Real News Debate: Why is the US threatening Iran?

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What is behind President Bush's warning about WW III?

2007-10-25

Is the US call to isolate Iran motivated by opposition to an oil-power that contends for regional influence, or fear of an Iranian nuclear bomb?

Our first Real News Debate features Jonathan Kay and Leo Panich.


Jonathan Kay is a columnist and Comment Pages Editor of the National Post newspaper. Kay is a regular contributor to Commentary magazine and the New York Post. His articles have appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and various other publications.

Leo Panich is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Panich is also the author of Global Capitalism and American Empire.

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[iFlag12]

This is funny, Israel/US have the right to BOMB Iran but Iran doesn't have the right to BOMB isreal. Bombing is not the answer! No matter what country Million of innocents will die!

[ratwell71]

THEY WANT CONTROL

[happinesson]

nice to hear both of them. They are both correct in an opposite way. Good debate.

[BelfastAtheist]

@flyer7799

I have to correct you here.. you're right in point of fact, Jimmy Carter did indeed give the green light for Saddam to invade Khomenei's Iran - they also supplied him with his Chemical and Biological weapons. But who are the ''rest of the Western world'' that you're referring to? To my knowledge, no other Western Country was involved in the Iran-Iraq War other than North America. Could you perhaps give me examples?

[flyer7799]

@iFlag12 The funny thing is that the only countries that are doing the actual bombings are the US and Isreal!!! Iran has never attacked a country since the end of the Persian Empire. The Iran-Iraq war was started by Iraq--Iraq pre-emptively attacked Iran, being given the green light by the US and was supported by the US and the entire Western world; and Iran still won the war. The Americans & Israelis speak of hypotheticals meanwhile they're murdering people everyday NOW!!! no hypotheticals!!

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

Actually, Ahmedinjehad never talked about wiping Isreal off the planet. That is a deliberate misquote of US military industrial complex propaganda. He actually said he didn't think Israel would ultimately continue to exist!It means something else entirely!

[rctube1958]

The West long ago lost the moral argument. Too many wars in the name of democracy and freedom.

[Scorpion781000]

USA knows that if Bomb Iran,,,,in 24 hour israel pig would wipe from map...That is

the main reason...USA never Bomb Iran.....

[Verradonairun]

wasn't this a waste of my time...