U.S. rejects Ahmadinejad call to choose between Israel and Iran

lynn:"Aussies are our friends. We have always fought side by side with free people everywhere." trust me lynn, we fight for our country, we might fight alongside you, but for how long we don't know, we are polite, but we really dislike your arrogance and contempt, your country is morally corrupt today unlike years ago, the average australian deep down don't like most americans.

If Japan in talks then why are they not providing for every fish they catch worldwide with 5 to 10 baby fry fish released at a charge per fish they sell. Iran is steel industry of the world why can we not reactivate its steel mills while protecting the world from carbon footprints turning it into positive energy to heat homes and run industry. If Israel were a neutral country of peace, mind thought, litigation, enviroment, a planetary identity of medical technology as well would we not have peace on earth. Maybe there should be a new council set up of all that each country is worth and barter are ways of old. Instead of Captilism ideas where the elders are left with nothing, the youth are homeless or starving of education and food, and the wealthy keep getting more and more wealthy saying we are better than you. Can we have 5 days of PEACE ON EARTH? Listen to Casting Crowns. Just once. Listen to Veggie Tales just once. Just listen and know HE is GOD! Rankoo (Karoon)

between the loons of Iran and the Israelis. I'm betting on the Iranian people this time. Aussies are our friends. We have always fought side by side with free people everywhere.

....but it didnt because it was able to turn the tables and win the war. So if Israel is allowed to fire its nukes, which by the way can reach ANY country in the middle-east, if it fears complete defeat, then I truly wonder what a nation like Iran is supposed to do? After all we got the Arabs, the Americans, the Russians and the Israelis, and none of them have ever been historically trust worthy!

Iran and other Moslem States.The claim based on rumour that Israel has Nuclear heads are based on a "disclosure"of Vanunu,a mentally unstble person.He claimed that he saw 200 nuclear war heads in Dimona.Then he converted to christianity and kept on blubbing.Israel never treatend to anihilate or else any hostile country.It is Iran Islamic Republic that is involved in development of enriched Uranium with acivity far exceeding the nerichment for peaceful generation of electricity.At the same time its Pres.Ahmedinejad and senior people in the Iranian Regime talk about elimination of Israel.If they are only bluffing its stupid on their part.Tell Ahmedinejad,and Ayatollah Kamenei.When Israel responds that it will neutralized this treat Iranian Islamofascist start yelling "Israel has Nuclear Weapons" and "Iranian have right to enrich uranium.Stupid megalomaniacs. Yet all of the Islamic countries repeat"Yeh, Israel has nuclear bombs" Israeli arsenal mashroomed to 400 A-bombs. Over to haters

come to the obvious realization that the US is "Not" their friend . The USA had chosen to be the unshakeable ally of Israel. This makes it the enemy of all peoples in the ME since the interest of those people does not coincide withe the interest of Israel. Remember that those countries did not choose to be the enemy of the US , but the US indeed had chosen to be the enemy. The sooner they realize this , the sooner the pandering will stop....

Jacob, who was named Israel, was a male, a he. He was not, and never will be, a she.

Jacob, who was named Israel, was a male, a he. He was not, and never will be, a she.

An overzealous religious convert to the descendants of the child born from a former, faithless, fleshly procreative act of Abraham is now asking the world to choose him over the descendents of the miracle child of promise born and blessed only through the power of faith in the Most High G-d. G-d's choice is obvious and so should man's be, considering the insecure Iranian President fielding the request for international legitimacy for his government is also one of the pillars of a brutal regime back home that has hijacked and continues to terrorize the wonderful populace of Iran.

"Do you think for a second that Bush would have attacked Iraq if they have the bom?" It would not make any differnce to USA if Iraq had the bomb or not. Where is Iraq and where is USA just look at the map. If Iraq had a missile, the chances of anything coming from Iraq to USA is a million to one. And what is the relation with our argument I don't understand. Aby

"Israel has been the most aggressive country " The depth of the land is 7-12 Miles from West to East. We have no choice other then preemptive attacks. We have no luxury to wait to be attacked by an enemy, that will be the end of Israel, which Egypt had more or less achieving in 1973. If a war is going to be done this will be in enemys soil not on ours. When it comes to commiting war crimes, in 1976 solelly King Hussein had killed 11000 Palies on Black September in 15 days. Everybody knows and does not admit how difficult is to make war in densly populated areas. I know one thing, the number of casualties in a war like that will be 10 times more who ever will be in our place. We all have witnessed how USA, Brits manage the war against Iraq, history is proving what I'm saying. Who is the aggressor? launching 12000 nukes in 8 years, warn that we are going to attack if not halting the launching of rockets. Restrain to attack for 8 years Then we are the agrressors. Don't make me laugh

try some logic...n+s america and aus/nz all european peoples on others land, indigenous peoples either physical or cultural genocide and it is ongoing. try telling amazonian injuns that portuguese speakers burning down their homes are not colonialists. israel is in its rightful place, arab semites need to accept that jewish semites also have rights.

