U.S. NUCLEAR MISSILES ON ISRAELI SUBS FOR ATTACKS ON IRAN
"... after the Gulf War in 1991, Germany gave Israel two of its diesel-powered Dolphin-class submarines... In November 2005, Germany announced that it was selling two more subs to Israel... the vessels have been fitted with US-made Harpoon missiles with nuclear tips. Each Dolphin-class boat can carry 24 missiles... the Harpoons were equipped with "over the horizon" software from a US manufacturer to make them suitable for attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities..."
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article360993.ece
Friday, April 14, 2006
COMPLICATIONS OF ATTACK ON IRAN
"... if the US decided to bomb the country's nuclear sites, they are maintained by Russian advisers and technicians; that would mean in effect a declaration of war against Russia. Russia recently closed a US$700 million deal selling 30 Tor M-1 surface-to-air missiles to Iran - very effective against aircraft, cruise missiles and guided bombs. The missiles will be deployed at the nuclear-research center at Isfahan and the Bushehr reactor, which is being built by Russia..."
"... Shi'ites in the south and in Baghdad would turn extreme heat on the occupation forces in Iraq. Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr... said that "if any Islamic state, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is attacked, the Mehdi Army would fight inside and outside Iraq..."
"... (Iran has) the power to halt oil supply... from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz... Up to 30% of the world's oil production passes through the strait. Were Iran to block it, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait would not be able to export their oil..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD13Ak01.html
"... an unprovoked attack on a country that has attacked no one. It would be likened to Osama bin Laden's attack on the U.S... (could lead to) Poison-laced missiles raining down on U.S. troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, the downing of a U.S. passenger airliner, suicide bombers in major cities... Renewed venom aimed at Washington from European capitals, greater distrust from China and Russia, outright hatred in the Arab and Muslim world. Oil prices spiralling out of control, a global recession at hand. In Iran, a galvanizing of a splintered nation. An end to hopes for political reform, a rally-around-the-leader phenomenon common among the victimized, an ability to rebuild a nuclear program in two to four years..."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1145051411410&call_pageid=968332188854
"... if the US decided to bomb the country's nuclear sites, they are maintained by Russian advisers and technicians; that would mean in effect a declaration of war against Russia. Russia recently closed a US$700 million deal selling 30 Tor M-1 surface-to-air missiles to Iran - very effective against aircraft, cruise missiles and guided bombs. The missiles will be deployed at the nuclear-research center at Isfahan and the Bushehr reactor, which is being built by Russia..."
"... Shi'ites in the south and in Baghdad would turn extreme heat on the occupation forces in Iraq. Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr... said that "if any Islamic state, especially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is attacked, the Mehdi Army would fight inside and outside Iraq..."
"... (Iran has) the power to halt oil supply... from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz... Up to 30% of the world's oil production passes through the strait. Were Iran to block it, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait would not be able to export their oil..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HD13Ak01.html
"... an unprovoked attack on a country that has attacked no one. It would be likened to Osama bin Laden's attack on the U.S... (could lead to) Poison-laced missiles raining down on U.S. troops in Iraq or Afghanistan, the downing of a U.S. passenger airliner, suicide bombers in major cities... Renewed venom aimed at Washington from European capitals, greater distrust from China and Russia, outright hatred in the Arab and Muslim world. Oil prices spiralling out of control, a global recession at hand. In Iran, a galvanizing of a splintered nation. An end to hopes for political reform, a rally-around-the-leader phenomenon common among the victimized, an ability to rebuild a nuclear program in two to four years..."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1145051411410&call_pageid=968332188854
Monday, April 10, 2006
BUSH'S LACK OF DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TOWARD IRAN
"... Bush reportedly is considering military strikes against Iran to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program. Although administration officials hope diplomatic efforts to restrain Iran will succeed..."
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2006/april/0410_bush_iran.shtml
"... Hersh told CNN however, that the White House has spurned Tehran's overtures for dialogue. "This president is not talking to the Iranians. They are trying very hard to make contact, I can assure you of that, in many different forms," he said. "He's not talking. And there's no public pressure on the White House to start bilateral talks. And that's what amazes everybody..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0410-02.htm
"... A former official of the International Atomic Energy Agency told Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh: “there’s nothing the Iranians could do that would result in a positive outcome. American diplomacy does not allow for it.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0412-33.htm
"... Bush reportedly is considering military strikes against Iran to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program. Although administration officials hope diplomatic efforts to restrain Iran will succeed..."
