Pakistan Vows To Stand with Iran if US, Israel Attack!

[Better Believe It]

Pakistan Vows To Stand with Iran if US, Israel Attack
by Common Dreams staff
February 18, 2012

A clear message has been given to the United States through the tripartite summit of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan that Pakistan will support Iran in case of any possible aggression against it.

Moreover, Pakistan has clearly affirmed that the US will not be allowed to set up any airbases in Pakistan with the purpose of attacking Iran. The joint declaration says: "Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan will ensure respect of territorial sovereignty of each other and would not allow any threat emanating from their respective territories against each other".


Presidents from Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai #L#, Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari #C# and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad join hands as they pose for pictures after a news conference in the President House in Islamabad February 17, 2012.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/18-0

Is this the new and improved "Axis of Evil"? BBI

[nanabugg]

1. Good for them. We have already disrespected the sovereignty of so many nations.

This time will be different.

[Purveyor]

3. This time will be different. The entire region will erupt should an attack on Iran happen. eom

[Purveyor]

2. "Nuclear armed" Pakistan...might I add. :( eom

[RZM]

4. And what will that support actually entail?

Telling the world 'we oppose the attack' and then doing nothing? Just about every Muslim country would publicly oppose any Israeli military action. Doesn't mean they'd do much.

[Better Believe It]

6. But the "Arab spring" has made some regimes such as that in Egypt less docile ....

So you don't expect much of a response from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, etc.?

Conditions have changed.

The terrorists and right-wing religious fanatics along with nationalists would make huge political gains in the event of such an attack on Iran. And the left and liberal secularists in the middle east would be just as vocal and active against a military attack supported by the United States.

The United States and Israel would be even more isolated and under attack in the world. Nationalist demands that the U.S. get out of Egypt and stop meddling in other nations would mushroom .... as they should!

[gulliver]

5. But this is from commondreams, so... n/t

[Better Believe It]

7. So Common Dreams issued the Joint Declaration of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan? :)

Of course.

Thanks for the heads up!

How did I miss that?

OK. That's was a funny comment. I get it.

[FarCenter]

10. Pakistan won’t help US attack Iran, says Zardari

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will not provide Americans airbases to launch attack on its neighbour, President Asif Ali Zardari said after the third trilateral summit of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan.

At the summit the three states expressed their resolve to work collectively for peace and stability in the region and enhancement of mutual cooperation in different sectors, particularly economy and trade.

Addressing a joint news conference, along with his Iranian and Afghan counterparts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamid Karzai, President Zardari emphatically stated that Pakistan’s relationship with the brethren countries cannot be undermined by the international pressure of any kind. “Pakistan and Iran need each other and no foreign pressure can hinder their ties.”

This is the first categorical assurance of support to Tehran from the highest echelons of Islamabad, whose own ties with the Washington came under a severe strain in November last year after Nato airstrikes on two Pakistani Army checkposts in Mohmand Agency killed over two dozen soldiers prompting Islamabad to take steps including stopping the passage of Nato supplies through the country and boycott of an international conference on Afghanistan.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/18-Feb-2012/pakistan-won-t-help-us-attack-iran-says-zardari

[xchrom]

8. du rec. nt

[kiranon]

9. And, Iraq makes it a foursome. US needs to get out of the MIddle East

so these countries can go back to their regional squabbles. All the US is now is a common enemy for these countries. India is the counterweight to Pakistan. Karzai's government will fall when the US leaves. Iraq is a mess and Iran - who knows? It may be the new Syria.