Happy new year everyone. As we are closing 2005, in political circles there are heated discussions trying to predict what the U.S. will do to deal with this tyrant dictatorship.
Iran's new unelected president Ahmadinejad is charging ahead despite all the incentives West is willing to offer, His government is formed out of all militant revolutionary guards, and is influencing the elections in Iraq no signs of compromise yet.

I brought the question to this forum to exchange ideas on the issue. I am concerned about the course of event the way it is going.

Is U.S going to invade Iran? What do you think?

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In Iran, we should link the CIA with dissenting forces and set up a coup to oust the current regime. By the way, Iranian elections have only a facade of democracy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3512985.stm

as much as i like they would i realize that america wouldn't......i guess israel will take action against them like we did in iraq,to prevent them for getting to a state of nuclear warhead capabilty.

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I would strongly support any Israeli military action. This new leader of Iran strikes me as a Shiite version of Mullah Omar.

is run by mullahs. So the regime is hardly the issue.

It's always best to let the people in Iran determine how Iran goes. Our efforts at "regime change" have a deplorably bad long term record. It almost always goes 180 degrees from what we want.

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That is true with the neoconservative technique of warfare, but supporting a coup of moderates in a country like Iran would be effective. The government that then took power would have to stay within certain ethical boundaries because the people in it would know that if we gave them power, we could take that power away just as easily. Such a method also has the advantage that the people of a country don't see a foreign presence as they do in a war.

We didn't like the Shah, remember? So we helped put someone else in power. What did we get? A theocracy! We actually prefered the Shah as it turned out. We also really liked Saddam. That turned out great, too. Things work out best when we play Sweden (i.e. butt the hell out).

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Anyone would be better than the current leaders of Iran- anyone. I don't think that all undemocratic governments should be overthrown, but I do think that all leaders as evil as those in the Iranian government should be ousted.

We are nearly always wrong. We need to just butt out. Let Iranians decide what happens to Iran. It's not our business. Let's be Switzerland.

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