Time to *itch-slap Iran?

[Hatin Since 87]

Like a land war in Asia.

Seeing how things are extremely dicey in that region right now, yes exactly. Or even the frozen tundra north of that, they haven’t been too thrilled with our military actions in the Middle East historically.

 

[NKBJ]

Who is Iran acting against?
Who is their opponent?

 

[KellyinAvon]

[video=youtube;YZuMe5RvxPQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuMe5RvxPQ&list=RDYZuMe5RvxPQ&index=1[/video]

 

[Kutnupe14]

Who is Iran acting against?
Who is their opponent?

Us. We pulled out of the Nuclear Deal and re-imposed sanctions. Iran is making the rest of the world pay the price. Everyone else is either going to have to wave a bigger carrot at Iran or we're going to have to re-enter the deal.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Us. We pulled out of the Nuclear Deal and re-imposed sanctions. Iran is making the rest of the world pay the price. Everyone else is either going to have to wave a bigger carrot at Iran or we're going to have to re-enter the deal.

You mean the agreement that they were violating anyway? Good riddance to bad rubbish. So what if we pulled out of it? What's stopping them from trading with the other signatories? We weren't the only party to that agreement. Pretty obvious that the others agree with us if they're going along with the sanctions. They just didn't have the cajones to pull out themselves. Now they get to blame us.

 

[Alpo]

Pulling out of the Iran deal was a case of 3 dimensional checkers by the Administration. Probably not a great move.

Having said that, Iran is acting like Somali Pirates. I say blow their asses to Kingdom Come!

We can avoid a ground war and keep it in the air over Iran. But, Israel might not exist after the ensuing battles.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Pulling out of the Iran deal was a case of 3 dimensional checkers by the Administration. Probably not a great move.

Having said that, Iran is acting like Somali Pirates. I say blow their asses to Kingdom Come!

We can avoid a ground war and keep it in the air over Iran. But, Israel might not exist after the ensuing battles.

I think Israel could take care of business themselves as long as Russia stayed out of it.

 

[Alpo]

I don't know. It depends on who else might enter the fray.

But, it's time to put the Iran theocracy back on its heels. Blow up infrastructure until the citizens change the regime.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I don't know. It depends on who else might enter the fray.

But, it's time to put the Iran theocracy back on its heels. Blow up infrastructure until the citizens change the regime.

Well, that's the idea behind the sanctions, but yeah, a few explosions for emphasis might be effective.

 

[NKBJ]

Us. We pulled out of the Nuclear Deal and re-imposed sanctions. Iran is making the rest of the world pay the price. Everyone else is either going to have to wave a bigger carrot at Iran or we're going to have to re-enter the deal.

Why would we pull out? Who made the choice? For what desired results?
And that list of nations with Iran on the end of the list...
That list came from who?

 

[d.kaufman]

Why must the US be the world police? British flagged tanker....let Britain get involved. Liberian tanker....let Liberia deal with it
Not the USAs problem in my opinion.

This is why so many countries hate us. We're always sticking our nose where it doesn't belong

Seize an American flagged tanker....then its on!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Why must the US be the world police? British flagged tanker....let Britain get involved. Liberian tanker....let Liberia deal with it
Not the USAs problem in my opinion.

This is why so many countries hate us. We're always sticking our nose where it doesn't belong

Seize an American flagged tanker....then its on!

Except it seems that oil tankers are never flagged from their true country of origin. I still don't understand it but I think someone tried to explain it to me (maybe even in this thread somewwhere). It's always something like "The Swiss-owned, Panamanian-flagged tanker" or some such.

 

[NKBJ]

We're the bouncer.
Somebody else owns the club.

 

[two70]

I was going to rhetorically ask if the Brits bomb Iran would it still be Trumps fault but I see the blame has already been cast.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I was going to rhetorically ask if the Brits bomb Iran would it still be Trumps fault but I see the blame has already been cast.

I don't know how many times I have to tell everyone that everything bad that happens in the world is America's fault.

Of course that doesn't stop them from asking for our help to fix all the problems.

 

[printcraft]

I was going to rhetorically ask if the Brits bomb Iran would it still be Trumps fault but I see the blame has already been cast.

No no, the tanker was taken by CIA operatives and blamed on Iran just like the mine attacks on the other tankers.
It’s all part of Trumps master plan for war with Iran so we can get their oil.

 

[BugI02]

Us. We pulled out of the Nuclear Deal and re-imposed sanctions. Iran is making the rest of the world pay the price. Everyone else is either going to have to wave a bigger carrot at Iran or we're going to have to re-enter the deal.

The other five members of the JCPOA are still falling all over themselves to do business with Iran, to the extent they were trying to come up with some kind of barter system so they could do business with Iran without actually going through the banking system (ISTE)

But they can't force their companies to do business with Iran (well, at least the ones not Russian or Chinese) and the US has made it plain that corporations must choose between access to the US market and trading with Iran, they can't do both. Virtually all western companies have chosen not to trade with Iran

Iran is punishing their friends. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

 

[Dead Duck]

I heard that Iran took it because …there’s a light on the ship that won’t light on one side. So they're taking it home to their workshop. They’ll fix it up there, then they’ll bring it back.



Now get a drink and go back to bed.

 

[dsol]

Personally, I have felt it has been time to b***h slap Iran since 1979...

 

[Kutnupe14]

You mean the agreement that they were violating anyway? Good riddance to bad rubbish. So what if we pulled out of it? What's stopping them from trading with the other signatories? We weren't the only party to that agreement. Pretty obvious that the others agree with us if they're going along with the sanctions. They just didn't have the cajones to pull out themselves. Now they get to blame us.

This isn't correct. Iran was in compliance. The president's own people said as much. We pulled out anyways.