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ElBaradei: Strike on Iran would be insane
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Published: 16.05.09, 16:06
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1. IDIOTS LISTEN THIS ElBaradei is
BEN   (05.16.09)
the LISTENING POST of the IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD ! The intensive negotiation is all a decoy set up !
2. THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (05.16.09)
But before the Iranians go for the bomb they can cause enough of damage to the entire region.You missed that point,sir.
3. but...
tom ,   toronto, canada   (05.16.09)
it is even more insane NOT to eliminate the threat before it can be deployed! the americans have a very poor record of negotiating with rogue states. they didn't manage to disarm north korea, in spite of the fact that north korea can't even feed its own people without food aid from the states. korea not only tested a new ballistic missile, in defiance of the americans, but they even tried to export nuclear technology! "sanctions" only work if the government is accountable for the welfare of its people - totalitarian regimes, by definition, are not. and iran has already demonstrated its willingness to sacrifice the lives of millions of its own people in military adventurism, such as the war with iraq. the choice is NOT between turning the region into one big fireball or not, but between a small battle with conventional forces to destroy an incomplete nuclear programme now, or fighting a full-scale war against a nuclear-armed iran later. because once iran has any nuclear (or even radiological) weapons, it will try to use them to pursue its ongoing theologically-driven battle against the "great satan". it's also surprising to hear mr elbaradei refer to the tehran regime as "my iranian negotiating partners", although this may just be a glitch in the translation. or maybe not...
4. to or to be, both are insane
observer   (05.16.09)
what if Iran works first on fixing the problem by preemptively striking Israel. Iran has had the justification; Israel has not only threatened to hit Iran but has already made its intention in a big show.
5. usa nuke freeze
chilem ,   arlington, usa   (05.16.09)
What moral ground does the usa or israel have to tell or force iran to not get a bomb if thats what the iranians want. How can u ask iran to freeze its centerfuges when the usa and israel builds bigger more destructive nuclear bombs everyday, anyone with sense can see a double standard and this is not high school this is the real world. you cant force iran to do anything. and lets look at history its the usa not iran that always has talked about using the bomb it has against its foes. it was the usa that dropped the bomb twice, no other country has used nuclear warfare except the usa so lets be honest the usa and israel can tell iran not to get a bomb only if they didnt have them. how can u be building new bombs but try to make iran look bad for doing the samething. if your enemy has a gun what are u doing with a knife. if your enemy has a nuke common sense would say if you want to deter an nuke attack on ur country u would get a nuke too. simple as that. usa and israel give up ur nukes then u might cant talk, otherwise shut up and get prepared to lose lots of soldiers if you attack iran
6. #4 Iran has the justification?
GZLives   (05.16.09)
Israel threatened Iran only after Iran not only made numerous threats and continues to do so, but are backing both Hamas and Hezbollah on Israeli borders training and supplying them both with weaponry. It would seem if anyone is justified it would Israel for just that singular reason alone. It becomes obvious that a country like Iran which uses proxies to do its dirty work will of course use one of these groups to deliver a nuke into an Israeli city leaving Israel with no clear justification (in an already hostile anti Israel world) to strike back at Iran but only able to strike where there'd be extensive civilian casualties. I suggest this will be exactly what Iran intends to do with her nukes.
7. #5
Jacob ,   UK   (05.16.09)
What about Iran's desire to wipe Israel off the map? Or doesn't that concern you because they are just Israelis? I read many of your comments here on Ynet and I'm fed up with your kind spewing out anti-israeli comments. Why? Because its politically correct to do so? You make me sick. Is Iran justified in everything? Even Holocaust denial? Knowing your type you would probably say yes. Do yourself a favour and stay out of matters that you clearly have no understanding of.
8. Listen to a Muslim only when they threaten, they are good at
Genuine Tosefta ,   Tveria   (05.16.09)
Listen to a Muslim only when they threaten, they are good at it and follow through with it. Advice to lay low is only for deception. In the Middle East it is useful and life saving to know when to believe a Muslim and when not believing him. If the price of stability (really, when has the Middle East ever been stable in the last 1400 years?) is the annihilation of the State of the Jews, then please Mr. Profit Namesake, we would rather "destabilize" the Middle East by preemptively attacking the threatener and the one preparing to attack us than cease to exist. The world was upset about the Ozirak bombing in 1981 and quiet in 2007 with the destruction of the Syrian reactor. The Middle East has been as "stabilized" or "destabilized" as before the strikes.