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2006/april/0410_bush_iran.shtml
"... Hersh told CNN however, that the White House has spurned Tehran's overtures for dialogue. "This president is not talking to the Iranians. They are trying very hard to make contact, I can assure you of that, in many different forms," he said. "He's not talking. And there's no public pressure on the White House to start bilateral talks. And that's what amazes everybody..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0410-02.htm
"... A former official of the International Atomic Energy Agency told Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh: “there’s nothing the Iranians could do that would result in a positive outcome. American diplomacy does not allow for it.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0412-33.htm
Saturday, April 08, 2006
BUSH PLANNING TO ATTACK IRAN WITH NUCLEAR BOMBS
"The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue... (A Pentagon) adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might also reignite Hezbollah. "If we go, the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle," the adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0408-07.htm
The April 17 issue New Yorker article:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact
"The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue... (A Pentagon) adviser warned that bombing Iran could provoke "a chain reaction" of attacks on American facilities and citizens throughout the world and might also reignite Hezbollah. "If we go, the southern half of Iraq will light up like a candle," the adviser is quoted as telling The New Yorker..."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0408-07.htm
The April 17 issue New Yorker article:
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact
Sunday, March 12, 2006
U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN TO LEAD TO WIDER MIDDLE EAST WAR
"... Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bolton and Bush... are likely to attack Iran before they are out of office. Such an attack would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to a wider war in the Middle East, according to a February report by the Oxford Research Group. And it would further enflame Iraq, as the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr has declared that his forces would attack the Americans in the event that Bush bombs Iran..."
http://progressive.org/mag_wx031106
"... Cheney and Rumsfeld and Bolton and Bush... are likely to attack Iran before they are out of office. Such an attack would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to a wider war in the Middle East, according to a February report by the Oxford Research Group. And it would further enflame Iraq, as the Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr has declared that his forces would attack the Americans in the event that Bush bombs Iran..."
http://progressive.org/mag_wx031106
Sunday, March 05, 2006
INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL MAKES IT HARD TO CONTAIN IRAN
"... (Bush) signed an historic nuclear deal with India — "a Santa Claus giveaway," said the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — with little or no regard for its impact on the effort to contain Iran... How do you now go after Iran?
Unlike India, Pakistan or Israel, it signed the non-proliferation treaty. It has not violated the treaty, which entitles it to develop nuclear energy.
What Iran is guilty of is cheating — hiding some aspects of its program — ... But its cheating has been minuscule compared to Israel's, India's and Pakistan's.
That's why the Atomic Energy Agency report... is so mild: The agency cannot give Iran a clean bill of health but it can find no proof of a nuclear weapons program.
"India is more guilty than Iran could be," says Dilip Hiro, a London-based expert on Iran. "North Korea is more guilty than Iran could be."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1141253415465
"... (Bush) signed an historic nuclear deal with India — "a Santa Claus giveaway," said the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — with little or no regard for its impact on the effort to contain Iran... How do you now go after Iran?
Unlike India, Pakistan or Israel, it signed the non-proliferation treaty. It has not violated the treaty, which entitles it to develop nuclear energy.
What Iran is guilty of is cheating — hiding some aspects of its program — ... But its cheating has been minuscule compared to Israel's, India's and Pakistan's.
That's why the Atomic Energy Agency report... is so mild: The agency cannot give Iran a clean bill of health but it can find no proof of a nuclear weapons program.
"India is more guilty than Iran could be," says Dilip Hiro, a London-based expert on Iran. "North Korea is more guilty than Iran could be."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1141253415465
Friday, March 03, 2006
IRAN INVESTING $1 BILLION IN IRAQ
"Iran to invest $1 billion in Iraq... to rehabilitate the country’s industrial sector... A team of Iranian industrial experts is due in Iraq to map out the sectors of mutual interest, the statement said. Seven major Iranian companies will be involved. The Iranians would like to start up a new car company in Iraq as well as factories for the manufacture of electrical transformers and appliances, steel and glass...."
