and of course the enemy does not weapons , they are playing a dangerous game

Arming Themselves to the teeth???? Do They Plan To Attack some country??? Everything they say and Do Is AGGRESSIVE, WHY??????????? Does This Sound Like A Peaceful regime???

Iran and other countries around the world. And before the US there was the UK. Note that virtually ALL the weapons they are developing are DEFENSIVE. The long history of the US attacks on just Iran would fill several web pages and when you add Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Granada, Panama, etc. the list gets very, very long. Iran is just using its oil wealth to ensure the next time the US (or Israel ) is belligerent, Iran will at least make the attacker wish they had not been so stupid, if not humiliate and defeat the attacker. The CLEAR MESSAGE - do NOT ATTACK Iran and treat it with respect.

Like,as she always states that the Iranian Nuclear research work,all radars surrounding Iran is in total control of her favourite nation.................who worries!! :)

What are we waiting for? Till they can actually hit something? This whole process has been such a farce. The diplomatic agenda in theory would work. With a 'normal' enemy! Strangle it until they give up. Iran, like many rogue nations before it, does not think like the rest of us or a normal (if there is such a thing) county would. Iran is insanely irrational. Judging by Iran's current and previous actions together with the 'braggart' style rhetoric employed by them and other 'Islamist' entities (Terror groups and Nations) a person or a nation that doesn't act against them must be either inept , on their side or inadequate in it's ability militarily to stop these maniacs. Meanwhile what's being done? Sanctions? Iran has had years to save their pennies. Like most dictatorships, the 'rulers' don't care a rat's a** about it's populace. The brave 5+1 (LOL) is utilizing a strategy very similar to the illustrious Arab League. While the world as we know it 'stands precariously at the edge of the precipice (in our case), The 5+1 useless idiots rejoice of their successes by planning meeting after meeting! Like the Arab League, planning a meeting in order to convene and plan another meeting! On and on. Inept, inadequate with loyalties suspect.

Oh come on folks, did anyone believe the mullahs statements going back over a decade, and lying to the IAEA? Lets get real. Iran has knows that any major attack against NATO countries and or Israel, will result in a retalization, not seen since WW2. Israel alone has ove 500 nukes on 5 platforms. The US has 10,000 nukes and long range ballistic missiles. 2-4 dropped over the Rev Guard bases, Tehran and 9 nuke sites and its all over but the weeping. Just how are the Iranians going to battle Stealth bombers, smart cruise missiles, and even old B-52s, not to forget 33 aircraft carrier groups and nuclear submarines, and Im not including NATO or Israel. No country is going to invade Iran, with its 5m men and women under arms..and weapons as revealed here. The next war, beween Israel (the West) Hez, Hamas, Iran...will be with missiles only, perhaps some commandos? Iran apparently has surrogates and "sleeper cells" in the USA ready for the orders to attack sensitive targets and Jewish institutions, neighborhoods and synagogues (to spread the 12 th Iman, they need to first destroy the Jewish "infidels" in the area. Assuming they dare hit even one target in the USA..forget Tehran. Its history. As far as Iran's peaceful use of enriched uranium, Hitler s SS offen told the Jews and others they were to be resettled. Resettled, and Im a Sunni Muslim. Iran will test a bomb within 12 months..after our elections, and before Israel's elections. Like No. Korea, they will then tell the woirld...come and get us, if you dare. The world saw Germany rearming and sent a British nobelman to make goody goody with Hitler. Hitler then signed pacts with Poland and Russia...who he invaded soon thereafter, with millions of troops and 5,000 tanks (Egypt now has 5,000 tanks). Iran is hoping that like WW2, the world is sleeping. With the 2nd largest oil reserves on the planet, why does Iran need reactors I ask? With Russia offering fuel rods, why does Iran need to enrich uranium, I ask? Isn't it obvious...Ahmad says, Iran will make a NWO, (New World Order) sound familiar? While the US is preoccupied in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban, and Israel is debating the Tal Law ending...Iran is forging ahead with its agenda.

We Israelis are used to weak defenseless enemies, like the Palestinian villagers we like to torment, or like the Lebanese were before the rise of Hizbullah. We are used to shooting fish in the bowl. Retaliation is not something that should be imposed on us.

all along and now it is too late shit or get off the pot .deal with iran or cut the breaking news storys every time iran tests a new weapon.

this "report", which deviates drastically from previous assessments, didn't just happen overnight. why was last year's analysis so wrong? or are we now being fed what the political masters want us to believe? especially the scary stuff about iranian DEFENSIVE capabilities, lest anyone in israel try to attack them. the fly in this ointment, however, is that the mullahcracy is rapidly improving its capabilities. therefore, the logical conclusion is NOT to wait until their new-and-improved systems are operational, but to strike them NOW. betcha that's not how pannetta and obama meant it!

... and yet we learned nothing.

The U.S. used to downplay Iran's capabilities when it suited the U.S. to do this. Now, all of a sudden the U.S. changes it's mind and has now upgraded the potential power of Iran..

