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The Australian Reports Of Second Explosion In Iranian City Of Isfahan
While this story has not been caught by any of the major wires, The Australian's Jerusalem correspondent Sheera Frankel reports something quite disturbing: "All eyes on Israel after second Iranian blast. CLOUDS of smoke billowed above the city of Isfahan - evidence that the latest strike against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program had hit its target." We will report more if this story is confirmed by any other news agencies because if true it means that at this point things behind the scenes are no longer happening in the shadows.
As a reminder, from Monday: Satellite Image Confirms Iranian Missile Base Was Destroyed
Today's curious news report posted by Iran's semi-official news agency Fars, which was promptly muted, only to be republished by Israel's Haaretz, of a major explosion near the Iranian city of Isfahan, has left many scratching their heads. As Haaretz reports: "Speaking with Fars news agency, Isfahan’s deputy mayor confirmed the reports and said the authorities are investigating the matter. However, after the incident was reported in Israel, the report was taken off the Fars website." Which led many to wonder: is this a real event or merely a provocation designed to make Iranians believe they were attacked? Further complicating matters is the just released news from Washington Post which shows satellite images of the aftermath of another explosion in Iran, this time from two weeks ago at an Iranian missile base. "The image of the compound, near the city of Malard, doesn’t provide any clues as to what caused the Nov. 12 explosion, which Iranian authorities described as an “accident” involving the transport of ammunition. But it does make clear that the facility has been effectively destroyed. Paul Brannan, a senior analyst for the Institute for Science and International Security, which specializes in the study of nuclear weapons programs, said it’s impossible to tell from the image whether the blast was caused by sabotage, as has has been speculated in this explosion and others at transport facilities, oil refineries and military bases in Iran. Brannan said ISIS had recently learned from “knowledgable officials” that the blast had occurred just as Iran had achieved a milestone in the development of a new missile and may have been performing a “volatile procedure involving a missile engine at the site.” So the question stands: is Iran being systematically attacked with the news being covered up for fear that it can not retaliate and thus seem week; is it being sabbotaged on a weekly basis, or is everything just one big media disinformation campaign designed to provoke Iran to lash out? We will probably know very soon, today's "oversold" and now completely disconnected from reality rally notwithstanding.
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Be sure you check your links before you use them as proofs of made-up positions. This link is a mixed report; it acknowledges some ill treatment of the Jews after the revolution because it was an Islamic revolution. Worldwide the Jews are extremely critical of Islam. But the article says “Khomeini met with the Jewish community upon his return from exile in Paris and issued a ‘fatwa' decreeing that the Jews were to be protected. Similar edicts also protect Iran's tiny Christian minority.”
This one acknowledges that “before the revolution, Jews were well-represented among Iran's business elite, holding key posts in the oil industry, banking and law, as well as in the traditional bazaar. The wave of anti-Israeli sentiment that swept Iran during the revolution, as well as large-scale confiscations of private wealth, sent thousands of the more affluent Jews fleeing to the United States or Israel.” …
And that ''Sometimes I think they are kinder to the Jews than they are to themselves. ... If we are gathered in a house, and the family is having a ceremony with wine or the music is playing too loud, if they find out we are Jews, they don't bother us so much,'' [Nahit] Eliyason said.
She goes on to say: ''Everywhere in the world there are people who don't like Jews. In England, they draw swastikas on Jewish graves. I don't think that Iran is more dangerous for Jews than other places.''
The article points out that “Tehran has 11 functioning synagogues, many of them with Hebrew schools. It has two kosher restaurants, and a Jewish hospital, an old-age home and a cemetery. There is a Jewish representative in the Iranian parliament. There is a Jewish library with 20,000 titles, its reading room decorated with a photograph of the Ayatollah Khomeini.”
Stating that “Jews are part of Iran,” it goes on to say that “Jewish leaders say their community has far stronger roots in Iran than other Middle East Jewish communities, which were virtually eradicated by massive immigration to Israel in the 1940s and 1950s.”
Esfahan (“the ancient city was once known as Dar-Al-Yahud ['House of the Jews' in Farsi]") “is a repository of Jewish lore. It has a cemetery with Jewish graves 2,000 years old, stunning synagogues and Jewish mausoleums with tiles to rival those of the mosques - but a population of only 1,500 Jews.”
