The biggest issue in world politics is Iran. They support and harbor terrorism giving Hezbollah Hezbollah UAV's which were used against the Israelis in 2006 and Al-Queda armor piercing rounds that rip apart our military vehicles in Iraq, they want to destroy one of our closest allies Israel, and are developing Nuclear weapons. If they destroy our ally in Israel we lose a front line on the Middle East, they have provided us wih a lot of vital information. Israel has almost always supported us and has openly acknowledged that they have our back when not many countries do. Iran is also facing internal problems with their leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who supposedly rigged an election to keep himself in power, openly denies the Holocaust when there is all the proof in the world that it happened, I was in Poland, I was in Auschwitz, it happened. The country also has hardly any rights for women which brings up the issue of an Iranian women who was charged with adultery after her husband died and was sentenced to death by stoning now that those charges were lifted due to international pressure the government is now charging her with murder of her husband They are gearing up their nuclear program getting nuclear material from Russia just this past week along with revealing new weapon of war also this past week, a bomber drone that can fly 620 miles (that range can attack most of our bases in Iraq). They are just ignoring United Nations sanctions and refuses to let international inspectors come in and see what exactly they’ve got going on in their nuclear plants that they say “are for nuclear energy”.
Iran is a serious problem they may not have many natural resources but they do have arguably the most value in oil and they have a lot of oil which they could by other natural resources with. If Israel was to try a military strike on Iran’s biggest threat being its nuclear facility they would end up killing a bunch of Russian technicians, this would be bad because Russia is on the P5+1 and wants them to be tougher on Iran. Iran may say that their nuclear facilities are made for electrical power but they are enriching their uranium which is what you do when you want to make a nuclear bomb, so you be the judge with that. The latest list of sanctions bans countries from things they wouldn’t normally do like sell them aircraft or other military vehicles but it only recommends countries to not align themselves financially or inspect Iranian ships coming in and leaving their ports along with many more.
If Iran is to be dealt with diplomatically which is the way we all hope happens, because their people don’t want their government, they’ve been protesting in the streets then we need to have much harder sanctions on them that for example we wouldn’t allow them to sell their oil which would choke them financially and they would have to allow us in to see their nuclear “power plants”. If that can’t happen then I agree with our government’s statement that all options are on the table which could include a military strike on their facilities.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/08/22/nr.walsh.iran.arms.cnn?iref=allsearch
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/03/us-jet-shoots-d/
By: Alex H.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/03/us-jet-shoots-d/
Alex, How do we take the corruption out of Iran if it is so deeply embedded into their national identity? Is it our place, as the United States or the United Nations, to step in and appoint leaders? Or, what other ideas do you have to take corruption out of Iran's government so we can make them more foreign-nations-friendly?
ReplyDeleteIt isn't our place to step in and put leaders where we want them. We have been guilty of that in the past, but if there was a way where we could make sure elections were free and not rigged.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with your assesment of the situation in Iran. They are blatantly ignoring the international community and making it difficult to work with them. I would have to say that I do not favor talking with Iran's regime because it is seen as a mockery in their eyes. Their people do not want us to talk it out with Ahmadinejad. We must help them subvert the government and ruin it's legitimacy before they gain capabilities such as nuclear weapons.
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