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2006-03-02%5C206.htm
"Iran to invest $1 billion in Iraq... to rehabilitate the country’s industrial sector... A team of Iranian industrial experts is due in Iraq to map out the sectors of mutual interest, the statement said. Seven major Iranian companies will be involved. The Iranians would like to start up a new car company in Iraq as well as factories for the manufacture of electrical transformers and appliances, steel and glass...."
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2006-03-02%5C206.htm
Saturday, February 18, 2006
AFTER ANY TERRORIST ATTACK, U.S. PLANS TO BOMB IRAN
"... former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi has said the Pentagon’s plans to attack Iran were drawn up “to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.” Writing in The American Conservative in August 2005, Giraldi added, “As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States.”... (That is to say) The Pentagon’s plan should be used in response to a terrorist attack on the US, yet is not contingent upon Iran actually having been responsible. How outlandish is this scenario: another 9/11 hits the US, the administration says it has secret information implicating Iran, the US population demands retribution and bombs start dropping on Tehran."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0218-28.htm
"... former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi has said the Pentagon’s plans to attack Iran were drawn up “to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.” Writing in The American Conservative in August 2005, Giraldi added, “As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States.”... (That is to say) The Pentagon’s plan should be used in response to a terrorist attack on the US, yet is not contingent upon Iran actually having been responsible. How outlandish is this scenario: another 9/11 hits the US, the administration says it has secret information implicating Iran, the US population demands retribution and bombs start dropping on Tehran."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0218-28.htm
Sunday, January 29, 2006
U.S. FAILURE IN IRAQ ENCOURAGES IRAN
"... officials at all levels of government here say they see the American presence as a source of strength for themselves as they face the Bush administration. In almost every conversation about Iran's nuclear showdown with the United States and Europe, they cite the Iraq war as a factor Iran can play to its own advantage..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/weekinreview/29slackman.html?_r=1
"... officials at all levels of government here say they see the American presence as a source of strength for themselves as they face the Bush administration. In almost every conversation about Iran's nuclear showdown with the United States and Europe, they cite the Iraq war as a factor Iran can play to its own advantage..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/weekinreview/29slackman.html?_r=1
Saturday, January 28, 2006
MIDEAST ELECTIONS TURN DEMOCRACY AGAINST U.S.
"... (concerning) the administration's campaign for greater democracy in the Middle East. Elections in Iran, Iraq, Egypt and now the Palestinian territories have resulted in the defeat of secular and moderate parties and the rise of Islamic parties hostile to U.S. interests."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701562.html
"... (concerning) the administration's campaign for greater democracy in the Middle East. Elections in Iran, Iraq, Egypt and now the Palestinian territories have resulted in the defeat of secular and moderate parties and the rise of Islamic parties hostile to U.S. interests."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701562.html
Monday, January 23, 2006
MAHDI ARMY SIDES WITH IRAN
"... Muqtada Sadr, the... militant young cleric, said on Sunday that the Mahdi Army, which is now a big part of the Iraqi government to be, says that his forces will fight alongside Iran’s if Iran is attacked by the United States over its nuclear program..."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0123-26.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iran_Iraq_Sadr.html
"... Muqtada Sadr, the... militant young cleric, said on Sunday that the Mahdi Army, which is now a big part of the Iraqi government to be, says that his forces will fight alongside Iran’s if Iran is attacked by the United States over its nuclear program..."
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0123-26.htm
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iran_Iraq_Sadr.html
Thursday, January 05, 2006
BRITAIN ADMITS WRONG IN BLAMING IRAN FOR BOMBS
"... Government officials now acknowledge that there is no evidence, or even reliable intelligence, connecting the Iranian government to the infra-red triggered bombs which have killed 10 British soldiers in the past eight months... the mother of a young soldier killed... by an improvised explosive device at al-Amarah, north of Basra... said: "They don't like Iran and they are using this for sympathy towards their attitudes, claiming that they were involved in the murder of our sons. ... it was just an excuse for another invasion. They have a foothold in the Middle East and they want to go further."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article336567.ece
"... Government officials now acknowledge that there is no evidence, or even reliable intelligence, connecting the Iranian government to the infra-red triggered bombs which have killed 10 British soldiers in the past eight months... the mother of a young soldier killed... by an improvised explosive device at al-Amarah, north of Basra... said: "They don't like Iran and they are using this for sympathy towards their attitudes, claiming that they were involved in the murder of our sons. ... it was just an excuse for another invasion. They have a foothold in the Middle East and they want to go further."
