In comments broadcast today on Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV, the Shi’ite movement’s leader Hassan Nasrallah cautioned the US and Israel against attacking Iran, saying such a move would start a war across the entire region. He also warned a Western invasion of Syria would have a similar outcome.
“I’m not threatening, but anyone with sense can see that,” Nasrallah said. He also expressed confidence that Iran would be capable of defending itself from any such attack.
The question of the cost of a prospective war on Iran is a major topic, not just because such threats have been coming with increasing regularity, but because hawkish officials within the Israeli government have sought to dramatically downplay those costs, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak insisting the overall Israeli casualties from a war with Iran would be “less than 500.”
Though this seemed to be a major talking point for the Netanyahu government, the common sense approach, as Nasrallah notes, is that it is untrue. A top Israeli investment firm discussing the possible attack concluded that the economic damage alone to an international attack on Iran would be so devastating that it was unlikely to happen.
Yes, yes…but do western leaders really display any sense?
One thing I am wondering about. Back on 2009 the foreign minister of Iran, the foreign ministe of Israel (The Lizard eyes) Avigdor Liberman were the guests of king Abdullah II of Jordan wining & dining in his palace. Afterall, how can Israel attack Iran. I believe Iran is like north Korea a boogy man to scare the nations around which give US & its allies to have control of that region to suck their natural resources.
What preytell gave that one away?
The Israeli government leadership is insane if they think that any preemptive Israeli attack on Iran can be justified by the international community of nations, or that such an attack would go unpunished by Iran or their allies in surrounding countries. But both insanity and suicidal tendencies seem to prevail in the current Israeli government. Sadly, successive USA governments have been unduly influenced by the Israeli lobby and the USA is likely to be drawn into any Israeli-initiated conflict with Iran. That assessment makes these successive USA governments also both insane and suicidal.
Either a massive Middle Eastern conflagration will result, or perhaps World War 3. When any Israeli government official can prognosticate that 'fewer than 500 Israelis' would perish in such a war, they are lying — expect upwards of 50% Israeli casualties, not 500 — all due to the insanity of two supposedly democratic governments that would go against the wishes of a majority of their own people to wage unjustified war against a third nominally democratic nation that also does not want war. Considering the distraction from endemic economic malaise and inevitable collapse that war would bring, can this course of action toward war be the only path?
Only the insanity of religious fundamentalism that has taken hold of these governments could possibly be used as justification. As this inevitable war winds down, there will be revolution in each country and nowhere on this Earth that the war's instigators will be able to hide from justice. War is inevitable, because the insane asylum is being run by its' inmates. The revolution could not possibly happen soon enough.
A Sunni attack on Iran's WMDs might not start a major war . Obamas is one smart cookie , this is a excelent plan .