Talk:Views on military action against Iran
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Deletion of article[edit]This article was nominated for speedy deletion, but the nominator failed to present any speedy deletion criteria. Editors who feel this article should be deleted should nominated it through the AfD process. Rklawton 19:36, 21 June 2007 (UTC) I can well understand why this article has been nominated for fast deletion. It raises almost every warning flag I've ever seen on a Wikipedia article. On bias alone, it should have been sent to oblivion long ago. I only came to this discussion page to suggest the "Opposition" article should be merged and not tucked under the warmongering one, and that the poll statistics are presented in a fraudulent way. Some lawyers might be interested in the assertions the author of this article has made. As a former soldier, I do not appreciate conflict being sold so candidly by civvis either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.233.71.229 (talk) 13:32, 23 August 2012 (UTC) Iran: Another Perspective. A Photo Tour[edit]can we create a new section for that? "Thousands of friends are far too few, an enemi is too much" Thank you. 69.116.234.208 07:28, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Support or marketing the war on Iran?[edit]The war on Iran is a product that is being marketed in the same way as the Iraq war was. Like with any new product, you create the necessity, and then offer the solution. The title of this article should reflect that. I suggest it to be changed to marketing the war on Iran. --tequendamia 02:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Marketing implies commercialism. There is no product being sold. Therefore, although you may feel that the techniques used in promoting military action against Iran are similar to those used in some forms of marketing, this is not an appropriate name change for the article, but would rather introduce bias (which is your real intent anyway, isn't it?) Rudy Breteler 04:59, 3 December 2007 (UTC) Well I do think that would be a good idea. Especially since the article is entitled "American military action" and not even "Support for American military action". A neutrally titled article should present the "Opposition" section in THE SAME ARTICLE. And given that your polls suggest that THE MAJORITY DO NOT WANT A WAR WITH IRAN, the poll results should be changed from "40%" to "60% said they do not want to go to war with Iran". The same with 55% and another 60%, by the very polls cited here. And this is the most wonderfully classic hypocrisy and oxymoron I've read in a long time: "Marketing implies commercialism. There is no product being sold. "but would rather introduce bias (which is your real intent anyway, isn't it?)" Rudy Breteler 04:59, 3 December 2007 (UTC)" Marketing does NOT imply commercialism, the techniques are exactly the same, if not more deceptive, when called Propaganda. Which we can change it to if you'd prefer. And as for bias...that is the whole reason that Tequendamia and others are disputing this article. And appealing its deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.233.71.229 (talk) 13:26, 23 August 2012 (UTC) merge|Opposition to military action against Iran[edit]The administrator that closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Support for war against Iran suggested this article be merged with Opposition to military action against Iran--Victor falk 17:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
I opined on the other page they should not be merged because "In case of catastrophic war it's important that people know that Israel and its supporters were the main people pushing the war, as the Support for page does show - and copious more evidence can be added and I might do so. Merging them would set off too many editing wars, especially if there is a real war, at least for the few days until the whole thing escalates into nuclear holocaust." Boy am I snotty!! Anyway, when does this subject become moot so we can delete the front page notes? Carol Moore 22:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)User:Carolmooredc User talk:Carolmooredc
Removed section[edit]The article contained an unsourced section dealing with Iranian support for attacks on IRan. The text was:
NPR did not make this claim in the interview it was sourced to. Find real impartial surveys as to what the discontent is with the current President as well as the idea of the government being an Islamic Republic (these are two different things.) Repeating a talking point from a AEI resident doesn't cut it. --20:51, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Where I am coming from is that I know that many Iranian dissidents think that an attack on Iran will strengthen the government or lead to a major unnecessary loss of life. Such as this conversation between Nobel prizing winning dissident Shirin Ebadi and Radio Fardi (a US-funded radio channel) [1]:
Also here is another conversation with Ebadi. I watched an interview with Azar Nafisi, the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran", another vocal Iranian dissident. She also has spoken out against military action saying that military action will harm and set back Iran's people. I saw this interview on "McLaughlin's One on One" on PBS a couple months ago. I can't find a transcript of this program on online. I do see that Google picks up a transcript for this NPR program but when you click on the link you have to pay for the transcript. In that transcript on Google is this quote from Azar "So I don't think that the United States should or needs to attack Iran." --Lucretius 00:09, 21 October 2007 (UTC) Worldwide Perspective[edit]I find that this article, which is brief to begin with, only addresses the issue from an American point of view. There are, of course, other countries which have stated that the military option is not off the table- France, England, and Germany to name a few- and others which would most likely be directly involved and within which there is limited to large support for military action, such as Turkey and many of the Arab states. But missing most blatantly, obviously, is any refference to Israel, and the wide public support in Israel and the world-wide Jewish population for a pre-emptive military strike against Iran. Rudy Breteler 05:11, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
