USA Attach to IRAN ?

Question

What do you think ?

Answer 1

I think you need to work on your question a little more.

Also, the question "Will the US attack Iran?" has already been asked about 450 times so far.

Answer 2

To the best of my knowledge, the USA is not ATTACHed to Iran in any way.

Answer 3

If the US made serious effort to create unprecedented relations with Iran perhaps we would be able to avoid the oncoming war. There is no doubt that Iran feels pressured by US presence in Iraq and will not tolerate talk of extending American influence into Iran. The obvious and pending war with Iran could only be stopped by US effort to in effect "nip the problem in the bud."

Answer 4

I think you mean "attack".  Iran is in a heap of trouble.....

Iran is dealing with two issues.  

o-  First, Iran has captured 15 British Royal Navy  personnel.  

o-  Second, Iran has refused to cooperate with the UNSC  regarding cessation of uranium enrichment.  

AMBUSHED

At 10:30 a.m. on March 23, 2007,  six IRCG guard boats ambushed, surrounded and seized two Royal Navy 'ribs' (rigid-hulled inflatable boats) containing 15 Royal Navy personnel (eight sailors and seven marines) from the frigate HMS Cornwall.  The Royal Navy boats were on patrol just outside the mouth* of the 125-mile waterway which divides Iraq from Iran. Sovereignty over the waterway, and corresponding territorial waters, is disputed between Iraq and Iran.  A 1975 treaty recognized the middle of the waterway as its border.  It is called "Shatt al-Arab" waterway  in Arabic meaning "Arab Coastline".  It is called "Arvandrud" in Persian meaning "Arvand River".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/64942...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/I...

(map of waterway and HMS Cornwall area of operation)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/64942...

The British MoD says the Royal Navy patrol was inspecting an Iraqi fishing boat anchored at the mouth of the waterway which was suspected of smuggling automobiles.

British MoD say the British were:

o- 1.7 nautical miles (2 miles; 3.1 kilometers) inside Iraqi territory at precisely 29 degrees 50.36 minutes north latitude and 048 degrees 43.08 minutes east longitude

IRGC say the British were:

o- 0.5 km deep into the Iranian waters

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/sto...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/B...

Map of both positions:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/galleries/5...

Under the mandate of the UNSC Resolution 1723, the British team had been conducting a compliance inspection of a suspicious Iraqi merchant ship.  The intercepted British crew being ambushed and surrounded by IRGC surrendered without a fight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nati...

It is alleged that similar Iraqi vessels routinely transport Iraqi Shiites into Iran for training by the elite Quds force, a branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.  In addition, Iraqi vessels transport arms from Iran to Iraq.  

Iran has elicited "confessions" from the 15 British sailors they captured and may put them on trial for espionage.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/sto...

“If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.”  Espionage carries a death sentence.  

Iran's detention of 15 Royal Navy personnel is "unjustified and wrong", Prime Minister Tony Blair has said.   UK officials are waiting to be granted access to the HMS Cornwall staff, who were seized on Friday, and have not been told where the group are held.  "It simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this is for us," Mr Blair said. "We have certainly sent the message back to them very clearly indeed. They should not be under any doubt at all about how seriously we regard this act, which is unjustified and wrong."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/64933...

(in French)

http://www.france24.com/france24Public/f...

The 15 Royal Navy personnel are being held in Tehran at the Revolutionary Guard Corps base.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/64942...

The British government release the GPS coordinates as evidence demonstrating that its 15 naval personnel detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards last Friday were seized while in Iraqi waters and not inside Iranian territory.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d26b393e-dbbe-11...

Iran is preparing to release Faye Turney, the sole female among the 15 captured personnel of the Royal Navy.  Clad in a white tunic and a black shayla-style head scarf, she appeared on Al-Alam TV, an Arabic-Language, Iranian state-run TV station that is carried across the Middle East. "Obviously we trespassed into their waters," was her statement which continued with details of how she had been treated.

http://www.comcast.net/news/internationa...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/B...

see the video

http://video.ap.org/v/en-ap/v.htm?f=MIDT...

more detail video

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/d...

see her letter to her parents

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/galleries/5...

On 4 June 2004, eight British servicemen were detained for three days, after Iran said they had entered Iranian territorial waters. They were released unharmed, but their equipment was not returned. During their detention, according to former detainee Marine Scott Fallon, they endured a mock execution and appeared blindfolded  and forced to apologize for their "mistake" on Iranian TV..

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index....

Regarding enrichment of uranium, Iranian President Mahmaoud Ahmadinejad abruptly cancelled his appearance before the U.N. security council and in his stead, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Iran spoke.  He indicated that Iran was willing to continue negotiations but without the precondition that uranium enrichment must be halted.  

Mottaki said, "the world has two options to proceed on the nuclear issue: continued negotiations or confrontation.  Choosing the path of confrontation ... will have its own consequences. "

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070325...

The U.N. security council unanimously voted to expand sanctions on March 24, 2007.  

The new resolution 1747 calls on Iran to comply fully with all previous UN resolutions and join negotiations to reach agreement so as to restore international confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear program. Full transparency and cooperation with the IAEA are required. Suspension of Iran’s banned nuclear activities will elicit the parallel suspension of sanctions. The package of incentives offered Tehran last year for its cooperation remains on the table.

The full text of the draft of resolution 1747 appears at this website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6...

Military confrontation may be on the horizon.  

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=39...

In addition to the British naval vessels at the Diego Garcia atoll in the Indian ocean, there is a multi-national force in the Persian Gulf.  The British HMS Cornwall aircraft carrier strike group, the American aircraft carrier strike group Bremerton-based aircraft carrier CVN-73 USS John C. Stennis, the American aircraft carrier strike group CVN-69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force  are all in close appoximation in the Persian Gulf.  A 3rd carrier group, the CVN-68 USS Nimitz,  may also be in the Persian Gulf soon as it was scheduled for its WESTPAC07 deployment to replace the USS Dwight D.  Eisenhower which was deployed December 2006.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/a...

The US may have deployed 4 or 5 carrier groups in the Persian Gulf

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070328/6274...

Hmmmmm

Maybe CVN-76 Reagan was deployed

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/a...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/o...

Maybe CVN-72 Lincoln?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/a...

Is CVN-77 Bush ready?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/s...

More details about military options can be found here:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/o...

On Tuesday, March 27, 2007, the two US strike groups, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Stennis, along with guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam, conducted military exercises in the Persian Gulf.  The participants included 15 warships and more than 100 aircraft..  

Each carrier carries an air wing of F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet fighter-bombers, EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft, S-3 Viking refueling and anti-submarine planes, and E-2C Hawkeye airborne command-and-control aircraft.

Also taking part were six guided-missile destroyers, the Anzio, Ramage, O'Kane, Mason, Preble and Nitze; the frigate Hawes; amphibious assault ships Boxer and Bataan; and the minesweepers Scout, Gladiator and Ardent.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-...

The Isfahan plant is above ground, but Natanz is more than 50ft below and would require either a tactical nuclear missile or a conventional bunker-buster bomb to destroy it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,...

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Answer 5

If Iran keeps behaving like a stupid and spoiled retarded child, then yes, they will eventually be attacked.

IMO, their navy should have been sent to the bottom of the Gulf once they captured those British marines that were in Iraq's waters. This was a hostile action - an act of war.

That nothing was done does not say much about Henry IV's descendents, who should hold their manhood in contempt as they placidly accept this assault upon their people.

Answer 6

http://www.yikers.com/video_another_whit...

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why worry about Pit Bulls

Answer 7

With Velcro