US plans to bomb Iran: Reaction

The report in Sunday's New Yorker, that the US has intensified planning for a major air attack on Iran generated an enormous response in traditional media and the Blogosphere. But few Iranian English-language bloggers, in Iran or elsewhere, tackled the issue.

One of the few who did was Mr Behi.

"I am starting to believe that we are living in a haphazard time of human history! Can still not be live what I hear about the talks of using nuclear weapons against Iran's nuclear sites! Hey, do you hear me? We are people down here! Can you understand that?"

He continues: "There is a nice proverb in Persian that says "First dig a well and then steal the Minaret". [You know what Minaret is right? that is one of the commonly two towers build on the side of domes of mosques and shrines]. That means, before doing something, think of the outcomes and give yourself an out. Someone should read that to Tehran and Washington leaders."

Ladysun put the current threat into historical context, with a poignant reflection on her memories of earlier missile attacks, from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

"I was 11 years old when the last run of Iraq’s missile attacks on Tehran started. My mom was out in downtown Tehran to have some used toys fixed for poor children. We knew there could have been a missile attack and my dad urged her not to leave. But she was thinking of those little girls who would get excited by playing with those pink princess dolls.

"The missile attack started at around 5pm. There weren’t any cell phones at that time. We didn’t know what had happened to my mom. She came back home at midnight. She was stuck in the traffic due to a missile attack on a nearby area, but she was alive! She didn’t leave the house during the whole months of missile attacks.

"Our schools were closed. We could easily see the missiles in the sky getting separated from their warheads and then heading to different directions. After each explosion everybody would call friends and family to check if they are OK.

There were rumors that Ekbatan, our apartment complex which is a huge area near the airport, was safe and Saddam didn’t want to attack it. So, Ekbatan was overpopulated all those months by friends and families of people living there. My aunt, uncle and cousins stayed at our house for a couple of weeks. One night we saw from the balcony a missile attack on an area near my cousin’s uncle’s house. Everybody was crying. The phones weren’t working. I held my 10-year-old cousin in my arms and cried with her. My dad and uncle left the house at midnight to go and find out whether they were alive; they were!"

The rest of this post is here.

Meanwhile Lucid Dreams of a Maniac posted a very short, and understandable response to life in the firing line.

"Iran: a rouge state?..oooops no, the worst rouge state! I am not following the news anymore, it confuses me even more. To hell with what is going to happen."

Comments

[Doug]

Will the U.S. not attack a country which is not armed with nuclear weapons and which says it has no intention of making such weapons? I think not.

Diplomacy is still the number one priority in Washington. There is still a long way to go before there has to be a military showdown.

Iran is not becoming "nuclear-armed" (at least not yet). They are becoming “nuclear-capable,” and that is disturbing.

[beni]

i watched the american foreign policy testimony today.it was so funny because sometimes audience stood up and asked about taking out isfahan and natanz ,using almighty american air force!i could not believe my eyes as they joked and speculated about it.constantly calling iranians liars, extremists and...
all my life i lovd ameica,but now i join all the young men and women of europe and beyond in ahting them.i am so disappointed.

[w.b.]

Here's a hint: don't develop a nuclear program while proclaiming that a neighboring country should be wiped off the map.

What kind of a reaction do you expect?