Iran Regime Change, Invasion, Occupation & Recolonization is Imminent

[The Northerner]

War drums are beating louder and louder in America against Iran. The din and decibel are rising and getting louder.

Preparatory steps are being taken irreversibly as the onset of invasion and occupation of Iran is becoming more and more apparent and its imminence glaringly clear. It is rather unmistakable.

Public pronouncements by political and military leaders in the United States have been elevated to a-no-going-back sorts of, no retreat, no surrender. A blockade in the name of continuing sanctions against Iran, is about to occur, and Iranian political and military leaders are declaring any such contemplated action, as an act of war, and, such a blockade by America against Iran, Is Act of War, under International Law

The current high tempo and stridency on all sides, is just like history repeating itself, if past is prologue, I beseech everyone to harken back to the days of yore, with particular reference to the back and forth verbal altercations between America and Saddam Hussein in the lead-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Read more: http://www.modernghana.com/news/369302/1/iran-regime-change-invasion-occupation-recolonizat.html

[tabatha]

1. Not going to happen. Period.

[yodermon]

4. unless there is a 9-11-scale false-flag attack by "Iran" on the US/allies.

or somthin

[truedelphi]

17. Doesn't need to be false flag - read the latest from LA Times about

How Iran is closing off the Straits and now tracking US naval vessels

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/12/strait-of-hormuz-threats-iran-united-states.html

[TheWraith]

32. Amen. And we've been hearing the same crazy tin-foil bullshit for SEVEN YEARS.

You'd think they'd get tired of being wrong.

[Bandit]

2. And some would rather have Health Care for citizens........

What's the matter with this picture...

[northoftheborder]

3. Oh no, here we go again. We will be in a real Dark Age, literally & figuratively.

Ruled by billionaire theocrats.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. Almost ten years of this bullshit "it's here! It's going to happen!"

I am so sick of the wanna-be war-mongerers as I am the real ones!

[teddy51]

6. If they were to attack (and I don't think they are) they would not occupy Iran because Iran

has upwards of 70 million population. You think Iraq was a mess, Iran would be way worse.

[coalition_unwilling]

9. Iran will not be the military pushover that Iraq was, b/c Iran is

pretty much ethnically homogenous (Persian) and has a large army (upwards of 1,000,000). There will be no exploiting Shia-Sunni rifts to aid in any occupation of Iran and the possibility exists of all supply lines into the country being cut off (Afghanistan to the east and Iraq to the west), leaving occupation troops facing something like Dien Bien Phu or Stalingrad where invasion\occupation forces could only be resupplied by an ever-shrinking air corridor. Hope someone at the Pentagon is reading his or her military history.

[RZM]

12. Iran is far from ethnically homogenous

According to the CIA World Factbook, only 61 percent of the population is Persian. Azerbaijains and Kurds are 16 and 10 percent of the population, respectively. While most of the population speaks Persian fluently, it's a very diverse place.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2075.html

[coalition_unwilling]

19. I stand corrected. I suppose I was contrasting it with the Shi'a-Sunni-Kurdish

3-way split in Iraq. But I take your point about diversity, although I still think we'll have a far tougher go in Iran than we did in Iraq. The Iranian army won't just fold up and surrender upon our demand it do so.

N.B. Iranians of Persian ethnicity speak Farsi. AFAIK, "Persian" is not a language.

[RZM]

20. Persian is the accepted English word for the language

We don't say 'espanol,' or 'francais,' or 'deutsch.' Why should Persian be different?

If I'm not mistaken the word Farsi actually comes from Greek anyway (and I might be mistaken)

[coalition_unwilling]

22. I live in Los Angeles which has a large Iranian ex-pat community and I've never once

heard anyone say he or she speaks Persian. The Iranians I've met here uniformly say they speak "Farsi" (if and when the subject arises). I guess I have been around it for so long that I can't tell you whether "Persian" is an accepted English word for 'Farsi," so I will take your word for it.

I'm not an expert in forensic linguistics, so could not even speculate as to Greek influence on the word 'Farsi'. Would not entirely surprise me, given Greek-Persian contacts way back when.

[RZM]

30. I don't doubt that's the term they use

It's just always struck me as odd. But hey. It's not my language

[Old and In the Way]

7. No invasion/occupation. But a military action is not out of the question, IMHO.

Hope I'm wrong...I really think it would be a disaster of epic proportions.

