Cheney: Israel Would Attack Iran

Former U.S. Vice President says Iran is an existential threat to Israel

Israel will attack Iran's nuclear facilities if necessary to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview. "I think they would," Cheney said when asked about the possibility. "I think Iran represents an existential threat, and they'll do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and their security."

13-Sep-2011
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amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

You started good and went down hill from there RonPaulIrani

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

"I think they would" is not the same as, "they will". That was a good observation israel won't do anything, the usa loves IRI because they are destroying iran and enabling the world to take oil for pennies on the dollar.  As for Israel, it is essential to US policy, they use it to create fundamentalism and terrorists along with other policies in the region.

WRT North Africa, The Arab Spring was the west using the muslim brotherhood, which it funds to spread their influence into govt.  These countries have huge oil reserves, egypt, tunisia, libya, syria and they need a bunch of vatan foroosh like we have in Iran and Iraq that are backwards to let in foreign oil companies in to do exploration and take the oil away for nothing.  I wasn't happy with your analysis so I wanted to help you bring it in harmony with reality, as its not reported in the media.  Soon they will all be exporting oil and cheap even the ones that were not before.

Islam & terrorism are the tools used by imperialists to make their world go around.  They just love Islam & backwardness for oil rich countries.


RonPaul Iranian Fan

Would Is Not The Same As Will

by RonPaul Iranian Fan on

"I think they would" is not the same as, "they will". And, "I think ...they'll do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and their security", is as true about Israel as it is about Iran or any country for whom it is important to defend against an attack. Iran is now the least of Israel's problems as North Africa and the Middle East continue to churn over with one revolution after another and as Israel's own population takes to the streets in protest over their debilitated economy. Their lead benefactor, the United States is in the grips of a deepening economic crisis of it's own which is going to sooner or later put pressure on US aid. Israel is in retreat and weakening. It is vacating it's embassies or it's ambassadors are being expelled. They are experiencing a near total failure of their foreign policy, decades in the making. And in this perfect storm, should Dick Cheney say, "we stick by our only strategic ally left in the ME that we don't really like anyway, as she becomes America's only outpost in the region"? How many copies of his book would Dick Cheney sell then?    

The most existential threat to Israel does not come from Iran, but from a shift toward more pragmatism in US foreign policy in the ME that is already occuring, by necessity. When this shift becomes more obvious, all the chickens would come home to roost at the same time. At that time, all the lobbies in the world are not going to be able to turn the tide. As irrational as it may seem, maybe it is the perfect time for Israel to take a chance on peace and commerce as means of formenting security right now.                    

 


amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

How about taking these guys to court, in the usa, uk, france?

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

At some point, if we can get our country back.

Surely it isn't difficult to prove who's policies have spread islamic fundametalism and who's policies support tryants and who's corporations steal oil for pennies on the dollar?  I say we take the militarists & Imperialists to court for $10 trillion in oil revenue loses since IRI came to power, $2 trilion for the Iraq war and another $40 trillion for emotional distress for 33 years.

Soosan know any good lawyers, just joking : )  Lawyers is fine, forget good. 

 


Soosan Khanoom

Israeli pre-emptive attack

by Soosan Khanoom on

By the way, Cheney says that it is Israel that is going to attack because he knows and we all know that American public won't support another mideast war now; but if Isreal do so then one should never underestimate the irrationality of American congresspeople, especially when combined with money. When they see Israel in the middle of a battle against the so called "evil Iranians", there will arise from the throats of millions of lobbyists and Christian Zionists a wail of pure, ear-splitting terror and chicken-hawk fury.  Subsequently, the United States will find itself once again in war.  Having said that I am not sure how long more American people are going to put up with the state of Israel and its deceitful behavior towards their county.  


alx1711

Yes.. lets poke the wasp

by alx1711 on

Yes.. lets poke the wasp nest and add fuel to the fire.

 as long as Islamic republicans are in charge Iran is in danger.


Disenchanted

RG, personal business of Israel has certainly yielded collective

by Disenchanted on

 

        interest of the whole Middle East!Exactly like your moto. In past 18 months only they have managed to kill citizens of at least 5 countries to my count:

       Iranian scientist (In front of elementary school in Tehran), Turks (On international waters), Egyptians (guarding their own country), Palestinians (day and night in their homes), Lebanese (for recreational activity..)

      You can not deny the nature of the beast by repeating same old slogans against IRI that frankly I don''t see anyone else defending! Iranians opposing Netanyahu, Cheney and MEK does not translate to supporting IRI!Why are you screaming so much?!

The other day you called me hypocrite for listing Israel atrocities in the world. That would make every citizen of Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Jordan, pakistan, every other country in Middle east and North Africa a hypocrite not to mention all those European and Americans and rest of the world that has singled out Israel as the most manacing entity in the world!

Check the news! There is a talk of a Tsunami against Israel. World has become tired of their "above the law" mentality and violation of international laws and borders.

