Why cant we leave iran alone ?

Here's your reason:

We don't leave Iran alone because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has consistently threatened to "wipe Israel off the map". Both Israel and its major ally, the USA, are scared of what Iran could be capable of doing to Israel if it gets its hands on a nuclear weapon. The USA is basically even holding back an Israeli pre-emptive offense on Tehran even right now.

It has also been shown time and time again that Iran seems to be behind many of the terror attacks and violent Palestinian movements going on in the the West Bank and Gaza, in addition to some activity in Lebanon/Syria.

Anyway, why are you asking this in the LGBT section?

Anyone who thinks that war with Iran is a good idea, has no sense of history. If were to make war with Iran, we would strengthen the ruling regime. I despise the power structure in the Islamic Republic, and I hope that it will one day fall or begin to change with time. There is reason to be optimistic. President Khatami (sorry if my spelling is a both off with Persian names) introduced a lot of legislation that was hugely popular but vetoed by the Council of Guardians. Akhamdinejad was elected because the electorate believed that change had to be smaller to get past the Ayatollah. We have seen period of large scale unrest, especially in 2010, then is still boiling underneath the surface. With a large portion of the population under 25, and a lot of reasons for unrest with an unpopular regime we could see mass protests and strike plague the regime until it begins to liberalize. The only way this will not happen, is if the regime is able to unite the population against a common enemy like the United States. the Iran-Iraq War helped to consolidate power in the hands of the clergy after the 1979 Revolution. War or aggression with America may well, serve to gain the clergy more legitimacy as a defender of the people. A people who still the remember the rule of the Shah and the period when America wasn't so keen on a democratic Iran on 50 years ago.

Why is this in LGBT?

I agree with you to a certain degree. This ABC article explains things well:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3839002.html

Hell, if I was Iran I think I'd want nuclear weapons. They have just as much to fear from us as we do them. But then again, we do have to protect of our own western interests - and the safety of the people of Israel and other nations, of course. So it's a complicated issue.

What is clear is that western intervention in the middle east has often only made things worse, and that much of the resentment the Arab world feels towards us comes from this past history.

Also, it would be naive to assume Iran's oil supply has nothing to do with it - just look at Iraq.

How does that quote go about war being best avoided but not shied away from go? I think it might have been Churchill. I can't really remember, but I think it applies here anyhow. Washington are holding out that this might be resolved peacefully, so they say. The unfortunate part is that I doubt it will be.

And as a PS, lots of people were very worried about North Korea building nuclear weapons, but the two are different circumstances. More to the point, North Korea's economy is more heavily tied to China than anywhere else, so there's not much NATO can do in terms of economic sanctions.

1 why is this in the LGBT section 2 offensive to americans on this site especially those fighting for us and dieing for us 3 horrible troll attempt

it is not nato, it is the UN and IAEA . north korea acceded from the nuclear non proliferation treaty, and has 8 un security council resolutions against its nuclear program. america has no embargo. that would be sanctions. iran's nuclear program is violating article 3 of the nuclear non proliferation treaty as well as 6 un security council resolutions. under this treaty they got civilian nuclear energy such as the russian completed nuclear power plant in bushehr, and the chinese built nuclear technolgy center in isfahan. however when they got what they wanted they gave IAEA inspectors the boot. they are hiding it, they have also been ordered by the UN security council to stop enriching uranium (see resolution 1696)

http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/pdf/NPTE...

Article III

Each non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes to accept safeguards, as set forth in an agreement to be negotiated and concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency in accordance with the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Agency’s safeguards system, for the exclusive purpose of verification of the fulfilment of its obligations assumed under this Treaty with a view to preventing diversion of nuclear energy from peaceful uses to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. Procedures for the safeguards required by this Article shall be followed with respect to source or special fissionable material whether it is being produced, processed or used in any principal nuclear facility or is outside any such facility. The safeguards required by this Article shall be applied on all source or special fissionable material in all peaceful nuclear activities within the territory of such State, under its jurisdiction, or carried out under its control anywhere

here are the IAEA reports regaurding irans illegal uranium enrichment

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcirc...

Iran is a party to the NPT but was found in non-compliance with its NPT safeguards agreement and the status of its nuclear program remains in dispute. In November 2003 IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei reported that Iran had repeatedly and over an extended period failed to meet its safeguards obligations, including by failing to declare its uranium enrichment program.

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Board/2...

the IAEA Board of Governors, acting under Article XII.C of the IAEA Statute, found in a rare non-consensus decision with 12 abstentions that these failures constituted non-compliance with the IAEA safeguards agreement.This was reported to the UN Security Council in 2006

after which the Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Iran suspend its enrichment. Instead, Iran resumed its enrichment program.

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Board/2...

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of

Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Board/2...

While the Agency continues to conduct verification activities under Iran’s Safeguards Agreement, Iran is not implementing a number of its obligations, including: implementation of the provisions of its

Additional Protocol; implementation of the modified Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Arrangements General Part to its Safeguards Agreement; suspension of enrichment related activities; suspension of heavy water related activities; and addressing the Agency’s concerns about possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme.

While the Agency continues to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material at the nuclear

facilities and LOFs declared by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement, as Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation, including by not implementing its Additional Protocol, the Agency is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities