Iran military tests raise tension in Persian Gulf

[icontron]

WELL I AM USA PEOPLE, AND I SAY ,IF YOU FLONT YOUR NEW NUKE POWER THE WAY IRAN IS DOING IT WOULD FREAKE OUT ENYONE , IRAN DOSE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND IT SELF, BUT FLONTING THE NUKE STUFF IS A CONSERN FOR EVERYONE, I DONT KNOW WHY THE USA GOVERMENT IS DOING THIS BUT USA HAS ARIGHT TO BE CONCERND ALSO, MY OPINION IS JUST ONE SIMPLE MANS VIEW

[SaintMeran]

iran should keep it,s mouth shut and stay where it belongs.

[SexMoooT]

Arabian Gulf

[batsharp]

@SexMoooT Does not exist. Persian Gulf is Persian Gulf and will remain Persian Gulf

[Britainpolitics]

israel and jews are the problem

[Ravensteinzh]

"Iran military tests raise tension in the Persian Gulf."

Yeah of course the region was SO PEACEFUL until Iran did a military test, right?

[nimrooo]

America=violent war mongers

let the world live in peace

[MrIntangibleasset]

You know what's funny, Iranians are nothing like they are portrayed. Here in Beverly Hills, one of America's wealthiest community, I swear half of the residents are Iranians, their pretty chill. Also, there are tons of Jews in Iran, Iran has no problems with Jews, a lot of Jewish Iranians in LA too. Iran only wants to defend itself from an aggressor and it has that right.

[qwersdxqwersdx]

This is ridiculous I can't believe Iran is being persecuted like this! Can anyone seriously blame them for trying to make a nuke ASAP when the USA has it's heart on invading for no valid reason. And these "war games", how many trials does america and the EU go through in a year? There is even a US battle fleet stationed just outside Iranian waters HOW IS THAT NOT WAR MONGERING! I think Iran should do the exact same thing, go park all there ships just outside US waters and see how they like it.

[AndresHerutJaim]

Iran is history

[raminss80]

@AndresHerutJaim your mom was history

[ButteWhat]

Sanctions have accomplished exactly nothing. It's an election year so wouldn't put anything past Obama and Amnidinazad's popularity also waning. Don't see anything happening but with navies so close anything could happen.

[crossandknots]

Go iran go. Put the world police country in its place.

[rsa8665]

just make the the bomb and get done with. If you don't, there will be a new war for the good of few people at the cost of innocent lives.

[HemiHead66]

I can't believe that the Washington crime family are going to "punish" foreign banks that buy oil from Iran. Soon they'll have half the world on their axis-of-evil hit-list. No country should have power like that.

[qortin]

i think that it is the US and EU who are raising the tensions by threatening Iran with

1) War,

2) Further Sanctions and

3) Isolation.

Although my believes are anti thetical to those of the Iranian regime and hope it is brought to its knees I sincerely believe that the regime is rightly acting in self defense.

Meanwhile I am disgusted by the media who always seem to portray facts in a manner to protect the integrity of our governments instead of plainly stating facts.

[TimmacTR]

this news is same as saying: US military tests in Hawai raise tensions in the Pacific

[vj198]

please don´t close the strait of hormuz.

[soycd10]

@vj198 we'll think about it.

[moello888]

@vj198 Iran is constantly saying Iran doesn not have an intention to close the Strait.

But when Iran realizes the US fleet forces their way into the Gulf where 90 % of it belongs to Iranian territory, it would be a differnt story in order for Iran to safeguard it´s country, assets and the people. Most obviously US/israhell are interested in ransacking Iran´s ultra- high scientic techs for humanitarian use etc which US/israhell don´t have now,and it´s NOT the matter of thermal nuclear weapons

[erdal0]

RUSSIA GIVE IRAN NUKES TO STOP THIS WAR

[moello888]

@erdal0 Maybe so, but if it´s true, US/Israel cannot attack, coz Iran "acquired" nukes to work as deterrent ,according to your input which needs to be verified. As you know Russia "officially" declined to sell S-300 missiles, but Iran got some from other places to reverse engineer the versions which will be lethal enough as combat missiles as US carrier killers,too. IMHO it´s most ideal US fleet gets elliminated by Irans´s tactical weapons and Hezbolla attacks Israel at the same time.

