Starting a war with Iran?

[we vs us]

Interesting.  I might have to slightly revise my prediction.  Tensions are continuing to ratchet up, not down.  An Iranian-American was sentenced to death in Iran for supposed ties to the CIA, and the NYTimes comes out with an interesting article detailing a new Iranian enrichment site just set to open that will be far enough underground as to be nearly untouchable with standard ordinance. 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/world/meast/iran-accused-spy/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/world/middleeast/iran-will-soon-move-uranium-work-underground-official-says.html

I'm still convinced we're not on a path to unlimited war with Iran -- or even to an Iraq-style invasion, but the chances of air engagements, special ops raids, drone strikes -- in general, circumscribed conflict -- is definitely increasing. 

Also: you guys have heard of Stuxnet, right?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxnet.html?pagewanted=all

[patric]

Which Republican nitwit frontrunner was it that said he'd be tougher on defense than Obama? Say what you will about the rest of Obama's politics, but he's pretty much foreclosed that avenue of attack, at least for the reality based community.

Perry: "I would send troops back into Iraq"

[Conan71]

Which Republican nitwit frontrunner was it that said he'd be tougher on defense than Obama? Say what you will about the rest of Obama's politics, but he's pretty much foreclosed that avenue of attack, at least for the reality based community.

You're right.  You have no sense of humor.

[Teatownclown]

Glad I'm not an oilie watching the price get dictated by politics....well, kinda.

http://www.truth-out.org/iran-war-drums-beating/1328560738

The idea of an Islamic bomb exerts a peculiar fascination on American political culture and shines a searchlight on how the gross dysfunctionality of American politics emerges synergistically from the individual dysfunctions of its component parts: the military-industrial complex; oil addiction; the power of foreign-based lobbies; the apocalyptic fixation on the holy land by millions of fundamentalist Americans; US elected officials' neurotic need to show toughness, especially in an election year. The rational calculus of nuclear deterrence, which had guided US policy during the cold war, and which the US government still applies to plainly despotic and bellicose nuclear states like North Korea, has gone out the window with respect to Iran.

[Teatownclown]

Looks like Potus Obama is winning on this front!
Police, protesters clash in Iran as currency collapses
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ondeadline/2012/10/03/iran-tehran-rial-currency-demonstrators-protest/1609929/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19816249


Squeezing the mullah's nuts from across the way....

Won't be long now....

[Conan71]

Looks like Potus Obama is winning on this front!
Police, protesters clash in Iran as currency collapses
http://www.usatoday.com/story/ondeadline/2012/10/03/iran-tehran-rial-currency-demonstrators-protest/1609929/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19816249


Squeezing the mullah's nuts from across the way....

Won't be long now....

I dunno.  Might be all Asshatmadenajad needs to create an outside "threat" of some sort to galvanize the citizens.

[DolfanBob]

Wonder how much a pair of Levi's is going for these day's?

[nathanm]

I dunno.  Might be all Asshatmadenajad needs to create an outside "threat" of some sort to galvanize the citizens.

Ahhemeniblahblah is pretty much done if we don't do something stupid like bomb them.

[Gaspar]

Ahhemeniblahblah is pretty much done if we don't do something stupid like bomb them.

That's what I hear.  I've heard there's not Al Qaeda left either. 

[nathanm]

That's what I hear.  I've heard there's not Al Qaeda left either. 

Those who would actually know about Iran's internal politics are pretty clear that the mullahs are done with him. What, you thought he wasn't more akin to a figurehead like our VP's office?

[DolfanBob]

Do you guy's think it's bad enough that he might end up in a storm drain in the near future?