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Ex-Hostage Diplomat Says War With Iran Not Inevitable
For most of my life, I've had a relationship with Iran, mostly good, but which included a long period in which Iran hurt me and other foreign service officers greatly.
I was the press attaché at the United States Embassy in Teheran in 1979, and one of 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days during the Iranian Revolution. I cannot forgive the youthful Iranians who imprisoned us and the regime that legitimized their cruelty, but I try to be as objective as possible as an observer of Iran's situation today.
Let's be frank. Iran's intransigence with its nuclear intentions and the West's efforts, led by the United States, to undermine Iran's economy and, perhaps, its legitimacy, are moving both sides further from a war of words and closer to a hot war.
This war would easily draw in Israel, and perhaps even some of the Arab nations that are showing their Islamist side since the "Arab Spring." It could well close the Strait of Hormuz and the drive the price of oil to impossible highs, prolonging a worldwide economic funk. And it would once again put the United States front and center in a third protracted war since 2001. MORE
Oh, what poppycock. LOL I thought you were being funny, but as I read I realized your serious. Israel isn’t being drawn into anything. We are always letting her off the hook aren’t we? Israel has been browbeating Obama and previously Bush to invade Iran and our military leaders have resisted.
Even Israel’s own defence minister has gone against the Israeli leadership by saying that Iran is at least 10 years away from having any kind of nuke weapon capability. But Israel has 400 nuke warheads…. fully armed and ready to go. Give me a break. They are currently using the USA to front for them in obtaining their ‘GREATER ISRAEL’ in the Middle East. who do you think benefits from all those middle east countries going down in violence from the USA and NATO??? Israel does. Israel controls the very top of all western governments…. read more and you will find out who funds all these politicians running and why they swear allegiance to Israel and bow before AIPAC every year.
God, what a joke.