GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul urged Washington to stop hostility towards Iran, arguing that Iran is not a credible threat to the United States.
Representative Ron Paul of Texas said yesterday he would use friendship to work with Tehran.
With the International Atomic Energy Agency setto release a negative report on Iran this week, the Republican presidential candidate warned against overreaction, insisting that Iran is not a crediblethreat to the United States.
Paul said on "Fox News Sunday "…for them (Iranians) to be a threat to us and to anyone in the region, I think it's blown out of proportion."
Paul opposed a bill passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week thatwould strengthen sanctions against Iran."When you put on strongsanctions, those are acts of war," Paul said.
Asked by host Chris Wallace what his diplomacy would be towards Iran if he opposed the use of sanctions and military force, Paul responded,"maybe offering friendship to them."
Paul also blasted the United States' use of drone attacks in Pakistanand Afghanistan.
"Sometimes they miss, sometimes there's collateral damage. Every time we do that, we're making more enemies," he said.
On domestic policy, Paul said that the nation should "wean ourselves off" supporting the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because scientific research and development should not be done by government because "politicians and bureaucrats are not smart enough to know what you should be invested in."

Senior US strategists and former administration officials said the US opposition and war rhetoric against Iran does not derive fromthe White House concern about Iran's nuclear progress or even dominating oil resources in the Middle-East, but is rooted in the fact that Washington wants to defeat its main foe in Armageddon through a preemptive strike today before Iran becomes a superpower.
The Insider reports that"the CIA is preparing for a major campaign of stirring up trouble in Iran, and the Pentagon isplanning massive air strikes on strategic targets on the ground."
The front page of today'sedition of The Times newspaper quotes a"senior official" in the US government. The source was supposed to be anonymous, but he uses the familiar rhetoric of Paul Wolfowitz.
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Defense Secretary, speakson behalf of the "Project for the New American Century", a right-wing militant group which writes policy and strategy for the Bush administration.
The Canadian website said in a report, "They lied about the reasons for the conquest of Iraq and Afghanistan, and now they expect us to believe them about Iran."
The late William Cooper who was a former US Naval Officer suggested that elites in America's political-military-industrial complex are seeking to re-enact the Christian Bible's Book of Revelation. This implies that Western interests are simply using "nukes" to rationalize a desire to act out their "God complex" that seeking to fulfill "God's plan" in relationship to "the Apocalypse".
In the Book of Revelation, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven." (Luke 23:10-11). Here we see the uncontested power of the antichrist, and senior US strategists and administration officials believe that Iran will be the antichrist, while Iranians believe that the US and Zionists will be the Antichrist.
It is interesting to know that there are hundreds of prophecies in all divine books showing that Iranians will be in God's front where Jesus will also be present after his reappearance on Earth, and the US and Zionists will help the Antichrist.
Yet, all prophecies in divine books have mentioned that the Armageddon will start with Antichrist attacking the other side.

China and Russia are Quite Friendly with Iran.

Ron Paul?!?

I agree with Ron Paul???????

Let's be friends!

SHAME ! SHAME ! SHAME !

I do recall Obama saying we need to reach out to Iran with an open hand not a closed fist. And he would sit down with Iran in open negotiations or something like that.