What will the US do with Iran?

[dak7]

Just watched the news where Iran is shooting off
missiles and told the US they better keep their
aircraft carrier away from the Strait of Hormuz.

Will the US show them some shock and awe?

Just what the world needs right now.

[boarderbloke]

Obama is content to have Iran become a nuclear armed country. A Middle east crisis is exactly the diversion he needs in order to pull off a electoral win this coming Nov.

[Hopperbin]

Shit Boarder, you are correct. That is what the Bush's have done. Not good.

[freewheat]

Either way, we is screwed. At some point, we is screwed.

[skip]

That Iranian nut and North Korea with nukes.

It is scarey just saying it.

[farmaholic]

The last two wars the US fought have helped to bring them to their knees financially. Whose money are they going to use to fight this one???

[JACKFLASH]

I don't understand Obama's logic. He will risk a war with Iran,yet not allow a pipeline in the US.

[cottonpicken]

Its what china and russia would do that scares
me,and its not nukes its biological.

[ASRG]

Has Iran ever invaded another country? Who are the agressors in the region? Do they have nukes? Which is the only country in the world that has ever used nukes against civilians? Should that country be allowed to have nukes? Maybe before America starts preaching to the rest of the world they should take a long look in the mirror.

[boarderbloke]

That's it ASRG, come on out of the woodwork, thats it, reveal yourself.
Stand proudly beside your buddy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.(i'm a dinner jacket!) Do you also pronounce daily your hopes for the destruction of Israel, are you also desirous, just as Ahmadinejad, to use Iran's nuclear technology to "wipe Israel off the map", a quote regularly stated by the president of Iran. Do you also support an unprevoked attack against the Jewish people? How do you think that will provide stability to the Middle East? That's it ASRG, come out of the woodwork, reveal your hidden thoughts. Reveal your deep dark prejudices.

[TOM4CWB]

ASRG,

Well... since you asked...

Iran: Oil field is ours, not Iraq's

Tehran denies Iraqi claim to borderline oil field, says troops are 'on Iranian soil, as defined by known international borders'

Dudi Cohen Published: 12.19.09, 20:37 / Israel News

"Iran confirmed Saturday that its forces had taken over East Maysan oil field, located on the Iran-Iraq border. The move caused a 2.4% spike in oil prices....

"The East Maysan oil field (Photo: Reuters)

...Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji said the move was the latest in a series of Iranian incursions over the past few days, which focused on the Fauqa oil field, some 186 miles south of Bagdad.

The invasion followed an agreement between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and several of the world's leading oil energy companies, to operate seven oil fields.

Iraq slammed the incursion as a violation of its sovereignty and demanded Iran withdraws its troops immediately. This is the first major incident between Iran and Iraq since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed Saturday that the matter must be resolved independently between the two parties.

Meanwhile, Iran accused "foreign elements" of trying to instigate a dispute between the two countries. National Security Committee chairman Ala Al-Din Boroujerdi vehemently denied "claims that Iran has taken over an Iraqi oil filed."

The matter, he told Iranian news agency IRNA "was being examined through diplomatic channels," adding that "the foreign press is to blame for this propaganda."

Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad Al Boulani said that "Iraq will not give up its oil deposits, no matter the circumstances."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3822172,00.html

If you police the world... getting a Public Relations 'Black eye' will be on of the costs!

[cpallett]

Not that it may matter too much to anybody on this thread, but both the US invasion of Afghanistan and the US invasion of Iraq violated at least three international treaties as well as the Rule of Law.

I understand the cowboy maxim of "shoot first and ask questions later" as well as "kill 'em all and let God sort them out", but to those who respect the Rule of Law it might be prudent to note that Afhanistan borders Iran to the east while Iraq borders Iran to the west.

Hmmm. Might make me a trifle tetchy to note that the country with the most atomic weapons in the world and the undoubted ability to deliver them on target had illegally invaded the countries on either side of me and was now turning up both the rhetoric and the economic sanctions threat yet again.

It might well seem reasonable from that perspective to take the position that the only thing that will prevent your country from becoming the smoking ruins that are Afghanistan and Iraq was the threat that you would take as many down with you as possible. Try threatening my family some time and see how I respond.

As for the oil fields around Basra, that bone of contention goes back just under a hundred years. You may recall a little nine year stalemate war that Iraq and Iran fought with the US backing So Damn Insane. Bet the Iranians haven't forgotten.

Bet they also haven't forgotten the CIA sponsored overthrow of the only democratically elected government in the 5,000 year history of Persia back in 1952-3. The Shah fled to Paris and a former university professor named Mossadegh was elected Prime Minister. A moderate centrist with an impeccable lifelong record of public service.

When asked whether he would renew the US military leases Prime Minister Mossadegh not unreasonably responded that as Iran was now a democracy the matter would have to be debated and determine by Parliament. Wrong answer.

The CIA engineered a coup, the Shah returned and stepped aside in favour of his son, SAVAK was launched against all protesters, and totalitarianism was back. Bet the Iranians haven't forgotten that either.

My beloved brother, and others, have taught me over the years that if you want to have any hope of understanding the actions of others you need to be able to see things from their point of view. What would you do?