Analysts Say Washington May Still Attack Iran

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http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/world/iran270605.htm

Analysts Say Washington May Still Attack Iran

Tehran, June 27 (RHC)-- Two recent analyses show that the United States may still attack Iran, despite the lack of evidence that Tehran poses a threat to Washington or anyone else for that matter.

The first analysis, by former United Nations nuclear arms inspector Scott Ritter, distributed through the Al Jazeera Website, says that the US assault on Iran has already begun. Ritter asserts that the terrorist organization Mujaheddin-e Khalg (known as the MEK or MKO in the West) is operating as a strike force under CIA direction, and that the United States is preparing to stage military attacks from Azerbaijan.

The second analysis appears in the Boston Globe, written by Ray Takeyh, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who claims that the "counter-reform" movement has led to the successful candidacy of former mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the presidential elections in Iran. Takeyh's analysis echoes an infamous paper issued by the Committee on the Present Danger -- an organization of ex-Cold Warriors that has reorganized itself as a so-called anti-terrorist organization. The paper, issued December 20, 2004, was entitled "Iran: A New Approach" and was authored by Mark Palmer and George Schultz.

According to an article on the Truth Out Website, Seymour Hersh predicted that the US would attack in June in "The Coming Wars," published in The New Yorker in January -- but most analysts agree that the planned attacks were called off due to the worsening situation for US troops in neighboring Iraq.

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1. Scott Ritter was interviewed on my local AAR station this morning

He says that it is already happening, incursions into sovereign airspace with unmanned aircraft and covert operations; acts of war that are a thinly veiled attempt to goad Iran into striking back.

He mentioned that Iran's nuclear capability is courtesy of the Ford administration when the Secretary of Defense was Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney was Chief of Staff.

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2. I hope they are ready to whomp us up

There is not one valid reason for the US to
screw with that sovereign nation.

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3. "Evidence"?? We don't need no stinkin' evidence!!!

Since when has shrub and co. needed evidence to start a war? Evidence would simply stand in the way of world domination...