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article336567.ece
Saturday, December 31, 2005
U.S. MAY BE PLANNING TO STRIKE IRAN
"Recent reports in the German media suggest that the United States may be preparing its allies for an imminent military strike against facilities that are part of Iran's suspected clandestine nuclear weapons program... "western security sources" claim that during CIA Director Porter Goss' Dec. 12 visit to Ankara, he asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide support for a possibile 2006 air strike against Iranian nuclear and military facilities... The Turkish government has also been given the "green light" to strike camps of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iran on the day... (of the strike)..."
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,392783,00.html
"Recent reports in the German media suggest that the United States may be preparing its allies for an imminent military strike against facilities that are part of Iran's suspected clandestine nuclear weapons program... "western security sources" claim that during CIA Director Porter Goss' Dec. 12 visit to Ankara, he asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to provide support for a possibile 2006 air strike against Iranian nuclear and military facilities... The Turkish government has also been given the "green light" to strike camps of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iran on the day... (of the strike)..."
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,392783,00.html
Sunday, December 25, 2005
IRAQ AND IRAN BUILDING TIES
"... Baghdad is keen strengthening mutual ties in all areas with Tehran... The Iraqi foreign ministry is planing to dispatch a special delegation to Tehran to discuss issues outstanding between the two nations... Iran has agreed to Iraq's proposals for opening a coordination office in Tehran... The two nations have been striving to forge closer trade ties..."
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0512246904234417.htm
"... Baghdad is keen strengthening mutual ties in all areas with Tehran... The Iraqi foreign ministry is planing to dispatch a special delegation to Tehran to discuss issues outstanding between the two nations... Iran has agreed to Iraq's proposals for opening a coordination office in Tehran... The two nations have been striving to forge closer trade ties..."
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0512246904234417.htm
Thursday, December 15, 2005
ISRAEL HAS PLANS TO ATTACK IRAN
"... plans to attack Iran's suspected nuclear sites... are on the table, and were dutifully leaked by the Israeli military to the London Sunday Times, one of Rupert Murdoch's papers and a staunch ally of Israel. The Israeli Army has already received orders from Sharon (special forces commandos are already on "G" readiness, maximum alert) to strike Iran in late March - after the alleged discovery of presumed secret uranium enrichment sites camouflaged into civilian structures... Sharon's spokesman Gissin... left the door open; an attack would be launched only "after all diplomatic options had been exhausted".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GL16Ak03.html
"... plans to attack Iran's suspected nuclear sites... are on the table, and were dutifully leaked by the Israeli military to the London Sunday Times, one of Rupert Murdoch's papers and a staunch ally of Israel. The Israeli Army has already received orders from Sharon (special forces commandos are already on "G" readiness, maximum alert) to strike Iran in late March - after the alleged discovery of presumed secret uranium enrichment sites camouflaged into civilian structures... Sharon's spokesman Gissin... left the door open; an attack would be launched only "after all diplomatic options had been exhausted".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GL16Ak03.html
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
AHMADINEJAD CALLS HOLOCAUST A MYTH TO TAKE PALESTINE
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... (called) the Holocaust a ''myth'' used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world... Ahmadinejad last week questioned whether the Nazi destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War II occurred and said Israel should be moved to Europe... Ahmadinejad said that if Europeans insist the Holocaust happened, then they are responsible and should pay the price... 'If you committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price?''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iran-Holocaust.html?hp
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... (called) the Holocaust a ''myth'' used by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world... Ahmadinejad last week questioned whether the Nazi destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War II occurred and said Israel should be moved to Europe... Ahmadinejad said that if Europeans insist the Holocaust happened, then they are responsible and should pay the price... 'If you committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price?''
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iran-Holocaust.html?hp
IRAN BENEFITTED FROM INVASION OF IRAQ
"... One country... has benefited greatly from the US-led invasion (of Iraq). Iran, increasingly radical, now knows that the United States lacks both the military strength and the political will to attack it. And the new, democratic, predominantly Shia Iraq has become its closest ally. None of this is what... (the neocons) in Washington expected back in 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527908.stm
"... One country... has benefited greatly from the US-led invasion (of Iraq). Iran, increasingly radical, now knows that the United States lacks both the military strength and the political will to attack it. And the new, democratic, predominantly Shia Iraq has become its closest ally. None of this is what... (the neocons) in Washington expected back in 2002.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4527908.stm
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
NEO-CONSERVATIVE IPC REPRESENTS THE MEK TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IN U.S.