World order is ebing redrawn and countries like of Brazil, China and India are not going to put up with "God chosen" mentality of Tel Avaive no more. It's a matter of time that US also becomes tired of paying the price for Israeli misadventures.

Now, tell me what you think of Israeli policies instead of going on another rant aganist phantom IRI supporters!

 


Roozbeh_Gilani

Terroristic activities of Islamist Regime...

by Roozbeh_Gilani on

and it's reckless threathening foreign "policy", has given excuse and justification to any Tom,Dick & Harry to Threathen Iran with military attacks.

Shame on those west residing"iranians", whose daily cyber chorus of "bring it on", or "nuke bomb is our undeniable right" or "it's all jews fault", turn western public opinion further against Iran and Iranians who have absolutely nothing to do with this murderous terroristic islamist regime, yet would have to pay the ultimate price with their lives in case of a military attack on my beloved homeland..  

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


Jaleho

Funny, IC used to delete the messages

by Jaleho on

before. Now that the most seen ad of the site is "join US army"....they distort any message which they construe as "anti-American" out of its meaning!! REALLY an "Iranian" site for the"Iranians", although frankly it fits the anti-Iranian nature of the so called Iranians who frequent this site.

 Hey editor, either delete my message completely, or don't distort it under my name, to something whih Jaleho has not written!


rtayebi1

yes and you

by rtayebi1 on

thought Iraq has WMD. Where do U get UR info? This is not about IRI, we already  know they R evil. This is about should a foreign army attack Iran


Simorgh5555

I thought the IR is already

by Simorgh5555 on

I thought the IR is already killing US servicemen in Iraq. Who do.you think is carrying out the road side bombings and arming the Shia terrorists. Not to mention their wholesale killing of innocent Sunni muslims.


Reality-Bites

The likes of Cheney & Netanyahu

by Reality-Bites on

are war mongering scumbags and don't give a rat's ass about the consequences of their aggression.

The problem is, from the beginning the Islamic Republic went out of its way - needlessly for Iran - to make enemies out of these people because the IR thrives on external threats to ensure long-term survival.

All it takes for IR to prevent possible attacks on Iran is for the "Rahbar" to declare publicly that Iran will never launch an attack on Israel, will only defend itself if attacked first and will open up all Iran's nuclear facilities for full and totally unhindered inspection by the IAEA. This would draw the sting out of any threat of attack.

But the IR won't do that because it WANTS the hostility and tension between Iran and Israel/US to continue. Put it this way, if there were no longer issues with Israel what else would IR and its supporters continually harp on about? Who would be their new enemy? What shoar would replace "mar bar Israel"?


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Evil Man Evil dead man

by Sialashgar on

Evil zions Wicked souls...

Bad bad people

Shah Hossein


MM

Khomeini: America does no wrong

by MM on

آمریکا هیچ غلطی نمیکنه

check it on google-translate


rtayebi1

simorg5555

by rtayebi1 on

what would happen if sepah is  able to kill lets say 30000 or 50000 Americans ? Do you know what would happen to Iran? R U sure they would not bomb the hell out of Iran?


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Soosan Khanum, my advice to you, please read

by tabriz_balasi on

khoon-e khodeto kasif nakon.  i gave up on these people along time ago.  they don't represent any idea, they just repeat the garbage that is handed to them by others. 


jasonrobardas

Evil spirits last for ever .........

by jasonrobardas on

       Dick has had a few heart attacks and multiple  episodes of heart failure so far .  He has also gone through a couple of triple bypass surgeries. He is also amazingly , equipped with  a built in  heart regulator . Yet sadly and  most unfortunately , he is still alive  so he can spread hate , vengence and venom and destruction !


Bavafa

Dear Jaleho: While Khomeini maybe a great leader in your view

by Bavafa on

Many Iranians including myself believe he was a criminal with much of Iranians blood on his hand.  

 Case in point:  The quote provided by you here which he often unwisely repeated is an example of his lack of care for his people, if Iranians were ever his people, by daring an obviously stronger adversary which certainly could and did bring Iranians much harm.  As history is our witness, America could and did “eat shit” by directly and indirectly helping Saddam and his war against Iran. 

Now going back to what I was saying earlier… statement such as the above quote will turn the attention to the criminal that is hated even more the Dick, your great leader Khomeini.

Now, should we be repeating the same unwise dare, this time to Israel?

Hope this made it a bit clearer.

 

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


Bavafa

"great leader of the revolution KHOMEINI"

by Bavafa on

Nothing will turn the tide against this Dick more affectively then uttering the name of yet another genocidal criminal such as in the quote above.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


Jaleho

NOW that he's nobody

by Jaleho on

when he was somebody, as the great leader of the revolution KHOMEINI would say about impotent American guys like him!

NOW that he's nobody,  he's trying to chew more than he can digest :-)


vildemose

Nauseating in the

by vildemose on

Nauseating in the extreme.

"The Years of Shame"

The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.

