So Iran wants long term investment money? That doesn't sound like suicidal maniacs to me. I can live with a nuclear Iran, and I suppose we all will pretty sooon, no matter what the Isarelis and their warmongering government think

Report: Israel won't allow a nuclear Iran | Iran news | Jerusalem Post

Sneh also visited Switzerland and Austria last week in an attempt to lobby them against the Iranian threat. Both countries have announced massive long-term investments in Iranian gas and oil fields for the next decade.

"Talk of the Jewish Holocaust and Israel's security doesn't impress these guys," Sneh said wryly.

Hearing his hosts speak of their future investments, Sneh replied quietly "it's a shame, because Ido will light all this up." He was referring to Maj. Gen. Ido Nehushtan, the recently appointed IAF commander and the man most likely to be the one to orchestrate Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, should this become a necessity.

"Investing in Iran in 2008," Sneh told his Austrian hosts, "is like investing in the Krupp steelworks in 1938, it's a high risk investment." The Austrians, according to Sneh, turned pale.

it's going to be fun watching Russia put a "missile defense" in iran if we put the same in Poland.


Russia's Iran nuclear link angers US
But there is one issue threatening to come between them: an $800m nuclear reactor being built by the Russians in Iran.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2198913.stm

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He's like a maniac with a shotgun that doesn't run out of ammo.

They won't need to. They'll just sell them this:

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You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing

Dude.. the missiles are already enroute to Cuba...

no--that was Gustav that hit it !

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Is this 1962

I guess Jeepers thinks so.

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"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
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That will be very special sitting in Iran.

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Israel has no right to stop Iran having nuclear power. Instead of trying to stop Iran becoming nuclear Israel should try to stop Arab nations hating them.

The President of Iran made threats against Israel. Do you really think Iran is going to use nuclear power for domestic use? Or is Iran going to use it to build a bomb that could be delivered to Israel? Did you read comments that the President of Iran directed at Israel?

Iran wouldn’t use nukes against Israel for the same reasons Russia didn’t against America.

Israel’s tactic of preventing Arab nations going nuclear just isn’t a viable long term strategy. Nuclear technology is old now and getting easier to do all the time, and with global warming nuclear is becoming a much more desirable way to produce energy. Israel really should try to get on with its neighbours instead of threatening them.

But would you be worried when a guy like Iran's president talks about annihilating Israel? Just the incident up north with Lebanon is a sign of concern. Iran supporting Hezbollah, and Hezbollah firing rockets into their country. Added, they could turn that Nuclear technology for military use. Why would they? Because if they want to destroy Israel, they would have the arsenal to do so.

What I’m trying to say is attempting to prevent hostile countries around them gaining nuclear technology indefinitely isn’t feasible. A better option is to address the reasons they are hostile.

There have been plenty of UN resolutions disapproving of the behaviour of Israel. Nearly half of the 88 resolutions against Israel "condemned", "censured" or "deplored" the member state or its actions. Also, in the UN General Assembly, 429 resolutions against Israel were passed, and Israel was condemned 321 times.

And there’s the times when resolutions were vetoed by the US despite often 14 of the 15 Security Council members voting for them jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html

So maybe if Israel stopped behaving so badly Muslim countries around them wouldn’t be so unfriendly.

We are talking about a guy who supports the strapping of bombs onto children to kill opponents. Do you honestly think that Iran wont use nukes on Israel for the same reason Russia didn't on America? I dont.

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