"... Raymond Tanter's Iran Policy Committee has called for Washington to deploy against Tehran the Iraq-based Mujahideen-e Khalq, which is listed as a terrorist group by the State Department..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK30Ak01.html
"... The Iran Policy Committee (IPC), a think tank established in February by Raymond Tanter, professor of political science at Georgetown University, is supported by several neo-conservative politicians and analysts, including Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Tom Tancredo and Bob Filner... The case for regime change in Iran has been most enthusiastically taken up by the IPC.. (and) the IPC has been tasked by the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a proscribed terrorist organization, to provide professional lobbying and public relations services... IPC gives the impression that it has gone beyond advocacy and is now, to all intents and purposes, representing the MEK in the US..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK30Ak02.html
"... Raymond Tanter's Iran Policy Committee has called for Washington to deploy against Tehran the Iraq-based Mujahideen-e Khalq, which is listed as a terrorist group by the State Department..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK30Ak01.html
"... The Iran Policy Committee (IPC), a think tank established in February by Raymond Tanter, professor of political science at Georgetown University, is supported by several neo-conservative politicians and analysts, including Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Tom Tancredo and Bob Filner... The case for regime change in Iran has been most enthusiastically taken up by the IPC.. (and) the IPC has been tasked by the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), a proscribed terrorist organization, to provide professional lobbying and public relations services... IPC gives the impression that it has gone beyond advocacy and is now, to all intents and purposes, representing the MEK in the US..."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK30Ak02.html
Thursday, November 17, 2005
U.S. RELYING ON MEK
"... the MEK (Mujahideen-e Khalq) is the largest and the best-organized Iranian opposition group, with realistic estimates between 6,000 to 10,000 fighters, members and supporters combined. More importantly, the MEK demonstrated its ability to deliver reliable information when it revealed, on August 14, 2002, that the Islamic Republic possessed an advanced nuclear program that included facilities at Natanz and Arak. The MEK now finds support within parts of the American government as a "third option".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK18Ak02.html
"... the MEK (Mujahideen-e Khalq) is the largest and the best-organized Iranian opposition group, with realistic estimates between 6,000 to 10,000 fighters, members and supporters combined. More importantly, the MEK demonstrated its ability to deliver reliable information when it revealed, on August 14, 2002, that the Islamic Republic possessed an advanced nuclear program that included facilities at Natanz and Arak. The MEK now finds support within parts of the American government as a "third option".
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK18Ak02.html
PREPARATIONS FOR NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST IRAN
"... The US has been provocatively sending unmanned Predator aircraft into Iran... mapping Iranian radar systems, information the US would need before launching an attack... the US has already targeted missiles at Iranian power plants at Natanz and Arak... Some 4,000 fighters of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), an armed organization that seeks to overthrow the current regime in Tehran, have a base north of Baghdad near the Iranian border. The US has thrown a protective umbrella over the MEK's soldiers and equipment..."
"Vice President Dick Cheney has even suggested that Israel might do the job... The Israeli right has been spoiling for a fight with Syria for some time... One Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times, "It could be a race who pushes the button first - us or the Americans." What that official meant by "the button" is not clear, but the logical candidate is a nuclear strike."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK17Ak03.html
"... The US has been provocatively sending unmanned Predator aircraft into Iran... mapping Iranian radar systems, information the US would need before launching an attack... the US has already targeted missiles at Iranian power plants at Natanz and Arak... Some 4,000 fighters of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), an armed organization that seeks to overthrow the current regime in Tehran, have a base north of Baghdad near the Iranian border. The US has thrown a protective umbrella over the MEK's soldiers and equipment..."
"Vice President Dick Cheney has even suggested that Israel might do the job... The Israeli right has been spoiling for a fight with Syria for some time... One Israeli intelligence official told the Financial Times, "It could be a race who pushes the button first - us or the Americans." What that official meant by "the button" is not clear, but the logical candidate is a nuclear strike."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GK17Ak03.html
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