Reform requires the consent of the corrupt


Bavafa

If there was any sanity or justice in this world...

by Bavafa on

This Dick guy would be in an orange jump suite talking to his lawyer prepping for his defense or better yet talking directly to the family of the so many  victims of his criminal war and plead for forgiveness, instead of cheering yet for another illegal war.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


Disenchanted

The old Dick!

by Disenchanted on

 

      His days are numbered but he's still wishful to get his hands on Iran's oil and pile on Halliburton profits! 

      Well, If I was Bibi, seeing Erdogan going around trashing Israel and Egyptians freed from Pharaoh I'd be changing my underwear more often before considering attacking Iran!


amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

You have one point Simorgh which is that at this rate

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

we have over 1000 innocents being killed by IRI a year and 75 million living in tyranny.  So my rational is Iranians should be given the help they will need to remove IRI and that doesn't for me mean bombing.  It means assistance.  If IRI uses its basiji & their helicopter gun ships or fighter bombers on the people, I would support taking those out, as well as flattening all basiji bases that are no where near populated areas.  Sorry thats the extent that I can condone and only on condition civilians start getting wiped out.

With a united people these guys will leave with little fight as most of their support base will change sides to not be part of a sinking ship.  For the die hards yes we need to fight them, but we will have help from many within the regime if we are united.


amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

This Dick guy reminds me of Darth Vader.

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

You know he doesn't have a heart for real,

It's all powered electrically, not a beat.

//www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011...

Any bombing of Iran would mostly leave mullahs alone and kill innocent people.  No to Bigus Dickus suggestions.


Simorgh5555

Soosan Khanoom

by Simorgh5555 on

You will be hard pressed to find a single comment I made asking for a ground invasion of Iran. I have always qualified my statements in support of military action that the final overthrow of the IR needs to be carried out by Iranians through a mass movement or a national liberation army. As it stands any kind of resistance.on the ground requires the support of an airforce. Obama should have attacked Basij and the Revolutionary Guard bases in 2009 and last month during the Lake Orumiyeh protests.
True, no military actiion is without casualties but I.have come to the conlusion which many of us Iranians rarely acknowledge publicly or even admit to themselves but deep down no it is the truth: the IR will only be removed through physical force even if it means thousands of its supporters perish. And if you are dumb enough to be a Basiji then you have it coming. I can't wait until Lake Urumiyeh dries up, Pasargad and Marvdasht are flooded or the forests of Kurdistan are uprooted and the Zargos mountains are burried under towerblocks forever. If.it means killing Basij and unfirtunately risking the lives of some innocents then it is a bitter sacrifice worth making. I would rather that than have airanians executed by the hundreds every year and women and men raped inside prisons for taking part in a demonstration.
You probably ask that it is not my call to make this decision but then again it is not your brother or sister bewten to a pulp inprison for writing a blog.
As your remarks relating to me on a pereonal level, I live, eat and breathe Iran. Iran is my Zion and I look forward to reflaiming my land from the alien occupiers seated at the centre of power.
Susan, please think about what I'm saying and be rational about this as the scientist you are. Once you detwch yourself from the NIAC inspired garbage you will find there is no other way.

PLEASE SUPPORT MILITARY ACTION. GIVE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE IR A CHANCE!


Soosan Khanoom

My dear Lily

by Soosan Khanoom on

I need to ignore many posts on this site for my own sanity especially the ones from war war crowds ....

by the way, talking about war war crowd .... what did happen to that Dean Martin guy?  he was fun .... I am actually missing him

 

 


Truthseeker9

BTW SK

by Truthseeker9 on

I posted my reply before your Western lifestyle reply came up. Thanks for the explanation. 


Truthseeker9

SK

by Truthseeker9 on

IRI are going to cut Iran off from the rest of the world, the interent will be changed, schooling will be religious. Everything is controlled and brainwashed. How can one get the classes on the board? It is not a class matter. I am against war too but I think what some are saying is not all out war, but some assistance. I never even thought of this, but with Lybia I am beginning to think it is the only way. 

Also, people are Iranian in their hearts, it is not dependent on their geographical location. Just as people in England dream of buying a vineyard on Italy (for example), does not mean they are traitors. In a modern world one can chose where to live. Who you are is in your heart.


Soosan Khanoom

By western life style I meant convenient life style

by Soosan Khanoom on

I mean it great highways ....lol   by the way , did you know that these highways have been around since WWII .. 

No need to get me wrong ....  I am all for dancing and partying western style and i am sure they are doing it in Iran right now anyway , no need to bomb them for that 

 But seriously I know I can not go back and live in iran under any regime cause I am so used to living in the west. I see it as my home now ... do you get my point ? 

I did not mean Simorfgh only when I said that, cause i Know most of us feel that way anyway  .. and that is if we are honest and admit it ...


Tiger Lily

Oh, and SK, sista

by Tiger Lily on

that thing is psycho-poison in its own mirror; best to ignore. Complete waste of time...