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Crushing Iran economically: Good enough for Israel?

May 31, 2012 16:10

The main advocate of a military strike on Iran seems to have shifted ground to try and annihilate the country with crippling sanctions instead. Israeli Ynet reports that the majority of Israel’s defense chiefs are against a military solution.

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arearderabroad (unregistered) 01.06.2012 20:09

Lets all not forget England and Russia.
Most of our problems are coming from these two greedy and coward governments. Royal family is a disgrace and corruption in Russia gave some time for putin to come back for more. I never insult the nation, but down to queen and putin both.

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reality (unregistered) 01.06.2012 18:44

let be real, isreali military threats are bluffs which iran calls everytime and once every several months you hear isreal saying they are "ready" to attack or attack in next few months and it always brings laughter for iranians, regardless of what weapons isreal has it can only hurt iran, an iranian response will mean isreal and its people will be history since the country and population is so small and already surrounded by iranian allies as iran can do what it wishes in self defence. isreal undrestands this very well they only threaten to save face. Isreal only has nukes so iran doesnt attack it first thats why iranian commanders dont take isreal threats seriously and only reall deal with american/EU threats.  Even if iran had nuclear bombs it wouldnt need it against isreal as their conventional missiles are more then enough and they wouldnt be that stupid to in history books likee US as a country who used nuclear weapon on another cuntry also its only for cowards.

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israelis have a BIG BIG BIG mouth (unregistered) 01.06.2012 13:28

Everybody on the  Planet  is  aware of the  "FACT":  israelis r  controling the Media  corporation in the West.  Thats  why  wester  Media r  losing legitimacy  and   consumers.

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Marc1 (unregistered) 01.06.2012 10:37

One shouldn't trust anything that the Zionists may say - they're masters of deception, corruption, blackmailing, subversion, etc.  "Destroy Iran economically", they say.  Well, isn't that a clear act of war?  All these manipulations and bellicose rhetoric is a planed tactics to test mainly Russia and China. Iran is a too big a bite for the Zionists' coalition; that's why they're concentrating on Syria, at the moment. 

Their ultimate goal is One World Government with the crowned Zionist king, one of the Rothschield family.  Of course, the resources will always be important, but once they've crowned their "Jewish" Khazar king they'll have all the world and all the resources with billions of subjects, servants and slaves (they wish).

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alephfool (unregistered) 01.06.2012 02:44

Crush destroy attack kill kill kill sounds like a dalek. Reminds me of MAD mutually assured destruction.This was a policy whereby even after a full nuclear exchange factorys deep underground could continue making more missiles to ensure nobody survived.All/most of our leaders are insane. Think on this,if Iran and Iraq got passed their differences and decided with possible others to reverse the sanction by stopping sale of oil for some period of time, right there is a serious impact to western interest. Mad, insanity all around.

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PotFace 01.06.2012 00:23

I dunno if it's good enough for Israel, but it's good enough for me!  Down with the oppressive heathen!

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RT doesnt like me.... (unregistered) 31.05.2012 23:08

JJ (unregistered) wrote in #5
The U.S.A. has been trying to crush Iran since the 1950's, anybody know
why?  I think it was when the Iranians kicked out the U.S.A. oil companies
and took over their own resources.  Since then the U.S.A. has been doing
everything they can do to destroy Iran, how come the truth never comes
out?  Iran is not evil, all this is because the rich oil money wants to take
over Iran again, so they can steal all their oil and make all the money.
The truth needs to be told. They are not trying to crush Iran to protect
Israel, that's the excuse, these greedy guys want to control Iran's oil again.

Yea, about that oil stealing....didnt everyone say the same thing about the US stealing all of Iraq's oil????  Did you know...Russia and China are BOTH drilling in Iraq??  Russia just won a contract today to drill and sell Iraq's OIL....so stop with the "oil stealing"...its not all about oil...its more about placing military bases all over and any where they want....over 700 and climbing.

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European (unregistered) 31.05.2012 22:28

The Monk (unregistered) wrote in #15 European (unregistered)- Can you really support the racial superiority attack on China by Japan as an offset to the USA? Can you really compare Guam or the Philippines, given freedom in 1945, to the "Rape of Nan-king"...to what Japan did in Manchuria in preparation to attack CCCP to gain it's oil...to what it did in Malaysia, Burma, Singapore??? Your view of revisionist history is unbelievable. Wel l, all these words to say that USA was helping China to defeat Japan? USA, just like any country, just fought for their interests, that is real politik. If not, why didnt USA condemn Japan for not recognising their war crimes? The cases of confort women or Nanjing Rape, for example? Why USA received the 741 unit experiments and even employed the japaneses scientists? Why didnt USA grant independence to Philipines and Guam in 1898? And USA just didnt want Japan to conquer China because of its self interests. At that time even USA had her interests in a divide China and naturally USA didnt want to see Japan to monopolized China resources. If you dont know geopolitics, i am not your tutor to teach real politik.

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The Monk (unregistered) 31.05.2012 20:39

European (unregistered)- Can you really support the racial superiority attack on China by Japan as an offset to the USA? Can you really compare Guam or the Philippines, given freedom in 1945, to the "Rape of Nan-king"...to what Japan did in Manchuria in preparation to attack CCCP to gain it's oil...to what it did in Malaysia, Burma, Singapore??? Your view of revisionist history is unbelievable.

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Romeo (unregistered) 31.05.2012 20:33

Last month,all military chiefs,in support of FM Lieberman,Defence minister Barak and PM Netanyahu,all united in favour of military attack on Iran,but within weeks,all are against military solutions.Why is that?There is a new kid on the block.Shaul Mofaz.The new vice president of Israel.He is a product of military,defence and Israelis intelligence,but the number one nemesis of Ehud Barak&Lieberman&Neta nyahu warmongering policy over a decade in Israel and ME.He wants to make peace with Palestinians and Lebanese and improve standard of living in Israel,which was ignored for the past decade.Shaul to Israel is what Ron Paul to USA.

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The Monk (unregistered) 31.05.2012 20:29

Quick question...can you find the secret USA-Israel agreement with the Alien saucer in Area 51???  Another fact, Nova started in 1996, not the 80's, look it up. There were rumors of a nuke used off the the coast of South Africa, mostly retracted, with no supporting facts. Retracted, a word you never see in RT.  The USA wants to support the only Democracy in the Middle East...and will continue to do so until Israel is allowed to live in peace. So...get over it!!!

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