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'Real Men Go to Tehran!'

By Ray McGovern

Think back seven years and recall the Blackwater-style bravado from the lips of neoconservatives like Donald Rumsfeld's crony Kenneth Adelman - the fellow who assured us all that Iraq would be a "cakewalk."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25394.htm



Russia says Iran attack 'disastrous'

In a meeting with ambassadors from Arab states on Wednesday, Lavrov reaffirmed Moscow's support for diplomatically engaging Tehran and warned against the "disastrous" consequences of taking military action.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=125641&sectionid=351020101



Israel Primed For War on Iran: Netanyahu Deputy

Israel is primed for a war on Iran, a deputy to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, in a rare break with his government's reticence as world powers try to talk Tehran into curbing its nuclear plans.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=114722



Nearly 300 insurers refuse to boycott Iran-linked companies

More than 1,000 insurance companies agreed to the investment moratorium, Mr. Poizner said on Thursday.

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20100514/NEWS/100519938


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Repeating history with Iran

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

05/13/10

A French court recently recognized the idiocy of one of the U.S. government’s attempts to enforce its sanctions against Iran by denying the government’s request to extradite an Iranian businessman for allegedly violating the sanctions. U.S. prosecutors were alleging that the businessman, Majid Kakavand, violated the sanctions by exporting goods from the United States that could be used in weapons manufacturing...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-05-13.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/lindorff14.1.html

Against Anti-Civilian Sanctions
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul664.html

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SANCTIONS ON IRAN IS AN ACT OF WAR
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9549/

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Israel Weighs Merits of Solo Attack on Iran

Officials, Seeing Impending Policy Split With U.S., Debate Prospect of a Military Strike Without Washington's Consent.

http://snipurl.com/vpcwu



What will would Iran do with nuclear weapons? Probably nothing

Wouldn't possession of an atomic bomb enable Iran to bully other nations? Nuclear missiles did not do much for the old Soviet Union, even enable it to bully its weak neighbor Afghanistan. Nuclear bombs haven't helped China bully anyone - Beijing still has little credibility in Tibet, despite its fantastic edge in power.

http://blogs.reuters.com/gregg-easterbrook/2010/04/22/what-will-iran-do-with-nuclear-weapons-probably-nothing/



Lies and Wars

By William Pfaff

Once more the threat is a polemical invention, intended to frighten American, Israeli (and European) voters, and prompt a preemptive attack on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25301.htm



Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really?

By Ray McGovern

First, on the chance you missed it, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said publicly that Iran "doesn't directly threaten the United States." Her momentary lapse came while answering a question at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 14.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25327.htm



Iran "hardliner" issues Strait of Hormuz warning to U.S.

The head of a hardline Iranian political party warned the United States Tuesday against attacking Iran, saying it could hit back by choking "the West's throat" at a waterway crucial for global oil supplies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042701973.html



What's At Stake in the Issue of Iran

By Noam Chomsky

Iran is perceived as a threat because they did not obey the orders of the United States. Militarily this threat is irrelevant. This country has not behaved aggressively beyond its borders for centuries.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25347.htm



Can You Pass The Iran Quiz

By Jeffrey Rudolph

What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. diplomatic (and mainstream media) assault on Iran ?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25358.htm



ElBaradei says sanctions on Iran will fail

In rare interview, former head of UN nuclear agency says sanctions in Iran are likely, but doomed.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/100429/iran-sanctions-mohamed-elbaradei



A Timetable For War

By Philip Giraldi

Relying on a complaisant media that has fully embraced the fabricated narrative of fanatical Mullahs brandishing nuclear weapons shortly before handing them over to al-Qaeda, a majority of Americans now believes that Iran must be dealt with by force and that it already has a nuclear weapon.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25393.htm



John Bolton's North Korea plan: Bomb Iran!

John Bolton, among other neocon psychos, has long been obsessed with the idea that the single biggest mistake the Bush administration ever made was taking North Korea off the "state sponsors of terrorism" list.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/25/bolton_iran_north_korea


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US Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Iran does not bow to the demand that it cease uranium enrichment."

http://www.truthout.org/us-nuclear-option-iran-linked-israeli-attack-threat58840

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A realist breakthrough?

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

05/03/10

When our emissaries return to Washington and report that our support in the region is slipping-to-nonexistent, as the sainted General David Petraeus recently did, the president must act. The US tilt toward Israel is so exaggerated that it is almost a caricature of al-Qaeda’s propaganda, and nowhere is this more glaring than in the realm of nuclear brinkmanship. The US has no leverage, and no standing, to push for the preemptive dismantling of a nonexistent Iranian Manhattan Project, when it follows Israel’s lead in never even referring to their nuclear arsenal. The one Obama administration official who did mention it was viciously attacked, and hasn’t said boo about it since, but — unless you’re under the age of three — pretending something doesn’t exist won’t make it go away...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/02/a-realist-breakthrough/


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Senator John McCain says the United States has been backing away from a brewing fight with Iran, while that country moves ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

http://snipurl.com/vhmyo



More Hype About Iran?

