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Anatole
09-17-2006, 08:58 PM
Is the U.S. preparing for war with Iran?

A "Prepare to Deploy" order was recently sent through naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two mine hunters. It didn't actually command the ships out of port; it just said to be ready to move by Oct. 1.

Can anything short of war persuade Tehran's fundamentalist regime to give up its dangerous game?

"We're trying to prevent a situation in which the president finds himself having to decide between a nuclear-armed Iran or going to war, said an administration official.

Bertie
09-17-2006, 09:08 PM
Nothing to worry about, Anatole - Hugo Chavez Says Iran Has No Nuclear Arms Program :D

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aHDAkFZsoNfM&refer=latin_america

SarahC
09-17-2006, 09:25 PM
Israeli Foreign Minister Livni says ‘the crucial moment is not the day of the bomb, but the day in which Iran will master the enrichment’; adds: I believe that this is time for sanctions.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Sunday that the world may have as little as “A few months” to avoid a nuclear Iran.

Bertie
09-23-2006, 02:22 PM
This weeks Time magazine is running a story stating the inevitability of a war with Iran.