Why Iran will lead to World War 3

For a similar reason that Greece does not export oil.

Try doing without it.

OK; maybe I read too much into your post.

The development of nuclear capability that can be turned to armaments will do nothing but make Iran a target of military power far, far more powerful and sophisticated than theirs.  They can be as defiant as they want...it will not change anything.

There is NO WAY Israel will not respond to this development.  There is a great possibility the U.S. will respond to this development.  I do not think Russia will be unconcerned, and they may respond forcefully to this development.

Perhaps we are dealing with "brinksmanship" here with an eventual backdown from the abyss, but the Iranian mullahs, and their governmental puppets are playing a dangerous game with this stuff, and they do not seem to understand the discrepancy in strategic capability that they may face.  Oh, well......their problem.

 

Most governments take care of their own interests first (and those of the ruling elite) and the interests of the rest of the governed second, especially as those interests relate to the interests of the government.

What makes you think the mullahs give a rat's ass about the people?

Originally posted by azimuth that is one of the US's mistakes focusing too much in the middle east and forgetting about China rising. plus aling with India for possible Chinese wake up wont help much that india needs help by itself to control its population and its economy.

Actually some people think that the whole reason we went to Iraq was to prevent China from buying it in the future because they are going to need to import more then 50% of oil I think it was said in 2007, don't quote me on that I can't remember the exact number. Anyways a military moves on oil and if you take that away from a enemy you get an upper hand. If this is true then it strategically thinking ahead for the future.

And enough about us needing oil because we don't. We have two allies that we buy off of that are in the top 10 countries that produce oil, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. North America also produces alot of oil only that the US sells its oil to Japan for a higher price and buys from the Mid.East. We honestly don't need oil or crave it, but if its true about controlling it from China getting it then the US is thinking about the future and not right now. Heres a graph of oil production from 2004 I found for you guys.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922041.html

Top World Oil Producers,

Exporters, Consumers, and

Importers, 2004

(millions of barrels per day)

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050810/pl_afp/irannuclearisfah anus_050810162244;_ylt=AuU.DC_xgvEDthRfOlpf6YJSw60A;_ylu=X3o DMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

US condemns Iran's breaking of UN seals on nuclear plant 47 minutes ago VIENNA (AFP) - The United States condemned Iran's breaking of UN seals to bring online a key nuclear fuel plant, calling it a sign of Tehran's disregard for the international community. "Today's breaking of seals is yet another sign of Iran's disregard for international concerns," Matt Boland, spokesman for the US mission to international organizations in Vienna, told AFP. Iran on Monday took the first steps to break a suspension of nuclear fuel cycle work, which it had begun in November to start talks with the European Union on getting trade and other benefits in return for guarantees it was not making atomic weapons. Iranian technicians on Wednesday removed seals placed by the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at a uranium conversion plant in Isfahan, 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of Tehran, allowing the facility to return to full capacity and raising the stakes in a standoff with the international community. The United States accuses Tehran of covertly developing nuclear weapons, a charge vehemently denied by Iran which says its atomic program is a peaceful effort to generate electricity. Boland said the United States "strongly" supports the European Union's effort through talks with Tehran "to convince Iran to stop its dangerous activities." "We urge Iran to give serious consideration to the EU's proposals," for the Islamic Republic to suspend all nuclear fuel cycle work in order to guarantee it will not make atomic weapons, Boland said. Iran's removal of the seals comes as the European Union tries to win approval at a emergency IAEA meeting in Vienna for a draft resolution calling on Iran to reverse its decision to push ahead with the nuclear fuel work. Conversion turns uranium ore or yellowcake into a feed gas for making enriched uranium, which can be the fuel for reactors or the explosive core of atomic bombs. Iran points out that its right to the nuclear fuel cycle is legally enshrined under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and that it has infringed no international rules by resuming uranium conversion.

How come the US always has to be the one to point things out, I wish my government would quit doing that.... Anyways theres some more news on the whole Iran situation I thought you might like to read.

 

i think if there will be a WW III  then it must has something to do with Oil and therefore something to do with Middle east

and that can be guessed in many ways such as the US want to get more control over the middle east (which whats happening) and most of the Powers in the world are not that happy about that (wonder why?) and that all to do with Oil and money, and plus oil there is Isael which is not benifiting the US in anyway execpt making No stability in the Middle east and continues struggle from both sides.

that is one of the US's mistakes focusing too much in the middle east and forgetting about China rising. plus aling with India for possible Chinese wake up wont help much that india needs help by itself to control its population and its economy.

 

Originally posted by SearchAndDestroy  And from what I understand is Iran has a better army then Iraq, and while we did make quick work of the Iraqi army, Iran is a whole new ball game. While we may be able to take their army also, there will be higher casualties and once again our army would be spread thinner for the after math which we are already have a hard enough time keeping in rotations for our soldiers already active.

Iraq did not have a coherent army after we destroyed their infastructure fromt he sky.  We lost very few soldiers during the actualy "war".  We lost 90% of our casualties to people who aren't even Iraqi!

Only the ignorant think the US is going to attack Iran or Syria. Its jsut something america-haters love to rant about even though they have no real knowledge of the US. Iran is an EU problem. Notice the EU is doing the negotiating, not the US. And in a war, Israel could beat the crap out of Iran without using any nukes.

"The American people will not stand for another war" - Bill Clinton

Agreed.

Yep they at least sponsor and aren't the terrorist - must be the worst US joke ever..


By the way, Iran has something like a couple of thousand students studying Nuclear, Thermal, Heat Power, Physics Engineering and various other relative subjects in various Russian cities, I could easily put that number to be well over 10-20K

Edited by baracuda

With or without nuclear weapons, Iran as the major sponsor of international terrorism is the biggest threat to world stability.