Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What’s the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has quoted the regime’s founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who asserted that such weapons were “un-Islamic.” [...] Now, of course, they could all be lying. But it seems odd for a regime that derives its legitimacy from its fidelity to Islam to declare constantly that these weapons are un-Islamic if it intends to develop them.
Iranians aren’t suicidal. In an interview last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the Iranian regime as “a messianic, apocalyptic cult.” In fact, Iran has tended to behave in a shrewd, calculating manner, advancing its interests when possible, retreating when necessary. [...] The argument made by those—including many Israelis for coercive sanctions against Iran is that many in the regime have been squirreling away money into bank accounts in Dubai and Switzerland for their children and grandchildren. These are not actions associated with people who believe that the world is going to end soon.
And so on, with more examples. While Iran may hate the West’s standards and practices, Israel’s paranoia outweighs what may be reality in our planning for the worst. Or is this article wishful thinking?
If the US planned to make war with every country that talked about wiping Israel off the map. The earth would be a cinder by now. Practically every nation on that side of the Atlantic hates Israel’s guts. Probably because Israel makes a point of selling arms to everyone else’s enemies. And Israel has had “the bomb”, for years now. But gets a little nervous when any of its neighbors wants to keep up with the Jonez.
#38 Mr Fusion:
yes, i got sidetracked with stuff around the house. i knew that there are quite state owned banks, but could not come up with the right keywords to frame the central bank issue correctly.
more importantly, (i have not checked though)
i believe all “westernized nations” have given up the right to coin their own money and are under control of private central banks.
and well whatayaknow, any state under control of a private central bank is currently bankrupt or in major debt while most all those under state control [or have escaped the clutches of the IMF Debt Machine] have surplus, some hugely so. [and consequently
are always attacked as ebil empires, by western media]
don’t believe me?
-look at State owned central banks
countries and then look at how they are portrayed by our media. -and yeah,
i don’t believe in coincidences.
As for a conspiracy nut:
all the sources i checked to backup up
my statements were either respected
financial journalist or mainstream
news articles that were buried.
i fail to see how any of what i said
could be considered conspiracy based.
what i said has been in the public forum
for *years*
of course, knowing that you still subscribe to the left-right partridge explains your blind
faith in mainstream opinion. -towing the party line, as it were.
turn off your TV, stop watching mainstream
news and maybe you’ll finally see that the reality you think is real, is in fact, completely fabricated.
next i suppose you’ll tell me that there
is no such thing as a “New World Order”
-yes?
-s
[I apologize for not providing links
to articles. I have not had the time
to troubleshoot how/why the copy & paste
function has been disabled on my PC.
any and all restoration functions from
system restore to 3rd party backups
have also been nullified, short of
completely overwriting the disk.
wth? replace “left-right partridge”
with left-right paradigm.
-s