If you were Iran....?

Question

and looking at the invasion your neighbours, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Egypt and so on by predominantly Israel (formerly Palestine) US and the UK.... wouldn't you want to build an arsenal to protect your country and it's assets?

Personally if it me running that country... I would be worried, and I would be out there buying and building all sorts of heavy armour to protect my citizens.....

Isn't that a countries right to protect itself from invasion?

Or are you all going to answer with the mindless and senseless muslim bashing that you seem to throw at these kind of questions?

Paul Foster... predictable answer.

Agent 86, I don't believe I've offered any facts... just merely posed a question to which there have been some insightful answers... except yours of course... so really it you that is clueless as you didn't really understand the question.... did you?

Ashish... yes long, but very interesting...

and there you have it people!

Technically Iran is NOT an Arab state... get your facts right.

Bob Kerr, if Iran has been financially or otherwise supporting terrorists, then let the US present their evidence to the world....

My reference to Egypt is that Israel invaded from down into the Sinai peninsular.... but those Israeli's eh? Gotta love 'em.. .they love to invade and settle!

Answer 1

The U.S have Nuclear weapons, Britain, France, Israel, India, Pakistan. Should we threaten to invade if they don't dispose of them?
O.K. The U.S isn't a threat to the world? Who says? I wouldn't trust the Israelis either!
The Americans have a short memory of Zionist Terrorist groups that were active in their country!

Answer 2

The only reason Iran is under threat from outside forces is its material and financial supoort for terrorist groups and its insistance on enriching Uranium. Both have a destabilising effect on the whole region. No one objects to Iran having nuclear power indeed, both Russia and Germany have offered assistance in this. No one wishes to invade Iran whose people are still suffering from the eight years of war when Iraq under Saddam did so. Most sensible people simply want to see solutions in the region that would benefit all. The UN is striving for such a solution. If Iran insists on the continued enrichment programme the West will not invade but I think Israel would carry out a surgical strike on the complex. The Iranian President has already stated Israel should be wiped off the face of the Earth, hardly a statement to make Israel feel secure about the situation.
If you have had mindless, senseless, Muslim bashing answers to your question please ignore them and remember such answers have been sent by people of little or no intelligence.

Answer 3

What's wrong with Iranians?
I for one in the UK believe you should defend yourselves if attacked, but this isn't the problem is it?
There are two problems separate from everything else.
Nuclear Weapons and Instilled Martyrdom.
This country is against both by a country mile but currently we are overruled by power and ignorance.
Hardly anybody in this country knows what war means let alone Nuclear War, but even so we don't want Atomic anything.
I would guess that everyone else in the world wants the same but now we find our country is hostage to terrorists in spite of, or maybe because of, the many Muslims we have living here.
Living among this group are a very small minority who want to do harm, and since the trail always leads back to Islamic Fundamentalists we think that perhaps Iran is the source?
If this wasn't bad enough we are now told you want to make weapons grade uranium?
So far in my thinking there is still an element of doubt, but when they take our young men and smother them mentally so that they will do the terrorists work for them, it frightens us.
If you can do all this to the world with a bomb what could you do with a mass killing weapon?
Until your religion is divorced from politics and until your religion stops using God as a reward for killing I can't see an answer to it.
I can see the end however where whoever wins will be using the same terror to control a village pond that is not radio active.
We had a text on a tram advert years ago that said this-
What would it gain a man if he should win the world and lose his soul?
Just as we have a chance to right the wrongs of this world this current threat arrives. And for what?
Whatever our beliefs are there is only one God.
OK so we don't have Mohamed in our Bible but we have everything else, and your forebears did bring Europe its civilisation and education. We were savages before that time.
So if I were Iranian I would want to challenge the religious rulers who seem to have a lust for power.
There is nothing wrong with your people only some of your overlords and we have the same problem.
For God's sake let's both take time out to correct both our camps.

Answer 4

Now wouldn't it be a good idea if you went over there and explained this to them. You might get to be the one to plan their defense. If you did this then where would you buy all the items you would need. if you did begin to do this there most likely would be a sea and air blockade put in place. How could the oil be sold to pay for arms. There are so many things to think of that I sure would not have the answer to the problems Iran is having now. An invasion is very unlikely. A few strategic strikes may occur but most likely nothing more than that. No simple answer to that one.

