FM: Britain Won’t Rule Out Attacking Iran
Insists Threats Key to Negotiations
Speaking today in an interview with Sky News, British Foreign Secretary William Hague today insisted that the nation will never rule out a military attack on Iran, saying that “all options” would remain on the table.
Hague defended the position, insisting Britain wasn’t really “calling for or advocating military action” but rather believed that the threats would eventually “get some flexibility from Iran.”
British officials announced in November that they were ratcheting up their preparations for participating in a US-led attack on Iran, saying that they believed a war would be launched soon.
On Friday the French government insisted that the military option wasn’t really an option, and that indeed the West had run out of ideas on how to deal with Iran, since they weren’t willing to make any concessions.
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MvGuy
January 15th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
If "Britian" attacked Iran and damaged Russian facilities and killed Russians. and because of this unilateral and unprovoked attack, Russia wiped out all "British" ships and shipping and sent one or two small yield devices into their cities, would NATO cover the attack which was illegally initiated by England…??? Perhaqps Russia and China should make a statement that would not rule out an attack on London if provoked by damage to their interests.
skulz fontaine
January 15th, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Hague is never ruling out a British attack on Iran? Oh dang, that's hysterically funny and ripe with irony.
Go gits 'em Hague you foppish buffoon. Yeah, Brits wade into downtown Tehran all hell-bent on slaughter.
Monty Python? We'll be needing some commentary on British warmongering. Please?
John_Muhammad
January 16th, 2012 at 1:20 am
"Not ruling out a military attack" is code for "we don't have a clue what we're going to do, but we're going to make a veiled threat of war anyway, just to be sure".
I'm sure Iran would LOVE to get some payback on Britain- they screwed Iran over for longer than we did AND had a hand in the '53 coup.
I have a feeling that ANY battle the Brits got into in Iran would make Isandlwana look like a vacation.
گربه سياه
January 16th, 2012 at 6:26 am
Even with Sarko in power, the French are less controlled by Jews
than the British.
"On Friday the French government insisted that the military option wasn’t really an option."
Dieter
January 16th, 2012 at 6:50 am
Yes, Virginia, there is always a "world disorder" and even that can unravel as it is currently doing owing to the policies of the US, France, Britain, and Israel vs. Iran. The rent is most acutely active in the US-China relations (I call it the Mid-Pacific Political Rift). There was never "friendship" merely some mutual respect and the uneasy relationship of debtor vs. creditor. Now an acute enmity is rapidly developing fed by our government's Iran policy. A second rent may soon begin in Europe between the belligerent UK and France on the one hand and the countries that can only lose from a war with Iran. Germany appears to vacillate. Might the political rift occur there along the Rhine-Graben?
RickR30
January 16th, 2012 at 8:12 am
Well, if the one idiot won't do it, maybe they can get the other idiot to do it. It must be great to rule over all these nations.
Running out of ideas in dealing with Iran? Have they tried the carrot yet? So far it's been all stick. If you're trying to get someone to do something, threats are kind of a dumb, unimaginative, and childish way to go about it. Not to mention that Iran has made offers on their part. Here's an idea- take them.
Jaime
January 16th, 2012 at 8:19 am
"All options are on the table" Do these idiots not have at least some creativity to use a different phrase? It shows the Brits are just America's lapdog.
ML3
January 16th, 2012 at 8:54 am
Britain has been meddling with Iran for a hundred years. They just can't let their old colonial habits go
liveload
January 16th, 2012 at 9:10 am
BP is still butthurt over having their kleptocracy curtailed and would like nothing more than to go back to stealing Iranian oil like they did in 1941. They just sent their fancy new warship down there, too.
pendulum
January 16th, 2012 at 10:02 am
the little kid standing behind the big guys mouthing off
Drapetomaniac
January 16th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Doesn't Britain need its entire military to defend the Falklands?
kdding me
January 16th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Just open theft now.
Roger Lafontaine
January 16th, 2012 at 4:28 pm
They must think they're so clever when they use that cliche: 'all options are on the table'. They're actually threatening Iran in the cruellest way but they don't have to come right out and say 'We're going to drop nuclear bombs on your nation' and so they think that makes them sound so civilized and yet tough at the same time. They can't even think for themselves anymore. The bombs are doing the thinking.
MoT
January 16th, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Let them do it. Alone that is.
Bluestocking
January 16th, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Damn it all…do all our leaders actually *want* to start World War III??? That's what it's starting to sound like, after the statement from the Russian government over the weekend that they're prepared to view an attack on Teheran as an attack on Moscow!
(Oh, hell…why shouldn't they want to start World War III? It's not as if any of the leaders themselves would have to worry about suffering any of the effects anyway. They'd probably all be spirited away to fortified installations so that they can "maintain the continuity of government", even though most people would probably be too busy simply trying to survive in order to listen to them afterwards.)
Nathan
January 16th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
I wont spend much time on these rats, just shot the fok up!
andy
January 16th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
With all the muslims Blair let in, Britain should be more worried about peace at home, then Iran.