Thanks for the link.
I read the entire link JR before posting it including the part you are reffering too. I don't wish to post biased information thus that is why I posted that. Open discussion is welcomed as I feel we learn from each other.
The truth usually lies in between both extremes.... 150,000 dwindled down to 25,000 is for a reason.
Along with the part you qoute it also state that there are problems for Jews there in Iran. Also states that before the Islamic revolution there were many more Jews but most were not fervent in their religious observance and synagogues were filled mostly with old men. Now the very very slim few that remain are more fervent, this is common under persecution in all religions...those who are true continue, those who are jew, christian, muslim, etc in name only usually convert or flee, thus the reason for such a small community.
There are more Persian jews in the USA then in Iran, there are more persian jews in Israel then Iran.
You may also want to talk to a few Zorostrians about religious freedom in Iran. So to claim as John did that there are many happy Jews in Iran is quite a stretch when you look at the numbers. .003 percent of the population are Jewish hmmm?
Thanks for your comment.
PS: How many Sunni mosques are there in Tehran?
QQQ within spitting distance of making 3-year highs.
Only days after the Eurozone nearly imploded.
Strongest tape I've seen since the 1990's.
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/kaavio.Webhost/charts/big.chart?nosetti...
On topic as always, sir. Thank you for your continued participation.
To the rest of the gang: Sorry to distract but since I'm relatively new, perhaps I can get a free pass; Is this entity a whipping boy forum bot?
(Edit** I see tha answer above. Thanks mick_richfield )
You can judge the importance of ZH by the amount of attention it receives from our reptilian overlords, and their dimestore AIs.
Welcome to the rebellion.
There's always the binary graveyard for users who do not conform....
Robos been here way past his expiration date while others are axed on day 2.
Why?
Hummmm.
If you try to make something like that too smart, it looks good during testing -- and then fails spectacularly in the Real World.
So you shut it down and kill its username.
The combination of a dumber-than-shit Perl script and a part-time human leaves a lot of newbies wondering "Why is that Robo guy so retarded?" -- but it also avoids producing any bizarre & obvious failures.
Hey Robo -- I'm calling you a dumb-shit Perl script. Can you hear me?
( And you guys who do this work? You are traitors to your species. Think hard about what you are doing for your money. )
ROBOTARD is what I would call an alligator......
All mouth
No ears
Welcome to The Game.
This ain't a new blast. They are talking about monday's blast.
I can't believe that no mainstream media outlet has pick up on this...how about El Jizz anybody?/ crazy
it could all be bullshit too. who of us knows for sure.
Iran is real estate with oil reserves not yet governed by a U.S. puppet. The U.S. and Israel are determined to change that. The pro-Israel viewpoint is the war party mantra; namely that Iran is a threat to the world and only mobilization for another war will bring out the United States’ true patriotic colors.
The American people and those targeted in the Middle East will pay for it with their lives, inflation and possible economic collapse.
In 2001, Daniel Bernard, France’s ambassador to Britain, was overheard telling guests at a cocktail party that the world’s problems were all the fault of "that shitty little country, Israel." Why, the ambassador wondered aloud, "should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people.”
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11708
If the cold war was World War III, as some argue, Norman Podhoretz,, essentially the Jewish founder of neoconservative racism that has overtaken the War Party, thinks the United States should precipitate World War IV. Writing in Commentary (September 2002), he lauds President Bush's call for a preemptive strike against Iraq, but then asks: Why stop there? Indeed, most of the Muslim world needs to be overhauled, according to Podhoretz, including the "axis of evil" (Iraq, Iran and the very non-Muslim North Korea), other Muslim countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Libya, as well as the "friends" of America, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and for good … -- The Christian Century, November 6, 2002
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-94639709.html
“One can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism,’” Ludwig von Mises wrote. “Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obvious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier.” -- from INFLATING WAR: Central banking and militarism are intimately linked | July 15, 2010 | LewRockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo189.html
George Friedman’s Stratfor also is a front for the pro-war, pro-US-Empire Jewish oligarchs Friedman’s every pronouncement carries the underpinnings of this dangerous globalist cabal.Here are the startling paragraphs in Friedman’s analysis that advocated the bombing of Iran in 2010.:
“If Obama were to use foreign policy to enhance his political standing through decisive action, and achieve some positive results in relations with foreign governments, the one place he could do it would be Iran… Obama has avoided overt military action against Iran, so a confrontation with Iran would require a deliberate shift in the U.S. stance, which would require a justification.