I'm sorry Linda but 20% Uranium can easily be turned into weapons grade Uranium by passing it through the centrifuges again.

The USA has already chosen Iran over Israel, since 1990. That turned out to be more profitable to the ruling federation of mafias in Washington. In fact, the USA has been regularly passing (for a price) Israel military secrets to Iran. This explains why Hizbullah is always ahead of Israel. Israel is (and will still be) an important ally to the USA, but at present, Iran is more profitable. It is blood for oil, and maybe Israeli-Jewish blood for oil.

What has your post to do with Brad's??? What has Saddam's aggression of Iran to do with Iran's repeated declarations that Israel must cease to exist (not to speak of its enormous support plus rockets to Hezbollah and Hamas)? Brad wrote a clear, true, succint conclusion about Iran's extreme aggressiveness to Israel and you start crying about Saddam's murderousness... That's strange.

Either Brad and Gabi is right, but you are wrong. You must find an answer to what extent Iran is rational? If a regime is radical, what is the guarentee of not being to far far radical in the future like taliban? In 30 years Iran has shifted to most radical country in ME. Brad is perfectly right.

Johnyboy, you are suggesting that iran is wanting to rule the whole region, tell me what is israel trying to do?

- It is an outpost of and possible military base for Iran?s primary enemy, the US, in the Middle East. - Israel is one of the few issues guaranteed to unite all Muslims, and championing its destruction allows Iran to obtain influence even with Sunnis, such as Hamas. - Israel sits in the most strategic spot in the Eastern Mediterranean, an area in which Iran wishes to project its power. To understand Iran today : http://xrl.us/bejfwz

Ahmadinijad needs to grow up. International relations is not a high school dance. The US is not choosing a girlfriend or date for the night. Countries have interests. It is a US interest to have a relationship with Israel. It is also a US interest to have improved relations with Iran. Neither is mutually exclusive unless the Israeli government or the Iranian government (at a higher level than Ahmadinijad) insists we be less friendly to itself. This is above Ahmadinijad's pay grade, fortunately.

Johnboy's puerile response was just to cherry pick some irrelevant quotes, and Al's response was incoherent mind noise. Iran is looking hard for trouble, and will find it.

"Israel is a very, very close friend of the U.S., and we don't think we have to choose between Israel or any other country,". yet america wants others to leave it's friends to "prove" themselves while it refuses, go figure.

That is a bunsh of crab. Israel has been the most aggressive country in the Middle East. While many countries make a lot of loud noise, Israel has in fact attacked its neighbors, occupied their land and subjecated the Palestinian people to one of the most inhumane and cruel occupation in addition to its army commiting war crimes for years which was finally documented. Israel is using the fact that it has the Nukes to pressure its neighbors, yo do not have to use powers if every body knows you have and can respond. Do you think for a second that Bush would have attacked Iraq if they have the bom?

you know Brad, I lived through the war of Iran-Iraq and saw first-hand what it brought us. I was a grade-school-student back then in Iran and I can NEVER forget seeing the corpses of 5-6 yr-olds in some border town that lost their lives to Saddam's mania....I remember vividly going to my dad and asking him for khomeini and saddam to fight the fight themselves...so they could leave the rest of us out of it..... Of course, that never happened, and by the end of that war--the war that the west empowered saddam by giving him all kinds of priviledges(from weapons,money, loan,logistics,etc) which left us the Persians over a million deads/over 100,000 of victims of chemical weapons...and countless of PTSD (such as ME!!) and many many more of the voiceless victims that I feel so discomforted to even mentione now......

in exchange for its 1.2 tonne LEU? Iran does not have the technology to reactivate the Uranium, so it can only use it in its medicine research reactor under IAEA supervision.

The facts are Israel is probably the most irresponsible country on Earth, the war on Gazans was shameful, rounding civilians up in a safehouse then blowing them all up. Neither Israel or Iran should have nukes, Israel needs to come clean about its massive arsenal.

