An excellent article and worthy of a comment or two. Firstly, Iran people are not like any other country in the region. However, with the exception of one or two people in the US, including an ex-CIA operative, few have taken the trouble to see the differences.
As you say, Kourosh, the Americans removed the Shah, then engineered the Khoumeni grand entrance, then jumped into bed with Saddam Hussein, a dictator of their making, then supplied weaponry that killed hundreds of thousands Iranians to remove the man they had put into power and now wonder why they do not have a fiend in that part of the world. No, not even Israel, they are just a cunning user of aid, using their devious national characteristics to exploit the easily-exploitable US.

Through their catch cries, 'anti-Semite' and 'holocaust' they have marketed the weakness in the US government using graft and corruption through AIPAC and appealing to the weak, compliant politicians, 75% of whom signed a letter saying that no one should be allowed to criticise Israel.
How do you like that for free speech. This is the much-lauded "home of freedom". What rubbish! Just a large Jewish puppet state.
So, sadly, the US is just not intelligent enough to see (1) that Israel is raping them every day of every year and has done for the past 65 years and, (2) even worse that that they hate the US as well; (3) that Iran is made up of highly intelligent people with a history of development over centuries and that (4) they have missed their opportunity to make a difference in this part of the world for ever.
No one respects the US any more. The only reason why we haven't seen their bumbling interference in Australia is because they know that as a country we are apathetic, or as Israel called us recently, 'benign'.

Do not expect anything but belligerence from the US towards Iran for with Israel pulling the strings and they will again manipulate the US into being their milking cow. They are past masters of the art.

"Iranian people don't need a foreign supremacist to rule for them" They create their own.

Secondly I wasn't aware that the US was waging a war against Iran.

I presume this author is an Iranian; he at least lives there. But what strange ideas he has.

As Shadow Minister said, there is no US war against Iran; but, why on earth would the US wage war on Israel, its ally and the only thing between fundamentalist Islam and the West in the Middle East?

Wasn't it the wonderful president of Iran who said that Israel should be wiped of the map? Wouldn't Iran, beavering away to get a nuclear capablilty, at least give thought to wiping Israel of the map?

Perhaps it was something that the weird Mr. Obama said. Perhaps its the Muslim mindset that we will never understand.

For those of you who think that Israel is a satellite of the US, time to see reality as it is, as follows....

“We (Israel) possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets … most European capitals are targets of our air force … the Palestinians should all be deported. Two years ago, only 7 or 8 per cent of Israelis were of the opinion that this would be the best solution, two months ago, (January 2010), it was 33 percent and now according to a Gallup poll, the figure is 44 percent”.

- Martin Van Crevel, Israeli professor of military history at Hebrew University at Jerusalem and top adviser to the Israeli Armed Forces, March 2, 2010.

That's just a week ago.

They are backed up by at least 200 nuclear warheads (US Air Force figures).

Look up the good professor on the web. If you think that nuclear weapons in the hands of India and Pakistan is a scary scenario, try arrogant Israel.

Just this month, they gave the VP of the US the big finger and ignored the advice of President Obama.

Finally, for those who are not aware of the threat that Israel poses to world peace and Iran in particular, it is discussed daily on the real news sources on the web so please don't look for reality in any newspaper associated with the name Murdoch

Rexw,

I was unaware that in Israel history professors held such sway over the government. The president of a country is another issue.

If you resort to quoting crackpots you could support any point of view.

Nice try - no cigar.

Admiral Mullen,Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently went to Israel to calm the situation down.He said that attacking Iran would have would not lower the perceived nuclear threat.Both Bush and Obama have been sabre rattling over Iran.As rexw said,Israel has 200 nukes and the means to deliver them.Why are there no weapons inspectors in Israel?

The invasion of Iraq was based on a lie and so in my opinion was the invasion of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

China gets 40% of its oil form the Middle East and Russia has warned the USA not to invade as the consequences will be dire.Iran will be no push over like Iraq.The Arab Nations will errupt and the death toll of 1.4 million Iraqis will be nothing compared to this.The USA is on record as wanting to use tactical nuclear weapons.How do you have a limited nuclear war?

The invasion of Iran will see the price of oil create poverty never dreamt of before.

It is historical fact that Israel attacked the US Liberty in 1967 trying to blame it on Egypt and thus get the USA to attack Egypt.The big question is,can Israel be trusted to keep the peace in the the Middle East? There is too much at stake for us to remain ignorant.

Good to see OLO has the courage to print an alternate view.