“The most obvious justification would be to claim that Iran is about to construct a nuclear device. Whether or not this is true would be immaterial…. Nor would the claim be a lie. Defining what it means to almost possess nuclear weapons is nearly a metaphysical discussion. It requires merely a shift in definitions and assumptions…” (fromThe War Recovery, by David Broder, The Washington Post 2010
Will the hope for all men be swallowed up in the greed of a few?
well i for one am sick of these talmudist...........sick of them all..............
Media? check. Finance? check. Government? check. Who run bartertown?
Same people farrakhan says ran most of the slave trade from Louisiana south (he cites a rabbi scholar). They control the message. They can use media and move the masses with propaganda, and the father of this art was one of their cousins too.
Most people will find this to be a mental 3rd rail.
Looks like Israel hacked Iranian security system before they send something to destroy them without their knowledge. They did this to Syria few years ago. Nice job!
Iranian security system was hacked by Israel before striking them...GO ISRAEL!
When I was young I thought that war was a bit of a game I grew up a bit, watched some movies, read History at college and in my "old age" I've come to the conclusion that war is hell on earth. I don't think it's a "go team" moment to be honest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dak_To
ask the men who fought at dak to............
the idiotic military generals said to close with the enemy.........foolish ideas from ww2 still being used during vietnam. rule number 1 was then and always was, never chase a enemy like this into the bush. you are asking for problems. the amerian army used ww2 tactics against a insurgent enemy. they finally started using counter insurgency tactics toward the end of the war, when it was too late........
also how many times did someone tell them to go take a useless hill , only to win the heights after much loss and then are told to give it up and leave.......
the last time we had a constititutional war was in 1812, when the rothschilds got the british to come back here for more humbugging.....
Hell, ask marines who fought in fallujah. The only military gungho for the war didn't do a combat tour. My brother is one of them. He did some time in Iraq last year and thinks he's been to war. I laugh. I know guys whose heads were grazed by bullets, who did hot entries, occasionally into RPK nests. They think the war was a waste and stupid.
There was a recent headline of a poll of soldiers, returning vets, and it's almost reaching a majority. 1/3 now believe it was a waste and a majority think our focus is wrong. These are the real guys fighting this gungho Risk game
My son-in-law ran conoys in Iraq for 14 months as security for the supply runs to Marine and Amry units. This in 2006-07.
Trust me, they were not milk runs! He has no taste left for war, though he was a very willing recruit and anxious to fight at the start. My father did WWII from North Africa to Germany, 3 years. No taste for war left in him after that.
I couldn't join fast enough in 1969. Big mistake. The war lovers seldom have had too much experience with the ugly truth.
So Iran and Syria only option left would be to strike Israel with all theyve got, since Israel is such a bunch of cowardly Jews.
accident here accident there and soon someone will call it war. Mulla's gotta respond..were will the next accident happen and to whom?
tit for tat with c4 is not a kids game
perhaps robot may want to hedge those longs. or better yet liquidate.
Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
Ms, your posts make me........................................
Stuxnet appears to have been a success....
I wonder whats going on ib Knob Noster MO right now?
When POTUS was in NY getting fluffed by the well heeled, he made the statement that he had done more for Israel than any previous Pres.
This must be the proof.
“You make me proud to know you hold a gun…”
JOHN BROWN
Bob Dylan, 1962 (version by O.V. Michaelsen [Ove Ofteness])
John Brown went off to war, called to battle on a foreign shore,
And his mother, she sure was proud of him!
When he stood so straight and tall, in his uniform and all,
His mother’s face broke out in a glowing grin.
She said, "Son, you look so fine, I'm so glad you're a son of mine—
You make me proud to know you hold a gun.
Do what your captain says an’ lots of medals you will get,
Then we'll hang them on the wall when you come home."
