Israel will strike Iran

[AllenF]

Carter should have taken out Iran when they gave him a good excuse to do it. 

[kathyp]

hankdog, that story has been around for at least 10 years.  Iran is unique even among Muslim countries because of their extreme belief system.  while another country might create and hold nukes as a threat, Iran is the one country that would believe they were fulfilling prophecy by using them.  are the people in charge that nuts?  i'd like to hope not, but by their own words they believe that the end is near and the only reason the Mahdi has not appeared is that the world does not yet need him to step in and fix the chaos.

[hankdog1]

Well here is the way I look at it.  I see why you feel the way you do on the subject but the conclusion I've came to on it is that we are being manipulated.  We were manipulated into believing that weapons of mass distruction were in Iraq.  Just one of many examples in recent history that makes me question all the hype about Iran.  When you look at how much we have been lied to makes you question everything.  Lord knows they sure as heck aren't serving our best interests in D.C.  Don't be surprised though if all this is propaganda and we all end up ticked off in the end for being dooped.  I do still see it playing out much like North Korea all about the $$$.  Besides if Iran does decide to use nukes they will end up being glassed and nobody will be alive to tell us why they made the move. 

[rail]

Einstein & Oppenheimer understood the consequences of nuclear power and even predicted the history of the future for generations!

[kathyp]

there are probably more positives to the development of nuke tech than negatives...until bombs are dropped.  consider all the medial advances, clean power, etc.  none of that would have been possible without that initial development for war.  almost everything has a dark side. it's all in how you use it.

almost all our great advances have come out of trying to conquer something, whether it's space, housework, or each other.

[kathyp]

Well here is the way I look at it.  I see why you feel the way you do on the subject but the conclusion I've came to on it is that we are being manipulated.  We were manipulated into believing that weapons of mass distruction were in Iraq.  Just one of many examples in recent history that makes me question all the hype about Iran.  When you look at how much we have been lied to makes you question everything.  Lord knows they sure as heck aren't serving our best interests in D.C.  Don't be surprised though if all this is propaganda and we all end up ticked off in the end for being dooped.  I do still see it playing out much like North Korea all about the $$$.  Besides if Iran does decide to use nukes they will end up being glassed and nobody will be alive to tell us why they made the move.

to much Ron Paul   

[Irwin]

 Report: Hundreds of N. Koreans Work on Iran’s Nukes

North Korean nuclear and missile experts have been sent to Iran to help Tehran’s nuclear weapons development program, according to a diplomatic source.

“Hundreds of North Korean nuclear and missile engineers have been working at more than 10 sites [in Iran], including Natanz and Qom,” the source told South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

According to Yonhap, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, “has a track record of accurate information.”

“The North Koreans are visiting Iran via third countries and many of them are being rotated in every three to six months,” the diplomatic source disclosed.

“The North Korean experts are from the country’s so-called Room 99, which is directly supervised by the North’s ruling Workers’ Party Munitions Industry Department.” Room 99 “is widely believed to be engaged in exports of weapons and military technology.”

A South Korean official said the source’s allegations are “not a matter that the government can officially confirm.”

But reports surfaced late last year that Mohammad Reza Heydari, a former Iranian diplomat who defected to the West earlier in 2010, said he saw many North Korean technicians in Iran between 2002 and 2007 working on the country’s nuclear program, according to Yonhap.

North Korea conducted nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, and both Pyongyang and Iran are under United Nations sanctions for their nuclear programs.

Reacting to the Yonhap report, the Iranian embassy in South Korea told the agency it “categorically rejects such allegations,” calling the report a “sheer lie and blatant accusation” against Iran.

Editor's Note:

[AllenF]

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-threatens-hit-turkey-us-israel-attack-153655802.html

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will target NATO's missile defense installations in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic, a senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards' aerospace division, said the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what he described as an increase in threats from the U.S. and Israel.

Tensions have been rising between Iran and the West since the release of a report earlier this month by the International Atomic Energy Agency that said for the first time that Tehran was suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose was the development of nuclear arms.

The U.S. and its Western allies suspect Iran of trying to produce atomic weapons, and Israel, which views Tehran as an existential threat, has warned of a possible strike on Iran's nuclear program. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes.