[quote]shorty_blitz wrote:
Sifu, with all due respect I am of Iranian heritage so I don’t really need a lesson on some writings about fanatical morons that don’t make up the majority of Iran.
These are all games, political games. In the process Iran may or may not acquire the ability to have nuclear energy along with a nuclear warhead. Politics is a dirty business and always has been especially with regards to the middle east and Iran.
Iran is currently being run by a bunch of retarded monkeys but then again so are half the other countries in and around that region.
We lead relatively simple lives in the west and we take many things we hear and read as true, if you could actually have listened to or read the news and maybe even propaganda from the Iranian side as opposed to just ours and seen the discrepancies you would be in a better position to make a judgement as to what is going on.
It’s an ugly situation but if I had to put my money on it, I wouldn’t put it on any bombings. Yes it’s getting a little more serious, we’re being sold this whole urgency of a nuclear Iran and the threat blaa blaa but it’s all just political fun and games and a nice way of making a few bob from selling jets and the like.
Anyways, I don’t mean to belittle anyones opinion and I may well be completely wrong, who knows, none of us have a crystal ball.
Peace.
[quote]Sifu wrote:
[quote]shorty_blitz wrote:
Lol nobody is bombing anyone, this is about selling arms and fighter jets to neighbouring countries and Russia doing the same with Iran and Syria. It’s boring. Nobody is nuking anyone especially the Iranians, it would be a pointless venture. [/quote]
You are projecting how you would think onto the Iranians. You should study up on the history of that region and understand how people in that part of the world think.
A good place to start would be the Bar Kokhbah rebellion. Where a messianic doomsday cult of fanatical Jews known as the Zealots led the Israelites into an uprising against the Romans believing it would bring on the return of the messiah and he would save them. It resulted in over a million dead Jews, the Zealots committing mass suicide after being cornered on top of Mount Masada and for the rest of the Jews expulsion from their homeland for 1900 years.
The Iranian Twelvers have an almost identical belief in a messiah known as the Mahdi and they are at least just as insane as the Zealots were. There is no people in the world who could possibly have a better understanding of just how dangerous the Twelvers are than the Israelis.
If the Israelis are the ones who have to do the deed it won’t surprise me if they use a combination of bunker buster bombs to open the door to the underground facilities, followed by a tactical nuke to make sure there is nothing salvageable left behind. [/quote]
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I realize the Twelvers don’t represent the majority of the Iranian people and that is one of the reasons why their nuclear program has to be stopped. Minority of crackpots or not, if they throw a nuke or two at the Israelis everyone is going to pay for it.
I follow the news from a variety of sources. It makes no sense that they would go through all the trouble they have gone through and are now getting their economy wrecked just to get nuclear energy. Not when they were given an offer of being supplied with fuel rods.
It all may be a self serving manipulation of the oil market, but I doubt it.