Why Iran Will be the United States' next War

Reasons for United States Possible Attack on Iran

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1 .0 Introduction PAGEREF _Toc3 \h 3

2 .0 The Euro-Based Oil Bourse PAGEREF _Toc4 \h 3

3 .0 The Ambitious Nuclear Program of Iran PAGEREF _Toc5 \h 4

4 .0 Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc6 \h 5

References PAGEREF _Toc7 \h 6

Introduction

The topic on the possibility of United States launching a military attack against Iran has dominated much news

for several years since the Bush administration and during which some quarters speculated that such an attack would be ordered before the administration left office . As early as 2005 , a number of articles had started revealing the imminent plans by Pentagon to order military operations against Iran . While people and the media may speculate and give their opinions about many aspects of the imminent war , the most important issue to understand is the reasons which may spark the attack . It is therefore the objective of this paper to discuss the reasons why US would engage in a military land war with Iran

The Euro-Based Oil Bourse

This is one of the major reasons which revolve around the plan by Tehran government in 2005 and 2006 to start competing with the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX , the largest physical commodity futures exchange in the world based in New York and the London based International Petroleum Exchange (IPE ) by using the euro-dominated oil trading mechanism (Clark...