The hosting countries can say that US forces are in their countries at invitations. Hosting a foreign armed force is not a justifiable cause for war, else there would be wars all over the world. If US forces in those countries are not participants in any US strikes, Iran have no justifiable cause to attach those countries. You can repeat what you just said in many different ways all you want but it will do no good.
Our opinion of whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter as Iran has clearly said it will attack countries aiding and housing US troops in the region.
His opinion is irrelevant. Am not being insulting. Am being realistic. The world have seen US military might expressed in different environments and scales many times over. In a shooting fight, the Iranian Navy will exist at our leisure.
That's your opinion, personally in my opinion Shia leader/generals are known not to lie or exaggerate, just ask Israel about Syed Hassan Nasrullah and his ability to back up what he says with actions.
No...Iranian response will not be so 'swift and devastating'. Behind closed doors, am positive that the Iranian military leadership, like all others in the world, have studied the MECHANICS of Desert Storm and found Iranian defenses wanting.
If war is inevitable, which i highly doubt, time will tell.
So please spare me the stale line about how 'Death to America' really mean the US government and not the US, meaning its people, land and everything that make up a country. In the ME, including Iran, 'Death to America' really mean exactly that -- America. Not the US government. Be glad that we Americans do not harbor the same but reciprocal sentiment.
Iranians are just like any other ordinary people around the world, more worried about earning a living, paying their bills and providing for their families rather than plotting ways in which to attack Israel/US. Why don't you visit their beautiful country, it surely would clear any misconceptions you have about them.
And let us be clear...If noncompliance to US demands deserve a military response from US, the mullahs would have never succeeded in the first place. This is about Iranian intent on being a nuclear weapons state. A nuclear weapons armed Iran is something no one in the ME, which is pretty much %99 muslims, want in their part of the world. For all the noise about Israel's uncertain nuclear weapons, the despots in the ME are more TERRIFIED of each other than of the Jews.
Those 'Mullahs' have already defeated America by chucking them out of their own country and defeating them through a well known US proxy in Saddam. Ayatullah Khamanei(r.a) has clearly stated that Iran has no intention whatsoever to build weapons of mass destruction, as a well respected holy figure in many countries, he has alot to lose if he's found to be lying.
That's the vast amount of Arabs for you but 99% is definitely an exaggeration on your part. I'm sure the 60% of Iraq along with most citizens in Bahrain, East of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria and Southern Lebanon would be delighted with a nuclear Iran.
Please do your homework. The Iraqi military, like the Iranian military, is overly equipped with Soviet weaponry. This LIE is often trotted out in trying to portray Iran as the underdog.
I have never stated the Iraqi military never had soviet weaponry. Seriously please, everyone knows very well how America armed Saddam to the teeth with weapons albeit by diverting them through other Arab puppet regimes that would go onto transfer them to Iraq. Weapons including Howitzers, Huey helicopters, Aircraft ships chemical and biological weapon you gave to Saddam to stop the Iranian onslaught that killed hundreds of thousands of Iranian troops as well as ordinary Iraqi civilians.
I doubt a war will ever break out between American and Iran but honestly if it did although many would ridicule and laugh, I believe wholeheartedly Iran would come out the better of the two.
