Will there be a war with Iran?

Will there be a war between the US and Iran?

  • Yes, next year.

    Votes: 11 10.7%

  • Yes, within the next 5 years.

    Votes: 21 20.4%

  • Yes, within the next 10 years.

    Votes: 7 6.8%

  • No.

    Votes: 49 47.6%

  • On Planet X, conflicts are settled with a mass beard growing contest.

    Votes: 15 14.6%
  • Total voters
    103
WildCat said:
They give hundreds of millions to Hams and Hizbollah, as well as traning and arming those groups. How much more linkage do you require?
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You couldnt be more wrong, pork is haram thus no support for Ham, Hamas however would be plausible

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WildCat said:
Iran has been fighting a war with Israel through their proxies (Hezbollah, Hamas, etc) for years. Curious the OP doesn't acknowledge this. The question should be "should other countries respond to Iran's acts of war?".
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I will post the link again to the original report from which the "advisory" was taken and edited to create a sense of alarm that is simply not there:

http://www.thegulfintelligence.com/...e_Perils_of_Iranian_Nuclear_Brinksmanship.pdf

The "advisory" is missing key pieces of analysis such as:

[It] remains far from certain that the Israelis would ever conduct a unilateral strike over the objections of the US, risking a serious deterioration in the bilateral relationship.
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and this,​

Historically, despite possessing dedicated mine-laying capabilities, Iran has exercised restraint, even during the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq war, when it sought to block the passage of oil tankers to and from the Gulf states.
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Note that the reprinting and editing of the original report was on 09-DEC-2011 and distributed by unreliable sources such as Alex Jones' Prison Planet. Nowhere in the original analysis is anything about proxy wars or "mass rocket attacks" launched from Lebanon or Gaza against Israel.

In short, the "advisory" is a hoax.
 
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Fighting a war with Iran will be a lot harder than with Iraq. The two sides were evenly matched in the 1980s when they fought each other. Since then Iraq was weakened by sanctions. Then the USA invaded. Nothing has weakened Iran. Worse the population of Iran is so much more. They can afford to lose heaps of people. As in millions of people. So terrorism would be so much worse there.
 
LogicFail said:
I reckon that IF they complete their nuclear program and make even one little nuke threat to Israel, the Israelis will send a bombing raid over there and take out the reactor (and any other affiliated buildings...etc) they might drop one on the presidential palace on the way out and that'll pretty much be the end of it.

Oh there will be saber rattling and lots of loud posturing. The USA will vocally announce that they denounce the actions of the Israeli's (while behind close doors high fiving them). But the rest of the middle east is in such political disarray that I don't see any seven days war type stuff happening. I think Iran is on it's own and in reality does not wanna eff with the Israeli's nor the USA in any sort of large scale combat.
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Pretty much what I was going to post when I read OP.

"will the US/Britain et al be at war with Iran this time next year?" -- the answer is no. Nor 5 or 10 years from now. But Israel doing Osirak III (Osirak II was in Syria 2007) is more likely than not, IMO.
 
Obama will serve the interests of, not Israel, but of the Sunni Saudi Arabia Muslim Brotherhood against Shia Iran.
 
I think "extended conflict" or some such would have been a more likely way to put it vs "war." The US appears to consider "war" such an un-PC term that we never use it anymore. And God forbid we should not be PC. :rolleyes:
 
After yesterday's thinly-veiled threats to close the Straits Of Hormuz, and the US Navy response, "not gonna happen"....
An interview with an analyst on NPR's The World painted a bleak picture. No diplomacy going on, said the guy, is extremely dangerous. Slight provocations can be easily misinterpreted as hostile acts and things can go South in a hurry.
Couple this with the campaign of assassinations and sabotage against the Iranian nuclear effort....who knows who might decide to pull the trigger?
 
America and Europe have been blackmailed by Israel to impose crippling sanctions against Iran. Soon Iran will retaliate by closing the Persian Gulf and doubling prices at the pumps. Then the US will attack Iran. This will happen within a few days.
 
MaGZ said:
America and Europe have been blackmailed by Israel to impose crippling sanctions against Iran. Soon Iran will retaliate by closing the Persian Gulf and doubling prices at the pumps. Then the US will attack Iran. This will happen within a few days.
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What is your definition of a few days?

Can i nominate you for a stundie if you are wrong?
 
The scenario given by MaGZ was put forth on The World tonight, but minus any attack. Iran engages in harassing Gulf shipping, using "asymmetrical" techniques like mines, small-boat attacks...Insurance rates go up, the price of oil goes up, fragile Western economies suffer...
Etc.
No conventional naval confrontation...The Iranians would loose their navy "within four minutes", according to the analyst.
 
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