Iran is engaging in even more brinkmanship than usual. The radical nation has already been threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world's oil passes, in response to sanctions over its nuclear program.
Iran insists that program is for peaceful purposes and not for the production of weapons. But nothing in Iran's long and enthusiastic sponsorship of terrorism gives the rest of the world any reason to accept such claims at face value. So international nuclear inspectors are on a visit to Iran to look into what is strongly suspected: that the country's nuclear aims are weapon-related.
Meanwhile, Iran has cut off its oil shipments to Britain and France, also in retaliation for sanctions, and may cut supplies to some other European nations. That has helped boost world oil prices and what we all pay for gasoline. It also boosts the prices for other goods, which are now more costly to transport.
Watching this with intense interest is Israel, which has been threatened with destruction by Iran and may seek to destroy or at least damage Iran's nuclear facilities.
What the inspectors find in Iran is important. But what Israel decides to do in the coming weeks and months will likely be more important.
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What a propaganda crock this is.
Iran is not within the US sphere of influence and gives no lip service to the US. With or without a nuclear weapon, Iran has no ability to invade either Israel or the US. Despite claims to the contrary Iran has not threatened to destroy Israel. The Israeli and American governments have demonized Iran for their own reasons and they are the bad actors on this stage.
We are being led down a road that will do great harm to our country. I'm not a Ron Paul fan, but he is right about American foreign policy and American intervention in sovereign nations.
Iranian leaders have often, loudly and publicly threatened destruction of Israel. They cannot make that threat good and an attempt would likely lead to the destruction of Iran but they have made the threats. Other than that I agree with you. It seems strange to me that the U.S. can have so strong a position against Iran and yet stood by during the riots year before last. Our policy seems to change with the wind. If we were out of the region altogether and left all the middle east alone then we would not have to try to constantly figure out what to do there.
holdout, Iranian leaders have said that in the long run, Israel will not exist. That statment has been subverted through translation into a direct threat by Iran to destroy Israel. The US and Israel have repeated that subversion until it has been accepted as true and have used it to fuel hatred toward Iran.
Our hands are dirty.
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