Mrs. Renner, I think you missed one of the major points of this article: Iran is not synonymous with its leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. To use his rejection of the Holocaust as an excuse for sword-rattling over the heads of an entire country is simply unacceptable. Also, if the hostage situation you refer to is the Iranian student takeover of the American embassy in 1979, you have to remember that these students were acting out of extreme anger at the US for our role in installing the dictatorial Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as Shah instead of supporting democratically elected Mohammed Mossedeq in 1953, and also for our perceived obstruction of justice in refusing to return the Shah to the Iranian government to be tried for corruption following his deposition in 1979. While this doesn't justify taking hostages, it also doesn't affect the credibility of Iran's government a quarter of a century later. Finally, your sarcastic final line about believing everything the Iranians tell us has no relevance to this article- the evidence Shara and Kumars highlight in this article is the result of American journalism and intelligence, not an Iranian claim that we are threatening war. I don't know what point you were trying to make in your comment. Could you please clarify?