It is coming.

Brad: "The fear, a well placed fear, is that the same would not be true with the delusionary and abusive regime in Iran." Gabi Ashkenazi: [Iran is] "a radical state that is trying to rule the entire region with its extreme ideology, but it is a state that acts with rational motivations" A regime can certainly be "radical" without being "delusionary", but a regime can't be both "rational" and "delusionary" i.e. the latter two terms are mutually-exclusive. So one of either Brad or Ashkenazi is incorrect. My money is on the professional being "correct", and Brad being "incorrect".

That's like saying that your using a double standard with your children when you put them to bed early, when you engage in sex or anything else you do that you think your children shouldn't do. The notion of equality your espousing is superficial and antiquated. Different people are differently stituated and same with states. Terror states like Iran represent a danger not just to its people, a danger that has materialized, but to the world at large. Israel reserves its nucs as a deterrent or weapon of last resort and has demonstrated over decades that she can be trusted with them.

Law and politics cannot be separated. International politics do not favour Iran having the weapon but seem to be o.k. with Israel having it. No wonder. If Israel does have nucs, and she probably does, she has been completely responsible with them. The fear, a well placed fear, is that the same would not be true with the delusionary and abusive regime in Iran. Even if Iran itself did not use the weapons, its close ties with terror groups creates existential dangers to all. Simply put, you can't equate the right of a potential and responsible victim to have weapons with the right of a delusional and irresponsible state who is on record as wishing to destroy the victim.

"Israel is a very, very close friend of the U.S., and we don't think we have to choose between Israel or any other country," US State Department Now, read it again. And then again. Is there some part of it you don't understand?? See, there are allies (of which Israel is one) and there are are provocateurs (of which Iran is one). Doesn't mean we'll support everything Israel wants. Doesn't mean we won't seek accommodation with Iran. But what is clear is that the US will not abandon a friend because the friend's enemy asks it to. This is tough on the leftwingnuts; tough on the Jew-baiters and Israel haters who enjoy the enormous freedom of Haaretz's broadband. The US will not hate and vilify Israel as you and your side (the Arabs and Islamists do) the US will reject hate and will reject violence and will reject idiocies like Goldstone and help Israel get a chance to survive among hundreds of millions of people who don't want it to have that chance. Now, go and read the top again.

Once again, this article is not about double standards. It's about Iran trying to force us to choose between them and Israel. Who wants to choose somebody for a friend that calls you "The Great Satan?" Some kind of friend that would be. It would be nice to be friends with everybody but when one person, in this case Iran, says you must choose then they aren't really your friend anyway. Friends don't do that. Israel would never do that to us. My goodness, it's incredible how Israel stays friends with us when we keep poking our noses into their business and telling them how to run their country. We do that to much to everybody. But before you say it's because of our money... though many hate us, they all love our money.

This article isn't about double standards. It's about Iran telling us to make a choice between Iran and Israel. If we are forced to choose then Israel is the right choice.

Israel has a responsible government and wide open news media that has proven itself to be able to invesigate each and every aspect of society including the IDF. The same cannot be said of Iran or most other countries in the Middle East ~ Asian part of the world. Be honest...which country would you trust more with nuclear weapons in todays environment. Israel or her neighbors. 2ndly take a look at a globe and see Israel's size and proximity to her unfriendly neighbors. Do you think that any nuclear device that Israel could attack her neighbors with Syria, Lebanon , Gaza , would not have the same devastating result on herself ? Unless the Mossad can come up with a way to have the wind only blowing out of Israel and not toward Israel. Use you intelligence people. Open your eyes for once. Maybe Israel is NOT the problem here.

We should choose between Iran and Israel. We can gain a lot from Iran and they won't be a burden on our tax dollars. We constantly have to give to Israel (a welfare state) and we have absolutely nothing to gain from them. Israel is our 'friend' only because of what they get from us, there is no other reason.

Samir can you be more specific about Israel's int`l obligations for this matter? I never heard about any obligations Israel took for this matter.

Obama, should have said;Israel must uphold int'l obligations on nuclear program.It is very clear; this an utter double statndard.

Iran has not signed the Addional Protocol, so it is in its right not to abide with that. By a similar logic, Israel has not signed the NPT, so they are allowed to have nuclear weapons. You can't have it both ways. If Israel is not bound by treaties it did not sign, neither is Iran.