[MartianStories]

It's the nastiest part of the '80's all over again. Look, We The People Of The Earth have got to get down to brass tacks about this shit; it's time to abolish The Bomb forever. All the countries of the world have to pass a measure outlawing and forbidding nuclear weapons. We have to completely dismantle every nuke in every country's stockpile. Every single one. There is no reason to have them, there is no need, they are good for NOTHING. Any country that has one should be invaded by all.

[quaresma7besiktas]

israel can have nukes but iran cant

israel can hold exercises but iran cant

WTF?

[tdevry]

@quaresma7besiktas yes and why? because Iran have shown themselves to be unreliable and not trustworthy...duh..it is like giving little children a gun to play with, if they don't shoot themselves they will shoot someone else.

[thedood73]

@tdevry.... sounds like the US you talkin about dude. Stop listening to the propaganda of proven warmongers(ie US) man.

[Forconia]

@quaresma7besiktas That's what happens when you go against US. Why should US have an enemy with nuclear weapons that can pose a threat.... It is just logical.....

[m4rkyboy]

@quaresma7besiktas The military proliferation in tandem with a theocratic regime is worrying to people in the West for several reasons.1)the regime,through school curriculum,state broadcasting and printed media,is echoing violent, racist sentiments expressed through the mullahs and imans in the mosques.This has lead to a govt,which in the interest of remaining populist in an increasingly fundemental religious country of stating the wish 'to wipe Israel of the map'.

[quaresma7besiktas]

@m4rkyboy

"iran wishing to wipe israel off the map" is cheap zionist propaganda tool to start another war. saddam also had chemicals, right? how many wmd found after murdering hundred thousands ? as long as israel has every other country in the mid east must have nukes as israel the only country here that has been fighting & occupying since being founded and still looking for more. isr willing to dominate others by nukes iran, turkey been here for more than 1000 years so this isnt accptable!

[m4rkyboy]

@quaresma7besiktas 2)Iran has more than one Rasputin type character whose influence extends to the very top,indeed,actually sits at the top.Religious fervour and responsible governance do not go well together.Maybe one day the supreme leader in a fit of delirium confuses his own inner-dialogue with god and in a fit of pique deems it 'gods wish' that the nuke be used-after all,allah says the kaffir should be killed and the Koran makes no bones about its hatred of judaism.

[JSErwine]

@m4rkyboy

The very same can be said about any country that has Nukes, so lets stick with facts.

1. The US is the only nuclear armed country that has used nukes at a time of war. (fact)

2. The US is the worlds largest arms dealer, we do not care who we sell our weapons to. If you got the money, we got the guns. Right now Iran is using US made fighter jets in their war games. (fact)

9/11 is a result of blow back for our unconstitutional involvement in foreign wars and nation building

[m4rkyboy]

@JSErwine Does France have a structure of god-inspired governance?What about the UK?or the USA?No,we rejected established religion in the enlightenment.

I will repeat,i have no problem with a secular Iran having nuclear capabilities,it is the prospect of a theocratic Iran and some fanatical Mullah having codes to a ballistic nuclear warhead that worries me.

And btw,i never mentioned 9/11.Iran has nothing to do with 9/11.To conflate the 2 is disrespectful Iran.

[JSErwine]

@m4rkyboy

I was just using 9/11 as an example of blow back. Iran has every reason to dislike us, it started back to 1953 when the US and UK covertly overthrew their government and propped up the Shaw. 20 some years later we do the same in Iraq with Saddam, in the 70's america was told how great a leader Saddam was. Then Iran and Iraq went to war, and the US handed over vital sattelite info showing Iran troop positions which led to the slaughter of thousands of unarmed Iranians. Fact

[m4rkyboy]

@quaresma7besiktas So,basically,if Iran,it's governance,law and education are an extension of the Koran it doesn't exactly inspire confidence if the Koran says to kill the jew and kaffir. .Exactly why do they want a nuke should be the question you are asking.