9. My #5 posts concern the #4 observer, my mistake
Jacob ,   UK   (05.16.09)
10. How about a strike on insane Iran ?
Marcel ,   Florida   (05.16.09)
Would that be OK ? Lets face it ,the intolerant world of Islam wants to exterminate the non molsem country in their midst that brings douber and shame to their allah. And so Israel had better teach them about 'Never Again' before the mad jihadist do what they have been working hard to do since 1948. It's time to come to the realization ,there is no peace possible with Islam !
11. jacob you need to read history and not his story
chilem ,   arlington, usa   (05.16.09)
jcob this one is for you!!!!!! first off the iranian president said that israel as a zionist state has to be wiped out just like the south african aparthied system had to be wiped out. the ussr is no more but the people didnt get wiped off the map did they. nazi germany doesnt exist anymore but u still have germans. if you would read clearly or even listen to his american interview you would see that he said the system of a zionist israel must be destroyed just like the system of nazism had to be destroyed, the solution that he gave was 2 states or one secular state where both people can come together. if u think iran will destroy israel and kill all the people with a nuke then i guess u are saying that iran is going to kill all the palestinians too, as they live inches from the israelis. you should use common sense. iran refused to use chem. weapons against iraq when iraq was using them against iran, what makes u think they will use a nuke when they wont even use chem. weapons when they are being attacked by chem. weapons. a mind is a terrible thing to waste and you've proven that.
12. Iran couldn't even effectively attack neighbor Iraq
better observer   (05.16.09)
not to mention 2000 km away in Israel, something they haven't been successful in testing. All their missile and satellite "tests" and "launches" failed and photoshopped for propaganda. It is also doubtful that they make any progress in nuclear technology either, there are too many hurdles and mishaps along the way to list here. Israel due to its geopolitical situation cannot take the risk that Iran may be incapable of developing nuclear weapons and must believe their rhetoric this time and attack to prevent another perceived Holocaust. Until the attack is successful we will not not the truth about this threat, but Israel is in no position to sit and wait to find out.
13. Mahmood you seem so pleased with dark plans
education don't ,   make u smart   (05.16.09)
14. #11 yeah and barbarians don't use techology because?
dooh! nothing since ,   the bronze age   (05.16.09)
15. chilem, these are the people who chant "death to Israel"...
DANNY ,   born in America   (05.16.09)
"Death to America" every Friday, after they get finished praying. (some God huh?) They are not like anybody in America trust me. We inverted Nukes, stopped a war against an EVIL empire by using them. We now know they stop wars caused by EVIL empires. Do we plan on using them? No. Will we? Just how insane these nuts who chant "DEATH TO AMERICA" take their vow to destroy us, will only tell. We don't threaten anyone with them, ever. don't have too. As far as them getting nukes? they already have them as far as I see. This is the year Iran gets its Nukes. Will they use them? Probably... Sucks to be them huh? we know how to stop wars started by EVIL empires.
16. There is a surer way to control Iran's nukes...
Rivkah   (05.16.09)
Isaiah the Prophet tells us in Isaiah 3:8 and Micah the Prophet tells us in Micah 3:12 that Jerusalem will be attacked in what appears to be a nuclear event from the description of the bald women (radiation effect). If the reasons the Lord allows the attack on Jerusalem are addressed and the Lord's anger appeased, then the Lord will protect Jerusalem from a nuclear attack. The three offenses to the Lord in Jerusalem are: women with wanton eyes, flaunting male sodomy, and cheating the poor. Tribunals should be set up for people under a certain income level to bring grievances of being cheated to without the expense of an attorney. Public displays of homosexuality must be banned in Jerusalem and sodomites encouraged to move elsewhere, outside of God's holy land in Jerusalem. Women with wanton eyes in Jerusalem should be charged with a misdemeanor offence and encouraged to move elsewhere. Too hard? Then Jerusalem will be nuked whether Iran's nuclear facilities are hit or not. And that will be within a short time since there is a tetrad of lunar and solar eclipses falling on the Jewish feast days over the next two years, as it was in 1948-49 and 1963 when Israel had other major wars.
17. #5
Jacob ,   UK   (05.16.09)
Because unlike Iran, the USA and Israel are rational countries who don't make genocidal threats like 'lets wipe this country off the map because they are Jews'. Iran has publically said that they want to attack Israel, so in my view Israel has every right to defend itself, even if this means launching a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. I think people should also know that Israel has threatened to attack just Iran's nuclear facilities, not their population centers, like Iran has threatened to do so aganist cities like Tel Aviv.
