What makes you think Iran poses any threat to the United States?

Question

Has Iran ever attacked the United States?
Has Iran ever threatened the United States?
If Iran ever DID attack the United States, couldn't we defeat them with overwhelming force?

So what, exactly, are you worried about?

Wow, Common Sense, if Iran was really doing all of those things, you'd think they might have attacked or threatened the U.S. at some point.

Since you couldn't state otherwise, I'll continue to wonder why I, as an American, should care.

So, ninja rabbit, helping Iraqis defend their country against an illegal invasion force is the same as attacking America now?

Answer 1

Iran has threatened the Great Satan. I wonder who that is.
Go ahead, take another hit and click on over to moveon.org. Isn't that better now?

Answer 2

Actually I have to agree with what Common Sense said, because it's true. For some reason the American media doesn't want to present this information on its news to give people a better understanding of what's going on in the Middle East. I've seen one special on it (Glen Beck show) However, it should be covered like the global warming hysteria is (DAILY)

Answer 3

Everything revolves around oil.....which is the only reason that the US has any interest whatsoever in the middle east. To get out of this mess the US must abandon the middle east and stop importing oil from there. In the short run, we'll have to import more from other countries and maybe go to a form of rationing. The long term solution is using far less oil. This means raising the CAFE standards as high as technologically possible over the shortest amount of time possible. Of course, none of this will be done as the Oil Mafia and the auto industry simple aren't ever going to get on board with reality....and these guys currently own 'our' government. Any democrat that suggested such a move would probably be called a 'liberal' or a commie. So, it's not Iran that's the threat, it's our own chicken $%^& government!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Why Iran's nuclear weapons don’t matter.
http://iraqwar.tvheaven.com/nookthreat/

The [Ohio class] submarine has the capacity for 24 Trident missile tubes in two rows of 12. The dimensions of the Trident II missile are length 1,360cm x diameter 210cm and the weight is 59,000kg. The three-stage solid fuel rocket motor is built by ATK (Alliant Techsystems) Thiokol Propulsion. The US Navy gives the range as "greater than 7,360km" but this could be up to 12,000km depending on the payload mix. Missile guidance is provided by an inertial navigation system, supported by stellar navigation. Trident II is capable of carrying up to twelve MIRVs (multiple independent re-entry vehicles), each with a yield of 100 kilotons, although the SALT treaty limits this number to eight per missile. The circle of equal probability (the radius of the circle within which half the strikes will impact) is less than 150m. The Sperry Univac Mark 98 missile control system controls the 24 missiles.
The 14 Trident II SSBNs carry together around 50 percent of total U.S. strategic warheads. (The exact number varies in an unpredictable and highly classified manner below a maximum set by various strategic arms limitation treaties.) Although the missiles have no pre-set targets when the submarine goes on patrol, the SSBNs are capable of rapidly targeting their missiles should the need arise, using secure and constant at-sea communications links. The Ohio class are the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy, and are second only to the Russian Typhoon class in mass and size. A single submarine carries the destructive power more than nine times greater than all Allied ordnance dropped in WWII.
Only the whales and dolphins know where these submarines are when they are out on patrol. Not even the president knows their exact location. "Somewhere in the Pacific."

When the Soviet Union achieved nuclear parity with the United States, the Cold War had entered a new phase. The cold war became a conflict more dangerous and unmanageable than anything Americans had faced before. In the old cold war Americans had enjoyed superior nuclear force, an unchallenged economy, strong alliances, and a trusted Imperial President to direct his incredible power against the Soviets. In the new cold war, however, Russian forces achieved nuclear equality. Each side could destroy the other many times. This fact was officially accepted in a military doctrine known as Mutual Assured Destruction, a.k.a. MAD. Mutual Assured Destruction began to emerge at the end of the Kennedy administration. MAD reflects the idea that one's population could best be protected by leaving it vulnerable so long as the other side faced comparable vulnerabilities. In short: Whoever shoots first, dies second.

If Iran needs to be invaded, and occupied, to prevent them from ever developing and possibly using a nuclear weapon against the mainland United States, then our parents and grandparents wasted untold billions in producing nuclear weapons and submarines to defend against just such a threat. And we want our money back.

All 24 Trident missiles on all 18 submarines can be launched to multiple targets within just a few minutes.

For those who disagree and believe our military should still invade and occupy Iran...

Why we shouldn't be invading foreign countries anyways.

See:
WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF?
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/trinitite.html

The above image is a scan of a piece of Trinitite. This is desert sand that was underneath the explosion of the world's first Atomic bomb. The heat from that blast melted the sand into a green glass, not unlike the Fulgurites that result when lightning hits sandy soil.

