U.S.: Time and patience running out over Iran

Hey what danger you powerful US and Israel expect from this demagoguy.Nothing dont worry!

Yes, Israel has developed a fleet of Heron Drones, that are the size of a Boeing 737. They carry a payload which is far bigger than any other type, inclusive they carry Elint and a host of interesting goodies, they could well serve as a command and control or even carry a powerful missile or bomb. These Herons can well stay aloft, fly into Iran and return without refueling. Now thats public knowledge. What we do not know, is what Israel has that is secret, that gives it the edge, which encourages PM Netanyahu to be so adamant about a possible strike on Iran. Lets all hope that China will engage with Tehran, otherwise, many fear that a war is closer than many realize. Good day.

After the irak-desaster, promoted by the same people who now want to go after Iran, the USA would be ill advised to start an other war. All the warmongers should enlist and be ready to go themselves.

If US and western countries get involved in a shooting war stop Iran from obtainig Nukes it's not only to protect Israel, it is also to protect their own Economic power in the world. Once Iran develops the nuke US/European dominance of the world is over. Don't mention that Russia and China have a bomb. Iran is a diffrent animal. Where Russia and China are ideolagical powers who believe in their own survival, Iran is a religious autocracy that believes in world destruction for its religiou prophosies to come through. However, once the world is destroyed it's to late to know if their religios predictions will happen

And do you have a cape and high boots and all that kind of kit?

US troops R crying loudly in MARJAH due to stiff resistence from TALIBAN and heavy losses among nato forces .so USA is running out of troops and moral . USA can,t wage war against IRAN ,price would be unbearable .let israel do the job ,It,s nuke devices reaches 200 to 300 hundred .israeli drones can reach IRAN and drop bombs . so why implicate USA or nato in this ?

The US has aan entire fleet in mothballs on the Sacramento River, left over from WW II. Israel might be able to but and then renovate its first carrier, if you really need a war. Talk Obama into selling one. They are oil burning, so shipboard nuclear won't have to be learned. Just leave the US out of it.

You been sniffing at the Uranium while they enrich themselves with your stupidity? If more people were like you, as pro israel as you are Israeli wars would easily be fought and won due to backwards thinking and ignorance (which you among other antagonistic asses without true logic and reason have in common). Now think back to mathematics: to reduce to lowest terms______. Answer: find a common denominator. That's why the U.S. and Israel will

USA is a warmonger with oppression,racism, and terror credential without any one doubt. 1 million killed in iRAQ, more than 370000 killed in Afghanistan, countless numbers abducted and kept in secret jails without possibility to access justice for years. now they want to go kill more in IRan, i think the USA leadership survive drinking blood.

There are only two purposes to enriching uranium: medical (in small proportions) nuclear (in quantities like these Iran are using) You're not a physicist so don't pretend to know

The nukes is iran ultimate weapon to save its regime. Without the ultimate weapon iran will keep buying time, Pres Obama method of diplomacy is something from the past ! diplomacy can't work today & mainly with a country like iran that have its own islamic agenda ! No compromise can change the minds of the mullah or bring iran's nukes problem to an end. Iran nuclear program will remain unless it is destroyed or iran's islamic regime is changed. No any other 3rd option will stop iran's danger ! "Time and patience" is a waste of time. The sooner use the stick & forget about the carrot the better, specially when time is short !

we really have to wonder who the real madmen are.....

'civilian energy' from? It can't have been Afghainstan, Pakistan, Iraq, or Turkey, they all buy electricity from Iran. Maybe you're thinking that Armenia and Azerbaijan (the two other countries that are linked into that grid) can pump out an extra 140 million kilowatts (basically 3 times what Israel produces), but together they don't even have the capacity to meet Israel's needs.

"If Iran says its programs are for civilian purposes, it needs to come forward and make that case to the international community." makes it very easy for someone to point out that Iran has done just that, and though they may have failed to convince the US and Israel (as if anything would have shaken them from their phobia), it has convinced most of the international community, which is why even if China doesn't veto, the US won't have enough votes to sanction.

Remember the US hostages in Iran, and then came in the cowboy with guns flaming and the Iranians said Im not having none of this.

Call me crazy but as far as I am concerned everyone should have nuclear weapons. Why ? Because no country would dare use them against another. With all the alliances the country firing 1st would then get it back in spades from others. Possession is the biggest deterrent. Even Iran can have them. PS I am very much pro-Israel.

Yes They have done nothing that would make me think otherwise.