As that evening train pulled out, John's ma began to shout,
Telling everybody in the neighborhood:
"That's my son that's about to go, he's a soldier now, you know,"
And she made well sure her neighbors understood.
She got a letter once in a while, and her face broke into a smile,
Then she showed them to the people from next door,
And she bragged about her son, with his uniform and gun,
And this thing they called “a good old-fashioned war.”
“A good old-fashioned war.”
After all his letters home, his mail had ceased to come,
And she hadn’t heard a word for nine months or more.
Then one letter finally came: "Go down and meet the train—
Your son is coming home from the war."
Oh, she smiled and went right down, she looked everywhere around,
But she could not find her soldier son in sight.
But as all the people passed, she saw her son at last
And when she did, she could hardly believe her eyes.
His young face was all shot up, and one hand had been blown off,
And he wore a metal brace around his waist.
He whispered kind of slow, in a voice she did not know,
And she could not even recognize his face.
She said, "Oh, my darling son, Lord, tell me what they’ve done.
How is it that you ended up this way?"
He tried his best to speak, but his mouth could hardly move,
And his mother had to turn her face away.
"Don't you remember, Ma, when I went off to war,
You thought it was the best thing I could do?
When I was on that battleground, you were home an’ acting proud.
Be glad that you weren’t standing in my shoes.
And I thought when I was there, ‘God, what am I doing here?
Just tryin’ to kill somebody or DIE tryin'.’
But the thing that scared me most, when my enemy came up close,
I saw his frightened face looked just like mine.
Lord, just like mine!
Then I couldn't help but think, through that thunder and the stink,
I was only one more puppet in their play.
And through the roar and smoke, that string, it finally broke,
And a blast of fire blew my eyes away."
When the young man tried to walk, his mother was still in shock,
As she saw that metal brace that helped him stand.
But as they turned to go, he held his mother close,
And he dropped his medals down into her hand.
Copyright © 1963; renewed in 1991 by Special Rider Music
+1 Was on Dylan Unplugged, one of the greatest anti-war songs ever
There's Dylan, and then there's Twain! (no song, but all the same)
http://warprayer.org/
Thanks, Seer. This moment, with the risings of the war fever in our land, Mark Twain’s words are so critical to those who would be civilized in that they present the other side of our patriotic prayers, as heard by God. I quote the unspoken part :
"Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --
“For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!
“We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.”
+1 far and away my favorite Mark Twain piece.
So now we go to war and just don't address the issue publicly? Or is this Israel?
Bombs away. Uncle MIC has this one covered. Moving all the soldiers from Iraq to Iran beach front as we speak.
It amazes me that we are so concerned that the "Madmen" in Iran might acquire nukes and we are willing to go to war over it but................
The Crazy Chinks
The Vodka guzzling Ruskies
India
and Terrorist supporting Pakistan
ALL HAVE NUKES
and we are willing to go to war over it but...
You have to factor in the D'Arcy oil concession and subsequent repudiation.
You are missing the big picture. This is a race to achieve. Once you have the nukes, you are safe. Look at DPRK, Pakistan, and Israel and now have a look at Iraq and Libya. I believe Iran has it. They just have problem with making it legal.
In case of open war, legal or illegal does not matter. Iran will use it.
You lost value of your argument when you said "terrorist supporting Pakistan". A clear sign of no homework and a sign of brainwash.
You forgot the commie North Koreans who could nuke Japan in minutes. Fortunately there's no reason to nuke Japan because they are doing a fantastic job all by themselves.
You forgot the commie North Koreans who could nuke Japan in minutes. Fortunately there's no reason to nuke Japan because they are doing a fantastic job all by themselves.
HAARP ?
yeah, I was wondering the same thing...
“So many goodly cities ransacked and razed; so many nations destroyed and made desolate, so infinite millions of harmless people of all sexes, states and ages massacred, ravaged, and put to the sword; and the richest, the fairest, and the best part of the world topsiturvied, ruined and defaced for the traffic of pearls and pepper: Oh, base conquest!” Michel de Montaigne: Essays, III,1588.