Now, imagine an entire nation looking like the above sample, melted into green glass. It's not a fantasy. The US spent $5 trillion dollars building a nuclear deterrent capability that can actually do it, melt an attacking nation into green glass. The USSR knew it, the world knows it, Saddam knows it.

Even if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and even if Iraq had the long range ICBMs to reach across the Atlantic with, Iraq would still not be a threat to the US because any attack with a weapon of mass destruction would be national suicide.

Those that insist that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are a threat that justifies invasion are in essence claiming that the US Government took $5 trillion of your money (over $17,000 from each of you alive today) in a gigantic swindle, because the $5 trillion nuclear deterrent isn't a deterrent after all, that it doesn't work, that nobody is really afraid of it, because they all know it was just a hoax to soak the American taxpayer for another several thousand dollars. Was it all a hoax, Mr. Bush? Did the American people foot a $5 trillion bill for a deterrent system that isn't really a deterrent?

Either the deterrent works or it does not. If it doesn't, then the American taxpayers have been defrauded on a grand scale. But if the nuclear deterrent does work, then Iraq can have all the weapons of mass destruction they want, they just won't dare use them. Maybe they can put them in a museum or something. But they won't dare use them against the United States because they don't want to end up like that piece of green glass at the top of this article. There is no need to invade over the issue of weapons of mass destruction. There never was.

Of course, the issue has shifted. The UN inspectors have found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. They found some documents ABOUT weapons of mass destruction, but documents are not a weapon of mass destruction (with the sole exception of the 1040 form). The UN inspectors found a bunch of old empty artillery warheads from 1988, but empty warheads are not a weapon of mass destruction, and tests show that these empties were never weapons. Soil samples have tested negative for chemicals or radioactivity indicating weapons development. Iraq has allowed the inspectors to pretty much go everywhere they want without hindrance, even into Saddam's home. Imagine the KGB demanding and getting permission to peek into every closet and drawer in the White House and you will get an idea of just how much Iraq is cooperating. The CIA gave the UN inspectors a list of sites they were convinced had weapons of mass destruction. Nothing.
But Bush still wants his invasion, and since there are no weapons of mass destruction to scare the public into supporting a war of conquest, the issue is changing. Saddam may be cooperating, but he isn't cooperating ENOUGH (as defined by the US). And horror of horrors, Saddam might actually still be ever so slightly resentful of the way he is being bullied around by the US Government. He's only a head of state, why should HE feel insulted by the intrusions into his nation and his home, right?

So, today, Bush and his buddies are trying to spin resentment and a failure to cooperate more than Saddam already has into a reason to invade Iraq and, as the US already admits it plans to do, grab the oil wells.

This plan proves that the oil is the real goal, because if weapons of mass destruction were the real issue, then there would be no need to risk American lives invading Iraq. If Iraq were to have a weapon of mass destruction and use it against the US, the US could just stand back and turn the entire nation into green glass just like that at the top of this article. That's what we all paid that $5 trillion for. And unless the US Government wants to admit that $5 trillion nuclear deterrent is a hoax, then we should use it as it was intended to be used, to deter an attack without having to invade a foreign attacker.

Answer 6

Yes they did, see American Hostages in Iran. They attacked the embassy, U.S. soil, so yes they have attacked us.
Yes, all the time.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,90397,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=79

And I don't care if Iran attacks us, yeah we could defeat them. I'm more scared of that nutjob president selling nuclear weapons to terrorists or using them against Israel.

Answer 7

well they held Americans hostage ..i feel that's an attack....uh yeah Iran has threatened the USA on several occasions including recently. Yes we could defeat them fairly easily ...now , But if they go nuke the playing field changes. Oh and the reason we think they pose a threat is the country is run by an American hating Lunatic. Dude crack open a history book before you ask such a ridiculous question.

Answer 8

I don't think Iran is but the government feed people whatever necesary to keep the war going. And sometimes people can't see past the surface of things so they just believe it. I went to a baseball game and before they play God Bless America they said something about "our soldiers defending our freedom and lifestyle". Then I asked myself, who is threatning them? The government just knows how to work people. They are only a threat if we keep pushing Iraq like we're doing now, then they will step in to help.

Answer 9

Are you kidding me??? Iran is funding the insurgency in Iraq. Iran is funding Hamas. Iran is funding terrorists across the world. Iran wants a nuclear weapon to erase Israel from the map. Iranians chant "Death to America" during their Friday prayers; they have actually made America-hating part of their religious ideology. Yes, I am very concerned about Iran, and any thinking person should too!

Answer 10

Did the Soviet Union ever attack the U.S.?
Did the Soviet Union ever threaten to attack the U.S.?
If Iran did attack the United States we could ABSOLUTELY annihilate them within a few hours.

Your logic is absurd.