Why is Iran trying so hard to play hardball?
448746
I believe it is all about jealousy. I mean, look how much the west has as compared to the Arab States. If it were not for their oil, those countries would not have much more to offer. However, like the guy above said, trap a rat in the corner and it will defend itself. However,the rat is going up against the king of the jungle, a den of lions. It does not take much to see that they too strive to have power. But they wouldnt know how to control their power so thats the reason they cannot have nuclear arms. As far as Russia, they are in it for the money...what else. For the same reason they did not authorize the US invading Iraq, they were purchasing lot of oil from Iraq and selling it to the US. Its all politics but for Iran, they are out of their league.
588047
Iran will play again ,give some advantages to other countries ,and actually go on it`s dangerous plans !
170538
Because the US is a prick who thinks they can control the world. The US is like the evil person in James Boind movies. They think they are very powerful and want to take over the world. Iran is like James Bond. In they end the evil person dies and Bond gets laid.
489297
iran is a developing country.fighting to survive and bring better life for it's people.\ndo not belive the media.\n\ndo not!
1021239
Iran can still go to the next step... they just have to defeat Portugal and Angola and wait for other results within the group.
227455
Iran couldn't even win the Asian Cup, much less the World Cup.  Ali Daei is too old, their play isn't quite athletic enough, and they have two better teams in their group: Mexico and Portugal.\n\nNo, I'm afraid it's a short trip to Germany for the Mullahs' Men.
375390
Iran has a much stronger and more experienced team than in France 1998, with more European-based players who are currently playing at a high level.  But Iran has a difficult group.  Iran must beat Angola, and tie either Mexico or Portugal in order to have a chance to advance.  I think that Iran can do it.  Their coach prepares them well on set plays.  Having watched their qualifying matches, I saw that they score many goals on set plays.  If they can continue to do this in the World Cup, they can get goals against both Mexico and Portugal, which are not strong defensive teams.  Then they can tie one of those games.  If Iran does advance, I think that they will have a difficult time moving past the Round of 16.  But every World Cup has surprises.
129192
NOrth Korea.  They are in a desperate situation because of natural causes, IE a famine.  Desperate people tend to do desperate things and are dangerous.  But Iran isn't that far behind!
525726
Even G. Brush Esq. with his limited acquaintance with World geography must realise that Iran is just a little too close to Israel. To start playing nuclear roulette, even the 'mini nuke' version, is pretty close to an Armageddon scenario for close neighbours.
471153
I think Iran is far harder nut to crack than Iraq and it would be biggest Bush's stupidity if he try to attack the country at least now. Besides, Iran can't for now threaten anybody with its uranium-enriching level.
125188
It's delicate. My guess is that Iran will take Russia's offer for enrichment at least for now. I'm quite sure their research will go on, which means sooner or later someone's gonna call their bluff and then it won't matter whether they've been onest about the purpose of their program.\nThe sad thing is Iran still has the NPT and international law on it's side since none of the accusers managed to prove its program is -not- entirely civilian. \nWar right now would be damn inconvenient for US since to most neutral countries it will appear and incessant bullying and some might rally behind Iran, Syria and Venezuela.\nUS can't exploit Iraq oil just yet. Of course US companies will be preffered for drilling and/or refining Iraq oil but they have to wait for the situation in Iraq and give the appearance of elections.
626966
Zero, this thing is to create more fear and confusion for ignorant people to rant and rave about. Voting tactics from the GOP, but it's not working anymore because nobody is listening to any Republicans. Iran has never made any aggression to other nations, and it will be really hard to get any coalition support other then sanctions. The political agendas have nothing to do with the aggression of war, it's all politics.
154004
You ask a question so twisted in meaning that it is hard to figure out how to give an answer that is meaningful to the question.  The U.S. has had very little to trust about the government that Iran has had since 1979.  Iran has expressed the desire to drive Israel out of the Middle East, Iran has sponsored events that call the Holocust of the 1930's and 40's as being a myth, and indeed something that did not happen.  This Myth is supposedly been used to create the state of Israel in 1948.  Part of Irans political agenda is for the destruction of Israel.  The President of Iran states that Israel should be moved to either Germany or the U.S.  I do not understand why they should be Germany's problem if there was no Holocust, and the thought is to return them to the U.S. where they came from, however the Jewish people have been around for over 6,000 years and America has only been populated by the "Old World" for the past 500 years.  The land of Israel and/or Palistine is mentioned in the Bible written long before the Muslim Religion was founded some 700 or so years later.  Why is it so hard for Iran to understand that with their background based in hatered of other people's of the world that the U.N. would want to monitor the peaceful use of Nuclear Power that Iran wants to develope.  How can they not see that the world will not trust that their intentions are not merely peaceful after their history which is an open book.  It is important to the free world to monitor the use of Nuclear Materials and maintain a strict inventory of them.  I hope that this answer has covered all the double talk that your question has posed.
532696
It should not be allowed nuclear capabilities, and we should all endever to prevent this occurance, because it is not within the intrests of the Western world. I recognise the arguement that Iran is as unstable or backward as the Western press portray it to be, however a neuclear Iranian would enable it to dictate policy in the region to a much larger degree, look at North Korea for example. The West needs a weaker Iran to exploit its natural resources, we should not be apologetic about this fact, we should however be careful how we go about it. As previous events have shown, badly planned interferance is far worse than isolationism.
802613
Right now Iran is in production of missiles capable of carrying the weight and claim that they already have them. But that wont concern us because as soon as they even attempt to load one on a missile Israel will probably nuke them first claiming a preemptive strike. ( considering Iran said it wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth )
401185
Iran is an example of all that is wrong with the Arab world.  It is a country in which the proliferation of a nuclear weapon is more important than the creation of a stable economy.  Iran is more concerned with the death and destruction of their religious enemies and political enemies than feeding or clothing their own citizens.  The government uses the miltary as it's own personal police, the country hasn't had a legitimate ruler...ever.  When the oil runs out, Iran will be one of the poorest and most destitute countries on earth.  They have no infrastructure, no way to fund their state run government.  They have little foreign investment because no business will venture into Iran for fear of getting shut down and pilliaged by the gov't.  It's a country lead by a theocracy, and violation of religion is a violation against the state.  Iran is quite possibly the most dangerous, and at the same time embarassing and pitiful countries on earth.
696738
Maybey Iran is using that context, certainly the Iranian people have grown discontent with their government and the mullhas only hope is to have some sort of conflict to reassure the iranian people's faith in the government.