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Russian Chief of Staff: US plans to strike Iran

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hkIrX-tFLw"]YouTube- Russian Chief of Staff: US plans to strike Iran[/ame]

Russia's top military commander says the U.S. could strike Iran after completing its campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of Russia's General Staff, was speaking to journalists in Moscow.
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For how many years have people been speculating that a war between Iran and the US was going to happen and yet nothing ever does happen?
 
Gray_Fox_86 said:
For how many years have people been speculating that a war between Iran and the US was going to happen and yet nothing ever does happen?
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Yet, you see actions taken by our government to try to force Iran into a situation in which it must bite its own tail or relinquish its current government. Force it to give up or take food from those it awnseres to in order to keep opperating. Whether it awnsers to its own people or not.

Maybe our motto should be , "Once the current is toppled onto the next. Until the world is us"
 
More arcane pronouncements from Putin's puppets?
 
dirtpoorchris said:
Yet, you see actions taken by our government to try to force Iran into a situation in which it must bite its own tail or relinquish its current government.
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What actions are you referring to?
 
 
Hey Right, is your response a response to my question? I clicked on one of the links and it appears that there are multiple disserations to pick through and read in order to try and ascertain the point made by the previous poster. Do you have a brief summary that would back up the poster´s claim?
 
OrlandoGringo said:
Hey Right, is your response a response to my question? I clicked on one of the links and it appears that there are multiple disserations to pick through and read in order to try and ascertain the point made by the previous poster. Do you have a brief summary that would back up the poster´s claim?
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Sorry, I should have made that more clear. Those are links to the past half dozen times that people have claimed that the US is going to bomb Iran, all of which turned out to be false.
 
No problem. The one link I did click on was started by someone who seems to be a radical, liberal, conspiracy theorist who believes the U.S. is out to take over Iran. I read a few sentences of that drivel and that was enough for me. :mrgreen:
 
OrlandoGringo said:
What actions are you referring to?
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Talks of us trying to starve their elected government. "Sanctions on the emerging dictatorship government" If we do that. They must bite their own tail. (Take more from the people) or give up their hold on government. It is called instigation.
 
scourge99 said:
I'm sure this has nothing to do with the fact that Iran is a major buyer of Russian military weapons and technology, of course. :lol:
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Which means that Russia wants the US to attack......right?
 
Gray_Fox_86 said:
Which means that Russia wants the US to attack......right?
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No. If we actually were in a war with Iran then the russians openly supplying arms would be the near eequivalent of declaring war with the US and a reopening of the cold war. Its in Russias best interest(at least in terms of making money from arms sales) to have the iranians paranoid of attack and buying as many arms as possible.
 
RightinNYC said:
Sorry, I should have made that more clear. Those are links to the past half dozen times that people have claimed that the US is going to bomb Iran, all of which turned out to be false.
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Thanks for taking the time to post those links, but I think that you took a small wrong turn in analysing them...

The predictions of when the war would start are somewhat irrellevant since the US has been posturing to justify a war with Iran, this posturing has been going on for somewhere around a year now.

So, really, the picture is getting more and more clear that there WILL BE a war with Iran, though nobody on this forum is likely to have anything of accurate information as to WHEN this war might begin. It might not even be the US that initiates this war, but regardless, we should be greatly concerned if there is a war with Iran if only because such a conflict would be HIGHLY likely to spill over into other regions, OR become a nuclear conflict.

I hope that I am wrong about this though.
 
RightinNYC said:
Sorry, I should have made that more clear. Those are links to the past half dozen times that people have claimed that the US is going to bomb Iran, all of which turned out to be false.
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Mebbe trying to fake out the Iranians who might think the way you do. 'Talk of an American attack? It's just talk. It's always just talk.'

Then BAM.
 
The top US military officer said that any military strike against Iran would not be "decisive" in countering its nuclear programme.

"No strike, however effective, will be in and of itself decisive," Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a news conference, adding that he supported using diplomatic and economic pressure against Iran.

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On Sunday, Petraeus said the United States, which along with its ally Israel has not ruled out military strikes against Iran's nuclear sites, would increase pressure on Tehran.

"I think that no one at the end of this time can say that the United States and the rest of the world have not given Iran every opportunity to resolve the issues diplomatically," said Petraeus, head of US Central Command.
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Iran to 'hide nuclear plants inside mountains' - Yahoo! News

This gives credence to the Russian assessment that we wouldn't attack until we wind down from either Iraq or Afghanistan.

If air attacks were enough to seal the deal we could do it right now but Mullen says it wouldn't be decisive which means a ground war would be necessary as well.
 
The United States warned Iran on Tuesday that "time and patience is running out" with its nuclear program, saying Tehran had shown no interest in allaying world fears.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Iran's recent pronouncements showed "they have no interest in building international confidence that their nuclear program is for peaceful means."

Gibbs reiterated US warnings of "consequences" if Iran continues to develop uranium enrichment capabilities, adding, "Time and patience is running out."

Iran said Monday that it was considering building two more uranium enrichment programs inside mountains to protect them from air strikes.
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US warns Iran 'time and patience is running out'
 
BmanMcfly said:
The predictions of when the war would start are somewhat irrellevant since the US has been posturing to justify a war with Iran
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No posturing is needed. The blatantly corrupt government of Iran has had it coming to them for many years. Nobody has forced them to make the many poor choices that they have made. Their populace doesn´t want them, most of the rest of the Arab states don´t want, the Israelis certainly don´t want them and neither do we, so long as they stay the course. The Iranian government is the most signicant threat to world peace and the most significant threat to their own populace. The road to war goes through the Iranian government; it is up to them.
 
What's more interesting is the ticker under the reporter. Some of it made me lol.
 
If Obama does go after Iran, there sure as hell better be nuclear weapons found, or there will be the "Obama lied, people died" chant heard all over the US. for the next 10 years.
 
Crunch said:
If Obama does go after Iran, there sure as hell better be nuclear weapons found, or there will be the "Obama lied, people died" chant heard all over the US. for the next 10 years.
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I think everyone or most everyone recognizes that Iran is in violation of IAEA regs against enriching uranium for weapons use. That alone should be enough to justify an attack. Waiting for them to develop a weapon will be to have waited too long.
 
bhkad said:
I think everyone or most everyone recognizes that Iran is in violation of IAEA regs against enriching uranium for weapons use. That alone should be enough to justify an attack. Waiting for them to develop a weapon will be to have waited too long.
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But.... but.

Iraq was shooting at our aircraft, violating a bunch of UN sanctions, went back on the cease fire agreement after Desert Storm, but you still hear "Bush lied, people died" because we didn't find nuclear weapons or huge stock piles of poison gas. All we found was 550 metric tons of yellow cake.(tell me you know what yellow cake is.. hint, it's not from Betty Crocker)

How is that different than if we don't find nukes in Iran? Lots of nukes.
 
Crunch said:
But.... but.

Iraq was shooting at our aircraft, violating a bunch of UN sanctions, went back on the cease fire agreement after Desert Storm, but you still hear "Bush lied, people died" because we didn't find nuclear weapons or huge stock piles of poison gas. All we found was 550 metric tons of yellow cake.(tell me you know what yellow cake is.. hint, it's not from Betty Crocker)

How is that different than if we don't find nukes in Iran? Lots of nukes.
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Iraq wasn't making nukes or even trying to when we invaded. The yellow cake was leftovers from the first Gulf War. There wasn't any new yellow cake. This isn't to say Saddam wouldn't try to make nukes if he had the chance but all the evidence indicated that their nuke program was pretty non-existent when we invaded the second time.

There were plenty of other reasons to remove Saddam.
 
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