[marron]

We should be clear with ourselves what we are saying.

If we impose “crippling sanctions” Iran is guaranteed to try to provoke a war with us. They will attack shipping in the Gulf and try to close it, and they will ramp up attacks on our troops in Iraq.

We will have to respond to keep the ships moving in and out, and that means clearing away their missile batteries as well as taking out their subs and surface attack craft. In other words, when we impose “crippling sanctions” we will also have to fight a short but violent naval war with Iran, and then impose our own blockade, shutting off its oil tankers going out and gasoline tankers coming in to port. Iran imports gasoline; shutting off the gasoline would certainly be “crippling”. And its utterly dependent upon its oil income.

[Cindy]

ARTICLE SNIPPET from post no. 1:

"Howard Berman, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview that one reason for a limited dialogue with the Iranians to get them to suspend uranium enrichment..."

[familyop]

"The US should consider making concessions to Russia on the placement of a missile-defense shield in Europe, in order to get Moscow to back "crippling" concessions against Iran if the time comes,..."

We know that Russia will not do that, don't we, TJ.

[Ancient Drive]

just enough time for them to finish up that little arrow harnessing the power of the sun....

[bill1952]

and at the same time were watching the US "push policies that they deeply resent," such as the missile-defense system in Europe...

LOL! That shield is preparation for the day the Iran saber rattles it's intermediate nuclear missiles.
Russia intends to use them as a proxy in foriegn policy, just as the Soviets had done for decades.

Or uses them.

Russia is in a win win game in negotiations on this issue.
Just act and be done with it, or shut up.

[M Kehoe]

Methinks WE (or somebody, hint, hint) should enrich the U-238 inside the cascade at Nantez, before the enriched U-235 from Nantez turns somewhere into radioactive glass.

Someone believes it's time to pop the 12th Imam out of the well...right Ahmanutjob?

Would someone please translate that last sentence into Farsi, the Quds guys read FR.

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