Only a bluff?
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It quite interesting, if not amazing, to note that the US and Iran engage themselves in a fierce verbal warfare nowadays. Iran has declared having achieved what it wanted in the nuclear field and the US can do nothing about that now. The US, on the other hand, says that the Pentagon is almost ready with a quick attack on Iranian vital sites, not only its economic arsenals and nuclear installations, but also the entire military is being targeted by the US and that Iran cannot escape the attack no matter how it tries. All this looks like film dialogues to which the international public is so familiar with. But the continuous war of words by these two countries has caused serious tension in the world. In fact the US and Iran are mentally ransacking the international community with their rhetoric for quite some time now and the world is at a loss as to what exactly has been happening between them. Iran, for whatever reasons, has become over-confident that the US would not attack it now or anytime in future and the US-led war is almost over with the fall of Afghanistan that threatened the West with its aggressive Islamisation drive. One does not know if Iran already has some "nuclear understanding" with the Bush administration and agreed also to export energy resources free of cost to the US as an appeasement gift. If so well and good. After all, who wants war? Unwritten rules and norms are common in international relations and the exact position of the US-led war agenda for Iran is thus not known to the world. And one cannot go by the foreign policy statements of the countries, more so of the US wanting to showcase it military power to the world at large.
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