In an interview with CBS on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif
said that Iran does not intend to start a war in the region, but that
he is “not confident that we can avoid a war,” with US forces being deployed to the Saudi coast.
Zarif went on to caution that Iran is prepared to defend itself from an
attack, and that any attacker won’t be in for a “limited war.” He added
that US deployments were sending the situation in “the wrong direction.”
Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami also said that Iran is ready for “any type of
scenario,” and cautioned that whichever nation attacks Iran would find
their own country would be the “main battlefield.”
Saudi Arabia has been pushing for moves against Iran, accusing them of
attacking Saudi oil refineries. The US is sending troops to defend the
Saudi sites, but there remains concern that this is going to quickly
spiral out of control into a military confrontation.
Why has Iran located itself in the middle of our bases in the Middle-East? It has to move to where it belongs.
Why has Iran located itself in the middle of our bases in the Middle-East? It has to move to where it belongs.
“We’re looking for a diplomatic resolution to this, unlike the Iranians,” Pompeo said, as he and other diplomats gathered in New York for high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly. “… Apparently the Iranians are bloodthirsty and looking for war.”
This guy has absolutely no conscience. Yes asshole, it is the Iranians who dropped out of the deal and surrounded the US with military assets and it is their leader who threatened obliteration on at least three different occasions. How does this pile of lard sleep at night and why doesn’t the great omnipotent one smite him down?
Pompous Pompeo’s just as insane as Bonkers Bolton, but without the ranting. He’s also a pathological liar. He knows DJT doesn’t want war with Iran; yet, every word he utters about Iran is an outright lie.
DJT knows Iran’s a peaceful nation that hasn’t attacked its neighbors in 500 years, and that’s why he’s been negotiating with his Iranian counterpart – Hassan Rouhani – behind the scenes. It’s time for him to dump Pompous as he did Bonkers and find someone who’s expert at diplomacy (Pompous certainly is NOT).
Uh, trump negotiating with Rouhani “behind the scenes”….lol. whatever spanky does behind the scenes is likely illegal, everything else is in front of the camera. Oh, and “trump knows”….c’mon.
Do you understand the magnitude of the sanctions we have imposed on Iran? If so, how can you continue to ignore them? DJT is killing peaceful people.
We’ve renewed the main offense the Bin Laden said he was reacting to, basing US troops in Saudi Arabia. What could go wrong?
Bin Laden, and everything he said, and was said about him is CIA horse exhaust.
Zarif is correct to not be confident that war can be avoided – as opposed to Pollyannas here who grab for any slight indication that Trump won’t do it. This statement by him is notable because up until now the Iranians have been saying they *are* confident there won’t be a war.
Trump for all his faults made clear last week he isn’t interested in a conflict with Iran. The moment there’s a retaliatory strike Iran will unleash everything it has and turn vital parts of Saudi Arabia and Israel into parking lots. Iran is prepared to go all the way but clearly the Pentagon and most in the administration just aren’t. Even warhawkish Senate Republicans aren’t so excited at the moment (besides Lindsey Graham obviously). Granted the same destructive policy is still in place since Bolton got booted but we’ve also backed somewhat away from the edge of armageddon. A low bar yes but it’s something.
“Trump for all his faults made clear last week he isn’t interested in a conflict with Iran”
He did no such thing. Not to mention that he changes his mind every 24 hour news cycle, which should be obvious to everyone by now. So relying on anything he says is absurd.
Trump cares about reelection above all else so he won’t start a war. I don’t deny his foreign policy is awful (there are so many things I wish he would turn around on) and his policy on Iran is as boomer as you can get. But whenever he approaches the abyss he always backs off quietly. The drone incident in June and the attack on the Saudi oil fields are a couple examples of that.
You can stop a dog fight with your bare hands, conceivably, but it is a really bad idea, eventually you get bit.
Yeah, making friends with americans is dangerous anyway. Making enemies with americans is absolutely deadly. Not much of an option for any nation serving as a lapdog on trumps knee.
Low bar indeed. Ok, no shooting war in Iran, with the exception of Rayguns’ tanker war, no US president has gone shooting war with Iran. So what is improved ? The trump policy on Iran reminds me of a bratty 3 yr old, just told to stay away from a cake, so he stands there with his finger a quarter inch from the frosting. Needs a spanking, never mind, he probably likes it.