Originally posted by milano

It doesn't matter what we think or believe about this or that. The coming battle is but one of many collisions from a dispute that has been going on for thousands of years. Israel will be the victor, and America will likely pay the highest price, as usual. The Persians will fall, again. That's what happens when you let crazies run your government (Mahmoud Icantgetajob).

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Israel will be hit harder in retaliation than ever before, there will be a unification of ME states against the US and Israel

The US mainland will never be in the conflict, but oil at 200$ will cause a deep recession, or depression.

The Persians will continue along as they always have, destroyed but rebuilding.

All because Nettin Imayahoo wants blood.

Let Israel do what it wants. As long as the U.S. keeps it's nose out of it I don't care. If Israel decides to attack without real provocation, then slap the same sanctions on them we put on everyone else. So what if Iran wants a nuclear weapon, they are a sovereign nation and quite capable of deciding that for themselves. Hell you can't even get Israel to acknowledge they have their own nukes. Yet they expect other nations to ignore their own sovereignty and be told what to do? If Iran builds a nuke and uses it against Israel, Israel is quite capable of responding and acting on it's own. We need not let the our scrawny little friend, get us involved in their petty little fight.

What a different game war is now.Telling your enemy when you will attack,so they can prepare.Defeats the purpose really.If this is true, is Tehran telling its people to leave any targeted areas.
Did the Nazis' tell Poland that a storm was coming?Did Japan tell the U.S that they will be there before lunch?
Strange days indeed

This could be a well planned hoax on Iran.

Think what it will cost Iran to keep there military at maximum level of readiness for the next 3+ months.

Plus they will have to test all there air defence system radars giving away there location and band length.

And i suspect that there military will start making mistakes and maybe even shoot down the wrong air craft like a civilian airliner.

Why Israel is so sure that Iran does not have right now a nuclear bomb, maybe they already have it and if someone attacks Iran they are going to use it.

When I heard this on CNN, I had to ask myself, why would they announce such a thing? Is it possible they want to spy on Iran's high alert defenses? Or maybe they want to evaluate troop or personal movement around their nuclear sites?

This announcement just doesn't make sense. There has to be a covert reason to alarm Iran's leaders and its citizens. It could be they want to alarm the populace who are against the current regime to organize and take to the streets to possibly force a coup against the current government?

The element of surprise is military strategy 101. Something just doesn't feel right about this announcement.

For those looking to profit from this situation, I suggest buying oil on commodity markets right now is an intelligent idea, alongside gold. Oil prices will shoot up in the event of an Israeli attack on Iran, they may shoot up even more depending on Irans response (wether they attack Israel, or possible even Saudi Arabia and UAE). If Iran attacks Saudi Arabia expect a massive rise in the price of oil. A rise of easily over an extra $100 a barrell. This will inturn affect the economic recovery and growth of America, Europe and East Asia. It will also slow economic growth in China, given that the European and American markets will shrink their demand for China's produce. As investors and people become nervous, they will transfer US dollars, Yen, AUS dollars, Euros etc into Gold.

Okay.... I have an opinion on this too....Israel will attack Iran on March 22, 2012, drawing the U.S. into the conflict as well.