18. #11
Jacob ,   UK   (05.16.09)
Iran has changed since the Iran-Iraq war my friend. What we have in Iran is a clearly hostile government that is anti-Semetic and advocates Holocaust denial. As for your views on Zionism, it was not created to kick the Arabs out of the British Mandate of Palestine. Where in the Zionism Charter does it specifically say that? And to draw a comparison between Zionists and Nazis is just plain stupid as the Nazis advocated mass murder and went to extreme lengths to do so in their invasion of Russia which was a war of extermination and the slaughter of the Jewish race in Europe. And do you really think that Iran and the other Arabs nations for one minute really care about the Palestinians? What have they done for them over the last 60 years? nothing... so why would they help now?
19. #11
Jacob ,   UK   (05.16.09)
For your information I am a history student studying the Arab-Israeli conflict in uni and I know my facts. You clearly need to brush up on yours.
20. Israel didn't make a practice Nuke run, it was conventinal
warheads, they ,   don't threaten nukes   (05.16.09)
21. Bariadog; We rather go insane than become nuclear dust
Zohan ,   Tel Aviv   (05.16.09)
Yes, we will attack Iran. No doubt about it. " immediately start building the bomb"? You already had helped them built it by covering up for them. Negotiations now? WTFking nut are you
22. ELBARADEI = IRANIAN SPY!
WAKE UP!   (05.16.09)
23. BUDALA !!! =JERK !!!.
ORAO STRANKA. ,   TSARIGRAD U SRBIA.   (05.16.09)
ElBaradei: Strike on Iran would be insane AND NO STRIKE, EVEN MORE INSANE !!!. Tehran should engage with the United States and negotiate over its nuclear program, he said. SHOULD ??? - IDIOT !!!. "It would be completely insane to attack Iran," ElBaradei said. "That would turn the region into one big fireball, and the Iranians would immediately start building the bomb - and they could count on the support of the entire Islamic world." THE IRANIANS HAVE DEVELOPED LONG RANG BALISTIC MISSILES, NOT TO SEND CONVENTIONAL WARHEDS OF TNT,- IDIOT !!!. "I advise my Iranian negotiating partners: grasp the hand that Obama is extending to you," SO WHAT ???, THEY CAN SIT AND NEGOTIATE AND TALK THEIR JAWS OUT OF JOINT, TO NO AWAIL. The United Nations Security Council has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt enrichment. Obama's administration has made clear that any overtures to Iran will be accompanied by ramped up sanctions if there is no cooperation. IDIOTS !!!. Orao.
24. Everyone knows nothing can be worse than Iran with the bomb
Joe ,   Canada   (05.16.09)
Several important leaders with intelligence only available to them have stated that the worst nightmare would be Iran with nuclear weapons in its arsenal & then potentially available to its terrorist proxies in other countries such as Lebanon, Gaza , Syria, . Remember the statements of French president Nicolas Sarkozy (& Bernard Kouchner) to a gathering of ambassdors where he said regarding the danger to his own country so far away from Iran: in the end, the alternative will be bomb Iran or Iran with the bomb. So ElBaradei can lament about the potential consequences of an attack on Iran nuclear sites but he can't propose any non military alternative which can provide foolproof guaranty against the consequences of a nuclear Iran. http://www.iranfocus.com/fr/sur-le-fil/nicolas-sarkozy-choisir-entre-la-bombe-iranienne-ou-le-bombardement-de-liran.html http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/proche_moyenorient/20070916.OBS5150/bernard_kouchner_invite_a_se_preparer_au_pire.html
25. Hardly impressed with Muslims making threats, #8
Cameron ,   USA   (05.16.09)
The sour, old woman & runty kid down down the street are also "good" at making threats. Bone-stupid to make serious threats to someone who could all too easily grab you by the neck, and shake you to death. Persians & fellow Muslims would do well to remember the fundamental wisdom of not overplaying one's hand.
26. Iran already building bomb, what do we have to lose?
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (05.16.09)
Given the fact that Iran had instructions to build a bomb for years, and that they are able to make weapons grade materials, what is the risk that they would start building bombs once their facilities were destroyed? If you deprive them of the capabilities to make the raw materials how would they build bombs? Just another case of the watchdog saying that it is ok to let the wolf into the chicken coup.
27.  Mohamed you are wrong again
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28. A dog barking in the desert
Maximus ,   Rome   (05.16.09)
Hearing baradei advices would be insane. the days of the iranian nuclear program are counted, and its what made all these goons run mad. Isarel is ready and will strike..
29. To nuke or to be nuked! (end)
Lets erase them ,   Israel   (05.16.09)
30. El Baradei is insane
Brod ,   USA   (05.16.09)
or is covering up on Iran's nukes. The alternative would be a thousand times worst for Israel, the region and the world. Allowing nukes in the hands of the fanatical Islamist-Jihadist regime of Iran is insane. It is like allowing the Taliban and Bin Laden to have nukes. Fanatics must never be allowed to have nukes!
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