Have we reached the end game with Iran?

[pdq1]

With all the bluff and counterbluff and Iran finally getting the nuclear bomb they always wanted should we be worried?

http://wzeu.search-re...//ikjnews.com/?p=2292

British fighter jets are currently being stationed at countries surrounding Iran ready for the final push

[DTCwordfan]

so when do the Israelis go in - I want to place a bet.....

[ladybirder]

You betting AGAIN DT? Tut!

[DTCwordfan]

almost as bad as stoke, sibbo, owdhamer, or jogger, ladybird. Wouldn't even know how to bet on line!

[ladybirder]

Seriously though, yes, I think we should be worried.

Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons [i

as well as

[i] Netanyahu pushing for invasion ]

Sounds like a nightmare to me. Just what this country needs, another war.

[sandyRoe]

I notice the report mentions that Israel is testing rockets that could deliver a nuclear warhead to Iran. You'd think they, of all nations, would be reluctant to engage in the mass murder of civilians.

[jno]

they are, sandyRoe, that's why they want us to do it for them. They know how keen we are to start Middle East wars.

[Gromit]

There is mo evidence that Iran is anywhere near getting a Nuclear Bomb. They would need 96% enrichment and they have only achieved 16%. There is flimsy evidence they may have got 30% enrichment but no one has ever found any in Iran. Last I read, the Ameticans were playing down he threat and Israel were saying Iran had "pulled back from the brink".

[Khandro]

I have jst checked out The Jewish Chronicle and there isn't a peep of anything related to Iran, (that could be good or bad news!) in fact they lead with; /Labour MP vocal against antisemitism resigns/.

[Brenden]

Sandy, Israel is surrounded by enemy countries who want to wipe them off the face of the earth, in that position, what would you do?

[sandyRoe]

Israel is like a thuggish squatter sitting on stolen land. The leader of Iran was correct when he said there was no place for it in the modern world.

[magsmay]

I'm with Gromit on this one

//Iran ‘has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons’//

I'm sure I've enough bleach and bicarb to blow up Sainsbury's -but would'nt know how to or really want to either.

[Brenden]

That is a most terrible statement to make sandy - Israel did not steal the land it was given to them (the same as Kosovo to the Albanians muslims) They are not squatters they are a sovereign country.

[bazwillrun]

Iran is not interested in talks or anything else, they will do whatever to stall until they have the nukes they want, and the septics know it but so as not to upset everybody they will go throught the motions and have the talks.

dinnerjacket will get whats coming to him sooner or later

[atalanta]

The Israelis took out Osirak - Saddam Hussain's nuclear "facility". They got away with it then, they'll probably get away with it this time. Netanyahu is determined not to allow Iran to nuke Israel, and he won't let US pressure stop him.
The problem will be the radioactive fallout if Israel uses nuclear weapons. However, never underestimate Mossad. They are up to all sorts of stuff behind everyone's backs. If they can get an Israeli spy into the Egyptian cabinet, as they did last century, ( look up Eli Cohen ) they can get their spies anywhere. Even inside a nuclear facility.

[Gromit]

From Thursday's Daily Telegraph.

// An immediate crisis was avoided in the summer when Iran quietly chose to use over a third of its medium-enriched uranium for civilian purposes, delaying the moment when it could have built a nuclear bomb. Without this decision, Mr Barak told The Daily Telegraph, the situation would “probably” have peaked before the US presidential election. //

Medium enriched uranium is completely useless for a bomb which needs highly enriched (96% or more). Instead Iran has used its uranium for cancer treatment which is what they said it was for all along.

http://www.telegraph....r-weapon-for-now.html

[argorstran]

Let us set the Iranians an example and get rid of our nuclear weapons......
(....falls off his chair laughing....)
You can just see it on the news can't you ?
"Prime Minister David Cameron has said that in order to set an example to the Iranians....etc."

[stokemaveric]

3/1 on all out war before christmas...

[ladybirder]

Seriously stoke?

[plowter]

We go to war against a country with oil fields.
Result? Price of petrol goes up.
Who benefits? Countries with oil fields.
Except one.