Comments on: CHINA MOVES STRATEGICALLY WHILE THE U.S. REMAINS STUCK ON IRAN

By: Jon Harrison

Jon Harrison — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:43:17 +0000

I agree with the views of Chris and Dan Cooper.

By: Dan cooper

Dan cooper — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:38:41 +0000

For electricity: uranium must be enriched to 3.5%
For medical isotopes: uranium must be enriched to 20%
For Nu-clear weapons: uranium must be enriched to 90%

The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said: Iran is not capable to enrich uranium to 20% but the US Treasury Department imposed new sanctions and accused Iran of wanting to enrich uranium to 90% to make a bomb.

If USA believes that Iran is not even capable of enriching uranium to 20%, how can they accuse Iran of building nuclear weapons?

By: kooshy

kooshy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:28:48 +0000

Bahman is right on, I am from northern Tehran and I have seen how disconnected this part of the city is with the rest of Tehran south of Vanak nerveless the rest of Iran The outcome of the elections was obvious if anybody would have traveled in villages no Iranian official before Ahmadinijad had a 4 year village to village campaign before It would have been a fraud if he had lost he is good at campaigning you got to give him that after all this is a new way of politics in Iran similar to here which eventually new candidates will have to fallow to get the votes that means campaigning starts at least two years before any elections also you will need to travel to important provinces
You can’t just go to 3 or 4 large cities and expect to win. This was in all ways an important election which has changed Iranian politics in many ways that we will see in next few years

By: Dan cooper

Dan cooper — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:23:57 +0000

The lessons of Iraq have been ignored: The target is now Iran.

Unlike Iraq, Israel, the US and Britain, Iran has not invaded and occupied anybody’s territory, but has the troops of two hostile, nuclear-armed powers on its borders. And for all Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory and hyped up rhetoric, it is the nuclear-armed US and Israel that maintain the option of an ttack on Iran, not the other way round.

Perceived intention and potential capability is not enough to justify war,

Iran’s crime is its independence

http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/9312

By: 22 Bahman

22 Bahman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:32:58 +0000

with what happened yesterday in Iran, the U.S seriously needs to refresh its so called Iran experts, and change her hostile policies toward Iran. obviously, many of these experts have no clue what an average Iranian mindset is. forget about these out of touch experts!, many of these young people, to whom many are my friends, screaming here and there are isolated socially. they can’t easily communicate with an average Iranian, let’s say a shopkeeper, a barber, taxi driver… i am not sure even their own family at large. I always tell them, look who are you mingling with the most. you even barely know somebody from lower class or even cities other than Tehran (I am not from Tehran, but many of my friends are from there).

these were obvious long before. it seems, the U.S wanted to see them again and again. the problem is; the U.S is not used to negotiate without leverage, and is desperately trying to exploit every irrelevant phenomenon. sometimes, this is the outcome.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:10:55 +0000

This is so reminiscent of Venezuela–US oriented, upper classes feeling disaffected by a government the serves the interests of the broader population. Then when an election happens, they can’t conceive of the possibility that their candidate got trounced.

As for the group thinking Washington elites, they can’t conceive of such an outcome, either. Everyone they talk to–expatriates and Western oriented elites who travel–tell them it’s not possible. Add a good dose of wishful thinking, disdain for the regime, and believing your own propaganda, and Washington ends up with egg all over its face.

Yet they never seem to learn. It’s as if their imaginations are more powerful than what’s happening in the real world.

By: kooshy

kooshy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:03 +0000

Yesterday’s event is in line with the World Public Opinion organizations average of 12 polling with regards to the government of Iran popularity inside the country it also proves that green revolutionary dreamers and the so called Iran experts are clueless about the current internal Iranian affairs. People’s rally I saw live on TV last night wouldn’t have brought their infant Childs out if they were afraid there would be violence and if they were against the government they wouldn’t be there that is best poll everyone should consider. You can’t boss in 5 million people just because you will give them free drinks that is an insult do the dignity of every Iranian who rallied for the revolution yesterday of course no one is denying that there is no opposition with the current government there are at least 13 million who did not vote for current Iranian government but this group is not looking to mount another revolution and more importantly they can’t even if CNN and NPR run a 24/7 program begging them to do so, As Leveretss are recommending stereo typing a new revolution will damage the American standing in Iran as well as in greater middle east. If that’s what this country wants so let be it.

By: Iranian

Iranian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:11:33 +0000

It was obvious to everyone here in Tehran that the green people had no popular support and that the pro-IRI rallies throughout the country would be enormous. The clueless Iran experts in DC have some answering to do.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:29:08 +0000

The pro-Islamic Republic rallies today show that the idea of a “green revolution” is rubbish.

By: kooshy

kooshy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:48:37 +0000

Here is what Time reported that Senior Haass should read for his next article

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1963656,00.html?xid=rss-topstories