Is Iran trying to force the USA into a real war or is  simply a small country wanting world attention?
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Neither. Iran looks around the world and sees that several of the countries in their region have nuclear weapons, such as Israel, China, Pakistan, and India. This places Iran at a disadvantage should hostilities ever break out. From Iran's standpoint, it is unacceptable that their enemies have nuclear weapons, and they have none to defend themselves with.\n\nIran does not want a real war with the US. They know that they cannot stand up against the US military in an actual shooting war. In addition, the damage to Iran's infrastructure due to air attacks would be so great that it may take them a generation or more to rebuild.\n\nIran also doesn't want the world's attention on this issue. The more that the world pays attention to Iran, the less that they will be able to get away with their less desirable actions (i.e. financing suicide bomb attacks against Israel).
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With all due respect , sgt_k is a total idiot  , learn how to respect others' opinion then start talking ... \n\nback to the topic , well, yes, i agree with yunussh ... for the following reasons : \n\n1- we have known what is the meaning of being told by america that somebody or a country is having a mass destruction weapons , it's a big lie like what happened in iraq , but iran would never let america do the same thing , simply iran can make what the american would never expect. \n\n2- we know that israel has a nuclear power , it threats all the muslims around it , who knows if they haven't already invent a bomb with a short range of action that , for example , can destroy egypt without affecting israel itself? , that's why , countries near israel has the right to defend themselves in the way they can , you can't stop iran unless you assure the whole world is having nothing called nuclear power. \n\n3- america is doing all that because of israel , techniquely speaking , iran can't threat amecrica in a way or another ! they are thousands of kilos far away ,but when it is about israel , yes america can do any idiot step for the sake of israel , why ? because isreal , 10 million people , is controlling every single step america is doing , shame on you american !\n\nfinally , don't ever dream that what happened to iraq will repeat itself ,,, american soldiers themselves won't accept a new war and now they know that a muslim can really be happy to die when it's about making strangers out of his country ,, leave us alone , or u never be in peace ...\n\n\ngourge bush or any other president , american will never elect a president who hates israel , that's why we never expcet a good thing from you , america .. \n\n\nnow , was it convincing?
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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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It looks like. In my opinion America is asking for more trouble, as if it hadn't enough. America has abused its freedom and its resources to the extend that the developing nations have started hating its dominating attitude. It's already on "war" with Iran and things are hotting up to a final nuclear holocaust.
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At this point, it looks like Iran will have to strike first.  Americans don't have the fortitude to start another war.
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Here's a conversation I had with an Iranian yesterday:\n\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:22:40 PM): hi\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:23:12 PM): i want to talk to you about the question you asked\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:23:28 PM): Sure\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:24:04 PM): which question?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:24:35 PM): The question about supporting military action against Iran\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:24:39 PM): OK\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:24:45 PM): What do you know about Iran?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:24:59 PM): And about persian people?\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:25:15 PM): I know that the Iranian President wants a war with the United States\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:25:51 PM): so it should cause milions of people and children to die?\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:26:11 PM): What, war with the US?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:26:23 PM): Yes\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:26:46 PM): The war which hasn't started, and in not going to start\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:27:05 PM): No, I don't believe that. I believe the Iranian government is trying to push the US into a war to prove some kind of point\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:28:04 PM): I don't think Iran's people agree with it, nor do they want a war, when Iran threatens the US or US allies with missile strikes or threatens to take a country out, that is pretty much a call to war\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:28:32 PM): OK\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:28:44 PM): So you mean you support it, right?\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:29:06 PM): But, think about this, if someone had a gun and threatened to shoot you, what would you do in reaction?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:29:47 PM): If i knew that the gun isn't real and it cant never hurt me, i wouldn't take a serious reaction\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:30:05 PM): I don't know that I do support it, but I can sympathize with people who are threatened militarily. It doesn't mean I want war, it just means I understand why they feel that way\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:30:26 PM): So what about us?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:30:33 PM): What about OUR feelings?