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[Full Comment] Tom Gross: An argument in favour of bombing Iran - Full Comment: The question appears to be would deterence control Iran's aggressiveness or is the Islamic Council that rules Iran suicidal enough to launch an attack on Israel. A question that would have tragic consequences should the wrong approach be taken by the west.I have a friend who is an Iranian expat,served in their army during Gulf War 1, and he firmly believes that to trust the government of Iran would be folly at best and disaster at worst.

[Raw Story] US House approves Iran sanctions | Raw Story: Actually, Iran has since taken steps to address its reliance on external gasoline (iran's care now run on natural gas and more refineries are built) and everyone agrees that the sanctions themselves will be ineffective since Iran's nuclear program enjoys extremely wide support amongs the people of Iran.

[The Shotgun] The Shotgun: Iran sanctions are precursor to war: Ron Paul: Iran with nuclear weapon will change the geopolitical balance of Middle East- Israel will lose its military dominance. A bi-polar Middle East will change the Israel peace terms to Palestine’s “My way or imprisoning Palestinians between the fences, expanding settlements, cutting off food, energy and water ”, Israel will need to seek peace terms with respect and balance to Palestinians, good for people of Israel and middle east horrible for war mongers.

[Midnight Approaching] Fox News Special Report: Iran, Israel and the US « Midnight ...: If he is not successful in stopping that program by sometime next year, the Israelis are likely to attack with all kinds of dire consequences, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, can quote back to Obama his own speech in Oslo in which he said that a head of state is entirely justified in order to protect his own country to unilaterally act against an adversary.

[Stephen M. Walt] Department of Counterproductive Diplomacy: the Iran Refined ...: But I would say that for precisely the reasons you terrifically summarized in one of your previous posts””preventing general proliferation, preventing Iranian hegemony in the Gulf region, preventing nuke terrorism and etc.””it seems to me that clearly the best situation for the U.S. is for the region to be as nuke free as possible. And from there it then strikes me that at least at present the biggest step towards that end that the U.S. has the biggest potential influence over is getting Israel to agree to same or at least enter into the (admittedly flawed) NPT.

[God's Politics Blog] The latest news on health care, unemployment, foreclosures ...: Iran rejects nuclear trigger claim “Iran has no plans to test a trigger for a nuclear bomb, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the counrty's president, has said.” Ahmadinejad says US faked documents “In an interview aired on US .Israel.

[STEVE LACKNER-CONSERVATIVE NEWS, ISSUES, DEBATES, AND COMMENTARY] STEVE LACKNER-CONSERVATIVE NEWS, ISSUES, DEBATES, AND COMMENTARY ...: Amos Yadlin said at a conference on security challenges in the 21st century at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, that Iran was extremely close .The Jersusalem Post reports that "Iran, he said, had already enriched 1.7 tons of low-enriched uranium at its facility in Natanz - enough for a nuclear weapon.

[Macleans.ca] Maclean's Interview: Efraim Halevy - The Interview - Macleans.ca: (E) In its 2004 ruling, the International Court of Justice ruled that “No territorial acquisition resulting from the threat or use of force shall be recognized as legal.” The World Court denoted this principle a “corollary”

[Foreign Policy] Containment Breach | Foreign Policy: This is the most vital part of any sort of "balance of terror" between two powers, and represents probably the greatest reason to be afraid of a nuclear Iran - the possibility of nuclear exchange not out of malice or strategy but out of miscommunication and miscalculation. Immediate steps to rectify this would be in the interests of all parties (though, as the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks showed, the communication channels between nuclear powers can represent a tempting target for extremists and trouble makers).

[FrontPage Magazine] Auto-Genocide, Jewish Style - by Kenneth Levin | FrontPage Magazine: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Iranian mullahs and others of Israel’s enemies have not hidden their objective. As has been the case whenever Jews have been under threat, there is no shortage of those from the community who side with the aggressors, or dismiss the threat and demean anyone taking it seriously, or rationalize the threat, cast fellow Jews as instigating it and demand their reform.

[Liveshots] Important Points About Iran's Missile Test « Liveshots: I believe that Iran is only a tool for Russia and China to control the middle east oil since the Saudies dont have a nuclear weapons and Iran will soon have one they the Saudies will be intimidated and will be dictated by Iran Russia and China what to do also where the price of oil should be.The only country which is not fitting in their plan is Israel it has a bomb.Therefore in order to execute this plan Israel should be eliminated from this scenario.They are playing III world war card but the Russians did before"CUBA"why not now?Iran would never talk the way it does if it would not be supported by Russia and China.

[Weekly Standard Blog] The Weekly Standard: As the simulation played out, Washington focused so aggressively on the effort to get a new round of international sanctions, while Congress pushed for unilateral sanctions that would target foreign countries' companies doing business in Iran, that it drove two Security Council members to make side deals with Iran, and the international alliance quickly unravelled. Iran, which hadn't paid too much attention to the flurry of western energy spent on getting sanctions, ended up "winning" what began with it holding the seemingly far weaker and more isolated hand.

[Jewish Policy Center :: Writings] Would Iran Provide A Nuclear Weapon to Terrorists? - inFocus ...: In interviews with The Washington Times and The New York Times not long before his death in 2007, Leventhal said it was not beyond the realm of possibility that Hezbollah could try to smuggle a crude nuclear device via a ship or truck and deliver it to a highly populated Israeli city. According to Leventhal, if the fissile device functioned poorly, it would result in an explosion with the power of 1,000 tons of TNT, resulting in radiation contamination and a "catastrophic" number of casualties.

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