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MTAFFI
Iran is the aggressor, when has the US said they will attack Iran
I strongly suggest you educate yourself on past US operations in Iran. I suggest you read up on it, but here it is in a nutshell:
1. Iran achieved democracy and elected representatives.
2. The Iranian government decided to nationalize their oil. This angered US oil companies.
3. The US destroyed the elected representatives of Iran and installed a dictator, the Shah.
4. People didn't like the Shah very much. In order to stay in power, he did some pretty horrible things to his people.
5. The Iranian people were really upset, understandably I'd say. They eventually managed to overthrow the Shah (and started having elections again), and an angry mob captured the US embassy.
6. This is when the US populace decided to start paying attention.
7. Iran has been painted the villain ever since, and Iranians have not much liked the US since either.
8. Dislike of the US due to the actions above in large part led to the election of the current Iranian leader everyonein the US is always going on about. Interesting side note is that he is limited in actual power.
9. The US, the nation with the most WMDs in the world, the only country I know of to actually use them (on Japan), the most powerful military, and a country that just invaded Iran's neighbour on false pretexts, is now talking all tough at Iran, making it quite clear that Iran may be its next target.
10. The US, on the other side of the globe from Iraq, having just invaded Iraq and currently occupying Iraq, complains that Iran MAY (this isn't even proven) have forces in Iraq, its neighbour.
11. Meanwhile a country that used to be high on the US's hit list (labelled as part of the Axis of Evil) has been dealt with with a more diplomatic approach.
12. The nation above (North Korea) happens to have nuclear weapons. The Nation invaded i paragraph 9 above didn't. Logically, the US suspects that Iran will try to develop WMDs, to protect itself from the US if nothing else.
13. Meanwhile, another country in the region (Israel), also armed to the teeth, and supplied by the US has some bad blood with the rest of the region.
14. As part of the propaganda war, laying the framework for a possible invasion of Iran, the US and Israel have spun the leader of Iran to be some suicidal (he'd have to be) and genocidal nutter who wants to nuke Israel. One genious spin they did was take a quote from that leader and interpret it to say he wants to "Whipe Israel off the map". This was actually not his words, but him quoting somebody, and it didn't refer to a nucler strike, but a prediction of (not even a call for) the fall of the current Israeli "zionist" regime.
15. More recently, Iran has stated that it would not roll over limp if the US took military action against it. It stated it will strike at US interests around the Globe. I would too.
Iran is not only a threat to the US but the world.
They may well be. It is hard to see through US smokescreen. Its like the boy who cried wolf. There is so much propaganda circulating that its hard to see the genuine concerns.
They have also taken an aggressive stance in a power struggle with the US in Iraq
What exactly have they done to directly oppose the US forces there? I agree that they probably shouldn't be in Iraq, but neither should the US. If both are there they are equally out of place.