[madrchsod]

8. interesting choice for the source of your post...

[JackRiddler]

23. Why not a paper in Ghana?

You trust the ones in the US better?

[madrchsod]

34. i have a friend who moved to the usa from ghana

we have had many conversations about his homeland and what he thinks of the usa.

an interesting choice means not many people follow the news from africa.

[starroute]

10. Bombing, maybe -- inciting minority groups, sure -- invasion, no way

The people who do the plans and scenarios at the Pentagon know there's no way a land invasion of Iran could work. Their real objective is to keep Iran from becoming a regional power, and they'll do everything short of war in pursuit of that objective.

The real danger, I think, is that Israel will do something crazy and precipitate the region into instability. That in itself is enough to worry about.

[Behind the Aegis]

11. LOL! Israel will "precipitate the region into instability"? Have you READ the news from the ME?

"Instability" is the norm and has been in that region for years!

[Rex]

15. No kidding!

I don't think the ME knows what stability is or has in over a century. To blame Israel...nm...we both know the score. Israel will always get blamed for the regions whoas...sad, but true.

[JackRiddler]

24. Israel has been demanding a US greenlight for a war on Iran for years.

They've been lobbying for a US strike and asking support in doing it themselves.

Don't pretend they'd be innocent in this new war of aggression, if it comes to it.

[Rex]

13. No way.

[RZM]

14. I have a question for you, Northerner

Quite often I see OPs from you based often based on lesser-known or lesser-respected sources that make highly questionable claims and/or predictions.

Often the replies in these threads are highly critical of the arguments and sources contained in the OP, but I almost never see you wade into the discussion to defend them. Why is that?

[truedelphi]

18. well I don't know N's history, but LA TImes has breaking news

Indicating we could be in a "Cuban Missile" style scenario. Unfortunately for the world, JFK has long been dead, and the current President is more likely to do whatever his "advisers" at the Pentagon tell him to do.

Background -- USA wants to interfere in Syria. We have military bases now encircling all of Iran.

Let's go now to breaking news from the LA Times news, posted one hour ago:


"On Wednesday, Iran's top naval commander expounded on the issue of control to the nation's English-language Press TV. Habibollah Sayyari said Iran could close the strait but did not need to do so at this time because "we have the Sea of Oman under control, and we can control the transit."

Chief Pentagon spokesman George Little said Wednesday that any interference by Iran in the strait would 'not be tolerated," stressing that the region was "an economic lifeline for countries in the gulf.' "

[Boston_Chemist]

16. Much of this anti-Iran noise is electioneering.

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The pro-Israel vote demands it.

Obama is a shrewd operator.

[RZM]

21. I hope that misspelling was unintentional. N/T

[Boston_Chemist]

29. oopsies. nt

[JackRiddler]

25. Yeah, well, if you play with explosives often enough, they might explode.

It's what I think too, but it's a stupid and dangerous game. Obama was elected despite pledging to try talks with Iran, and back off from the incessant war threats. It would not be an unpopular position today, to an American people who are sick of war -- especially of being bankrupted by one foreign aggression after the next.

[roamer65]

26. The war will begin within the next 2-3 months. Prepare for it.

SecDef Panetta has already agreed with the Israelis that Iran has started weaponization of enriched uranium and that is a "red line" for both parties.

http://www.debka.com/article/21585/

IMHO, this is being planned as a regional war to take out Syria and Iran, however I believe it will be the beginning of WW3.

[lapislzi]

27. China won't allow it.

They're Iran's biggest customer, and our biggest creditor will not permit interruption of its energy supply.

[roamer65]

28. Iran is an observer state within SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization)

Russia and China are full members. The Russians and Chinese will not stand idly if conflict begins in Iran.

There are Russian advisors and staff in the operational Bushehr nuclear power station as well.

[BeHereNow]

33. You are so very on target-

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/05/22/russia-china-iran-defeat-u-s-in-the-pipeline-wars.html

Everyone seems to have forgotten this story.
Not you, obviously.
BHN

[OKNancy]

31. I remember the fruitcake Wayne Madsen

writing the same stuff in 2004. This stuff is crazy talk.

[leeroysphitz]

35. The U.S. attack on Iran has been imminent since 2003. n/t

[greytdemocrat]

36. I thought we invaded last Tuesday??? n/t