If you feel something is missing then click the edit button and add it.--STX 23:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Small quote correction[edit]The quote in the article is not correct. McCain said: "You know that Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bo--uh, anyway..." and then continued with his speech. Any objections to changing it? BTW, here's the video where you can watch him saying it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzBxFaio1I&feature=related Graymornings (talk) 05:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC) What is this US right centric nonsense[edit]Seriously, what? Its all just talking points by some current and former politicians. Truth And Relative Dissention In Space (talk) 22:59, 22 June 2010 (UTC) Requested move[edit]
The result of the move request was: uncontested move. DrKiernan (talk) 17:27, 6 October 2012 (UTC) Military action against Iran → Support for military action against Iran – As this article is a complement to Opposition to military action against Iran, and not a broad overview of military action in general, it should be renamed to make clear it only presents one side of the issue. Kernsters (talk) 15:55, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
removing POV tag with no active discussion per Template:POV[edit]I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:51, 17 July 2013 (UTC) |
Merger discussion
[edit]The two articles (Support for military action against Iran and Opposition to military action against Iran) completely overlap and would be better suited under an article titled Views on military action against Iran (Views on appears to be the settled on prefix in other articles like this). Though I'm honestly not sure how to deal with this as the whole Support for military action against Iran looks like it hasn't been touched since 2008 (Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani stated that...
hahaha). :3 F4U (they/it) 02:44, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
- I agree with that you have succeeded in fixing the POV article wide, so I removed that issue. Thanks. 12.116.83.42 (talk) 16:42, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Remove the notability issue
[edit]It's common sense that expert views in general on this specific subject, in fact, meet wiki's guideline. 12.116.83.42 (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Agreed. So I've removed this issue. 12.116.83.42 (talk) 16:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- Y’all are correct that the notability issue should be removed. I removed it again for y’all because a bad actor went against the talk page consensus & put it back. 144.178.6.38 (talk) 22:24, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- The notability issue should be removed. There is no reasonable question of whether the primary matters that are explained in this article are notable according to Wikipedia’s notability guideline. 8.48.255.15 (talk) 01:59, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Y’all are correct that the notability issue should be removed. I removed it again for y’all because a bad actor went against the talk page consensus & put it back. 144.178.6.38 (talk) 22:24, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
Please, remove the update issue
[edit]I updated this article by adding a very recent Netanyahu quote. 76.108.18.10 (talk) 21:40, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- I removed the update issue. 144.178.6.38 (talk) 22:45, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
- I agree third the motion that this article has been updated & that the update issue be deleted. 8.48.255.15 (talk) 02:01, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Remove the lead section issue
[edit]The lead section has been through a rewrite. 8.48.255.15 (talk) 01:54, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- I helped with the lead section. It’s been rewritten, so I’ve removed that issue. 2A01:B747:26:344:5474:BB3A:A95F:99A1 (talk) 14:36, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Remove the POV issue
[edit]The first paragraph of this article says, “This article presents views both for & against military action as well as a third option of remaining neutral with regard to any military action.” The See also section says, “Views on military action against Israel”. What can editors possibly do to more neutrally report the relevant quotes from the news. I think that the editor who keeps improperly adding the POV issue doesn’t understand that when editors add that some person says he wants military action, that doesn’t mean that either wiki or the editors want military action. They’re merely informing readers of the quotes, not going the extra step of advocating military action. 8.48.255.15 (talk) 02:19, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
- Neutrality issue deleted. 2A01:B747:26:344:5474:BB3A:A95F:99A1 (talk) 14:38, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
Delete 2 paragraphs from the Historic polls section
[edit]The (only) poll in the Latest Polls section is sufficient to replace the 2 paragraphs that start with "In 2009" & "In March 2012". 65.192.28.154 (talk) 15:23, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
- Agreed. Those paragraphs weren’t useful enough. I deleted them. 2A01:B747:26:344:8FA:8FCF:6A60:9C0C (talk) 17:20, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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