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Detailed Strike-on-Iran Plan Revealed
Monday, October 01, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com
_http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Seymour_Hersh_War_with_Iran_will_0930.html_
(http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Seymour_Hersh_War_with_Iran_will_0930.html)
The only thing different about the Bush Administration's rhetoric about Iran
and statements made regarding Iraq before the US invasion in 2003 are the
words chosen, says journalist Seymour Hersh.
"They've only changed their rhetoric. The name of the game used to be nuclear
threat," Hersh said on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, adding a moment
later, "They've come to the realization that it's not selling, it isn't
working. The American people aren't worried about Iran as a nuclear threat
certainly
as they were about Iraq. So they've switched, really."
The Bush Administration is all but set to authorize a campaign of limited,
surgical airstrikes against Iranian targets, Hersh reports in the New Yorker's
latest edition.
"Instead of hitting the various [nuclear] facilities we know that exist,
instead they're going to hit the Iranians as payback for hitting us [in Iraq],"
Hersh told Blitzer in the CNN interview.
Such targets, Hersh says, would include Iran's Revolutionary Guard
headquarters and other sites of Iran's alleged support for the insurgency in
Iraq.
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Israel unhappy with U.S. plan for Iran
(http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/popups/email.html?article=104414)
(mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 09/30/2007
_http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104414.html_
(http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104414.html)
The United States reportedly has a plan for attacking Iran, but Israel
considers it insufficient.
The Bush administration this summer revived a long-standing contingency plan
for military strikes against Iran with a view to retaliating for Tehran's
support for the Iraqi insurgency, the New Yorker magazine reported in its
latest
edition.
According to correspondent Seymour Hersh, the plan was shared with U.S.
allies including Israel, which raised objections to the relative lack of
Iranian
nuclear facilities on a target roster that instead focused on military training
camps.
But Hersh quoted a former U.S. official as saying that Israel was reassured
"that the more limited target list would still serve the goal of
counter-proliferation by decapitating the leadership of the Revolutionary
Guards, who are
believed to have direct control over the nuclear-research program."
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After Navy hostage humiliation, Britain 'on board' for US air strikes on Iran
Last updated at 13:44pm on 1st October 2007
_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article
_id=485018_
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=485018)
Britain is ready to sign up to a bombing campaign on Iran as revenge for the
"shame" of the Navy hostage taking, it was claimed today.
According to an investigation by leading American journalist Seymour Hersh,
the UK is poised to join any US-led action against the rogue state.
In an in-depth report, numerous American sources are quoted as saying
President George Bush is gearing up for "surgical" bombing raids which would
target
Revolutionary Guard bases and anti-aircraft surface-to-air missiles inside
Iran.
United: Gordon Brown is said to back George Bush
And, according to one senior European official, Gordon Brown has given the
bombing plan the most positive reception.
"The British perception is that the Iranians are not making the progress they
want to see in their nuclear-enrichment processing," he said.
"All the intelligence community agree that Iran is providing critical
assistance, training, and technology to a surprising number of terrorist groups
in
Iraq and Afghanistan, and, through Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine,
too."
Hersh also quoted a retired American four-star general with close ties to the
British military, who claimed the UK also wanted revenge for the Navy hostage
incident.
"The professional guys are saying that British honor is at stake, and if
there's another event like that in the water off Iran the British will hit
back,"
he said.
The revised bombing plan "could work—if it's in response to an Iranian
attack," he added.
"The British may want to do it to get even, but the more reasonable people
are saying, 'Let's do it if the Iranians stage a cross-border attack inside
Iraq.' "
Shame: British navy hostages in Iran
Australia and Israel have also reportedly expressed an interest in targeted
bombing raids.
Tensions with Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, further fuelled by the
country's refusal to make concessions over nuclear weapons, have been rising
in recent months.
Hardliner: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
According to Hersh, the US is working on a propaganda campaign to generate
popular support for action inside the country after a public relations disaster
over Iraq.
Responding to Hersh's claims, a Pentagon spokesman, said: "The President has
made it clear that the US Government remains committed to a diplomatic
solution with respect to Iran."
The White House declined to comment.
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