US intelligence agencies lying about Iran?

[JimC]

Did everyone forget the recent plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador inside a DC restaurant? As someone who occasionally eats in DC restaurants, I haven't.
I sure as shit don't trust Iran, or at least the IRGC. A lot of people seem to have a tendency of assuming that since the US is so powerful and Iran so much less so, that the US is the one which cannot be trusted and must be plotting something sinister. It's a predictable bias, but it has to ignore a lot of other things.

Anyway, crazy as Iran's government may be, I'd be far more worried about Israel risking a false flag operation than them or the US. The US can't keep a deception like that under wraps; we leak information like a sieve.
(No, this isn't a Gawd sockpuppet speaking).

Real mature, Ian seeing as how your government has been murdering Iranians.

Mossad, surely...

[Clinton Huxley]

Look, I can't see anything wrong with Iran getting nukes and thus forcing Saudi Arabia and Turkey to get them too. What could possibly go wrong?

[Svartalf]

Millions of litres of precious oil burning under a glassy crust?

[JimC]

Millions of litres of precious oil burning under a glassy crust?

The glassy crust will preserve them for future generations of hydrocarbon fanciers...

[Clinton Huxley]

You know, if Afghanistan had nukes, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in now.

[Svartalf]

You know, if Afghanistan had nukes, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in now.

If they'd had them back in 1980, there wouldn't even be such a place as Afghanistan now.

[Clinton Huxley]

Why the hell did the US not intervene when France was acquiring nuclear weapons? Very slack.

[FBM]

Why would US intel agencies be lying about Iran? If I were them, I'd be lying about Florida or Bermuda. More wimmens in bikinis and beer there...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Do we really care what reason they come up with to go in and take the fuckin' oil?

[Coito ergo sum]

You know, if Afghanistan had nukes, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in now.

If all 200-odd countries had nukes, then it would be fair.

[Coito ergo sum]

Why the hell did the US not intervene when France was acquiring nuclear weapons? Very slack.

For the same reason the UK didn't intervene, probably.

[Coito ergo sum]

Do we really care what reason they come up with to go in and take the fuckin' oil?

The gas prices around my house indicate to me that our gubmint is decidedly incompetent at oil theft.

[Ian]

Did everyone forget the recent plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador inside a DC restaurant? As someone who occasionally eats in DC restaurants, I haven't.
I sure as shit don't trust Iran, or at least the IRGC. A lot of people seem to have a tendency of assuming that since the US is so powerful and Iran so much less so, that the US is the one which cannot be trusted and must be plotting something sinister. It's a predictable bias, but it has to ignore a lot of other things.

Anyway, crazy as Iran's government may be, I'd be far more worried about Israel risking a false flag operation than them or the US. The US can't keep a deception like that under wraps; we leak information like a sieve.
(No, this isn't a Gawd sockpuppet speaking).

Real mature, Ian seeing as how your government has been murdering Iranians.

Orly?
Prove it.

Besides, how many Americans did Iranian-produced weapons kill in Iraq? How many Iraqis? We can only make estimates on numbers like that, but there's no ambiguity about it. So whomever happens to be taking out Iranian nuclear scientists (Israel is by far suspect #1, followed by Saudi Arabia, with the US somewhere on the short list, and Iran itself is not above speculation), I say jolly good job.

[Coito ergo sum]

If one is worried about the murder of Iranians, wouldn't one be opposed to the Iranian gubmint?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Do we really care what reason they come up with to go in and take the fuckin' oil?

The gas prices around my house indicate to me that our gubmint is decidedly incompetent at oil theft.

Euros be payin' four times that.