Added: Saturday, 20 December 2008, 04:18 PM Mecca time, 01:18 PM GMT
Robwash, USA: Iran has been negotiating with the West for some time. The West has rejected every proposal and announced to the world at the U.N. that Iran's legally-sanctioned nuclear program under the NPT cannot go ahead no matter what, despite Iran's clear rights under the NPT. So what exactly do we have to negotiate when the West is so set against international law?
Niloufar, Tehran, Iran
Added: Friday, 19 December 2008, 06:31 PM Mecca time, 03:31 PM GMT
Niloufar, Iran: The West has been negotiating with Iran for some time. Iran has rejected every proposal and announced to the world at the U.N. their nuclear program would proceed no matter what. So what exactly do we have to negotiate?
Robwash, Los Angeles, United States
Added: Friday, 19 December 2008, 03:01 PM Mecca time, 12:01 PM GMT
Sunny, Canada: your facts are wrong again! 150 nuclear weapons you say we have? Estimates are well over 300 and rising. My spelling okay? We have recently added nuclear warheads to sub launched cruise missiles. Your Zionist fringe friend Arik in Jerusalem.
Tank Gunner, Jerusalem, Israel
Added: Friday, 19 December 2008, 02:02 PM Mecca time, 11:02 AM GMT
The Zionist clique promoted the WMD lies that precipitated the Iraqi war and they are now being propagated again to threaten Iran. Saddam was painted as a "Hitler" and now Ahmadinejad is being readied to fit the profile of the next "Hitler". The fact that neither of these leaders was anywhere near being a "Hitler" - they were never a threat to anyone except to each other. The Iran-Iraq war was manipulated by the Zionists to pit their opponents against each other to remove any regional candidates to Israeli military supremacy. The greatest threat to Middle East peace is the nuclear-armed Israel with close to 150 nuclear weapons. For criminal Israeli leaders to preemptively threaten a country without one nuclear weapon is sheer insanity. All decent people need to unite to condemn and isolate the dangerous warmongering of the criminal Israeli government.
Sunny, Ottawa, Canada
Added: Friday, 19 December 2008, 05:02 AM Mecca time, 02:02 AM GMT
Leonard, USA: I was getting worried there while reading your warning about Iranian nuclear weapons being detonated off our shores. But then you said "east coast". Yet another reason why "I love LA!!"
Robwash, Los Angeles, United States
Added: Friday, 19 December 2008, 02:54 AM Mecca time, 11:54 PM GMT
J: those are very good and rather tough questions. By 'Iran' you mean the Islamic Regime? Iranians are not so bellicose towards Israel. Actually, among the general Iranian population, you would find more Israeli supporters than you ever would in an Arab or Muslim country. But being anti-zionist is a core value of the islamic regime. It is the home of Quds. The prophet ascended from there. actually they are zionists in a way! it's just not called Zion to them. It does not help that Israel was a close ally of the Shah. Mossad trained his Savak that struck terror in Iranian society. It also does not help that Israel fails to make peace with its neighbours and the Palestinians after so long. It is a state that is constantly engaged in war. Now your question is why Iran does not chill. Frankly, there is no chilling on the other side. Far as I know, Iran has made several secret gestures toward the US, and they have always been turned down. Cheney (Robwash) would not negotiate with 'evil'.
Niloufar, Tehran, Iran
Added: Thursday, 18 December 2008, 11:33 PM Mecca time, 08:33 PM GMT
Well, with everything else going on with Obama's line-up ...President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday defended his choice of a popular evangelical minister (Pastor Rick Warren) to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, rejecting criticism that it slights gays. We are on a roll now. How about some equal time for The Rev Jeremiah Wright? Obama's pastor for the last 20 years ... Rev Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, "The Audacity of Hope." Even Oprah Winfrey quit that church, so Rev Wright can't be all bad as I see it, she now had the power to damage her standing as America's favourite daytime talk-show host. In time, she found one: her own. "There is the Church of Oprah now," said her longtime friend, with a laugh. "She has her own following." Maybe Obama should invite Oprah also ...
Leonard, Raymond, New Hampshire, United States
Added: Thursday, 18 December 2008, 09:23 PM Mecca time, 06:23 PM GMT
Former President Bill Clinton's foundation has raised at least $41 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments that his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton may end up negotiating with as the next secretary of state. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit created by the former president to finance his library in Little Rock, Ark., and charitable efforts to reduce poverty and treat AIDS. Other foreign government givers include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Italy and Jamaica. The foundation disclosed the names of its 205,000 donors on a Web site Thursday, ending a decade of resistance to identifying the sources of its money. While the list is heavy with international business leaders and billionaires, some 12,000 donors gave $10 or less. Clinton agreed to release the information after concerns emerged that his extensive international fundraising and business deals could conflict with America's interests
Leonard, Raymond, New Hampshire, United States
Added: Thursday, 18 December 2008, 01:37 PM Mecca time, 10:37 AM GMT
All persons aspiring to high office need to have a thorough background check to verify that all of their actions conformed to the laws of the land.
Sunny, Ottawa, Canada
Added: Thursday, 18 December 2008, 03:43 AM Mecca time, 12:43 AM GMT
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is warning that if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it could try to attack the United States. Barak said the world should press Iran to stop it from building nuclear weapons. He spoke at a conference of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. He said, "If it built even a primitive nuclear weapon like the type that destroyed Hiroshima, Iran would not hesitate to load it on a ship, arm it with a detonator operated by GPS and sail it into a vital port on the east coast of North America." Indicating the possibility of a military strike, Barak said, "We recommend to the world not to take any option off the table, and we mean what we say."
