Here’s a great idea. Let’s wait around and find out.
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
Here’s a great idea. Let’s wait around and find out.[/quote]
This sounds familiar. Iraq’s mushroom cloud circa 2003? How did that work out? Obama has hardly been “an appeasing weakling” either. He has authorized over 4 times the amount of drone strikes that Bush did in half the time. To devastating effect I might add, Al Qaeda’s leadership has been decimated. In reality, Obama is an International Relations Liberal in speech and an IR Realist in practice.
*Note the “Liberal” in IR does not mean the same as Liberal in American politics, in fact, Bush was considered an IR Liberal in many aspects of the Bush Doctrine.
[quote]Sifu wrote:
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
Sifu, how do they know about the progress of the uranium enrichment?
Has Iran been posting updates, bragging, or something?[/quote]
The IAEA has been monitoring their activity and reporting on it. So they could have more that they aren’t declaring. I have seen it reported that the Iranians also have some sixty and seventy percent enriched uranium as well.[/quote]
They are years from achieving a weapons system that would competently deliver a nuclear ordinance, and so called “dirty bombs” pose more of a psychological and socio-economic threat than anything. At least that’s what I have gleamed from the intelligence reports I have analyzed. Regardless of how one feels about Obama, the current administration is certainty not giving Tehran much room to breath. What is so wrong about utilizing International institutions and diplomatic channels to exert pressure on Iran while having the military and intelligence apparatus in place to carry out overwhelming military action if required? This is a war that is already being fought clandestinely, no one is certainty sitting on their hands.
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Legionary wrote:
At least that’s what I have gleamed from the intelligence reports I have analyzed.
[/quote]
Do you do such work for a living, or are you just trying to sound knowledgeable?[/quote]
This is the very reason I skip over the vast majority of opinions in these types of threads. I sure as hell would not be so bold as to make a statement like "At least that’s what I have gleamed[sic] from the intelligence reports I have analyzed[sic].
Anyone “analyzing” intelligence reports in earnest isn’t going to be posting about it on freakin T-Nation. Hilarious.
And, it’s just a hunch, but I’d wager that the majority of our US intelligence analysts are aware of the correct usage and spelling of the words “gleam,” and “glean.”
I found those intelligence reports!
[quote]Sloth wrote:
I found those intelligence reports!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran[/quote]
Haha!!
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Yes there is a large Iranian population here, something like 60,000 people in my city alone. The embassy provides many services to them - Visa stuff for Iranians studying in Canada, passport services for Iranian-Canadians with dual citizenship etc.
A lot of people will be left in the lurch by this move.
[/quote]
Honestly, this is absurd. Iranians, most of whom came to Canada as ‘refugees’ will be upset that their holidays back to the place they fled might be interrupted? Good Lord, maybe we should put them in charge of the country’s foreign policy then.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Sloth wrote:
I found those intelligence reports!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran[/quote]
Haha!![/quote]
Been meaning to ask you man–is that you in your avi?
[quote]therajraj wrote:
There have been mixed reactions by the Iranian population here. [/quote]
“Some people in the community are very happy about this,” said Kaveh Shahrooz, the vice-president of the Iranian-Canadian community. "They are celebrating this as they see the embassy as representing a dictatorial regime and they feel the embassy has played a nefarious role here in Canada.
“This is the best news I’ve heard in a long, long time,” said a man who was at the embassy to get travel documents to return for a funeral. “This regime has to be isolated,” said the man who did not want to be identified for safety reasons. “A lot of the Iranian community living here are against this regime. They are suffering from this regime. Our people are suffering from this regime.”
Aren’t you worried about upsetting those Iranian Canadians?
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Chushin wrote:
[quote]Legionary wrote:
At least that’s what I have gleamed from the intelligence reports I have analyzed.
[/quote]
Do you do such work for a living, or are you just trying to sound knowledgeable?[/quote]
This is the very reason I skip over the vast majority of opinions in these types of threads. I sure as hell would not be so bold as to make a statement like "At least that’s what I have gleamed[sic] from the intelligence reports I have analyzed[sic].
Anyone “analyzing” intelligence reports in earnest isn’t going to be posting about it on freakin T-Nation. Hilarious.
And, it’s just a hunch, but I’d wager that the majority of our US intelligence analysts are aware of the correct usage and spelling of the words “gleam,” and “glean.” [/quote]
Leave it to a Texan to call a spade a spade! ;-)[/quote]
You’ve just been in Japan too long, my man. (>_^)
[quote]smh23 wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Sloth wrote:
I found those intelligence reports!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran[/quote]
Haha!![/quote]
Been meaning to ask you man–is that you in your avi?[/quote]
It is not a body double. I do all my own stunts, too.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Yes there is a large Iranian population here, something like 60,000 people in my city alone. The embassy provides many services to them - Visa stuff for Iranians studying in Canada, passport services for Iranian-Canadians with dual citizenship etc.
A lot of people will be left in the lurch by this move.
[/quote]
Honestly, this is absurd. Iranians, most of whom came to Canada as ‘refugees’ will be upset that their holidays back to the place they fled might be interrupted? Good Lord, maybe we should put them in charge of the country’s foreign policy then.[/quote]
?
Many study here abroad, get paperwork to be exempt from military service.
According to this, 16% of Iranians are non-immigrant and here for work or study.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
There have been mixed reactions by the Iranian population here. [/quote]
“Some people in the community are very happy about this,” said Kaveh Shahrooz, the vice-president of the Iranian-Canadian community. "They are celebrating this as they see the embassy as representing a dictatorial regime and they feel the embassy has played a nefarious role here in Canada.
“This is the best news I’ve heard in a long, long time,” said a man who was at the embassy to get travel documents to return for a funeral. “This regime has to be isolated,” said the man who did not want to be identified for safety reasons. “A lot of the Iranian community living here are against this regime. They are suffering from this regime. Our people are suffering from this regime.”
Aren’t you worried about upsetting those Iranian Canadians?[/quote]
â??Itâ??s just going to make everything harder â?? just translating my documents, renewing my passport and this stuff,â?? said a 27-year-old mechanical engineering student from the University of Ottawa who moved from Tehran eight years ago and preferred not to give his name. â??Iâ??m just a student. I donâ??t want to get involved in all these politics between two countries. Itâ??s affecting regular people who donâ??t have anything to do with it.â??
Hence Mixed reactions
Serious question… without the embassy, how do you service the Iranians there on visa?
Since it genuinely DOES make things inconvenient, who IS taking care of those people? Are they left in the cold, or has the Canadian government offered some form of assistance?
(I’m not at all saying Canada made the wrong move here)
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Serious question… without the embassy, how do you service the Iranians there on visa?
Since it genuinely DOES make things inconvenient, who IS taking care of those people? Are they left in the cold, or has the Canadian government offered some form of assistance?
(I’m not at all saying Canada made the wrong move here)[/quote]
Usually an embassy from another country deals with the enquiries