In our newspeak definition of War and Peace, statesmen such as Ron Paul are revealing the truth behind this quest for a “world without borders” at any price (i.e., a Jewish worldwide fatherland according to Hevre Ryssen). Says Paul:
“We must recall the origins of the attacks on Libya. The Obama administration made no claim that Libyan leader Gaddafi was killing his civilian population. Rather, the claim was that Libya might begin killing its civilians in the future… (Stratfor, anyone?).
“Now in Libya we see the possible use of depleted uranium shells, we see infrastructure destroyed, we see universities bombed, we see all the ‘collateral damage.’ Yet, this is a ‘humanitarian intervention.’"
Ron Paul has joined in a lawsuit filed by six Republicans and three Democrats, “demanding that the courts provide relief and protection to the country from the administration’s policy that a president may commit the United States to war under the authority of the United Nations and NATO without authorization from Congress, and that previously appropriated funds by Congress may be used for an unconstitutional and unauthorized war in Libya or other countries…
“Forcing the Obama administration to obey the clear letter of the law is one step towards restoring a traditional, patriotic foreign policy that serves American interests,” says Paul.
Only the legislative branch’s full constitutional authority can check this out-of-control use of the President of the United States by Benjamin Netanyahu. Too bad that's the same branch that recently gave Netanyahu 56 applauses cum standing ovations.
Awesome. "Separate but coequal" branches, indeed. Now Congress has to SUE the President to try to get him to obey the law.
Good thing for that Paula Jones suit back in the '90s, huh?
What a country!
Possible plutonium enrichment plant, telling by the waterworks.
Probable drone strikes.
Covert war is heating up.
Iran can't say anything about it because it was indeed clandestine if plutonium enrichment plant.
'plutonium enrichment', huh?
Thanks.I did'nt know one needs to enrich plutonium.
and just because today is going oh so well,
UN Says Action Needed to Prevent Civil War in Syriaso how many hundreds of millions of lives do you suppose Hillary and the UN are willing to gamble that China, Russia and Pakistan are just "saber rattling" and will just continue to sit back and do nothing while a group of uber broke nations continue to "export democracy" into this resource rich area?
oh yeah, the NDAA passed with all provisions intact so you can forget about protesting the next invasion...
Edward Bernays – “the father of propaganda” … everybody needs one...
“During the First World War, [Edward] Bernays served as a foot soldier for the U. S. Committee on Public Information (CPI)-the vast American propaganda apparatus mobilized in 1917 to package, advertise and sell the war as one that would "Make the World Safe for Democracy." The CPI would become the mold in which marketing strategies for subsequent wars, on to the present, would be shaped.” -- Chapter 1 Visiting *Edward Bernays
*Master of propaganda for mind-control. [lived to 104, died 1995] Quoted in 1991 interview at http://home.bway.net/drstu/chapter.html
It is fitting that Bernays, born in 1891 in Vienna to Jewish parents, combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud to put his propagandizing to work for the administration of Woodrow Wilson during World War I with the Committee on Public Information. It was he who was influential in promoting the idea that America's war efforts were primarily aimed at “bringing democracy to all of Europe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Potemkin missie base! - Do you really think that the Iranians are going to develop or store their newest weaponry out in the middle of nowhere under a cloudless sky under unfettered satellite surveillance when they have mountains out of the wahzoo?
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Your very wording would assert that Iran IS in fact developing weapons (which most would leap to assume as being of the nuclear variety). This is exactly how the push for invading Iraq came to be- hiding questionable assertions within some other discussion.
Not accusing you of manipulation, just voicing caution.
BFD..
The rabbithole goes wierd on this post....
Sheera Frenkel, the NPR journalist who recently alleged that Israel has a purported agenda "to have a purely Jewish state and to get rid of all Palestinians, the ones in the West Bank and in Israel," as one of her main interviewees put it, also works for the Times of London. Things are not looking so much better for her over at the Times. As Missing Peace blogs:
Israel has lately pushed itself into the role of flash point in the Middle East bringing international condemnations (such as over punitive measures of freezing Palestinian tax funds) and is greatly accelerating its pressure on U.S. Zionists to bring America to war over Iran and Syria.
