Whatever the risks, Israel remains determined to destroy Iran's government and is confident that the western powers will back any Israeli attack.

Iran supports a Middle East nuclear weapons free zone but Israel refuses to give up its hundreds of nuclear weapons or to open up its stockpile to international inspections.

It is wrong to reduce Israel to Netanyahu: its ordinary citizens don't want war with Iran, and the country's top spooks and soldiers are queueing up to tell us why.

The “wiped off the map” phrase is a myth, but it has been transformed into accepted wisdom by its endless repetition by US politicians and the corporate media.

According to the latest "news" from the Ministry of Make-Believe, Iran will soon be lobbing warheads across two oceans and three continents to take out New York City.

Obama's "last chance" message can only be construed as a thinly veiled threat to wage war if Iran does not capitulate to all US and Nato demands.

The creatures of the US military-industrial complex, have somehow managed to pick themselves up from what should have been career-ending humiliation in Iraq and call for more of the same.

"All options are on the table," say Obama and Cameron. But they aren't. Only a madman would invade and occupy a country three times the size and population of Iraq.

We are not just a piece of land. We are not oil. We are not nuclear sites. We are not evil. We are women, men, children. We are people with dreams, jobs, families.

You would never guess from the British media that under international law any attack on Iran -- by the US, Israel or Britain -- would be illegal.

Wikileaks has revealed that the IAEA director general sees himself as "solidly in the US court on every key strategic decision", including Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.

As if the West has not learned enough lessons from Afghanistan and Iraq the media who hyped up these invasions, as well as the bombing of Libya last year, are now doing the same over Iran.

Are we going to flatten yet another nation that hasn't attacked us solely on the basis of lies reminiscent of what we were told about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction?

A damaging misinterpretation of events a decade ago is that the tremendous demonstrations in Britain and around the world against a war on Iraq made no impact.

The attitude of the US and its allies towards Iran and its nuclear programme would seem almost designed to push that country towards the nuclear weapons option.

Europeans regard Israel as the greatest threat to world peace. In the Arab world, Israel and the U.S. are regarded as the pre-eminent threat.