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:30:42 PM): No one cares about them\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:31:39 PM): I feel that you are not in disagreement with your government leaders, however I do care about the millions of people caught in the middle, such as yourself. You don't want war any more than our people\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:32:07 PM): I don't disagree with the government?!!!\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:32:24 PM): No one agrees with them\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:32:35 PM): I don't think it will even become a physical war, just a war of words... like two men who flex their mustles to try to prove who's stronger\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:33:21 PM): So you agree that it's okay to say that your government will wipe a country out of existence?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:33:28 PM): I think it's pretty obvious that who's stronger, there's no need to war\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:33:57 PM): They can't do that ! They can't\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:34:39 PM): I don't care about them, you can send them to the hell, so that we can breathe easy\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:34:47 PM): But i'm worried about the people, children, lovers, memories\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:35:49 PM): They're deciding on their own, there's no one who supports or agrees with them\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:36:05 PM): Same here, that's why I don't understand why Iran would want to threaten powerful nations like Israel and the US\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:36:11 PM): Except some stupid people like themselves\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:36:27 PM): Iran doesn't want this\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:36:46 PM): Ahmadi nejad wants so\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:36:54 PM): Neither does the US. I think the only ones that want it are the news media because it means ratings\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:37:48 PM): So what about the people? When are they gonna decide about their own future?\nabcormi (4/15/2006 4:38:09 PM): who? your people? our people?\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:38:30 PM): our people\nParnian (4/15/2006 4:38:54 PM): Yo
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Iran has successfully out-manouvred the US at every stage of this developing crisis. They've done so through skillful diplomacy, using rhetoric aimed more at their allies than at the West, thus building a huge Worldwide backing, not out of support for Iran, but out of common hatred for the bully boy tactics of Bush America. \n\nAmerica has no answer to the Iranians because it understands  only one response to its belligerence. America expects States to roll over and surrender to its might. When this doesn't happen America can't cope. Iran knows this and is having enormous fun making America look ridiculous. Its all a game and America is losing every move.\n\nIran also knows America is not a serious military threat. America would be taken apart if it tried to take on Iran because the whole Islamic World would be aligned with Iran in a flash. So what does America have to do? It can do only one thing: Start treating Iran with respect and negotiate a settlement as a partner in this little World instead of acting the bully boy.
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Iran is a "rogue state," which means that they support terrorists and scoff at international relations. Giving a rouge state nuclear weapons is like giving a loaded gun to a baby.
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http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=8821\n\nOne of the best summations of why the U.S. is concerned about Iran.\n\nTo correct a few skewed facts above, Iran is no more a rogue state than Israel, Iran is independent, a member of the U.N. , and has a democratically elected government. If you actually had read a history book or two, you would also know that the entire reason why the American hostages were held is because the U.S. had given asylum to the dictatorial monarch that they had imposed on Iran in 1953, the shah Pahlavi, and refused to send him back to be put on trial for numerous crimes against his own citizens. As soon as he died, they decided to release the hostages, when they could have just as easily held them for other demands such as weapons, money, or supplies. But they didn't. They wanted justice. Iran is nowhere near being able to even produce enough enriched uranium to create a bomb, let alone a reactor. The president of Iran is no more a fanatical They are not in violation of the non-proliferation treaty or IAEA regulations. Do a little research rather than flipping on the news and you might realize this. Now if you are going to argue that we need to prevent nuclear proliferation, I'm all for it, however, Iran is not the place to start. Right now Pakistan, India, North Korea, and Israel all have nuclear weapons yet somehow that is not as big of a deal? Iran is  the world's second largest producer of oil and gas, but of course, no, that couldn't have anything to do with it, even though our oil companies have recorded record-breaking profits over the last few years. Well what about freedom and democracy for all the poor Iranians? Bullshit. Like before, Iran's government is democratically elected and run by the people, that is not just an opinion, it is a fact you can look up in any reference source.  Claims of how Iranians live without freedom are made by people who have never been there. I have traveled all over the world and have been to Iran six times. I can honestly say that I have never felt as safe in the U.S. as I have in Iran. You can literally feel free walk around in the middle of the night in Tehran without fear of being mugged, attacked, or be a victim of any other stupid crime happens here much more often. Iran is not at fault here, we are.