Who is talking about Iran nuking Arab states and the US retaliating ? The nuking as you describe will likely never materialize and it is the point you missed entirely. The danger is not in a nuclear war in the ME. The danger is in Irans more brazen behavior, if it is allowed the n-capability, to subvert and overthrow the current Arab regimes without a major war breaking out because Iran will be able to use its nuclear umbrella as deterrent. Just look how India reacted to the recent bombings when it obtained solid evidence that Pakistanis at the highest government levels were involved in training terrorists , a justified cause for war ? it did nothing because it cannot due to the Pakistani Nukes. Actually, the mullahs of Iran have higher ambitions than a simple overthrow of Arab governments ? it is the final resolution of the Muslim chasm that had divided them over centuries in favor of Shia and, naturally, the control of Arab oil so that they become a superpower.

The West/US is in danger of making themselves irrelevant by not taking a deal to make the swap inside Iran. Right now Iran and China's relations are tightening every day based upon Iran supplying ever more amounts of oil to China. There is absolutely nothing the West/US can do to stop China from unilaterally making this exchange on Iranian soil, completely undermining everything the West/US is trying to do. Once the swap is complete, and Iran continues just running their power plants, the US/West will sound like a bunch of henny-penny's if they continue to agitate. Continued bluster will only damage the West/US.

Instead of following Iran along its Tristam Shandian strategy of diplomatic digression leading to revised digression leading to threat leading to partial retraction leading to another digression in another direction, the West should either supply the Iranian some nukes out of existing arsenals and be done with it, or terminate the endless "engagement" that engages nothing and goes nowhere except in circles.

Are you seriously suggesting that the Arabs fear being nuked by Iran more than they fear being nuked by Israel? Not credible at any level I'm afraid! Everybody knows that, at the hostile launch of one Iranian missile, the USAF would batter Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure to smithereens. It will not let a rogue power threaten its or the world's main oil source. The Israeli right and disapora Zios are whipping up a right storm over this. The obvious question to them is: why should Israel have nuclear weapons but nobody else in the M-E? Israel has not exactly proved itself a trustworthy state so far in any of its local or international dealings. Indeed, with Palestine, Lebanon, Cast Lead, it is by far the region's principle trouble-causer and epicenter of violence and attacks on its neighbours. It is perfectly possible to envisage a satisfactory solution with Iran, as long as Israel is kept off the stage. With Palestine? No chance while malign Israel holds the strings.

The Arab sheikdoms are more scared of nuclear Iran than Israel, mate. Each has prosecuted and restless Shia minorities and they are petrified at the possibility of Iran using those to subvert their pathetic regimes. So they are quietly goading the US and Israel to do something about Iran NOW - just read the recent statements by the Saudi Foreign Minister. Both the West and Iran know this and it will only intensify. If Iran is allowed to go nuclear todays economic troubles will look like a joke. The Iran N-issue is a lot bigger than safety of Israel but you are too full of hate to appreciate it.

And Iran will keep enriching the uranium on the side and in many hidden facilities. Is the west fooling self. I think Iran is managing the west really well and at the end, we will have a nuclear Iran. The west already has given up on the issue. Just like the many issues in the US, the president can always blame the previous president for not handling the Iran well, meanwhile drag the issue to the next president avoiding the backlash of the terrorist organization Iran has grown around the globe. The president will not take the risk, just hand it to the next president.

#12 Superhewhate, don't be so ridiculous to world citizen, none of the talkbackers are inter-related but everybody is inter-related on the issues discussed and we find you are the one who is paranoid alike most israelis. Yes, we can trust Ahmadinejad or Khamnei more than we can trust Nettanyahoo or night club dancer Liberman, got it?

"can you be so generous and flippant with other peoples survival? do you really TRUST ahmedinejad? how about khamenei?" But what do we think about Palestine's survival? Can we really TRUST Netanyahu and how about Lieberman and Barak and the other assorted nuts? Let's compare. Do either start wars? Iran no, Israel loads. Do they invade and occupy their neighbours? Iran no, Israel yes Do they have nuclear weapons? Iran no, Israel yes Have they signed up to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Iran yes, Israel no chance Do they obey UN resolutions? Iran yes so far, Israel no 180 times Do they keep their word? Iran yes so far, Israel no when it comes to halting settlement building from 2003, demolishing illegal settlements built since then, etc., etc. Do we believe a word either leader says? Ahmahdinejad broadly yes on most things, Netanyahu generally not much on anything. On the score so far, Iran is looking by far the better bet for a sensible business partner...

any chance at all iran will use the cover of civilian nuclear energy and domestic enrichment to divert some and go nuclear? any chance? do you TRUST ahmedinejad? khamenei? a simple yes or no will do.

It should be easy to make the swap in Iran, the swaps can be made in small shipments, so nobody is afraid of being ripped off by the other side. And in any event Iran can't push a confrontation, that would align much of the rest of the world against it and probably in favour of a military solution. Though I suspect that Iran would come up with some new request if the UN was to agree to this term.

