What will happen if the US starts war with Iran?

What usually happens when the US military is allowed to rampage through any country its at war with for its own self-interest?

what usually happens when a soldier trained to kill, is told to aim down his sights at a non-descript enemy of asian ethnicity, in an asian country.

What usually happens when the very same people, out fighting for "our freedom and safety", are given little to no education about the culture of the lands they are invading?

What happens when you show a map to a rich and powerful gold miner saying "gold lies buried in these locations" as your finger, unaware of its genocidal motions, passes over the delicate habitat of a thousand endangered species?

What happens when you give a bottle of champagne to an alcoholic? Does he enjoy his drink? Or does he just feel drunk or neither - give him another?

What happens when you have sick, self-interested men ruling the world?

They rape each other for all the material resources, forgetting about the rich resource of culture and companionship.

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Originally posted by Unit541
Iran has had 10 years of in-house training on US weapons and tactics, and how to defeat them. Not to mention, Iran's leadership has more than a few points on the Iraqis in the IQ department.

Iran couldnt defeat Iraq....they will have zero chance of stoping the US in full battle mode.

Iran had no way of defeating us ground forces....zero...none....not going to happen....

What may be Irans largest weapon is that over 80% of the country is shia.

There was help with cleaning the uranium from the Iran and Iraq war in the 1980's?

Article 33 of the Geneva Convention is the prohibit of pillage.

All military invasions with armed forces into a foreign country are war crimes in the Geneva Convention articles of 1949.

The Iraq and Afghanistan war of 2010 is a military invasion with armed forces into a foreign country.

Therefore, Iraq and Afghanistan war of 2010 is a war crime from the Geneva Convention articles of 1949.


Ouch! For the thoughts of war.

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Nature of survival
When a dog is chased and forced against the wall it will fight back against all odds. When soldiers are left with no retreat and forward is death they will fight with ferocity. In Vietnam, Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan left with inferior weapons to face their mighty invaders they fight with their lives' These are the examples of survival nature.
Fear make us paranoid. Fearful of disease from a mosquito bite we gas as many as we can. Blind with fear we kill innocent people; bomb their country; destroy their defense and fear that they will resurrect in the future to take revenge for what was done to them US invade their country. Kill. capture, imprison and torture those who dare to oppose, the term "either you are with us or you are against us" reflect on the paranoid mentality of the invaders. Enemies are seen everywhere including imaginative ones. After much destruction the invaders try to install a 'friendly' government
The question is did US forced N. Korea and Iran into desperate measures? Faced with the choice to yield or face endless sanctions can a nation be forced to kneel losing all pride and self respect?
We have to change our mentality of feeling insecure and seeing enemies everywhere. Which country in the World would dare attack US knowing very well their country will face extinction? Remove those fear by cultivation compassion, do it to counter the seeds of hatred already sown from within and others.

Consequences of attack to Iran:
1. War against Iran will start JAHAD AKBAR against enemies.
2. Iran would blockade the Straits of Hormuz
3. War quickly gets out of hand. U.S. plans to destroy Iran's anti-aircraft and military infrastructure could easily escalate to destroying Iran's oil-loading and shipment facilities. Iran will retaliate against the UAE,Kuwaiti, Saudi, and Gulf states oil facilities. So oil will jump to troposphere price.
4. The attack would make America even more suspect and hated in the whole Islamic world.
5. American citizens and businesses in many nations would be under threat of attack by militant Iranians and other Muslims.
7. Nobody knows the effectiveness of the Russian and Chinese weapons that have been sold to Iran. There is a risk that they might be very effective.
8. The disasters for America could also weaken and challenge the power of the Israel Lobby, especially AIPAC.
9.Finally, Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan so war against Iran will generaly destabilize Asia, Europe ASAP.

beside Iranian already purchased few operational nuclear head in fall 1990’s. So they don’t need to waste their time for producing Uranium to make bomb.

Originally posted by Prof. Twister

4. The attack would make America even more suspect and hated in the whole Islamic world.

You make some points I suppose but this is not one of them. Most of the Islamic world sees Irans version of Islam as a problem. They are violent toward and intolerant of other sects. They are a nation without peer, operated by hard core religious nut jobs.

Okay. I thought about it. I know that at least this much will happen. Israel will strike Iran's nuke sites (probably flying over a later-to-be very offended Saudi Arabia, and thereby destroying forever the evidence that Iran was or was not developing nuclear weapons. But what will history show?

You say, Iran is not a big player in the world right now. For you to say that Iran is a no-body just shows how ignorant you are. You mention the p5+1, which includes China, who rejected recent UN sanctions drawn up to hit Iran.

Another thing I want to point out, as China is now becoming the world super power [or they will be soon enough], we keep messing with kim jung wung and we'll be starring down 2.3 million Chinese soldiers along the 38th


"Iran sees them all as one in the same. "

That's why to this day Iran continues trades with China and Russia. Perhaps not in arms or with military equipment [which I think is banned after the recent sanctions..[armed trade with Iran]], but in agriculture, and building materials, supplies.

Iran supplies China with Energy, China supplies Iran with industry.

People just dont understand. They keep referring to the occupying forces in Iraq and drawing some paralell. This would NOT be the case here. Yes the "insurgency war" in Iraq has lasted for years but make no mistake about it, Iraq's military machine was toast in just a few weeks.

So would Iran's. Nobody is talking about invading Iran-they are talking about desptroying its militiary machine which could be done from air and sea in a matter of WEEKS at the MOST.