Answer 5

Ashish, what an insightfull summary of the the death of the American Empire! Spectacular. I am only level 1 speaker so I can't vote for you as a good answer, but would if I could.

Absolutely, a state has a right to protect it's self. Let's not forget that the US was the first and only country to use a nuclear weapon (against civilian targets), so no lectures about Iranian militarism please. Who set up a the Shah, and then toppled it again in the 70's? Can anyone say Contra? Afganistan, ironic (and appauling) that the US set up the taliban against the Soviets. Who gave Osama Bun Laden there first tast of international politics? The Bush family!

As for comments about breach of bilateral treaties, who has not sighed up to Kyoto (amongst others) the US. Who hasn't signed up to land mine treaties, the US. The US is also in breach of nuclear treaties as well.

The invasion of Iraq was a premptive one, as such as illegal as hitlers invasion of Poland. I agree that Sadam was a Badman, but to invade because we don't like a government is not reason enough in international law, particulary when the smoke screen (WMDs) were 1st sold to sadam by the US and UK in the 70's and 80's and then were so bombed out of existence by GW1 and further degraded over time that they were of no use and anyway COULD NOT BE FOUND! It was known by the CIA and MI6 that they weren't there and posed no threat! The US wouldn't wait for the UN, beacause the UN would internationalise the reconstruction and humanitarian effors (Money spinners for US Corporations) as well as the super lucrative oil felds.

In terms of the U.S. and it's support for the genocidal Isreli state (before the comment, not anti Jewish, merely anti zionist) can you realy blame any government, fledgeling democracy like Egypt or ultra authodox Monarchy like Suadi Arabia, incidentaly US 2nd bigest regional ally after Israel (freedom loving? I think not) for providing as much defence as you can against the semi dictatorial, corporatist US. The UN has made resolution after resolution against Israel and it's treatment of it's neighbours which have been ignored as often as they have been made.

Whilst I feel sorry for the people of Israel (who may not directly kill Palestinians, or Lebanese) they do keep voting for the homicidal maniacs in the Israeli government who do order those killings. It is right to deplore Palestinian suicide bombings, no one should support them, but do remember before people lobed bombs at Israelis, Israelis lobbed bombs at Palestinians (See zionism and the establishment of Israel). Let who sows the wind repe the whorl wind.

In short, US bad, don't let the wool be pulled over your eyes. Down with WTO, down with Capital,
Workers of the world unite!

Answer 6

Once one nation had the bomb, it was inevitable that others would want it, and impossible to justify stopping them without being hypocritical.
If I were the president of Iran, I'd look to the Cold War. However much the U.S. and U.S.S.R. hated each other, however many proxy wars they carried out across the globe, they never attacked each other because both knew the consequences. The concept was referred to as MAD (mutual assured destruction) Both sides knew an attack was ultimately suicidal as long as the other side had the bomb.
If I were in charge in Iran, I'd view the bomb as a means to immunize my country against U.S. attack. I'm pretty sure the N.Koreans are thinking the same way.

Answer 7

I don't see anyone attacking Iran. They fought a long bloody battle against Iraq, I'm sure they are good at defending themselves.

I don't understand your reference to eqypt.

Answer 8

Armor is acceptable. nuclear weapons are a violation of the nonproliferation treaty.
Iran's ambitions are not defensive. They are clearly offensive. They are the marionets behine the hezbollah puppets that peretrated the unprovoked attacks on Israel by Hezbollah (Iran and Syria).
Get your facts in order and change your name to clueless.

Ellie is soooooo smart but she only wants answers that agree with her radical left position.

Answer 9

If i am Iran or any country that needs to protect its interest i will pursue nuclear projects

Answer 10

yea Iran has a right to protect itself just like Israel, America and the UK...and destroying the capacity of making nuclear bombs is one way we see in protecting ourselves...if you want to try and stop us...defend yourself...when we win...stop crying...