There is no doubt now that Iran will not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. I don't know if Ahmadinejad actually said that he would invade Iraq, but it is a good covert ploy to get the world behind an Iranian bombing. It also has been indicated by the US Congress in a vote late in the last session that ALL branches of the US government support the supression of Iran's nuclear warfare ambitions AND this indicates that the succeeding US administration will also. IRAN!....wake up!

Jack, Inyokern, California

Henry of Ottowa has a point. The Iranians would probably do anything to escape an invasion of henry clones,with the inevitable depressing consequence of being jawboned and loved to death.

Miki, Sydney,

It would be most irresponsible for George Bush to pull out of Iraq prematurely and hand that country over to radical Moslem Iran. Of course there will be many voices urging him to do just that, but these are either the voices of those who have no understanding of the situation in the Middle East, or of those who support the worldwide expansion of radical Islam. The road back from Iranian control of Iraq will not be easy and decrying the errors that will have brought it upon us will do us no good. The results of expanding radical Islam will be felt everywhere including throughout Europe, the Americas, and of course throughout the Middle East. Some policies are right even if George Bush supports them. Let’s not make a mistake that we will end up lamenting for generations to come. Iran must be stopped and the longer we wait the more costly it will be.

Ehad Haam, Raanana, ISRAEL

How this US admin get their direction or policy? Is there any group in US that advocate talking to IRAN as suggested by Hamilton Lee recommendation? All I see here is diplomatic fight or military confrontation. US has a lot to benifit by talking to Iran. The idea of regime change can not be implimmented with pressure (neither by sanction nor military). Sanctions will harm Iranian people and turn their west friendly culture against US. Military option will line up all people behind their governent. If US talks to Iran and respect the resulting agrreement (note that US did not respect the Algire accord in early 80's in which do not attmpt to change the regime), the reform and liberals from inside Iran will take care of the regime. The way I see is that the US admin is much more hardline that Iran's government and in turn they strengthen the hands of regime in Iran. When this admin will learn from their mistakes? I expect writters to advocate love and peace not war like necons

Henry, Ottawa, Canada

It really depends on whose rhetoric you believe. The bare bones are:-
Should Iran ever find a way of delivering a nuclear weapon and use it to nuke Tel Aviv (Jerusalem is bigger but a sacred Muslim Temple precludes that, as if that would matter!)
The consequences of that are horrifying enough, but what follows would be worse.
It is acknowledged that Israel has around 3000 nuclear weapons of varying sizes.
The Israeli reaction to attack is to always strike back, and if it looked as if Israel, as a nation was not going to exist then the country of Iran would disappear off of the face of the earth, and I guess that whilst they were at it, and with nothing to lose, every other major city in every other Arab country in the region would probably get some attention as well!
This is why am so surprised at the Arab nations seemingly careless attitude over Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

Brian Smith, London,

All George Bush had to do was read his father's book that layed out the reason's why he would not invade Iraq. Mainly, that we would put Iraq in the pro-Iranian Shiite column, and take away a bulwark against Iran.

Scott, McLean, Virginia, USA

No proof of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, no proof of Iran's involvement "meddling" in Iraq. But Iran's got OIL and that makes them bad (very bad) and we have to save the world from whatever. It is funny that out of all the countries in the world, only the US and mini-me "Israel" feels threatened by Iran. (Yes we already have > 10000 nuclear warheads and they have none, and we will not tolerate the un/fair balance)

Bob, London,

Well said.

For those who like to throw the term around Ahmadinejad defines the word "war monger".

He is looking likely to get what he's asking for, and he should remember that however incompetent America may be at winning a peace, no country on earth can match Americas ability to flatten an adversary.

Angus Elliott, Cambridge, Canada/Ontario

Do you realize how ironic it is for the UK or US to accuse Iran of "meddling" in Iraq, or of arming the militias in Iraq when hundreds of thousands of US-provided weapons cannot be accounted for? I for one am tired of the same misleading propaganda directed against Iran that was directed agains Iraq.

hass, New York, USA

Do you people have any conscience? Do you recognize that you're working for a company that is actively promoting a terrible war that will engulf much of the world? Are you that stupid that you could just sit there and read this? What will your kids think of you in 20 years when you tell them you used to work for Murdoch's war and hate mongering machine? How can you look at yourself in the mirror day after day going to work for such a sleazy and evil operation? Shame on you and all of your co-workers.

Philip, New York, NY