Engineering Consent For Attack On Iran?

[ToughGong]

U.S. authorities say they have foiled a plot allegedly orchestrated by the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.

At a press conference in Washington on October 11, Attorney General Eric Holder said the two men charged in what he described as an "international murder-for-hire scheme" are Manssor Arbabsiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen who holds an Iranian passport, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iranian-based member of the Quds force, which is an arm of the Iranian government's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

http://www.rferl.org/content/us_claims_ ... 56722.html

[Coeus]

Nobody has sympathy for Saudi arabia. Saudis are already the enemy of Jews, since they do not even recognise israel, and promote economic boycott.

They are trying to probably alter sunni muslims view of Iran, so that it becomes even more isolated by arab states in middle east. That is only the plausible scenario in my opinion.

[ToughGong]

Sounds to me like another WMD malarkey.Why would Iran attempt to blow up Saudi and Isreali embassies in America of all places.It could easily do that in any of the Middle East capitals.

[FAH1223]

doesn't matter, this country can't afford to go to war and not pay for a 3rd one

the empire has ended

[Nomand]

doesn't matter, this country can't afford to go to war and not pay for a 3rd one

the empire has ended

if we look back at history america became a super power after world war 2 and prior to world war 2 america was suffering from the great depression which was worse then the 2008 recession. so actually many experts predict that america needs a big war to revive the economy i think that war will be with iran.

[FAH1223]

The American military will wipe the floor with the Iranians in one day... let's be real here. America has all the manpower and military technology to defeat any country on Earth rather easily in head to head conventional warfare.

[union]

If true, this takes the hostilities between Iran and the United States to a whole new level. It is a very grave and serious offense for an alien government to have facilitated the premeditated murder of a diplomat on American territory.

[Nomand]

maybe 15 years ago america would have wiped the floor with iran but i dont think it will be easy for america now. the cloud that surrounded american military superiority has shown its weakness in afganistan plus if we look at the proxy war of 2006 hisbullah vs israel. hizbullah backed by iran held there ground vs the israel back by the usa. remember over 60 Merkava tanks were destroyed by hizbullah and israel could not even enter lebanon. iran has those anti tank missles which can easly destroy an abraham tank. the only thing america has is air superiority and iran has the capability to launch surface to air missile which can destroy american planes.

[ToughGong]

Nomand you have to be realistic man.America would wipe the floor with Iran
Laakiin only if their public were fully behind the war.The USA would even defeat China in a conventional war.What defeats America though they never ever have the heart for an all out war.Their public get talked into a war,they then cheer and clap for their boys.But as soon as they start seeing too many body bags ..

[Grant]

Sounds to me like another WMD malarkey.Why would Iran attempt to blow up Saudi and Isreali embassies in America of all places.It could easily do that in any of the Middle East capitals.

According to your article-" U.S. authorities say they have foiled a plot allegedly orchestrated by the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States." Where does it say blow up anything?

One US citizen and one member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard will be prosecuted in the US. Public media will once again make a big deal out of past Iranian avoidance of international legal and diplomatic norms. Secretary Clinton will ratchet all the pressure she can get to isolate, but this is not of itself going to produce an attack.

[ToughGong]

The complaint unsealed today [October 11] reveals a well-funded and pernicious plot that had as its first priority the assassination of the Saudi ambassador to the United States," Bharara said. "The details of that murder case are chilling, to say the least, as the defendants allegedly had no care or concern about inflicting mass casualties on innocent Americans, on American soil,

Sounds like their secondry objective was to "blow" something up to me

[AhmedBoqor]

doesn't matter, this country can't afford to go to war and not pay for a 3rd one

the empire has ended

They couldn't afford the last two wars either, doesn't matter. If they have men to send, they'll send, even if that means the whole nation crashing down. If you haven't notice, USA is actually the united states of Zionism.

[FAH1223]

doesn't matter, this country can't afford to go to war and not pay for a 3rd one

the empire has ended

They couldn't afford the last two wars either, doesn't matter. If they have men to send, they'll send, even if that means the whole nation crashing down. If you haven't notice, USA is actually the united states of Zionism.

Clinton left a budget surplus in 2001.

[NewHargeisaGirl]

doesn't matter, this country can't afford to go to war and not pay for a 3rd one

the empire has ended

Liberals are by far the dumbest people on the face of the earth walaahi

[FAH1223]

doesn't matter, this country can't afford to go to war and not pay for a 3rd one

the empire has ended

Liberals are by far the dumbest people on the face of the earth walaahi

war mongering republicans are deliberately trying to collapse the country

STFU and don't quote me again on American politics