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Iranians react to NIE report

Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:47 PM
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The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program came as a surprise and shock to most people here, for the most part Iranians felt that a U.S. military strike was a certainty, until Monday's findings.

The latest NIE report sharply contradicts it's 2005 assessment that Iran was working inexorably towards developing a nuceaur weapon -- prompting a case of "we told you so" on Iranian state TV, which branded Bush a liar and war monger.

Dr.Mohammed Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran, discusses the turn about and what it means for U.S-Iranian relations.

VIDEO: Iranians react to NIE report

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We can't let our gaurd slip because even though they're not trying to delveop the weapons now dosen't mean they won't later. Also, if later would be easier for them because then because they would already have enriched uraniaum.
lets see how that logic sounds if you apply it differently..

just because they dont have monkey knife fights in iran now, doesnt mean they wont start later

so we should act as though we know they are pursuing a policy to have monkey knife fights?

and for nukes... it just seems a bit hypocritical to me to have one country decide who in the world gets nuke techs and who doesnt, especially if they are the ones with the largest nuke arsenal, and the only ones to use it



i would want a nuke deterrant if i were iran too, sandwiched as they are between two countries occupied by a power that keeps making very threatening belicose remarks about attacking my country
Bush's response to the NIE report is nothing short of bizarre! How anyone can continue to support, or believe anything he says, or does is amazing!
IRAN has done nothing to give us the idea that we should believe what they choose to tell us. We need to be keeping a very watchful eye on IRAN, probably for a very long time, if not forever.
I've long suspected that the American nation as a whole is filled with paranoid sheep, willing to follow even the most incompetent leader to the edge of a cliff and beyond as long as he's singing a tune they can all bleat along to.

Turns out I'm not wrong.

I sincerely hope that some day soon, someone in the White House decides to wake up and smell the impending train wreck that is the Bush administration's pathetic attempts to start yet another costly, unneccessary and devastating war.

I also sincerely hope that every Iranian who was been frightened and cowed by the threats made by President Peas-For-Brains Bush has spent at least a moment flipping up their middle finger in the direction of America, because God knows they've earned it.
To whom all saying that Iran is a threat because they can use the nuclear weapons sometime later; I am simply pointing the fact that Israel has the most advanced nuclear and non nuclear missiles in the middle east and no one denies it, and I see that some kind of fact is been tried to created like Iran is the only threat in the world, and they are the only country can harm another. Let's all please think on this too.


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