Predicting whether or not the US will attack Iran 26 Articles

by Charlene

The new U.S. sanctions against Iran, is meant to lock Iran's military and financial institutions, and anyone who does business with them out of the American financial system, drew support from top U.S. Senators. The new...read more

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by NikkiAngel

Iran's case is totally different from Iraq therefore I don't see USA and allies attacking Iran. Although the case of nuclear weapon development is more threatening if Iran eventually makes one than if Saddam had gotten one...read more

by Matthew Owen

It now seems extremely likely that the armed forces of the United States, quite probably in conjunction with those of the State of Israel, will attack Iran, based upon both the extreme similarity to the events preceding th...read more

by Robert C. Sage

America will not attack Iran, without incontrovertible proof that Iran has attacked us. To date, the evidence against Iran has been entirely circumstantial. The Bush administration has backed off of some claims, when the...read more

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by Jamai Haquani

The question is not whether Iran will be attacked, it is when.. Some sources say for two years there has been covert special forces operations ongoing in Iran , Pakistan , Afghanistan and Iraq. Air strikes require a grea...read more

by Elena Mastors

Right now, Iran is a national security threat to the United States and Israel. The United States and Israel don't want a nuclear Iran. The United States and Israel recognize that an armed Iran can gain significant levera...read more

by Maurice Sassoon

The following is an Editorial article, relevant to the above title: Iran's apprehension of a possible attack by the United States or Israel is presently causing a flurry of intense anxiety on the part of its Mullahs, pa...read more

by ktarcus

To answer the question as a none American i would have to say ........ Eventually. At this moment in time the Iranian government is in full diplomatic attack mode, talking to any country that will listen to their rants a...read more

by David Carter

It is my belief that the United States will attack Iran, simply because President Bush included them in his list called the "Axis of Evil". This "Axis" was described prior to 9/11 and included several countries-Iraq and C...read more

by Magius

The current US administration will not attack Iran, nor will the next administration. It is impossible to say that the US will never attack Iran, since various events might necessitate such an attack, but the current Irani...read more

by The Writing Traveler

Trouble Brewing Rapidly we are approaching the moment, the point of no return. We are, most of us, incredulous that the voter populace could be so whacked out that John McCain might have a banana's chance in ape-ville t...read more

by L G Hoel

A rational person would not perceive the US attacking Iran in 2008. The state of our economy and military might suggest something like an attack on Grenada. Rational thinking has become a scarce commodity in recent years t...read more

by Aharon Hacohen

Those who are wary of unilateral American military action especially in light of the unsatisfactory results in Iraq may propose that the US try to build a coalition of Western countries for a joint attack on Iran. This w...read more

by Matthew Abuelo

The Drum For A War With Iran Scott Ritter warned Us about this over a year ago, as did Greg Palast, the Bush administration has placed Iran as the next country to invade. Now Seymour Hersh has also been sounding...read more

by Phil Hill

That's asking us to predict the thoroughly predictable. The US loves a bit of saber rattling, particularly against countries who dare stand up and argue. Iraq was a case in hand. The first Gulf War was unavoidable once Sad...read more

by Michael Platt

I don't believe this administration, or the one to be elected in 2008, has or will have the support of the American people, the political capital (domestically or internationally) or military readiness to invade Iran. F...read more

by Roger Ely

Predicting a United States invasion of Iran seems a bit easier now that we are engulfed in a virtual disaster in Iraq, but then again who knows? First, it depends on Iran and how they, along with their leader, Mahmoud A...read more

by Captain Obvious

Absent major new developments, the United States will not attack Iran in the near future. There are several reasons for this, not least of which is the crumbling support for the current war in Iraq. Every day now it se...read more

by Tom Karlin

With President Bush's popularity hovering in the low thirty percentile among Americans, it's hard to imagine where support would come from, to launch an offensive into Iran. When the invasion of Iraq took place in 2003 his...read more

by Munir Daair

I AM saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil," wrote Alan Greenspan in his memoirs, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World". It took ...read more