For all the belligerent talk by Obama, Israel and Britain, Seymour Hersh says there is no definitive evidence that Iran has a nuclear-weapons program.

Wouldn't it be rational for Iran – geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened – to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?

Why would Iran risk nuclear evaporation from Israel’s mighty air, land and sea-based nuclear forces to launch a few nuclear weapons of its own at Israel?

Bombs? Sanctions? Negotiations? As the same gang of neocon warhawks that lied us into the disastrous war in Iraq seeks to start another Middle East war, what is to be done about Iran?

The same intelligence agencies are producing the same sort of reports about Iran that we heard eight years ago about Iraq’s nuclear ambitions.

The assumption that Obama would never be so dumb as to start another Middle East war is being questioned. Why? Just think Israel in a US presidential election year.

Iran has the world's third largest known oil reserves, and refuses to allow itself to be recolonized by the West. Surely this has nothing to do with America's ultimate aim of regime change?

Total war on Iran would be a catastrophe. Every politician involved in this business should be locked in a room and forced to read the cuttings on Afghanistan and Iraq over the past decade.

A US military strike on Iran would not mark the first time in history that a country had found itself marching to war without having really intended to do so.

The plot may be laughable, but needs to be taken seriously primarily because it shows the White House is seeking confrontation with Iran in the lead-up to next year's presidential election.

The truly “scary” aspect of all of this is that the U.S. Government need only point and utter the word “Terrorist” and hordes of citizens will rise up and demand not evidence, but blood.

UK foreign secretary William Hague says: Don't let the Arab Spring distract us from the Iranian threat. Here's a history lesson for Mr Hague about the "threat" of Iran.

MP Jeremy Corbyn responds to Tony Blair's swivel-eyed rant at the Iraq Inquiry calling for an attack on Iran.

Washington is truly delusional if it thinks it can defeat Iran by convincing Arabs that its pro-Israeli agenda could bring peace, let alone justice.

Hilary Clinton's recent speech to America's main Zionist lobby was full of stomach-churning praise for Israel, but there was a sting in the tail on Iran.

Missile rattling against Iran by the US and Israel is on the increase, despite there being no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.