The United States government is hopeful that the military operation will be a multinational mission, but defence chiefs believe that the Bush administration is prepared to launch the attack on its own or with the assistance of Israel, if there is little international support. British military chiefs believe an attack would be limited to a series of air strikes against nuclear plants - a land assault is not being considered at the moment.
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There will be no invasion of Iran but the nuclear sites will be destroyed.
Bush stated recently that the impetus for attacking Iran's facilities is to defend Israel, so the propaganda being spread that Iran is the US's "greatest challenge" is not about protecting the US at all. A pre-emptive strike, when the intel surrounding Iran's current WMDs capabilities is still fuzzy, simply smacks of the Iraq war - and we all know how that turned out.
If a ground attack is not being planned for as well, the instability that could result from such strikes could well be enormous since Iran has more weapons systems that can certainly be used in the region to cause major havoc. Once again, it seems that the planning involved is so ideologically based in neocon dreams of shock, awe and complete defeat that it is simply beyond being based in anything resembling reality.
WaPo warns, "Attacking Iran May Trigger Terrorism".
As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide.
Iran would mount attacks against U.S. targets inside Iraq, where Iranian intelligence agents are already plentiful, predicted these experts. There is also a growing consensus that Iran's agents would target civilians in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, they said.
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Speaking in Vienna last month, Javad Vaeedi, a senior Iranian nuclear negotiator, warned the United States that "it may have the power to cause harm and pain, but it is also susceptible to harm and pain. So if the United States wants to pursue that path, let the ball roll," although he did not specify what type of harm he was talking about.
Strikes against Iran would also inflame Russia and China, drawing those countries into what will be a hugely unpredictable international conflict.
It appears that the British and American governments have learned next to nothing from their Iraq adventure and are just bound and determined to "stay the course" with their plans to attempt to take complete control of the Middle East.
(This article, "War Against Iran, April 2006;
Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292" by Jorge Hirsch at antiwar.com, is a must read.)
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