Iran is not a Sunni extremist group, they are Shi’ites, which Al Qaeda types think are sub-human and worthy of extermination. That is not to say that no Iranian would consider gun-running in the vast mountainous regions bordering Afghanistan, but the Government would be totally against it. In fact when the US invaded Afghanistan they were doing Iran a favour, and Iran offered them assistance. Likewise the invasion of Iraq has clearly advantaged Iran by bringing the Shi’ite majority to power there.

The ability of Iran to attack US warships and bases in the Middle East, and to stop the flow of oil to world markets causing chaos in the oil-importing countries, means an attack on Iran would be suicidal for the US. The Wikileaks papers have done nothing to change that.

Do you consider justified to overthrow Regimes like in Operation Ajax? Why aren’t the Iranians allowed to do this to? 1979 Tehran Embassy seizure was vengeance. What’s wrong about that?

Whatever, an attack on Iran will bankrupt the US. If not bankruptcy, it will likely cause the US to retreat from the Middle East and Israel, to forestall bankruptcy. I don’t know if you noticed, but we really don’t have the money to call our own shots. I believe the only reason China and Russia aren’t more strenuously opposing us is that they believe we’re over-extending ourselves. So, they’re all too willing to give us a little rope.

We are rushing in, paving the way for them to flow in, after our wake and departure bearing gifts. They don’t need to bring soldiers, weapons and war but police, aid and development. They will capitalize these improvements, just what we were hoping to achieve, but had grown too corrupt to do the job. The irony is that there is an unnamed party, Corporations, who will benefit themselves, regardless which nation wins.

An attack on Iran is more likely to come from the U.S. than from Israel, but Israel certainly has its own justification to attack.
The Islamo-Fascist, Marxist-Leninist, and ultra-right-wing anti-Semitic coalition against Israel will support the case for a pre-emptive Israeli launch of missiles, some of them nuclear tipped, inevitable, as long as the doctrine that only one or the other, but not both Iran or Israel can continue to exist, prevails! Given the history of the Jews over the last century, the notion of an unarmed Israel is inconceivable! The fact that the coalition has utterly failed to sever the U.S.-Israeli alliance, an essential element for the defeat of Israel, bodes ill for that coalition and also for Iran!

If the polls are correct, American sentiment for an attack on Iran remains strong and memories of the 1979 Tehran Embassy seizure are still fresh in the minds of many. As President Ahmadinejad recently proclaimed, there will be a U.S. attack on tow nations, one of them being Iran within the next three months. It is more likely than not that his prediction will be correct!

The problem is systemic in a hidden government system where influence and bribery and so-called experts can dictate policy. The only solution is to have the governing power entirely within a representative body that conducts most of its business in public and has enough participants that backroom deals are easier to unmask. The parliamentary system doesn’t fit this perfectly, but goes a lot closer than the US tricameral farce does. Must remember this next time when civilization flies apart and we have to rebuild.

Commenter RLaing above is correct. And you are just letting the govt off the hook. Geez lawheez!!!!!!

Covert attack is already underway of course, but if the US has not overtly attacked Iran to date, it is because a preponderance of its elites have not yet come to the conclusion that the benefits outweigh the risks of an open attack.

When the balance of opinion tilts the other way, there will be war without regard to what propaganda currently is or is not available: if necessary, the appropriate pretexts will simply be manufactured.