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time for iran's next delaying action

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 "Delaying Action" has two meanings. One is an action that delays something, and the second is something that delays action. Not exactly the same here.

Iran is a master at both, and doing both in one stroke. Remember in September when the hidden nuclear site was revealed and an embarrassed west, which already knew of it but were beat to the punch by Iran, which resulted in Obama getting tough and Iran allowed inspectors in and entertained the Russia offer to export uranium to Russia to be sent back enriched? Looked like it was all coming to a head, but active talk fizzled back into a waiting game. The US saying, "don't make nukes" and Iran answering "we aren't" isn’t a fix, is it?

Does anyone believe Iran and that the west is just nuts / paranoid?

All the time -- with every tick of the clock, uranium is enriched, devices made to ignite it, rockets perfected to deliver it, and rhetoric spoken to justify it -- Iran advances toward having a nuclear bomb. 

Does anyone believe Iran, that this ia about nuclear energy for Iran? 

Well, out of sight, out of mind, but it is coming time for another move, another public show, even show down. Iran's last word was that despite the international scrutiny of its finances and arms import ban, that president Ahmadinejad claims Iran is now in the power position over the US and EU. Will the US ever do anything except talk? Is it just a waiting game, one with both sides buying time, with finger pointing by the USA & EU so we can say "we tried" in the end or is it ever going to come to more?

China and Russia have kept more from happening to Iran, but nearby Israel rightly feels they are the target Iran's potential destructive might and Iran has made that clear enough to the world. Even if Israel attacked Iran, it can't occupy Iran, and Iran will not stop developing the weapon, so Israel would simply be buying time too, with the attack being a delaying action.

An opportunity for action passed when sowing seeds for a revolution were perhaps possible during the Iranian election riots. Even Iran recognized that the events were the old seed beds the CIA would have capitalized on to change the policy by changing the government. NO WAR, just change the government to change the policy.   Maybe something is going on now, or maybe the USA didn't have things in place, or the will. Be it the will or the way or the right day, nothing has actually happened in a long time as time brings us closer to something happening that we all fear -- Iranian Nukes. 

From threat to Israel, to further de-stabilizing the region to terrorist access, another nuclear nation is contrary to any hope for peace and an increased chance of a nuclear nightmare happening in this world. 

If I were a Vegas odds maker, I’d size it up this way: Iran is clearly the winner here. Iran is having its way in getting nukes and the USA is not having its way in stopping Iran. Iran is paying a price economically, but willing to do so to get what it wants. Iran is paying a price in international image, but Iran seems to bask in being the center of attention.

Nothing happens in isolation, and so the anti-American tie between Venezuela & Iran grows stronger with each day. Bolivia and Chavez have supplied uranium to Iran. Tehran has a policy aimed at building its ties with Latin American countries with the declared goal of “bringing America to its knees.”  How would Chavez get a nuke fast?

Well, Florida would be in the range of current Iranian missiles from Venezuela. How much to you trust Chavez? Nukes could  become articles of trade, and I believe in the laws of averages. Sooner or later, they will be used.

Millions of lives depend on decisions made all along the way.

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