime.
- Iranain economical (33% inflation, 22% unemployment), and social unrest would STILL exist. .
- The Mullahs in Iran would STILL continue with their decadent custom of ta'arrof" of duplicity and pathological lairs.

Missing from the argument against the Bomb Iran crowd is the simple fact that Iran lacks the ability to follow through on its threats. They barely reached 5% enrichment on a plant that they can hardly keep open.

This is typical thinking among that group, who likewise gloss over that Iraq did not in fact have WMD, which was their primary reason for fanning the flames against Hussein in 2002-2003.

The announcement by Ahmadinejad is intended to bolster his awful standing among the Iranian people (as the idea of being a nuclear power is a powerful and affirming one for Iranians), and to help them approach the next round of negotiations with a perceived stronger hand.

Since the neo-cons reject diplomacy as a tool of statecraft, it should be no wonder that they look like bumpkins reacting to such a simple diplomatic maneuver as Ahmadinejad's announcement was.

According to Iran's big pickle, Ayatollah Khamanei, Iran will have an earth shattering news tomorrow, which will shock the world community.

Let wait and see what he means.

The US and Israel want Iranian nuclear transparency? Then Israel better be just as transparent.
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Four out of the 6 people mentioned are Jews. Everyone knows who pushing this crap. Another war for Israel.

That's ridiculous. Thank the lord he doesn't listen to them
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Good on Foreign Policy for pushing so hard to expose this issue. Bombing Iran is an insane idea, and sanctions on Iran is poorly thought out as well. Pay attention, Barack!

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with the help of lies exactly how she did when "provided facts"about Iraq's WMD.Israel "a state" without borders,something new in human history,a state recognized by UN which has nor borders and who steal the Palestinians land even today in th eyes of international community receiving political,military,economic support from corrupted US.Goldstone report spoke about crime against humanity did by Israel and for the Israeli's propagandist this doesn't matter,they push now for the destruction of an other muslem country Iran.And all this is done with a nazis propaganda attacking an universalist religion Islam with 1,2 milliard believers,called by these straicher islamo-fascism

If the US and/or Israel ever decides to bomb Iran, it will start a nuclear war that would very probably engulf Europe as well as the ME.

America itself would likely remain physically unharmed in a war-torn, irradiated world that would have been set-back 100 years.

Without Europe, or the Middle East, the American economy would fall off a cliff.

It would be a United States without ME oil and without any bilateral trade with a Europe then decimated and in ruins. The Dow would plummet to new depths and unemployment would rocket. Their would be rioting in the streets of NY and LA and all cities in between.

That is a probable scenario, although nobody knows for sure what the consequences of attacking Iran would be. Not Obama or any one else.
So, enter that fractured, torn, forlorn and sick world at your peril.

Yes let the people of Iran threaten the mullahs with a general strike. Okay you say we are not stopping the people of Iran. Fact is, if the world media questioned the ability of the regime to survive a mass non-violent general strike, then the mullahs' PR effort would crumble and their ability to argue that they have support will fail. As it stands no media or any member of the Obama team has ever thought that they should ask that question.

We must at least do not debate about bombing Iran or what. It's all pointless. We always rely on our weapons of mass destruction. We can always solve a conflict through discussion, that's it!

had any official policy positions with Obama's administration. They are just repeating the same deception, spin and war mongering that they did while that goat herder from Texas was in the White House. I don't think Obama is as gullible and he was. Besides Dick Cheney is has been tossed in the garbage bag of history, despite the noised he keeps making, and Biden does not look forward to be counted as a war criminal the like GW and Dick Cheney.

Another islamist hot-bed in the making....
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First, a question: Why isn't anyone avocating bombing N. Korea? They have a bomb program.

Next, If Israel wants to bomb Iran let them and let them reap the fallout, pun intended.

Why aren't we seeing any articles from any of the prestigeous think tanks about:
a) So what they were able to set one off. It is a long way from there to production and delivery.
b) Speculation about how MAD might work in a world where a radical religious regime has a nuclear weapon(s) and endorses martydom of their nation.
c) What reactions might be if Iran or a terrorist group used a nuclear weapon.

These are the tough questions and much more meaningful than people who have never been to war avocating more war.

Face the bottom line. We aren't going to bomb Iran because the fallout is great. They will get a bomb so deal with it!

Still fighting about this issue.. why can't you guys open your eyes.. see clearly what certain "group" trying to do.. it's nearly the end of the world, so please open your eyes and see the true color of whats happening.. Exercises Taller