If the United States nuked Tehran, would the President of Iran shut his pie-hole for once ?

Question

(if he's still alive).

Answer 1

Probably, it is what the rest of the world would say that would bother me.

Answer 2

No. He will cry crimes against humanity and try to get sanctions put against the US. It would be simply catastrophic for the entire world if the US did this. Not to mention the destruction of the twentieth most populous city in the world (that's ony 3 behind greater london) and the HUGE loss of life it would mean the oil would be turned off from the middle east, Russia, China and maybe even France, Pakistan and India would point their nuclear weapons at the US simply in self-defense.

It would completely legitimise Iran's insistance that it NEEDS nuclear weapons to defend itself - if they had had them then the US wouldn't have struck because of the resulting strike by Iran, and it would probably result in many other countries (Japan, Germany, South Africa, South Korea and Australia for instance) developing nuclear weapons to defend themselves from american aggression.

And you could garuntee that even moderate muslims would hate the US and the West after that - because it would prove that the US really IS out to get them.

Answer 3

Maybe, but then we'd be terrorists and the rest of the world would hate us. That's why we don't simply nuke the bastards of the world.

Answer 4

With an attitude like yours, ask yourself why Americans are so detested throughout the world?
'Violence is the strength of the weak'.

Answer 5

The USA is the biggest threat to peace in the world.
You don't get to listen to his message, you listen to the sound bite they feed you

Answer 6

I think he would, but I'm sure other world leaders would be rather upset at our choice of tactics.

Answer 7

only if we could hit him WITH the nuke. if we would just nuke a few of those nutty countries maybe they would all shut up.

Answer 8

Yeah, that's the way to run the world.

Answer 9

Yes but neocons would be in a masturbation frenzy... so we better not take that route.

Answer 10

Ahmadinejad will never be silenced...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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