Something that Nickhere can't figure:

"Iran MUST know that it's open nuclear programme is an open invitation to be attacked by the USA, whether it's for peaceful purposes or not."

A number of points that Nickhere omits to mention that would help him figure things out:

1) Iran's nuclear programme has been far from "open" - One glance through last November's IAEA report to the UN which details Iran's non-compliance under the terms and conditions of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty illustrates that.

2) "The Iranian president saves US intelligence a load of work by giving step-by-step updates about the progress of his nuclear programme, while evn listing places where it's going on (Nanatz)."

Perhaps Nickhere was elsewhere, incommunicado, when the existence of Iran's secret uranium enrichment facilities were revealed in 2002. But just to put Nick right on the matter, no member of Iran's government or member of any of their ruling councils had anything to do with exposing the existence of those sites, that was down to a number of Iranian dissidents who were and still are extremely worried about Iran's nuclear programme and where it might lead.

3) I do not believe that there are many in this world that truly believe that Iran's pursuit of nuclear power has any other goal than to acquire nuclear weapons as quickly as possible.

4) To date the United States of America has not threatened Iran. Iran on the other hand has beeen threatening America on a regular basis (Every Friday) since 1979 and has advocated that a sovereign state and recognised member of the United Nations be wiped off the map.

Amos take a good look at the picture of the "hanged" woman in Iran. Please note the means used to hang her - a mobile crane. Normally when sentenced to die on a gallows the neck is broken and death is instantaneous. Death by hanging as performed in Iran is slow strangulation as the person sentenced is hoisted, not pleasant.