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Do any of you ever ponder to consider why Israel is being pressurised to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb? Iran has repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel from the face of the earth. With an atomic bomb it can with ease achieve this result. Under these circumstances it is not stretching the imagination to say that Israel must do what it has to do to protect its people. May G-D bless the pilots.
Never underestimate what is in a name, (e.g. amir arian), isn't that right, prince heresy?. The shrewd do exist amongst us, at least we can identify some as not being friendlies.
As for the atheist, this world will destroy itself whether 'atheists' ruled or other religious factions held control. Holocausts know no bounds.
These current times have been a great struggle for those who would hope for a better world. Therefore, I believe the cycle will continue of building up and tearing down until there is nothing left of life and the ones we love.
Ah, world peace - a ridiculous myth, an unattainable dream, our duty to strive for, something to occupy the ages....take your pick!
If you keep going around shooting at people. Sooner or later someone will shoot back. These guys will shoot back and they are very very smart.
I have many Iranian friends. None of them fundamentalist or happy with those ruling Iran. But one thing I have come to realize is that one must always be prepared for surprises when comes to Iranians.
They invented the game of chess and most are good at it and treat life as a game of chess. I do not think our current President is as good a chess player as Ahmadinejad and he is pretty dumb by Iranian standards. If their speciall forces are better at playing chess than ours then superiority in fire power and electronic warfare and the like may not be enough. Sure they will not win a war but they will put up a pretty stiff fight.
One thing I cannot figure out is the use of nukes in a confined area. When we bombed Hiroshima it was on the other side of the planet and little chance of nuclear fall-outs hurting us.
Israel has 200 nukes. It cannot drop it on Lebonan, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and maybe even Iran because the faal out will blow back over TelAviv and jerusalem.
By the same token Iranians cannot use nukes in thier own back yard. Besides, if Iranian's really want to hurt us or Israel or anyone else for that matter, chemical and biological weapons are much easier to produce more horrifying in their effect, easy to deliver and easy to hide thier factories. That is why it is called poor man's bomb.
Iranians have the know how and the necessay industrial capacity for thier manufacture. They have had petro-chemical industry for many decades. And look around your neigbourhood, how many eminent Iranian sergeons, biologists, and university professors work here right under our nose.
Now setting up a hughe uranium enrichment complex in the middle of desert which sticks out like a sore thumb and suffer sanctions to make a bomb that has limited use is pretty stupid move and as I mentioned in my previous post none of the Iranians I know are that dumb.
As for tactical nukes, they are no different to carpet bombing with conventional warheads and certainly less feard thatn chemical and biological weapons.
If Iranians are hell bent on killing Americans then they will welcome the chance of doing it closer to home than half way round the planet.
By the same token if Iranians are hell-bent on 'wiping Israel off the map' then they may welcome a per-emptive attack by israel which gives thier retaliation more legitimacy and more support from other hard-line loonies around the world. Again our calculations does not seem to add-up.
We need to be smarter than this. Just because we have the fire power to destroy the whole world 100 times over it does not mean it is our only option or even a smart option.
Oh why must men always fight ?
They really don't know - probably because it's been done since time began, and no one has any idea why, they just do it!!
war is the most craziest action of human. innocent people must lose their lives, just because the selfish rulers and ambitious politicians want to survive and continue their terrorism! please teach people to love, not fight or revenge such as wild animals. if the government of iran is a real threat,it is the united nations duty to dispatch multinational forces
to iran and help people for a free election to select a democratic government. any other military action results to blood flood of the innocent people who have suffered the most dictatorship government in decades and waited for help, however there was not any help! it seems that many countries are taking advantage of iranian islamic revolution! but any carelessness in this regard can lead the world to much problems in the near future!
peter how many years do you live in iran???
a brief about me , my country and my love iran:
'i am an 21 years old iranian,free to elect my president.i love my god ,my family , my friends,my country,my people. however we don't have democracy(==american democracy that carry out in countries such as Afghanistan ,iraq,..in these days)we live friendly with each other.
we have concept like martyrdom('in your religion')that we call it shahadat,the concept of shahadat is that:
if any malicious violator country attempt to enter in our country we defence
from our religion,country,... until our last blood drop.
Israel will attack Iran. It is a power hungry American puppet. Unfortunately the jewish people as one tribe seem to be suffering from post tramatic stress after the massacre of their people in WW2. The abused has definitely become the abuser. The so called children of Israel need to rise above the hatred and the violence and give their people the true promised land, living in peace with their Palestinian neighbours. But sadly I believe they will reap what they have sown and we will all suffer the consequences of their greed and inability to love and forgive.
I would like the whole world to know that it is very much impossible for any man or nation to destroy the Jews. It is a foolish dream. Let Iran go on dreaming.
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