Iran next?

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Did you guys see this….Iran laughs at Bush..ha ha fuzzy threats!

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
Iran to U.S.: Don't even think about striking us
Says an American attack on nukes would be major strategic blunder
Posted: January 23, 2005
6:24 p.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Any attack on Iran by the U.S. military would be a strategic mistake, as officials in Tehran dismiss recent remarks by the Bush administration as psychological warfare. "We think the chance [of an American assault] is very low unless someone wants to make a major strategic blunder," Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said at a weekly news conference. "Logically speaking, we don't think this is going to happen."
Iran is responding to comments in the past week by both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush said he had not ruled out any action against Iran, which officials believe is continuing to pursue a nuclear program for use in weapons. Cheney had said Iran was "right at the top of the list" of trouble spots in the world, adding Israel could choose on its own to bomb Tehran's nuclear facilities. "It's nothing new. Once in a while America starts a psychological war," Asefi said. "These kind of remarks are clear examples of cultural and religious war which will only lead to people's hatred of U.S. policies ... and will isolate America more than before."

In separate comments carried by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi called any potential U.S. attack "stupid" and "America's biggest error." He also said security preparations had been underway for the past three years to "neutralize any plot." The heated back-and-forth rhetoric comes on the heels of a report in the New Yorker magazine claiming the Pentagon was conducting secret reconnaissance within Iran's borders to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets. U.S. officials have called that report "riddled with errors of fundamental fact," but they did not deny conducting covert reconnaissance. In a story in today's Sunday Times of London, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has put together a 200-page dossier arguing against any attack, but promoting a "negotiated solution" to quell Iran's nuclear ambitions. According to the Times, the document says a peaceful solution led by Britain, France and Germany is 'in the best interests of Iran and the international community.' It refers to 'safeguarding Iran's right to the peaceful use of nuclear technology.'"

 

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yes your right Kore, i bow to you :cheers:

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An interesting article about Bush`s & Co. lies by William O. Beeman, professor of anthropology and director of Middle East Studies at Brown University and Donald A. Weadon, a former naval officer, a Washington-based international lawyer specializing in technology, defense, and trade sanctions:


"The Bush administration continues an escalating spiral toward conflict with Iran, using Iran's nuclear policy as its primary focus. At the same time, the administration is reducing restrictions on other emerging nuclear states that pose a far more serious and immediate threat to world peace.

The consequence of this badly inconsistent policy is increased nuclear danger for the entire world. Since the end of the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has lacked convenient villains to be "against, " and the essential mechanics of American foreign policy seems to lose focus and founder.

Iran has become an on-again, off-again focus of American international discomfiture. It is a purported linchpin in international terrorism, a defiant nation who refuses to submit to years of U.S. economic warfare, a state run by theocratic functionaries, and now a nuclear felon. In short, Iran is a perfect villain, just what America needs, and the nuclear issue is a perfect pretext for this hostile behavior -- one that plays well to a nervous American public.

What the Bush administration is not telling Americans is that while it is directing attacks and calling for sanctions against Iran, it is touting meaningless nuclear containment efforts on the one hand and is consciously ignoring illegal and far more dangerous nuclear weapons development on the other. None of this is being done to guarantee public safety, but rather for partisan political reasons."

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