Iran attack: how will the coming attack unfold?

Question

The huge ship fleet is in place. Stealth bombers have been moved to bases outside the US. Troops are in bases on all sides of Iran.

Iran has nabbed 15 British sailors. We now have our 'gulf of Tonkin' incident: call it the 'gulf of shat al arab' incident. Bombs away.

Answer 1

Ask Bush!! I'm sure that somewhere in that peanut sized brain of his there is still one partly active cell that is formulating another ****-up!!

Answer 2

I think people around the world keep holding their breath. The government of Iran is really egging the world on. They want a war so bad they can taste it, which doesn't make sense to me. The British have to call this. The sailors and marines are British and the USA's ally. We wait to see what is going to happen. This is called political blackmail. Either vote against the sanctions or lose your people. Actually it is up to Iran to make the call of war or release of the people. If it were me I would never have bothered them in the first place, but I am not crazy. I do not think I am invincible.

Answer 3

You're lacking the essential point, Iran doesn't want war, they expect the contrary, that US and Israel assure them that they are not going to bomb the country... But as Bush is refusing any discussion, so Iran expects with this act that serious negociations will take place... alas Bush doesn't know what it means negociate...

Answer 4

Have you not learned that victory is never certain.
Once you have attacked what then?Who will be next.
I dont want to see American lkves being thrown away like cvaff in the wind.The real war has to be against Bin Laden he is laughing up his sleeve at all this.

Answer 5

the u.s u.k and israel wanted an excuse to enter iran well they now have that excuse by taking the 15 sailors and marines captive they have effectively opened the door

Answer 6

One of the saddest things about this war, is that most people don't realise this is the Capitalist's way of silencing their main opponent to the West's corrupt banking system...

Bin Laden is only a useful scapegoat!

I dread to think how many innocent civilians are going to be killed & wounded, on both sides... What madness!

Whilst we're sitting in our armchairs watching another wave of... deadly missiles... How many of us are going to happy another country has been nuked? How many of us will even bother to ask, why didn't we do more to stop this CORRUPT war?

I'm just SAD, sooooooo sad... for the people caught up in this crass stupidity...

Answer 7

Bingo...Iran is in a heap of trouble.....

Iran is dealing with two issues. First, Iran has captured 15 British sailors. Second, Iran has refused to cooperate with the U.N. regarding cessation of uranium enrichment.

Military confrontation may be on the horizon.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3961
In addition to the British naval vessels at the Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian ocean, there is a multi-national force in the Persian Gulf. The British HMS Cornwall aircraft carrier strike group, the American aircraft carrier strike group Bremerton-based aircraft carrier CVN-74 USS John C. Stennis, the American aircraft carrier strike group USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force are all in close appoximation in the Persian Gulf. The CVN-68 USS Nimitz may also be in the Persian Gulf as it was scheduled for its WESTPAC07 deployment to replace the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/batgru-68.htm

More details about military options can be found here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iran-strikes.htm

Iran has elicited "confessions" from the 15 British sailors they captured and may put them on trial for espionage. The penalty for espionage in Iran is death.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1563877.ece
“If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.” Espionage carries a death sentence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6493391.stm
Iran's detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is "unjustified and wrong", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said. UK officials are waiting to be granted access to the HMS Cornwall staff, who were seized on Friday, and have not been told where the group are held.

"It simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this is for us," Mr Blair said.

"We have certainly sent the message back to them very clearly indeed. They should not be under any doubt at all about how seriously we regard this act, which is unjustified and wrong."

On March 23, 2007, U.S. and British officials said a boarding party from the frigate HMS Cornwall was seized about during a routine inspection of a merchant ship inside Iraqi territorial waters near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway.

The seizure of two Royal Navy inflatable boats took place just outside the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, a 125-mile channel dividing Iraq from Iran. Its name means Arab Coastline in Arabic, and Iranians call it Arvandrud - Persian for Arvand River. A 1975 treaty recognized the middle of the waterway as the border.

Iranians send arms to Iraqi extremists, including sophisticated roadside bombs. This week, two commanders of an Iraqi Shiite militia told The Associated Press in Baghdad that hundreds of Iraqi Shiites had crossed into Iran for training by the elite Quds force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard thought to have trained Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Regarding enrichment of uranium, Iranian President Mahmaoud Ahmadinejad abruptly cancelled his appearance before the U.N. security council and in his stead, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Iran spoke. He indicated that Iran was willing to continue negotiations but without the precondition that uranium enrichment must be halted.

Mottaki said, "the world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue: continued negotiations or confrontation. Choosing the path of confrontation ... will have its own consequences. "
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070325/D8O3E7J00.html

The U.N. security council unanimously voted to expand sanctions on March 24, 2007.

The new resolution 1747 calls on Iran to comply fully with all previous UN resolutions and join negotiations to reach agreement so as to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. Full transparency and cooperation with the IAEA are required. Suspension of Iran’s banned nuclear activities will elicit the parallel suspension of sanctions. The package of incentives offered Tehran last year for its cooperation remains on the table.

The full text of the draft of resolution 1747 appears at this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6455853.stm
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Answer 8

Spec Ops guys are likely in country now. It's already started.

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Answer 9

Don't worry about it, Israel will take care of it before we ever do.