SecondWar said:
The US invaded Iraq over some stuff to do with WMD (dont remember all the details, was fairly young in 2003 and not going to claim to have all the facts straight now) and Nuclear weapons. Iran actually does have a Nuclear agenda, meaning the US (and Israel) have and stronger argument for an invasion. Really though, what would it solve? Probably nothing apart from whens WW3 going to start. |
Under international law there is no argument for invasion. Zero, nilch. The supreme crime under international law is one of aggression against another nation. There are many ways apart from blowing a nation to smithereens to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons if indeed that is what they are trying to acquire. One is to prevent it's proliferation which the US has been at the forefront of being in one way or another a party to (Israel and Pakistan for example) and a nuclear free Middle East/world. Another is to demilitarise and stop making threats. Iran has for example over a hundred thousand US troops nearby in various countries and faced with masses of firepower that would rain down on it should the US decide to make war.
One thing that almost certainly won't happen is WWIII. Why people say that I'm not sure. I mean how would WWII break out if Iran is attacked? The Middle East isn't the world.
It wouldn't solve anything but it would like the invasion and subsequent occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq enormously increase the threat of terrorism, instability, death, destruction, you name it.
