Iran Threatens U.S. With 'Harm and Pain'

This is a deceptive headline. For starters, this is really all about America's interference in the Middle east, about America desire to widen the conflict from Iraq to Iran, on the same pretence - the threat of nuclear weapons. America really wants a legitimate but illegal means to invade Iran, as oil moves into an increasing state of flux. That means instability, and higher oil prices - Simmons predicts $200 before 2010 - will blast through the world markets like a cannonball in a china shop. Whether that threat is real, seems to me to be virtually irrelevant, simply because it is one nation with thousands of nuclear weapons, telling another nation, that rightfully feels imperilled, it can't have any.

I am not saying it is a simple situation. I am not saying the US is wrong to prevent Iran from developing weapons. What I am saying is that these media reports will slowly butter us up for another war. Remember that whenever you have a war, your chances of creating an embittered people, your chances of creating terror, increase. That's why the words: war on terror are simply nonsense. War is terror. Terror on terror makes as much sense as fighting fire with fire.

My suggestion is that the US removes itself to its own borders, focusses on developing alternatives, developing its railway system and upgrading its power grid - develop local capability...before being forced to do so, by becoming bankrupt. Based on the deficit, it almost is.
Perhaps, when faced with that, it will seize control over oil as a means to leverage its financial system. The military may be the final hope of an Empire, otherwise facing ruin. This obviously does not bode well for either the world or the America that seeks to make it into its own image.

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
45 minutes ago

VIENNA, Austria - Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program.

But the United States and its European allies said Iran's nuclear intransigence left the world no choice but to seek Security Council action. The council could impose economic and political sanctions on Iran.

The statements were delivered to the 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is meeting to focus on Tehran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.

The White House dismissed the rhetoric out of Tehran.

"I think that provocative statements and actions only further isolate Iran from the rest of the world," White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters traveling with President Bush to hurricane-affected states in the Gulf Coast. "And the international community has spelled out to Iran what it needs to do."

Who is the international community? America and the UK?