President Obama’s focus on Iran in his State of the Union speech was telling. Of all the international threats the United States faces this year, Iran is the most worrisome. Its radical government has withstood tough sanctions and continues to drive toward a nuclear weapon. Its reclusive and contrary supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, is risking confrontation with the United States and Israel in the combustible Middle East.
There are few reasons to be optimistic about where this is heading. Iran is threatening to accelerate its uranium enrichment program by introducing powerful IR-2M centrifuges. Khamenei responded to Washington’s offer of direct US-Iran talks with a defiant no. Russia and China refuse to join the United States and Europe in applying pressure on Iran to negotiate seriously. While Iran and the five permanent members of the Security Council will meet in Kazakhstan later this month, Tehran likely won’t negotiate seriously until after its bitterly contested presidential elections in June.
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You can't negotiate with those lunatics. Bombs away.
I have no answer; too complicated to comment with authority...see above for foolishness.
Ha that's funny. Simplistic but that's what's gonna happen so let's do it before it's too late and they have the bomb.
And you're a democrat, RStan? Why?
Burn's suggestions, at least some of them, seem redundant in that Obama has already said that we, and hopefully our allies, will do whatever it takes to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
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I think Iran is a distraction our leaders use when they screw up. It gives them something to do and cry about instead of real problems like Detroit. If we are friends with China, then we can be freinds with anyone. We liked the shah and he was a dick.. we had no problem with Pinochet. Jeez Isreal got a bomb and we don't care. We should invite them over for dinner with North Korea..put some Walmarts in there and give them one of the Kadashians. How stupid would it be to get in a shooting war in the middle East again.
Israel is our ally. Iran has vowed to destroy them. Couple well place bombs and we don't have to worry about their nuclear threat for a couple decades.
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Hang the mullah's en masse. Well they probably deserve it, but hanging Shiiites - they do like their martyrs. They also like their saints. I'd like to see them overthrown, but I'll pass on hanging. I prefer alive but imprisoned or better still a more judicial finish. You know convicted by a Sharia Court now that would solve the issue.
Chop their head off but no hanging?
Legalities. One doesn't want martyrs.