How safe do you feel when it comes to Iran and it's nuclear testing?

Question

Iran started testing nuclear weapons on Saturday and say the program will last 5 weeks. The US gave Iran a stop testing Uranium bill and it has not been signed yet.

Answer 1

I do believe that Iran will announce within a month that they have nuclear weapons. I believe that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, truly believes that he is Allah's representative on Earth to rid the world of fitnah (disbelief in Allah), that Israel must be destroyed and that subsequently the Mahdi will make his zuhur (appearance).

A nuclear war and fallout - nuclear winter would not be nice.

On August 21, Ayatollah Khamenei said on Iranian TV that Iran had "made its own decision" and would "continue its path".

Furthermore, Mohammad Saeedi, the deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, Mohammad Saeedi, said that suspension of uranium enrichment was "no longer possible". He also said a heavy water production plant at Arak would become operational "in the near future".

On August 22 Ali Larijani, hand delivered Iran's 21-page response to UNSC 1696 the package of incentives to dissuage Iran from uranium enrichment with uranium hexafluoride gas in its Russian-built 1,000-megawatt reactor at Bushehr and Natanz. Iran's top nuclear negotiator said that Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations" over its disputed nuclear program but did not say whether it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment — the West's key demand. This was because the West had offered many economic incentives.

Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, though it has not ratified two additional protocols to the International Atomic Energy Agency's Program 93 + 2, which is designed to prevent states from developing nuclear weapons covertly.

On August 31 the UNSC will set economic and diplomatic sanctions against Iran if it continues to enrich uranium. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei avers that Iran has a right to have nuclear weapons. Leaders of the Iranian hard-line regime, believe they have a direct line to God, and they'll do whatever 'divine inspiration' requires them to do. Talking to them is pointless.

On August 19, Iran launched a large-scale area, sea and ground exercise he maneuver, the Blow of Zolfaghar (the sword used by Imam Ali), which involved 12 divisions, army Chinook helicopters, unmanned planes, parachutists, electronic war units and special forces. Iran's state-run television reported that the new anti-aircraft system was tested "to make Iranian air space unsafe for our enemies."

On Sunday, August 20, in the Kashan desert about 250 kilometers southeast of the capital of Tehran, Iran tested the Saegheh missile which has a range of between 80 to 250 kilometers. Saegheh means lightning in Farsi. (The language of Iran is not Arabic and Iranians are not Arabs.)
Iran's arsenal also contains the Shahab-3 missile, which means "shooting star" in Farsi, and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. It has a range of more than 2,000 kilometers and can reach Israel and US forces in the Middle East.

Iran's military test-fired a series of missiles during large-scale war games in the Persian Gulf in March and April, including a missile it claimed was not detectable by radar that can use multiple warheads to hit several targets simultaneously.

The Iranian news service Al-Borz, predicted that on the first anniversary of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government, in late August 2006, Ahmadinejad is expected to announce what the news service called Iran's "nuclear birth."

In addition, an August 23, 2006 article about Iran's reply to the incentives proposal, that was posted on the Iranian Foreign Ministry-affiliated website , implied that Iran's nuclear technology had already reached the point of no return: "...

The following are excerpts from the Al-Borz report:

"It is expected that the first anniversary of the forming of the ninth government will be the date of the Ahmadinejad government's 'nuclear birth.'

"... Together with [the celebration of] the anniversary of the forming of the ninth cabinet, the president of the country [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] will hold his third press conference... where he will answer questions from journalists from Iran and from abroad.

"In addition to detailing the activities of the government at the end of [its first] year, the head of the government [i.e. Ahmadinejad] will officially present Iran's positions on: economic and cultural matters, the nuclear dossier, the activities of nuclear research centers, and developments in the region."

Answer 2

Arrogant, but the most that really get to me is how the USA government supplied this countries for years with arms. For example they supported Sadam for years when relationship between Iran and USA where at there lowest. I mean by this the over thrown of the last Shan of Iran. The USA supplied Sadam in his war with Iran for years. The U.S. sold Iraq $200 million in helicopters which were used by the Iraqi military in the war. These were the only direct U.S.-Iraqi military sales and were valued to be about 0.6% of Iraq's conventional weapons imports during the war.[24] Ted Koppel of ABC Nightline however on June 9, 1992 reported: "It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush Sr., operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980's, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into [an aggressive power]" And “Reagan/Bush administrations permitted — and frequently encouraged — the flow of money, agricultural credits, dual-use technology, chemicals, and weapons to Iraq.

Answer 3

Where did you get this stuff? Iran is ten years from a workable nuke according to experts. Un less they buy one from Russia. I wonder what would force Iran to buy a nuke from Russia?
Russia has 22,000 nukes and Bush has done nothing to make them secure. Bush will not even ask V. Putin to put the nukes under his control for security. Iran is trying to enrich uranium for use in power plants. We made Iran a deal to supply power then backed out of the deal. Not very safe since we have a Idiot in the White House and Republicans in Congress could care less about how many nukes Iran gets.

Answer 4

every one says that iran is trying to produce a nuclear bomb that not true it is not that easy it is being inspicted by the UN and iran has never closed its labs in front of the UN but excatly the opposite iran said that they may come and inspict its lap at any time, iran just want to use nuclear energy in peaceful ways it wants to use it as an energy source, that right and that technology belongs to the hole world not for the USA and its friends only. the american goverment wants the world to believe that iran wants to make anuclear weapons ,america is just after the oil to save its economy and guess who has the biggest oil fields?
P.S i never heard that iran has attacted any country before do u?

Answer 5

Completely safe. Iran would be insane to develop and set off a nuclear weapon, and there is no evidence they are trying to. I'm much more worried about the many wars and tens of thousands of dead caused by people like George Bush.

Answer 6

Is world any safer place now with so many countries having Nuclear technologies?

It wont become anymore unsafe if another country acquires nuclear weapons.

It is the fear of west. They do not want a muslim country, or a rogue country to have Nuclear war heads. But they do not mind if a rogue nation has a nuclear weapon if that country is their buddy like Pakistan.

Answer 7

I think I would feel safe if we had a President who was willing to sit down and intelligently talk with Iran. Refusing to talk and saber rattling will not solve this issue. I really believe through economic sanctions and direct dealings we will achieve much more than another war........that should not even be an option.

Answer 8

I feel safe here in America, on the other hand I'm not so sure I would if I live in or around Israel. If Iran (who has sworn to destroy Israel) test a nuclear weapon, I think we should do some testing of our own in the middle of Tehran.

Answer 9

Safer now that Israel won't be alone with nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

Answer 10

I have never felt safe where Iran is involved.