Posted on 09/04/2012 12:39:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Iran’s leadership has publicly stated that it would crush any Israeli offensive against its nuclear facilities, but Iran’s ordinary citizens appear to feel otherwise, Channel 10 News reported on Monday.
The channel spoke with several Iranian citizens who, without revealing their identities, said that there is great tension and fear among Iranians over a possible war with Israel.
“The Iranians understand their current president says terrible things about Israel,” said one Iranian, a resident of Bushehr. “You can be sure that not all Iranians agree with the behavior of their leaders.”
The Iranian, who was identified as H., admitted that, contrary to the declarations of Iran’s leaders, the West's harsh sanctions against the Islamic Republic have severely hurt innocent civilians. “There are a lot of poor people who need help, they work day and night to survive. Please, do not attack us,” he said.
Although the Bushehr reactor is considered to be less alarming to the West, H. claimed that local residents were very worried about their fate should Israel attack Iran. “If war breaks out, Bushehr will be perhaps the most dangerous place in the Middle East,” he said.
Another citizen from northern Iran told Channel 10, “This is not a conflict or dispute between Israel and Iran, but only between the countries’ two governments.”
Some citizens also claimed that the Iranian nuclear program is not necessarily intended to harm Israel. "We are surrounded by Arabs who hate us," said A., a resident of Tehran. "....
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By the way, they see the Europeans as pure Milquetoast, no backbone and no jelly body, just a mass of pathetic slime. At least the Americans lash out when required. The Europeans wet themselves...OK, except for the Brits! -- depends on whom -- for Iraqis and Iranis they fear the Russians more than Americans. the Russians have been pushing on them since the 1600s.
And the Arabs laugh at both Europeans and Russians
the only way is to nuke Macca and Madinah
The students try to rise, but the weapons etc. are with the Ayatollahs.
it's not easy to win against an entrenched regime in your own country, when they have all the weapons etc.
Many just resign themselves to their fate and do nothing, unless there is a push the other way (like in Libya where everyone was a Gaddafi loyalist until suddenly the tide turned the other way and everyone switched).
I wouldn’t call them wussies for charging machine guns in waves. Stupid, yes, foolhardy, yes, but wussies, no
you will be, as long as you "occupy Islamic lands" -- the moslems consider your land to be theirs. They will never leave Israel in peace, unfortunately.
The 10 year war between Iran and Iraq ended in a stalemate. But Israel is a different animal, and the Iranian leadership should be greatly concerned. The Israelis don’t take prisoners.
Take me down the road on this one. What is the end result?
Sort of like the Holocaust was not aimed at Jews, just the Jewish leadership. It wasn't the Germans who murdered six million Jews, it was that tiny minority in the government, and that tiny fraction of Germans who manned the camps, and the armed forces, and the munition factors, and the railroads and the farms and police and schools and media, and who took possession of shops and factories and artwork and homes stolen from Jews. Other than that tiny minority, Germans were blameless.
Losing a war has caused more regimes to be ousted than any other cause. Ask the Generals in Argentina after they occupied the Falklands.
Nuke Makkah & Madinah and IMO a majority of the world’s Muslims will be left in a daze.
“Why couldn’t Allah protect his holy cities!!?”
The Islamic nations will suddenly ask themselves if their capitals might be next. There will be wild outbursts but no monolithic attack upon the Kuffar. Nothing to face toward & pray to but a glowing crater. Every Muslim in America or UK will be watching his back as the hated “infidels” watch his every move.
“Thinking of payback, Achmed?”
Of course, who’s going to drop the nuke? There’s the rub.
Yes we do, and then release them by the hundreds to free just one.
Did I ever say they would?
The civil war was just between politicians. WW I was just between some monarchs./sarc
Another one that I have heard is that the tomb is the center of islam. Without it, islam perishes.
good point. hmmm... perhaps you are correct. If Israel can clearly get the message that it is only against the current regime, it could eliminate the nukes and potentially get an ally in a post-Ayatollah Iran
what tomb?
muhammad’s tomb in Medina.
muhammad’s tomb in Medina.
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