Then we might expect the U.S. to re- analyse this scenario also in the near future and also to change the "re-evaluation and timings " of Iran's ICBM potential.

to their teeth?! Conclusion of this article is....?????? -The Jews will "get" it once again and then rest of the world will follow. THAT kind of thinking is scary, not the Iranian toys!!!

down...N O W !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Islamic Republic of Iran is the greatest threat to civilization that has ever existed. Thirty-three years of that brutal and repressive regime and all the rhetoric promising death to the "Great Satan" and destruction of the "Zionist entity" have been quite enough. The noose is tightening around Iran. And if you think that the United States and Israel -- whether acting individually or in concert -- cannot destroy Iran, you are deeply deluded. The list of countries that would not mind seeing the Islamic Republic disappear in a mushroom cloud is very long; almost as long as the list of countries with the ability to effect precisely that. Don't look to Russia or China to come to Iran's aid. With the destruction of Iran, oil prices will plummet dramatically, anyway. That's all anyone really cares about, anyway. No fear -- we'll build something better in its place.

Listen to the keyboard commando lefty who knows nothing about the military or history aside from his sweeping rhetorical nonsense (although I agree the Vietnam was a stupid mistake). But to say that Iran is developing only 'defensive' weapons is assinine: its been clearly proven they are indeed developing WMD's and weapons to be used for acts of terror, which they've been caught shipping multiple times. They're guilty of having their hand in dozens of terrorist acts abroad; from S. America to Europe and towards American targets as well. They were caught twice attempting to kill Israelis in the Caucus region even though the 'hits' that took out Iranian scientists were the work of the US. Their continuous stream of threats as well as their actions have proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that they are engaged in terrorism, NOT defense. When Iran gets their military obliterated (Iraq's was FAR superior btw), they will deserve it. The Persian people want to be liberated from the death grip the Ayatollah's have on them and they'll get that. Nothing anyone can do, at this point, to stop it. Get a clue Seattle; you sound as nutty and flakey as a grunge putz.

That is what news reports are saying.

the U.S. has weapons a hundred fold more devastating to unleash on Iran.

is being terrorised most at the moment but the threat is everywhere. London being a prime example of the jihadist threat from converts & born Moslems alike. At least in Africa they recognise it for what is & dont have to watchout for apologists ready to storm the barricades for the jihadists

Sarah has NO Idea just how bad her life will become if she gets her wish for nuclear war. My late wife's cancers (yes, plural) probably resulted from just ONE exposure to a nuclear blast (she watched one of the Nevada tests as a child). Imagine a world were EVERYONE in the Northern Hemisphere is exposed to many times more radiation from many nuclear blasts at the same time. Then there is the "slight" problem that more than five nuclear blast within a few days of each other would trigger "nuclear winter" where the Northern Hemisphere would freeze over, killing billions of humans (probably including Sarah and all her family). No one is going to use nukes because it will mean the end of most humans on earth, including all of Israel. Sarah is a ranting fool.

P5.1 & Ashton are back-stabbing Israel. Its been confirmed by journalists privy to the P5.1 talks that even though the talks are dead, the process is being being kept alive & dragged on indefinitely through "expert-level talks" and other such technicalities by Ashton solely to prevent an Israeli strike. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak should note the P5.1 devious tactics and take action against Iran on their own.

Your policy of sophisticated ignorance has allowed Iran to improve it's missile assembly lines and bring its missiles into mass production. During the past four years Iran has been allowed to enhance quality and output, thus making it capable of conducting a missile-war. Since no missile shield will provide an absolute proof umbrella, against Iranian and Arab aggression, Israel must adopt a first strike doctrine, to make clear, that it is willing to carry out an unacceptable nuclear strike in case, foreign aggression leads to too many Israeli casualties and foreign aggression cannot be stopped otherwise. Israel must make clear, that such a decision would be made within only a few hours after foreign missile strikes and that it would not be discussed with any other foreign power.

As the weeks go by the chances of Iran wresting control of the Hormuz increases daily. The chatter is for something to happen in August 2012 Thats because the regime calculate that military action is the ONLY way to break sanctions without giving up on their nuclear weapons programme Is that why virtually all naval leave is said to have been cancelled? Is that why there is uncharacteristically very little of the usual verbiose from the Military High Command in the last few weeks? Their often stated aims are to take full control of the Arabian Gulf and the Hormuz, toll all shipping to and from the Gulf, mount a full scale invasion of Bahrein..and THATS FOR STARTERS And they see HUGE financial rewards from this action from oil surging to up to $250pb and huge ransom style toll revenues from all shipping through the Hormuz This is AhMADinejads final gamble with Irans future...What does he care...facing a cushy retirement?

Is where Sarah belongs.She predicts low oil prices and reconstruction era.With her constant prediction of glowing cinder and reconstruction of Iran,the best business one can get into will be in construction.Contact her for more details.

recently translated a Mohammadi interview (a cultural affairs counsellor attached to the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, to an Iran-based website directed at Iranian expatriates in Canada.) from Farsi for the Cdn. foreign ministry. "Close the Iranian embassy in Ottawa." It is a threat to North American security, as well as Israel's.

They will be in the end, loud mouth, trying to get a nuke. Even IF they got it, it will be at the cost of starvation and many death of Iranians. And Russia, China knows they are going to the path of North Korea again. And yes, these two will benefit because it makes a "buffer zone" for them. UNLESS Israel and the west decides to nuke them first WHEN THEY GOT THE NUKE. I suggest everyone to lives in far away land like New Zealand or maybe South Africa.

Iran has threatened on many occasions to wipe Israel on the face of the earth and you do nothing. All you people do is blame Obama. I don't understand why can't you just man-up and protect your own people from the mad Ayatollahs. We claim to have the worlds best air force and the most advanced technology and you do nothing. It is time to put up or shut up.

Would you care explain to the civilized world your theory about the destruction of Iran leading to plummeting oil prices? Economists are having the time of their lives laughing at your ignorance and stupidity.