I don't want Iran to have the bomb anymore that I want Pakistan to have the bob or North Korea or India of the UK for that matter. I wish we could get rid of all nuclear weapons and that is the truth. Now as signatory's of the NPT Iran has the right to peaceful civilian nuclear power, if we provide the fuel for it and take what they enrich they can have it. The idea that Iran should be deprived of all nuclear technology is unrealistic and as we have already seen unworkable, and war is not an option, as Mullen has already stated. This is the best of a bad job, and I for one accept it as such. You don't have to and I accept that,.

Israel is a US proxy, Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah are a Chinese proxy. Just like in Latin America, Korea, Vietnam, the world powers, who don't want war in their own back yard, fight it in someone else's back yard. Because China is aggravated at the US over Human Rights issues, Tibet, military sales to Taiwan, etc... they are playing games with the lives of Israeli Jews by blocking sanctions against Iran as a tool to get at the US through it's proxy. Israel should be at China's throat for using their citizens lives, who china views as immaterial, as a toy to get at the US. Why do we not hear of Netanyahu calling in the Chinese ambassador? Is there a chinese ambassador to Israel? Why is Israel allow China to dictate this policy? Why doesn't Lieberman speak out against this? Because Israel is afraid of what China can do through it's proxies.

easy for you to say from cozy montreal...but last I heard, iran was not threatening to wipe montreal or canada off the map. can you be so generous and flippant with other peoples survival? do you really TRUST ahmedinejad? how about khamenei? surely you know that even moussavi the "moderate" is one of the proponets and early leaders of the iranian nuclear weapons program... you do know that huh val?

The Iranians have made a reasonable offer. They know well that, if the enriched uranium is done elsewhere, the long hand of the US can cut supplies at any time, on any political pretext. Particularly if Israel-loving Republican nutter Palin or similar was in the White House. They would be in exactly the same position as Ukraine, Italy and Germany with Russian oil and gas, vulnerable to the fuel being switched off at any time. So why not agree that sufficient stocks can be held in Iran, under IAEA monitoring? Everybody gains, everyone saves face, the problem shrinks to manageable proportions. Only Israel would be furious, as its regional adversary gets western and world assistance. China is right pressing for a negotiated solution, it is proving itself the wisest player here. After all, if a 'negotiated' rather than imposed solution is meant to work in Palestine, why should we all do it the other way round in Iran? Is Israel meant to be more trustworthy or something? Hardly!!!

Why would the west refuse to make the trade inside iran, are they afraid the persians will imprison IAEA officials? Iran is more diplomatic than that. I believe iran wants the trade to be done on its own soil so it does not get short changed. Is the west planning on simply stealing iranian fuel. It is the only reason why they refused a small scale exchange earlier and why they are refusing a trade inside iran. This undermines the west's credibility and it will make it harder to convince russia and china to apply sanctions when evidently the iranians were always prepared for a trade.

It does matter Linhate. The Iranians clearly do not have a gov?t that can be trusted. The world powers have offered swaps, which even if conducted outside the country are a far cry from the original UN stance whereby NO enrichment was to take place at all. Iran is constantly trying to push the limit so that they can appease and divide the EU from the West, and still be allowed to enrich, and ultimately to hide. Verification schemes wont work...these people are quite adept at hiding, obfuscating, lying, manipulating...their ballistic missile program is most definitely not for civilian energy purposes..but the IAEA, with baradei gone is finally opening up the records that show iran has anything but peaceful civilian energy intentions. They have been offered civilian energy from other countries to which they have repeatedly said no. Ishfahan was HIDDEN for how long? 18 yrs? Now they're going to build more plants that they SAY are for peaceful purposes, yet at the same time, they say these plants are to be built in hardened undisclosed mountains. QOM was being built despite the fact they said that there was nothing else being built after 2003. Honestly Linwaithe, you?re entitled to think what you want, but most sane people of the non jew hating variety DON?T think iran with a nuke program is a good thing. Admit it, you don?t care about irans civilian energy needs, you only want them to have the bomb. And THAT clearly shows what you are?a jew hater. I will say, I feel for you, because deep down, it?s not really your fault?you?ve obviously been brainwashed into thinking that no matter what the facts are, you will still blame and hate jews?and THAT is indeed a sad life you are leading.

could it make where the exchange is made. Iran just wants to make sure they get the enriched uranium. They are saying "OK" The west is saying No. Perhaps the west figures they could get 75% of Irans production and let them spend the next three years remaking it.

of electricity and the west should pay no attention to all that vile anti-Iranian propaganda generated by those Zionists. This is definitively proven by Iranian scientific and technical strides. So advanced is Iran that old technology electric transmission lines will soon be replaced by missiles capable of delivering the nuclear generated electical energy.

Western intentions are fishy and that why they are not willing to have uraniums are exchanged in Iran, something very much suspicious. It reminds me that despite Iranian stake in French nuclear sites Iranians are deprived of their own share. Fishy again? No, this time no trick will work. Westerners lost the credibility. Hurray!

Seems acceptable. It doesn't really matter where the stuff is exchanged. As long as it is exchanged.