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current event by willwaddell on 17 September 2007, tagged as worldaffairs

With storm clouds gathering around Iran, Tehran did not hesitate to fire back at comments made by France's foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner. Recently Kouchner said, in reference to Iran, that "[w]e have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war." Constituting a much harder line for French diplomacy, Iran has accused the Élysée of becoming simply "the executors of the will of the White House" and attack the new French statements as being "more inflammatory and more illogical than that of Washington." Despite its co-operation with the IAEA, a move seen by some as a stalling tactic, two courses seem to be rising to the surface in dealing with Iran - tougher sanctions or a military strike. Gen. Mohammad Hassan Koussechi of Iran's Revolutionary Guards says any attack would elicit a powerful response, stating that Iran has the ability to strike an enemy at 2,000 km and adding that U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan "are within our range."

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Let's Play The What if Game by Bortnyk :: NR6

It seems that France may not be getting out the guillotine and firing up the masses with republican rhetoric, or even dusting off the fleur de lis. At the end of the post they sort of back down from the media confrontation with a "No one can think for one instant that we are imagining and preparing plans against Iran." I guess that was the inevitable conclusion.

Let's play the "what if" game for a minute. One question for the ten pound foreign policy brains: Can a member nation of the EU unilaterally take military action against anybody? Germany is already hip deep in Afghanistan, but I'm not sure if that was pre-EU.

Second question for the ten pound economics brains: What is the impact of Iran using oil as a economic WMD in the event of attack?

Posted 19 September 2007, Hide, Reply