Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain'

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_re_mi_ea/nuclear_agency_iran

VIENNA, Austria - Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its disputed nuclear program.


"The United States has the power to cause harm and pain," Iran said a statement meant for delivery at the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board meeting in Vienna on Iran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.

"But the United States is also susceptible to harm and pain. So if that is the path that the U.S. wishes to choose, let the ball roll."

In statements for the same meeting, the United States and its European allies said Iran's intransigence over its nuclear program has left the world no choice but to ask for the U.N. Security Council to take action against the Islamic regime.

"The time has now come for the Security Council to act," Gregory Schulte, the U.S. delegate to the IAEA, told board members. "Iran has still not come clean."

[ixion]

1. we live in a world of fools

a.k.a. politicians.

Who do you think will pay the ultimate price for this squabble? Citizens will, not the leaders that start these conflagrations. :grr:

[still_one]

3. and it is up to the citizens to throw these people out

they empowered them, and the people can get rid of them also

November 2006 will tell the tale

[EwokMyWeewok]

13. not exactly possible with ahmednijan or whoever

i mean we can try to get bush out, but what about those whackjobs over there?

[I give]

14. Good point!

I remember when I first began to focus on Iran--it was right after I voted for Carter, so I had just turned 18. I remember reading about the demonstrations in Tehran... they were chanting 'mag baarg Amerika' or some such--death to America.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

24. ******* NOT REALLY !!

it's up to us to take the "higher ground" regardles of "them"

"Giving" respect can make all the difference when it comes to "getting" respect-

Helping (not hurting) is to be expected of the World's Greatest Superpower !
But distored by greed, aided by media propaganda tools, and funded by the wealthiest, we take the prinmitive approach.

If some country needs liberating we cannot expect to be accepted as "helpers" by becoming "destroyers" and killers".
Bombing and invasion as an option indicates arrested moral development of those decision makers who invoke it.
And those who support leaders who invoke these options are no more evolved than their knuckledragging leaders.
Any great World Power who abuses its position is destined to fail.


P.S.--there will always be and alway has been since the beginning of history a "bad man" leading some tribe somewhere.
We can't blame "them" for what "WE" do--
WE the people.

[still_one]

2. after what the U.S. just did to upset the balance with India and Pakestian

with the nuclear weapons for mango deal, what do we stand for?

Are we going to start more pre-emptive wars?

If we keep playing this dangerous game eventually we will be involved in an all out war, and the people who will have started it will be long gone out of office

let them send their kids to fight their wars

we are losing America

[Just Me]

12. Well, the BushCO/neoconster regime stand for perpetual war,...

,...for perpetual profit and power, not only abroad but here at home, too.

[Born Free]

37. Not war, higher gas prices

When Iran talks of "harm and pain" it reference to the pain the SUV drivers will feel when they drive up to the pumps and the harm is to the American economy with a lot less oil - of course the bush coward and his team of nitwits will do everything they can to make it world war 3 and bring on Armageddon! His base believes that Jesus will come to them once they kill enough people, and say "you did a "heckofajob" now come with me to heaven...

[fujiyama]

19. This idea of "balance" has been a disaster

For years we placed India in the same category as Pakistan. One is a dictatorship that proliferates nukes. The other is a stable democracy of 1.1 billion people that has no record of proliferation.

The problem is that the US tried to maintain a "balance" in the region in the first place. It supports dictatorship when it sees fit to support "stability" (ie Musharraf). It donated billions to him in military aid and cancelled debt.

[bigdarryl]

4. Iran threats

Well Cheney started this threatening the other day in a speech he was giving saying the Iranian regime faces dire consequences if they do not stop there supposed nuclear program

[Dawgs]

6. Do we really want to piss off Iran?

Don't they have a very capable, large military that is right across the border from Iraq?

Isn't our military already stretched too thin in Iraq and Afganistan?

Aren't we broke from the Iraq and Katrina failures?

[leftchick]

8. actually Bolton started up the threats last summer

the neofreaks can not wait for WWIII!

[cantstandbush]

5. Why doesn't Iran just bow out of the non-prolieferation treaty like

India did from the beginning?

[AzDar]

7. Uh, no thanks. We're getting plenty of that from the Republicans. n/t

[speedingbullet]

9. Ham and Pain?

I first mis-read this as "ham and pain" when I saw it on CNN. Maybe they will corrupt us with pork products.

[lonestarnot]

10. Further escalation... just same old bullshit.

[Minnesota Libra]

11. This is is nobody to mess with, he is one of the original.........

....."Iran Hostage" takers during the Carter administration. This guy talks the talk and WALKS THE WALK. Bush just will not shut his trap and it's all of us who will suffer for his :wow: too.

[Roland99]

15. How is that a threat? It's acknowledging the obvious

The US is obviously susceptible to harm and pain. Pain at the pumps, harm to our economy.

[wordpix2]

16. BushCo's threatening Iran is absurd since Iran knows we can't support 2nd

front with our "broken Army." (Murtha phrase). Murtha was outstanding on this yesterday on one of the MSNBC news shows, basically stated that we don't have enough troop strength to even keep some security in Iraq, much less go to Iran. So why are we threatening them? Also said that Iran is not immediate threat.

[HuffleClaw]

17. when BUSH, or CHENEY, RUMSFELD or CONDI talk...

