Do you think US will attack Iran?

Answer 1

Apparently, Iran made a proposal to the US in 2003 to compromise on outstanding issues between the US and Iran, including it's relations with Hezbollah, Hamas, and their position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Although Rice denies receiving it, her aide insists he passed it on. It's not surprising that the proposal was ignored given the Bush Administrations commitment to isolating and confronting Iran by invading Iraq.

If the US had sat down to negotiate at that time, they would have negotated from a position of strength vis-a-vis Iran, unlike now when they have a decidedly weakened Middle East position. Another Bush stupidity!
Karl Rove, then White House senior political advisor for President George W. Bush, received a copy of the secret Iranian proposal for negotiations with the United States from former Republican Congressman Bob Ney in early May 2003, according to an Iranian-American scholar who was then on his Congressional staff.

Ney, who pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to prison in January for his role in the Jack Abramov lobbying scandal, was named by former aide Trita Parsi as an intermediary who took a copy of the Iranian proposal to the White House.

Parsi is now a specialist on Iranian national security policy and president of the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), a non-partisan organisation that supports a negotiated settlement of the conflict between Iran and the United States. Parsi revealed that the document was delivered specifically to Rove, in an exclusive interview with IPS. Within two hours of the delivery of the document, according to Parsi, Ney received a phone call from Rove confirming his receipt of the document. Parsi said the proposal was delivered to Rove the same week that the State Department received it by fax, which was on or about May 4, 2003, according to the cover letter accompanying it.

Ney was chosen by Swiss Ambassador in Tehran Tim Guldimann to carry the Iranian proposal to the White House, according to Parsi, because he knew the Ohio Congressman to be the only Farsi-speaking member of Congress and particularly interested in Iran. Guldimann helped the Iranians draft the proposal and passed it on the United States.

The White House press office had not responded to a request for a comment on the account naming Rove as the recipient of the Iranian proposal by midday Friday.

The Iranian proposal for negotiations, which suggested that Iran was willing to consider far-reaching compromises on its nuclear programme, relations with Hezbollah and Hamas and support for a Palestinian peace agreement with Israel as part of a larger peace agreement with the United States, has become a contentious issue between the Bush administration and its critics in and out of Congress.

The identification of Rove as a recipient of the secret Iranian proposal throws new light on the question of who in the Bush administration was aware of the Iranian proposal at the time. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied in Congressional testimony last week that she had seen the Iranian offer in 2003 and even chastised former State Department, National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency official Flynt Leverett for having failed to bring it to her attention at the time.

At a Capital Hill conference on U.S.-Iran relations Wednesday, sponsored by the New America Foundation and NIAC, Leverett responded to Rice's criticism by saying it was "unthinkable that it would not have been brought to her attention" and demanding an apology from her.

Answer 2

The way it is behaving with other nations continuously it seems it will attack Iran. But Iran is not fully or nearly landlocked like Afghanistan and Iraq. As most of the reporters are saying by the language of Iran it seems that Iran has nuclear weapons and long range missiles too. It has AWACS and satellites ready for launch. Those thing will force USA think hundred times before taking final decision of attacking Iran.

Answer 3

Do you mean pre-emptively, or in response to a provacation? What would constitute a provacation worthy of retaliation? That is the question American's should be asking. Some say Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, while at the same time providing arms to Hezbollah, denying the holocaust, and denying Isreal's right to exist is provocation enough. Some say a direct attack on U.S. troops or warships would be enough. What do YOU say would be justifiable provacation for attacking Iran?

Directly in answer to your question though, it appears almost certain that The United States will, indeed, have hostile military engagement with Iran in the next few years. To what degree is still an open question.

Answer 4

Frankly US might have had an idea of this kind as they had already moved certain warships closer to this region in preparedness or for combat.

But due to change in government the think tank of new government might not feel like actully attacking for some more months to come .

But yes, they may have to go in for Blockages or say Sanctions due to Pressure back home i.e the public in general of USA who have voted them in.

I feel that Iran should give in their strategy to Nuclear Enrichment & Stand out in Middle East as a Nation who wants peace in the Arab world.

Regards,
Murali (Jacob) Chary

Answer 5

Bush won't attack Iran. He won't be in a position to. he's spread out too skinny in Iraq, and Iraq is basically too risky to be a strategic ingredient via revolt sabatouge. Iran will could committ the 1st act of provocation, which they gained't. they're basically stokers super at spouting hate and different rhetoric. that's a chess interest with Iraqis & US squaddies caught interior the middle.

Answer 6

Bush...Yes.
Democrat.....maybe.

For Iran, get ready for anything and all muslims nations around will come for jihad to defense Iran. Equip with all possible missile include nuclear and hydrogen bombs. Muslims have more money and oil than Israel and USA.
This time no muslim countries will say Yes to USA. Right now all muslims people around the world are banning all product and services from USA. We want to ensure USA economy will collapse in 5 years from now.

Answer 7

No, unless Iran attacked Israel without provocation. I don't think a US attack will happen because UN sanctions are already hurting Iran's economy and their lifestyles. Additional sanctions will put more of a diplomatic squeeze on them to stop their uranium enrichment program.

Answer 8

No.......Iran is too close to building Nuclear Weapons. This would teach other nations only one lesson.

1) Hurry up and build Nuclear Weapons before the US attacks you. Look at N. Korea who we did not attack and Iraq whom we did attack.

Answer 9

I think that possibility is slim, given the fact that the American people are tired of their involvement in Iraq. Mr. Obama has it as one of his election promise that he seek withdrawal of the forces from Iraq. Bush who is the architect of the present Iraq policy is on his way out and his party has also lost the Senate elections heavily, as a result of the unpopularity of his Iraq policy.

Answer 10

most likely after the next general elections in 2008