Don wrote in #8
Russia, you need to step up here.Do you really want to see another Iraq, Lybia, or Afgahanistan.Another US run client state on your door step. You need to stand up for Iran and their peoples right to live as they see fit.Who will be next ...You? Stupidity of some red-neck Americans are beyond imagination , mentality of foolish politician it isn't better than some of Spymasters, remember innocent Persian Airbus passenger were killed , did the commander apologised or explained the reason for stupidity , this is time that American Should rise up and send the warmongers to the front of battle, then they would realise truth about war , and Russian should honour of selling S300 to the Persian as they have signed the contract and received the payment , there is no longer time to fool the public for Green Band creation to prevent invasion of communism to the Persian Gulf.nevertheless some of Persian Golf Countries behaving like a Rent boys to america and sending battleships like the Pimps protecting their income.There have never been wining in the war , all outcome is the same . this is wake up call to all Humanity .

=> Jay://.. the people initiating these wars do not belong to any sovereign nation.. they are not American. They are not Canadian. They are not Isreali. Simply put, they are the owners of international corporations.//
= > Jim Evans:
//Jay ...I agree that the global elite are free of the control of national governments but so are the religious orders and business corporations and financial markets and the media as well.//Yes to both. We need to also understand that even the mega multinational corporations' traditional power configuration has drastically changed. Corporations' "vales" are not based on 'technology platforms', 'patents', 'assets', 'size', 'prestige', etc. anymore. All of their 'worth' has been tactfully reduced to their stock market values. Stock market values are "perceptions" and not real. They can be manipulated externally and huge corporations (if not play the game) destroyed over night. Who can destroy them? The creators of the the perceptions. Our moneys (Dollar and Euro) are not real (only 3% of all moneys in circulation is in the form of bills and the rest digital numbers in computers), but the value perceptions we have been guided to believe they have. Huge international corporations would look like expensive vehicles which can be rendered useless overnight if the high ways and roads are closed on them. High ways and roads are the international banking and trade systems, which have been meticulously created and totally run by the Judaized Khazarians. Once you equip yourself with acumen of identifying them, then you know is running the game.

RT: 'Why would Iranians want to shut down the strait and shoot themselves in the foot?'
Iran has never threatened to do that (closing the strait as a proactive/aggressive measure). Iran has threatened IF its oil export becomes impossible as a result of EU/US oil embargo, THEN Iran CAN resort to its other options like shutting down the strait (which is defensive and even narrowly within its legal rights).  Why would NAIC's rep. who most likely reads Persian falls for such a mute question?