Israel isn't building nuclear weapons so that it can give them to terrorists who want to blow up Tel Aviv, New York, or Sydney, Marjorie.

Israel is a democracy, while Iran is a religious dictatorship.

Which side you should support is a no brainer, girlie.

In addition to the author's ignorance of non-Israeli reasons for US concern over Iran (see my comments above) the claim that Iran is somehow peaceloving is a fallacy.

"In over 200 years Iran has not declared war against any other country, so why would it do so now?" is deceptive - few countries actually declare war these days they just fight wars - millions of their own and their enemies citizens die.

Iran was very much a participant in the 8 year Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War

Iran took Iraqi territory on several occasions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War#Iran_victorious .

And then there was Iran's use of its own children to clear minefields by stepping on mines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War#Human_wave

The author's already obvious ignorance extends to Iran's recent history - perhaps some earlier commentors also forget?

Or are people being sucked in by the legalism of not declaring a war but fighting it anyway?

Pete

plenty have tried to remove Israel from the map over a long period of time. Thankfully their God brings its enemies to nought. Read the end of the book.

The religious nutters be they Zionist,Catholic,or Muslim are all the same.It is a big game in which the elites use religion,race,left/right to divide the masses while they keep us in debt slavery.

The Elites in the West want Global domination much like Hitler and the USSR wanted.This Western aggression has made China and Russia unite to maintain their sovereignity.

The recent to be war games in the Gulf of Hormuz with Israel and the USA have been postponed.Why? China who has been silent till now said an attack on Iran will not preclude China using all its force including nuclear weapons to keep Iran free.The Western Imperialists want Irananian oil just like Iraqi oil.It will make oil more expensive for us since there will be less competition.

Perhaps Iran's efforts to undermine the petro (US) dollar by selling its oil and gas in yuen and other currencies is another driving factor in the US rhetoric against Iran.

Saddam attempted the same thing and look what happened to him!

Iran, far from being isolated, has many nations outside of the West which have either a dependency on, or active support for Iran (such as Venezuela). Hopefully this will counter balance any military adventurism.

Note Leckos that Japan and China have just agreed to dump the US $ for trade.They now trade directly.Also India did not send its PM to CHOGM.Gillard was the told by Obama to sell Uranium to India against Labor/Greens policy,to placate India.