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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I also call into question your assertation that Iran is not an aggressive nation. Iran is an aggressive nation in terms of asymetrical warfare. While their army doesn't march into other countries, they do conduct offensive opporations through the funding, arming and training of various extremely active terrorist groups. Examples of this are Hezbollah, Hamas, the Iraqi Insurgent movements.
Now the question that I have to logically ask is do you want Iran a nation that trains and arms terrorists that have a stated destruction of Israel as their goals to be able to gain access to nuclear materials.
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People with commonalities tend to stick together, especially in regards to religion.
I don't deny that Iran provides support for Hamas/Hezbollah, but they see how the Palestinians are being treated and everyone expects Iran and the rest of the Middle East to turn their back on the Islamic people in Palestine? I have seen enough footage of their living conditions. When the Israelis aren't killing them with guns, it's disease and starvation.
Hamas and Hezbollah are no real threat to America, and have only stated that they will destroy Israel if they should strike pre-emptively.
America does not like the fact that Iran is self-sufficient. They have their own nationalized oil industry, control over their own central bank and currency, and they have that long coastline in the Perisan Gulf where most of the worlds oil must travel through. That is the only real threat to America from Iran.