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[Liberal Conspiracy] War with Iran would bring the biggest pile of corpses since 1945 ...: Secondly, unless you make the assumption that Iran’s civilian and military leadership all have the mentality of a suicide bomber (except even more stupid), they wouldn’t nuke Israel since Israel would certainly nuke Tehran in retaliation, if not other places too. That would be something of an own goal to say the least, since Tehran is the largest Shi’ite city in the world.

[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » A Message for You, Hu Jintao: Last, though Iranian doves would be unlikely to prevail in the wake of an Israeli attack, I think the most rational Iranian response to an Israeli strike would be to do very little. Publicly urge calm, and reiterate that Iran is a peace-loving country with no intention of retaliating or escalating in any way and no desire to see war.

[The Truth About Cars] The Nuclear Option: Toyota Pulls Out Of Iran | The Truth About Cars: If you are interested in the bigger picture, keep monitoring small events such as Toyota not delivering any cars anymore to Iran. Students of history will recall that the thaw between China and the U.S.A., and eventually the downfall of Communism as we know it, started with a ping-pong match.

[Comments for Personal Liberty Digest] Unholy Alliance: How China and Iran Threaten Peace and Prosperity ...: Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

[Mondoweiss] Goldberg's war drums: people are expendable.) “Consider Truman’s dilemma, whether to send in a million young precious people into Japan or to drop the bombs, versus Obama now facing a nuclear Iran. Do we go ahead and bomb them, obviously with conventional bombs, and who knows whether we would be saving 5 million people in Israel or in Saudi Arabia because Iran could go ahead in a fanatical big finale and drop the bomb on one of their neighboring countries.”

[zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero] Iran Retaliates Against Sanctions: To Drop All Trade In "Filthy ...: Intelligence agents arriving and TAKING COMMAND of FRONTLINE units of the Lebanese Armed Forces (9th), Hezbollah units, AND THE FRONTLINE DIVISIONS OF THE SYRIAN ARMED FORCES OVERLOOKING THE GOLAN having DIRECTLY threatened the Syrian government to fall in line in the last 3days, while also simultaneously threatening to overthrow the Lebanese government should it not blame Israel for the assassination of 

[Babylon & Beyond] ISRAEL: Possible Iran scenarios | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times: The Islamic Republic of Iran has been stirring up trouble for the United States since its inception. Beginning with hostage taking, progressing into Quds support for mass murderers of American soldiers in Lebanon, and culminating in support for our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan are a harbinger of more sinister acts of war in the future if the Ayatollahs are allowed to detonate a nuclear device.

[rss] oil, bodybuilding, trade and tennis! | Iranian.com: Security Council prepares to impose its fourth round of sanctions on Iran with a vote slated for Wednesday, Tehran is demonstrating remarkable resilience, insulating some of its most crucial industries from U.S.-backed financial restrictions and building a formidable diplomatic network that should help it withstand some of the pressure from the West. Iranian leaders are meeting politicians in world capitals from Tokyo to Brussels.

[Made in China] Iran's Natanz Tough Nut to Crack - Windows Live: Their analysis said that a 50plane strike package would provide the Israelis significant attrition cushion.The paper?s authors note that to cause the operation to fail, Iranian airdefenses would have to down close to 40% of the attacking Israeli jets, anattrition rate that would exceed even the disastrous U.S. raid on Ploesti inWord War II. The MIT analysts conclude that largely because of advances inprecision weaponry, ?Israeli leaders have access to the technical capability tocarry out the attack,?

[Informed Comment] Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US ...: Any Israeli missile or air attack on Iranian nuclear processing facilities will, by design, release large amounts (many tons) of the highly toxic U-hexaflouride gas that is the working medium for centrifuges, onto the Persian land water, food, people and animals. If anyone attacked our nuclear facilities, or even threatened release of radioligical poison from American ships or domestic facilities, we would regard them as nuclear terrorists.

[Mises Economics Blog] Unintended Consequences of Trade Sanctions ”” Mises Economics Blog: In this way they may reduce the massive energy subsidies which are crippling them, and address the environmental disaster of air quality so bad that even the crows are leaving Teheran.In other words, Iran will be able to accomplish what they cannot otherwise achieve without riots and insurrection, and they can blame the ‘Great Satan’ IT and communications sanctions are equally counterproductive: the US and other nations should be flooding Iran with bandwidth, hardware and software.Of course, these sanctions also enable those in control of supply lines, ie the IRGC, to prosper mightily through their extensive financial and trade interests.There are parallels between Iran now and Russia at the fall of Communism.

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