Is the Iran Crisis for Real?

[Qanisqineq]

August 15, 2005

Is the Iran Crisis for Real?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Are the Iranian mullahs close to acquiring the bomb? Has Iran violated the Non-Proliferation Treaty by restarting its conversion of yellowcake into uranium hexaflouride? The answer to both is no.

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What is the worry? Just this. If or when Iran goes nuclear, she has a deterrent to intimidation. U.S. freedom of action in the Persian Gulf comes to an end. We would have to behave as gingerly with the mullahs as we do with Kim Jong Il, something intolerable to our neoconservatives and President Bush.

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What could Iran do {if the US attacked}? Plenty. Send Revolutionary Guards into Iraq to make that country a worse hell for the 135,000 U.S. troops. Incite Hezbollah to launch rockets on Israel to widen the war. Attack U.S. allies in the Gulf. Encourage the Shi'ites in Iraq and Saudi Arabia to attack Americans. Mine the Strait of Hormuz. Activate Islamic loyalists to bring terror home to the United States.

In short, a U.S. attack on Iran could lead to war across the region and interruption of the 15 million barrels of oil a day that come from the Gulf, which would drive the world economy into instant cardiac arrest.

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On edit: forgot link!
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=6932

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Linketty-link please?

Looke innerstin'

[Qanisqineq]

2. oops!

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=6932

[BlueEyedSon]

3. thx! kick

[FloridaPat]

4. Why is Iran a "she"? Interesting choice of words for a country

where women have no rights.

[stevietheman]

5. Funny thing about Pat... when he's right, he's really really right. n/t

n/t

[Strelnikov_]

6. Couldn't Agree More Except For One Point

U.S. attack on Iran Would lead to war across the region and interruption of the 15 million barrels of oil a day that come from the Gulf, which would drive the world economy into instant cardiac arrest.