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And people criticize the Iranian President as a religious fundamentalist, who is using his personal end time theology as a means to set up Armagedon.
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Hahahah... and here I thought Bush and Sharon were the only ones suspected of this.
I do not believe that Iran poses any threat, period, to the US in military or public safety terms. I think they pose very little threat to Israel as well, at least for the time being and perhaps the next 20 years, considering what is happening right next door to them, in every direction they look (with the possible exception of northwards).
They may however pose a serious economic threat to America, having to do with their oil and transit of northern oil through their borders. Trade deals with china and russia and the old idea of abandoning the dollar as the preferred currency for oil transactions.
Iran desires nuclear weaponry. So does every other country in the world that faces military threats on its borders. Would they use them pre-emptively if they had them? I dont know, but I doubt it. It would take a madman to do so, no matter how much the Iranian population may despise Israel. And Israel, not America, is where they would be pointed, of course.
I wonder how it would play out were America to simply sell Iran the weapons and technology in return for oil rights and military bases (or what have you).