Comments on: Russia Starts Playing Hardball With Iran

Paper Reports Moscow Issues Ultimatum To Stop Enrichment

[TomMariner]

Everyone is kidding themselves if they think there is any force of reason that will cause Iran to stop or slow down their development and immediate use of nuclear weapons. Their leaders are not only driven by the fact that their political lives depend upon the gross killing but (since they are a religion, not a country) have the sacred obligation to remove the heads of everyone who is not their brand of religion.

I wish there had been a better way than WWII to deter Hitler's belief that his Aryan race should inherit our planet, but that jerk allowed the destruction of every major German city and got down to children fighting before he took the easy way out. And the leaders of Iran don't just have an economic motive -- a higher being is calling on them to kill. At least that is what the clerics who lead the goverment tell their citizens (oops I mean parishoners.)

The reason for the separation of church and state in the US is not to protect the church.

I am not smart enough to think of a way to deter Teheran's global ambitions but am dead certain that if something is not done very soon, all of us are going to be fighting to keep our heads attached to our bodies.

Our current direction sure sounds a lot like Neville Chamblerlain's appeasement of Hitler. I'll bet that (unless someone had a crystal ball into the future), he would have instantly lost his place in British politics if he had taken pre-emptive action to stop the growing threat.

[breceivemail]

Because of these actions, Iran is refusing other countries' fuel assurance.
Because westerns are the big liars. Like Bush who claimed Saddam had nuclear weapons.
Now they are claiming that Iran is enriching uranium for developing nuclear weapons.

Know the big liars of the world.
Believe that they are cheating people of the world.
Our nuclear activities are peaceful and we want to be independent.

[wolf563]

How many dirty bombs are we going to let him build with delay after delay after delay ? Ahmadinejad has said that the U.N. COUNSIL is illegitimate and yet he now wants to tell them lies to there faces . Give him one week to start shuting down or we (U.N) will do it for you AND the sanctions will stick for a min. ten years .

[wolf563]

I`m suprised the Iranian president would go into the heartland of the people he calls his enemy .He is taking his life in his hands with so many Americans anger and frustration at a peek.I hope the U.S.Air force escorts his flight in as I wouldn`t put it past the Iranians to crash deliberately and blame the U.S. saying they where shot down .Of course the U.S. could say it was Al-Qada . IRAN has lied to the world body ,cheated the only people that were supporting them and continue to threaten anyone that stands in thier way .Do you really expect Ahmadinejad to tell the U.N. the truth ? THEY SHOULD LOCK HIM UP FOR UTTERING DEATH THREATS .RUSSIA should go in and BLOW UP the power station that they built and cut thier losses . The world body could help repay them for restoring peace in the world and gain new stronger friendships with the rest of the world . WORLD PEACE IS AT HAND . JUST DO IT!!!

[karlimhof]

Zimbabwe will be more respected than the US.
Posted by tuckerndfw

no need to wait till '09, recent european opinion polls listing least respected:

1st place : USA
2nd place : Jewish State of Israel

[fredgrad2000]

Well, we know that the military option actually IS "off the table", despite what our administration says - in our Iraq state of mind, no one could muster the political capital or support to launch another military campaign even if we had the forces to do so...so as such, diplomacy is our ONLY option, not just the best one...and "muscular" diplomacy with Iran has to include strong actions by Russia and China (and Japan actually as well) - as these nations are their economic benefactors. We know we have been working all 3 nations hard behind the scenes - if we can get them on-board here as we did on North Korea that could be a very good sign and quite a detraction of all the naysayers who say we have no respect or persuasion in the world anymore. Wait and see of course, but diplomacy may be working here...we'll see over the next few months.

[d33pthroat1]

I don't understand why the news media is making such a big deal of granting visas to the Iranian president Ahmadinejad and his delegation.

The implication is that the US is going against some kind of norms and doing a big favor to Iran.

As long as Iran is an active member of the UN and the US hosts the UN meetings, the US has no choice but to give them visas. It is their duty to do so as per UN regulations.

If they dont like it, they can let the UN HQ go to some other country.

[tuckerndfw]

Which gives Iran an easy out and the ability to save face.

The president of Iran can now claim it's Russia's fault when he abandons his rhetoric about nuclear weapons.

And, his status is elevated in the Middle East for standing up to the US and warmongering George Bush.

In the meantime, the US loses even more face after George Bush is made to look even more foolish by Iran.

This is the worst administration in US history. By the time George Bush leaves office, Zimbabwe will be more respected than the US.

[anopinion1]

geneous.

any other countries feel like starting a war?????