\n\nIn addition on the claim of Israel's undeniable right to exist, you might find this letter by Ghandi interesting:\n\n"Several letters have been received by me asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews in Germany. It is not without hesitation that I venture to offer my views on this very difficult question.\n\nMy sympathies are all with the Jews. I have known them intimately in South Africa. Some of them became life-long companions. Through these friends I came to learn much of their age-long persecution. They have been the untouchables of Christianity. The parallel between their treatment by Christians and the treatment of untouchables by Hindus is very close. Religious sanction has been invoked in both cases for the justification of the inhuman treatment meted out to them. Apart from the friendships, therefore, there is the more common universal reason for my sympathy for the Jews.\n\nBut my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?\n\nPalestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but th
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I think Iranians are just those people who want Peace . but some countries like America and  his followers  can't sand Iran beside them.They say Iran wants to made nuclear Weapon while these countries themselves have these kinds of weapon and say Iran shouldn't have . but let me tell you not only Iran doesn't  have this kind of weapon but also our religion Islam doesn't let to kill others.\nLook ! Have you ever heard that Iran had attacked to any country\nmeanwhile <they don't let Iran to speak directly with other people all over the world. they sensor our leader's and precedent's speak. Think if they let Iran to speak directly to the peoples they themselves can judge who is the right and who is the wrong
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Iran's policy isn't just against the U.S. of A., it is against the world.  The jerk that is pres. of Iran believes he is the one destine to bring about the coming of the Muladin (the one who will come at the end of time).  But in order to achieve this, the world must be thrown into total chaos.  By the By, the big M is supposed to be living in a well in Iran.  If he is that powerful, you would think he could afford better accommodations.  The Pres. of Iran is just another Hitler wannabe.
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i just wanna say if the USA started a war with Iran.Iran well win.......and Iran well be the new strongest country in the world instead of the USA\nhope so
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Neither. Iran is run by power-mad fascists, who will never act civilized, but they're not necessarily crazy enough to actually use a nuclear device. So, it would probably be a standoff between the civilized world and Iran over this issue.\n\nDiplomatically, every country but the US is afraid to use any pressure. No embargos or boycotts or sanctions. The 3 Euro-wankers that have been negotiating with Iran these past couple of years wasted a lot of time, because they were too much the sitzpinklers, to threaten a punishment of Iran for failure to comply.\n\nThe UN, as usual, is too busy sipping tea and denouncing America and Israel, to actually do or say anything useful.\n\nSo, like for the past 100 years, it means the USA has to do the heavy lifting for the good of mankind once again.\n\nI wish we would tell Iran, "If you attack the USA or Israel, we will wipe you off the face of the earth. Everybody else is on their own, do what you will. May Allah be merciful to them."\n\nI'm tired of spending American blood and treasure defending wankers.
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no cuz we dont have enough troops and money to start a war with Iran. but with Bush we never know what he will do next, like a drunk guy, you never know were he will stumble to.
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If there is a war between USA and Iran it will be because Iran is threatening Western Europe and Israel. If that happens, then Iran will be bombed to destroy its infrastructure the way Vietnam was bombed.  Any war with Iran will be a defensive war in response to what Iran has done just as the war in Iraq was due to Iraq's attack on Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other middle eastern countries.  The USA contrary to public opinion is not a war monger and does not get involved in war unless it is attacked itself, or its allies are attacked.  The US was asked by many oil producing countries to get involved in Iraq, but sadly was not allowed to admit that this is what happened.
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It won't be a war ... Iran is like twice almost three times as big as Iraq. But that is not the reason we will or won't go to war with Iran. The people of Iran are far more sophisticated about the modern world than Iraq was .. the people of Iran know far to well that a nuclear option with the west is an option that is one that they can not win. The nuclear option can not work for them .. the Israelis have the bomb ... India has the bomb .. Pakistan has the bomb ... nobody wants another bomb in the 'hood ! Israel will not let them have a bomb ... no question ... they just won't sit still for it ... they have taken them out before ... and the US will just let them do it ... It's a tough roll of the dice .. it's a hot piece of real estate in the world ... but I bet that's the way it plays out. Russia and China want the oil ... but I don't think they want to play the nuclear gambit ... yet ! Iran's gov't doesn't want to back down... that shows weakness ... but the people of Iran don't back the gov't. ... more people in Iran oppose the gov't. in place ... so we sit and wait and see if they can vote them out .. or if the military takes over the state !
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yeah their really asking for a real war .and they know this .if they even start this so call test missile over the USA.it a cause for war am afraid