[quaresma7besiktas]

@m4rkyboy

koran doesnt say kill jew

if talking about religion first go learn about israel's religious motivators. e.g. promised land, god's people, chosen people and etc. and see if they are much different from iran

[m4rkyboy]

@quaresma7besiktas You asked the question man,i am here with the answer.

[Hafez21hafez21]

@m4rkyboy Bring me there verse in the Quran that God tells the Muslims to kill Jews........I CHALENGE YOU TO BRING ME THAT VERSE! You are the result of CNN, Fox news and the entire western propaganda machine that is owned and maintained and made and run by Zionists

[m4rkyboy]

@Hafez21hafez21 This rant goes some way to actually proving what i said.Your hatred and distrust of Israel is palpable.

[Hafez21hafez21]

@m4rkyboy Did you ever ask yourself why so many hate Israel? Why don’t they hate Switzerland? Israel has left no one any other choice. Israel & their friends have made it their life goal to kill, destroy, and humiliate Muslims & Iran. Why? The land and resources Israel wants are located in places where Iranians, Muslims, Arabs live, so this people are an obstacles to their goals they have to demonize them in the west so they can get support of the people when they start wars against them.

[m4rkyboy]

@Hafez21hafez21 I am Scottish mate,we hold no ill-will to anyone.Our enemies are now our friends and we hope for nothing but peace and prosperity.I am going out now to meet friends,share a bottle of whisky and celebrate hogmanay.

We have a saying in Scotland btw 'o wad the lord the giftie gie us,tae see oorselfs as others see us'.

Salaam my friend.

[Hafez21hafez21]

@m4rkyboy Salam : ) and Happy New Year.

[mauiluna13]

@Hafez21hafez21 well said!

[m4rkyboy]

@Hafez21hafez21 I actually don't know what a'hadith' is but i found this on wiki.

'The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews,when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews'

[Hafez21hafez21]

@m4rkyboy Yes I have heard that stupid Wahabi hadith myself, but again who created wahabism in the first place? The same people who brought down those towers, who are the people who brought down those towers. None of them where Muslims. And all the 19 so called highjackers where are Saudi intelligent officers working with Mossad and CIA whom probably did not have any Idea that this would be the last flight they will be taking. Al Qaida, Taliban are all CIA and Mossad, MI5 assets.

[qortin]

@m4rkyboy fuck you and your crazy racist rant

[m4rkyboy]

@qortin Explain the crazy part and the racist part.I thought it was a well thought out explanation of western concern.

[m4rkyboy]

@quaresma7besiktas Maybe it's so they can do gods work.Maybe it's as a deterrent.I have no problem with a SECULAR Iran having nuclear capabilities.Giving the codes to some fanatical Mullah i most definitely do have a problem with.

[JSErwine]

@m4rkyboy

Your ignorance is showing. Countries don't get nukes to start wars, owning a nuke is a countries ticket to sit at the adult geopolitical table. OMG everyone freak out, Iran made it's first fuel rod, lol you idiots are being lead around by fear.

[AmericanGuys100]

@quaresma7besiktas Because the Iranian Dictator is a fucking crazy fuckhead, his military would fall easily to western forces.

[JSErwine]

@AmericanGuys100

Wait, I thought Iran was a threat to our national security?

[mauiluna13]

@AmericanGuys100 What the fuck are you talking about? Iran haven't attack any country for 2 hundred year's. I wonder?.. How many war's we went thrue in the past century.

[NewAtheim]

@quaresma7besiktas israels nuclear programme was and is technically illegal and no one knows for sure if they even have nuclear weapons. and i would rather israel have nuclear weapons than a bunch of crazy mullahs in iran

[quaresma7besiktas]

@NewAtheim

israel aint less crazy than iran besides israel is the only country here that has been fghting&occupying since being founded and still looking for more. netanyahu and lieberman whined that "if iran gets nukes then turkey will also want to have". 60 year old fabricated asstate wants to dominate others in the region, this is hilarious and not acceptable, thats why some of the mid east countries must have nukes to defend themselves and 2000 year old iran is the one.

[Tamar8070]

It's the time to beat the ayatollahs.

[hayden50]

nuke em already....