tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post5827409899188220140..comments2024-01-25T12:33:03.851+10:30Comments on Telling the History of the Twenty-First Century as it Really Is: IRAN: IS CONFRONTATION NEAR AT HAND?Damian Lataanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-43613745386354567052011-10-15T09:59:26.888+10:302011-10-15T09:59:26.888+10:30Of course Iran can be a threat to America but it i...Of course Iran can be a threat to America but it is only likely to be so if America (or Israel) becomes an imminent threat to Iran. At the moment, however, the only people doing any threatening is America and Israel. Iran has actually threatened no one.Damian Lataanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886295381135372084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708970.post-35359851222915475072011-10-14T22:14:07.845+10:302011-10-14T22:14:07.845+10:30Iran can be a threat to America if they decide to ...Iran can be a threat to America if they decide to do two desperate acts as a matter of either saving face or having their backs pressed against the wall. They do have the missile technology to attack Israel even with conventional warheads and Israel will have to try and respond which will also bring America into the picture and/or the Iranians can try to blockade all oil shipments leaving from the Persian/Arabian gulf to America and the rest of the West. Since the 1990s America has been trying to isolate Iran behind an American military pincer. The American foreign policy about Iran was to have a peaceful and pro America Iraq and Afghanistan and the American Air Force and other units in Saudi Arabia and Naval units in the Gulf.Military History of the 21st Centuryhttp://militaryhistoryofthe21stcentury.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com