Warning from Iran

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Marf

22,907 posts

242 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Elroy Blue said:
Blue Meanie said:
What threat are iran to us? Is there any evidence of weapons, etc? Where does it end? After Iran, who will be next on the list of people really far away who may or may not kill us
How about being a major sponsor of terrorism for the last 30 years!
Wait, are we talking about Iran or US/UK here? scratchchin

hairykrishna

13,184 posts

204 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Blue Meanie said:
So are we going to limit every other country? Maybe that very notion is the reason countries would try to get these weapons, as they are not on a playing field that is level in any way? How is the "wee're gonna keep you down there" attitude going to stop them trying to get it?
Yes. The uneven playing field is distinctly to our advantage. It might not be 'fair' but this isn't a sport. The attitude isn't going to stop them - a combination of threatened force, restrictions on exported technology and providing them with stuff (reactors for example) in exchange for not pursuing them might.

Elroy Blue

8,689 posts

193 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Marf said:
Elroy Blue said:
Blue Meanie said:
What threat are iran to us? Is there any evidence of weapons, etc? Where does it end? After Iran, who will be next on the list of people really far away who may or may not kill us
How about being a major sponsor of terrorism for the last 30 years!
Wait, are we talking about Iran or US/UK here? scratchchin
I'll just shake my head in despair atthat comment.

You don't like the UK/US Government, vote them out.

Don't like the Iranian Government, long drop on a short rope!

Marf

22,907 posts

242 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Elroy Blue said:
Marf said:
Elroy Blue said:
Blue Meanie said:
What threat are iran to us? Is there any evidence of weapons, etc? Where does it end? After Iran, who will be next on the list of people really far away who may or may not kill us
How about being a major sponsor of terrorism for the last 30 years!
Wait, are we talking about Iran or US/UK here? scratchchin
I'll just shake my head in despair atthat comment.
Really? I don't.

To try and paint Iran as a major sponsor of terrorism and ignore our own involvement in sponsoring those who were at the time politically expedient to do so is rather hypocritical.

Theres one glaring example that I'm sure I don't need to point out to you. smile

Lost soul

8,712 posts

183 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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V8A*ndy said:
article said:
That never-before-revealed scenario is disclosed in the new book "Rendez-vous: The Psychoanalysis of Francois Mitterrand,” written by Ali Magoudi, who was the French president’s psychoanalyst from 1982 to 1993.

"COUGH"

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/index.php/t-230...
Right because a guy peddeling a book is bound to have no agenda

YAD061

39,731 posts

285 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."




Lost soul

8,712 posts

183 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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YAD061 said:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."



They sure did teach us a lesson yesterday scratchchin

Pupp

12,239 posts

273 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Lost soul said:
YAD061 said:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."



They sure did teach us a lesson yesterday scratchchin
Week isn'y over yet...

Lost soul

8,712 posts

183 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Pupp said:
Lost soul said:
YAD061 said:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."



They sure did teach us a lesson yesterday scratchchin
Week isn'y over yet...
Originally they were going to learn us a lesson on Thursday silly

YAD061

39,731 posts

285 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Lost soul said:
Pupp said:
Lost soul said:
YAD061 said:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."



They sure did teach us a lesson yesterday scratchchin
Week isn'y over yet...
Originally they were going to learn us a lesson on Thursday silly
yes the 11th was the day....I stood, braced in anticipation, they love their rhetoric these guys don't they

Ordinary_Chap

7,520 posts

244 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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YAD061 said:
Lost soul said:
Pupp said:
Lost soul said:
YAD061 said:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."



They sure did teach us a lesson yesterday scratchchin
Week isn'y over yet...
Originally they were going to learn us a lesson on Thursday silly
yes the 11th was the day....I stood, braced in anticipation, they love their rhetoric these guys don't they
I have to say I was highly disappointed.

I'd built myself up all week in expectation and then it was a huge anti-climax.

I feel this was like the Apple Ipad launch all over again........

Lost soul

8,712 posts

183 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Ordinary_Chap said:
YAD061 said:
Lost soul said:
Pupp said:
Lost soul said:
YAD061 said:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has said that the country was set to deliver a "punch" that will stun world powers during this week's 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution."



They sure did teach us a lesson yesterday scratchchin
Week isn'y over yet...
Originally they were going to learn us a lesson on Thursday silly
yes the 11th was the day....I stood, braced in anticipation, they love their rhetoric these guys don't they
I have to say I was highly disappointed.

I'd built myself up all week in expectation and then it was a huge anti-climax.

I feel this was like the Apple Ipad launch all over again........
rofl

dilbert

7,741 posts

232 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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Elroy Blue said:
Blue Meanie said:
What threat are iran to us? Is there any evidence of weapons, etc? Where does it end? After Iran, who will be next on the list of people really far away who may or may not kill us
How about being a major sponsor of terrorism for the last 30 years!
Or that, we offered our help for them to obtain civil nuclear facilities.

Nuclear power is not without it's international tragedies, and everyone in the world has the opportunity to learn from those mistakes... The hard way.

Iran chooses to develop their own capability, which may well be a threat to the world, even if it genuinely is civil.

As it is their leader seems to enjoy propagating the veiled suggestion that their Nuclear programme is actually military in intent.

For that reason then, it doesn't look good.

Halb

53,012 posts

184 months

Friday 12th February 2010
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deeps said:
Blue Meanie said:
deeps said:
By 'enemies' I'm not referring to Iran, this is just a general question.
What threat are iran to us? Is there any evidence of weapons, etc? Where does it end? After Iran, who will be next on the list of people really far away who may or may not kill us
I think Hairy K put it rather well earlier...

Hairy K said:
It shouldn't be a judgement call about who can be trusted. Countries with nukes are better off if no more countries get nukes regardless of who those countries are. They're the ultimate force escalation. Realistically, regardless of everything else, the 'with' countries are going to restrict 'the withouts'.
Except that so long as one country has them, then plenty of others want them. If we could figure out a way to put the genie in the bottle it would be a good move. But would any nuclear nation now give them up voluntarily?