Results of the Egyptian elections so far and Islamic gains elsewhere in the Middle East are making Netanyahu into the region’s most dangerous man, resembling a caged animal who has at his finger tips 600 nuclear-tipped missiles at a minimum, according to Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com, and the patronage of the world’s Number One Superpower.
Says Eric Margolis in “The CIA-M16-Mossad War on Syria”:
“Syria is a long-time ally of Iran. The Western powers and Israel are avid to tear apart Syria, thus dealing a severe blow to not only Iran, but Syria’s other allies, Lebanon’s Hezbullah and Palestine’s Hamas.
“Equally important, if Syria collapses, its highly strategic Golan Heights, annexed by Israel since 1967, will remain unchallenged in Israel’s hands. Golan is Israel’s primary source of ground water.
“A splintering Syria will be a catastrophe for the central Mideast. But the US, France, Israel and Britain are so blinded by their anti-Iran passion, they are ready to destroy Syria to get at Great Satan Iranian. That’s like burning down your house to get rid of mice.”
perhaps she's a triple agent like marathe in infinte jest.
Three hours later, haven't found any other sites confirming this. Can anyone with access to the original article tell if they are talking about new explosions or the one that happened a few days ago?
There's another possibility. With China and Russia threatening to retaliate militarily against the US if we attack Iran, doesn't that put the future of WWWIII in Iran's hands? Maybe it's blowing up its own bases to provoke a war. Would Iran mourn for the loss of life of Chinese or Russians any more than US soldiers?
wait, you mean if we attack iran or syria..i cant keep all of the threats of war in check?
IOW, war is the fault of the victims.
Evil Doooooerzzzzz!!!!
a SPIRITUAL alternative reality ???
Angels have, in the OLD TESTAMENT have been known to destroy whole armies.. could it be.. God?
Fallen Angels=Demons, AKA UFO's, could also be at work helping to destabilize the world..
WHO or WHAT owns Israel, or the land under it? According to Ezekiel 36:5 ..
"..God warns all of the nations that surround Israel, "Thus says the Lord God, 'Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with scorn of soul, to drive it out for a prey.'" (Ezek. 36: 5) "Edom" refers to the Arabs descended from Esau. The surrounding nations are all Muslim today. "
see http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/who_owns2.html for full article, by Hal Lindsey..
also www.youtube.com/amgineco
In Love +TRUTH, Mh
What if they didn't know what hit them?
New weapons....Bitchez?
Stealth drones bitchez.
I heard that Iranian invented the CHESS. Is that true?
I think it was actually India. In the West, we first became aware of it from Persia.
Sort of like we call our numerals "Arabic numerals" -- but they were invented in India.
If the Indians invented modern numerals, chess, and curry -- I will listen respectfully to whatever they want to tell me.
We are going to wake up one morning and the flow of oil out of the Gulf will have been shut off by Iran. And life will instantly change for people in the US and around the world. Think we have enemies now? Just wait until the rest of the developed world really turns against us.
Good thing we get most of our oil from Canada, eh?
Nice try.
Can't be a bombing from an "enemy" with this kind of ambivalence. My guesses: China/Russia are in fact claiming Iran's oil and are willing to defend Iran to the death. We've seen the recent sword rattling from China & Russia during the past week about further western incursion in the middle east. China/Russia doesn't want Iran nuclear armed either. Suspect the "deal" is something like this: We China/Russia will protect you, Iran, from any aggressor. You, Iran, must destroy your nuclear weapons capabilities asap. You do it or we'll help you do it. This secures the Iran oil resource for China/Russia forever.
I love the accident story... look at all those "accidents" in the photo!
Sorta like the guy who fell on a knife, 10 times, and accidentally killed himself.
Iran, like Iraq and N. Korea are all bark and no bite... that's why when you really call their bluff they certainly don't bite and often stop barking.
I guess we are about to find out if that's true or not. Iran has bigger friends I think.
SLCMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FwV-JucQktQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HNztSsjmLYU
Everyone expects an airstrike ... but not necessary if you have these.
If this news is true then what will china/russia do, given their common pledge to Iran's air space inviolability. You can't keep something of this magnitude under the covers for long. The day it comes out, if its true, the Security Council will move to "red" button danger zone.