"You can start a war, but it won't be you who finishes it," said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, and who ranks among the regime's most powerful figures.
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I think its a bold assumtion made by a country who isnt considering the fullness of our power. \n\nnot that we've exibited it. we're like a lame duck or a clumsy prom date. pretended to be united as a nation and fight a war in iraq and stand behind out souldiers. if i had to base our muscle on this whole endevor, and the solidity of our nation, id have to admit we're looking more and more like sitting ducks.\n\nwe're too busy hating our goverment, and killing eachother to unite to fight if someone attacked the nation. We lost over 2000 lives when the towers fell,and for a few months everyone was united over stopping terroism bar no cost. where are those people now? gripe'n about every damn move the war takes, and decision the president makes. oo war is bad, wah wah cry cry.\n\nwe're a huge cluster f**k waiting to be torn apart. \n\nIn all honesty thats my opinion. i havent heard of this nation standing together united over a war in over 60 years. This is what happens when hippies take over. love and peace and getting our asses kicked by N korea and china and iran. who have all not only threatened our interests but DARED us to intervine.\n\npolitics are politics. People die, wars are fought, things are gained and lost. and people are united, or else they fall. damnit people. we shoud all be building fall out shelters. if its not iran its the next country.
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They can do what they want when they want to.  national security.\n\nPeace
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OIL and IRAN are the cuz of these war
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They aren't militarily, but are politically.  He has a large following in the Iraqi government.
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Iran will bring out their hidden weapons of mass destruction and alot of places and people will be wiped out.
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it wont do any good, but they cant be allowed to possess a weapon based on what they have said in the past -- note, they are already funding fighters in Iraq against us, so they ARE in fact trying to pick a fight with us.
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I know you're not serious, but here's a target assessment:\nMajor cities. Tehran, with a population of over 6 million, as well as Mashad with well over a million and Esfahan, Tabriz, and Shiraz, all of which are near one million, are the largest. Altogether there are over 30 cities with populations exceeding 100,000. But it is hard to envision any scenarios which would focus on urban destruction. Further, as soft targets, these cities could be devastated by relatively small nuclear weapons. There is no conceivable requirement for high-yield strategic weapons to attack Iranian urban targets.\n\nInfrastructure. A concentrated conventional attack on Iranian infrastructure (major bridges, rail yards, power generation and transmission facilities, telecommunications centers, industrial plants, and fuel depots) could certainly destroy the Iranian economy.  These are almost all soft targets susceptible to attack by conventional weapons. Only in extreme cases would any use of lower-yield nuclear weapons be at all attractive.\n\nCommand and control. Iran's key leaders are religious figures, so targeting the national leadership necessarily means targeting major religious centers. Such an action could only result in a firestorm of opposition throughout the Muslim world; this makes any specific targeting of the Iranian national leadership impractical. At a lower level, the Joint Staff of the Ministry of Defense, with its subordinate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as well as an Operational Area Command and several field headquarters could certainly be targeted.\n\nSome of these may be in hardened locations, but the biggest targeting challenge would undoubtedly be identifying exact locations, especially in a time of crisis. Conceivably, attacks on some identified, hardened command centers could be carried out with nuclear weapons.\n\nThe contamination to nearby countries would prohibit the use of nuclear weapons, unless there were extreme circumstances.
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Find something or somebody in Washington DC that is/was non-political, if he was given a directive and did what he was told then that is all that matters. People in the intelligence agencies or security committees leaking information to the press is for political gain is not  "conscientous", it's treason.  The Contras were percieved as a greater threat than the Iranians, and the Soviet influence in the Middle East a greater threat than militant Islam. Now Ortega has come back into power, the Russians and China aiding, arming and encouraging Iran, Syria and North Korea. The situation has decayed into further chaos, but he's familiar with all the players.
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`It all depends on who he was trained to kill and who he killed.\n\nMost military personnel are trained kill.  However, it doesn't give him/her the right to kill any one not considered an enemy by their government.
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"Put God in the centre:\nHis pure representatives guide the leaders..\nThe leaders lead the country in a divine way..."\n\nDo you have any idea how much that sounds like the Taliban ... or the current theocracy in Iran?\n\nDid you translate this from Arabic or Persian yourself?
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Surely Iran won't start to attack,but if US or Israel attack Iran, Iran will answer them,and it's definite right to answer them,Iranian are peaceful people but they are very patriot, they can't stand attacking their country,but in this game many innocent people will lose their life, i hope Israel and US be more wise about this.
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First is he is afraid that he would not be safe. I think any such discussion would have to take place on Neutral ground. Second, I don't think Bush would know how to respond. He, like the Iranian, is very much controlled by those around him. Bush has no idea what he is doing when it comes to the middle east. He is clueless about how to handle governments he disagrees with that have power (believe me Iran has power). You can say what you want about Ahmadinejad.....he is a politician and a military man and will treat others as such. I think Iran and N. Korea are and have been the bigger threats in the world for the past decade. Now they are proving it since the US is having so much trouble subjugating the Iraqi people. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next four or five years as these two "Axis of evil" members grow in political clout and military strength.
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I would think so.  If you look at Iraq & Afgahnistan both occupied - you will see the two major borders of Iran.  I say that Iran was the main objective all along.  I also believe that this needs to be done.  Iran is bulding nuclear weapons under peoples lives in the city and openly telling the whole world that it is to be used on us and our allies.  They are not looking for peace - they are looking to settle their anger.  Iran isn't the beautiful country it use to be back before 79.  It is a place ran by crookit people who have had too much power placed in their hands and over power the rest.  It is a country that has a population of 75% under the age of thirty who also want us to go in.  Anyone of the country that has spoken against the government have been killed or hurt.  People live under constant fear - and that is the truth. Some act as though they are fine about living that way, but those are the first of ignorence.  They are usaully the ones that came against the Shah - and deep inside live with the regrets.  Yes - the time has come.
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Mohammad Khatami isn't the president of Iran anymore, Ahmadinejad is.
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it's THEOCRACY, and it means ruled by religion instead of by the people.  It's the kind of government they have in Iran - ruled by Islam, and the same kind of government the Republicans want in this country, except ruled by the Fundamentalist radical Christians
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Mr president of Iran ( Ahmedy Najad) ,George Bush, Sadam Hussinand Sharon which he is not decided die or not
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of the Islamic Republic of Iran\n\nHe was elected like Hitler.\nThe man made his name as a kidnapper and torturer.\nHe threatens to wipe out whole nations based on racist ideology.\nHis ideology was founded by the Mufti of Jersualem in 1930s, who was a wanted man by the Allies in WW2. The Mufti was a close ally of Hitler and lived in Germany for a number of years before trying to raise revolts against the Allies in Arabia, in support of the Nazis.\nHe develops weapons in secret to avoid treaty obligations not to do so, as did Hitler.