...always a WARNING or an ADMONITION, but every word out of iran's leaders is called a THREAT. hmmmmmmm.

[Rex]

18. Why do we let immature jerks run (ruin) the world?

I feel a good spanking is in order! :evilgrin:

[superconnected]

20. What a corrupt editor to twist that headline around.

Wonder how much of our tax dollars the nazi-cult-propaganda-machine spent on that one.

[HuffleClaw]

21. similar to the spin i've seen in that story about the teacher

whose lecture was taped then sent to the media in a direct attack on his freedom of speech.

[Megahurtz]

22. Great!

:eyes: Thanks a lot Bush&Corp.

[MissMillie]

23. Is "let the ball roll" anything like

"Bring it on"?

[truthisfreedom]

25. the US set a terrible example in Iraq and bushco is going to be known as

the most damaging president our country has ever had. his lasting legacy will be one of supreme corruption, insane violence, and the utter destruction of the reputation of our once-great country.

[maddezmom]

26. kick

[Clara T]

27. Teheran threatens to inflict 'harm and pain' on US over nuclear row

Teheran threatens to inflict 'harm and pain' on US over nuclear row
By Anton La Guardia in Vienna
(Filed: 09/03/2006)

Iran issued a chilling threat to inflict "harm and pain" on America yesterday as it headed for confrontation at the United Nations Security Council over its suspected nuclear weapons programme.

Teheran's most overt menaces to date were repeated several times at the meeting of the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iranian officials declined to spell out precisely what Iran would do. But experts say Iran's options include driving up oil prices, blocking the passage of tankers through the Gulf, stirring more chaos in Iraq, fomenting violence against Israel or promoting terrorist attacks against the West.

Iran's threats came as the United States gave warning that Teheran had in the past six months produced enough intermediate uranium compounds to make 10 nuclear bombs if its enrichment programme was not halted.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/09/wiran09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/09/ixportal.html

[savemefromdumbya]

28. You wonder how much Cheney is paying them to say that?

the whole thing is contrived?

[Warpy]

31. sure sounds like it to me

Shrieking lunatics on both sides turning up the heated rhetoric while their populations scratch their heads in bewilderment.

They're trying to start a war based on hot air. If that's the only weapon used, that would be fine. Unfortunately, Stupid's plans call for nukes.

[savemefromdumbya]

33. Funny how the Iran thing went quiet when Cheney did his shooting escapade

[madeline_con]

29. "Look, another badass, another troublemaker ...

He's gonna show us what bad is
I'm scared, ain't you boys scared?"

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

[gordianot]

30. I see this behavior frequently on the playground.

It is hard to decide which side is more immature.

[BillZBubb]

32. A little propaganda in the evening!

Iran only said it could RETALIATE if the US attacked. They didn't "threaten" the US. The Busholini cabal is the group making all the threats.

[CJCRANE]

42. EXACTLY !..nt

[TreasonousBastard]

34. Iranians aren't playing to script here...

they were supposed to lie down and be quiet when Rummie talked about how we could take out their nuke plants with a few well-aimed bombs.

Fucking assholes all around! They're gonna start WWIII just because they can't stop comparing dicks.

[951-Riverside]

35. Iran Vs. USA on WAR is RAW!!!

I wonder how things would be if Iran and the USA were ruled by women?

[Ammonium]

36. Harm as in another oil crisis

Could you imagine the republican backlash if Iran were to pull another 1979 on us again? Pull all of their oil off the market, or more plausible tell the west to go fuck themselves and sell oil to China, and leave us in another oil crisis. I'd be laughing my ass off at all of the right wingers with their yellow ribboned SUV's having to pay 5-10 dollars a gallon at the pump.

I almost hope it happens, minus king george wanting to lob nukes at them, as it would no doubt assure a democrat in the white house next go round. Die-bold be damned to can't steal it when everyone wants your ass out.

[JNelson6563]

38. We will see just how arrogant Team Bush is

Let us hope they are not so stupid as to try to take down Iran. I am not overly optimistic.

Julie

[Algorem]

39. isn't that Bush's job?

[george_hurley]

40. ***PETITION TO SIGN: NO WAR WITH IRAN ***

Hello,

For the past year, the growing tensions mounting between the US, Israel, and Iran are reaching a point where military action against Iran is w/in months of becoming reality. The repercussions are terrifying as such military action could involve countries such as China and Russia as they share massive energy/economic interests w/ Iran. The most likely scenario we would face would be the collapse of the US economy as the combination of a massive rise in oil prices and a run on the US dollar would surely be the weapon many countries would use to fight back against a preemptive US or Israeli strike.

For a collection of articles and resources on this subject you can visit this link: http://reseaudesign.com/research/iran/iran_summery.html

I'm starting up a petition which I will be sending out to as many members of Congress as possible. I'm asking for help to get this signed by as many people, possible in the next month. Send it to as many people you can.

http://www.petitiononline.com/n0war1rn/



Also, here is another petition you can sign from another group:
http://stopwaroniran.org/statement.shtml




Thanks for your time

[0007]

41. Fuck that ain't nothing, Hulk Hogan and the boys made promises

like that every night.

Here's a photo of John Bolton in the old days, before he grew new hair. Pain & Harm is Bolton's style.