# Go ahead, tell me again how we're NOT going to war with Iran

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**Created:** [October 25, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-ahead-tell-me-again-how-were-not-going-to-war-with-iran/424026 "2007-10-25T20:51:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-ahead-tell-me-again-how-were-not-going-to-war-with-iran/424026/153 "2007-10-31T20:26:09Z")

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[QUOTE=elucidator]  
Why is it that Iran rates such a higher level of belligerance?  
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I think you know the answer to that. To **FinnAgain,** the interests of Israel trump all other considerations. Saudi Arabia might have a blatantly antisemitic regime that will not even allow Jews to visit the country, but it has not called for Israel’s destruction, or at least not recently. Ahmadinejad has.

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