By Stephen M. Walt

One of the more remarkable features about the endless drumbeat of alarm about Iran is that it pays virtually no attention to Iran's actual capabilities, and rests on all sorts of worst case assumptions about Iranian behavior. Consider the following facts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25279.htm



The Latest Scare Story About Iran: Missiles Targeting US by 2015

By Steve Hynd

What we have here is a scary story designed to keep the missile defense procurement budget topped up by telling scary stories and hyping possible war. Nothing more.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25283.htm



Why Iran Won't Attack Israel

By Yousef Munayyer

No nuclear attack on Israel could happen without the deaths of countless Palestinians and Israelis, not to mention the likely destruction of Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25282.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Secret Iran Memo from Gates to Jones
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9541/

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US military plans against Iran being updated

CNN

04/18/10

The Pentagon and U.S. Central Command are updating military plans to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, preparing up-to-date options for the president in the event he decides to take such action, an Obama administration official told CNN Sunday. The effort has been underway for several weeks and comes as there is growing concern across the administration’s national security team that the president needs fresh options ready for his approval if he were to decide on a military strike, according to the official who is familiar with the effort...

http://tinyurl.com/y748bez


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why the US Fears a Nuclear Armed Iran

Michael Gass, Truthout: "A report prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on June 30, 1947, stated: 'A peace enforced through fear is a poor substitute for a peace maintained through international cooperation based upon agreement and understanding. But until such a peace is brought about, this nation can hope only that an effective deterrent to global war will be a universal fear of the atomic bomb as the ultimate horror in war.'"

http://www.truthout.org/why-us-fears-a-nuclear-armed-iran58756



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Nuking the Mullahs

By Philip Giraldi

Two issues likely will determine whether Israel will use nuclear weapons against Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25170.htm



'No trace of Israel will remain if Iran attacked'

Iran's Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has lashed out at the United States for its dual-based nuclear policies.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122737&sectionid=351020101



'No US troop survives if Iran is attacked'

Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi has warned the US against making any military moves on the Islamic Republic.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122800&sectionid=351020101



Israel's Secret Weapon: Broadcast on BBC

This film is the story of the bomb, Vanunu and Israel's wall of silence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6558.htm



Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons

Turkey's prime minister said Sunday that the world is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear program and that he intends to raise the issue at the nuclear summit in Washington.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162220.html



Obama, NYT Keep Israeli Nuke Secrets
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/parry3.html



Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran to lead to global catastrophe

Israel may strike on Iran, President Dmitry Medvedev told ABC News.
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/world/detail/63719/



U.S., Israeli attack on Iran would be 'unacceptable' - Russia military

Any airstrike against Iran by the United States or Israel would be "unacceptable," the chief of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Monday.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100412/158538895.html



Israel must denuclearize, Erdogan says

The Turkish premier says the international community should take action to disarm Israel as part of the efforts to make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone.

http://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=123061&sectionid=351020204


From Information Clearing House



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Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran

Imagining an Israeli Strike on Iran: Would Israel take the risk of a strike? And if so, what would follow?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/weekinreview/28sangerintro.html



Lieberman: U.S. Should Attack Iran's Nuclear Program If All Else Fails

Sen. Joe Lieberman says the world is at a "turning point in history," and the United States should begin preparing plans to attack Iran's nuclear program - and use that option if all diplomatic and other means fail.

http://snipurl.com/vgspd


From Information Clearing House

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Obama to say US may use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear countries
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9519/



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"The Congress has your back." (What other lobby would he say that to?) He declared that Israel is "our best friend in the world." (Does that tick off Canadians?) But Graham went especially far when he endorsed the idea of a military strike against Iran.

http://snipurl.com/v0txt



"Reporting" on Iran Should Seem Familiar

By Glenn Greenwald

Fox News currently has an article at the top of its website that is headlined: "CIA: Iran Moving Closer to Nuclear Weapon." The report, by DOD and State Department correspondent Justin Fishel, begins with this alarming claim...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25118.htm


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Daan de Wit, Deep Journal: "Under President Obama, Iran continues to dominate the world agenda. Iran is being presented as a crucial problem that must be solved. The Iran Problem is one with several layers. The uppermost layer is that Iran is a potential threat to world peace. What are the facts and the fiction that make up this first layer?"

http://www.truthout.org/obama-continues-bushs-iran-policy57853



Obama Continues Bush's Iran Policy

Daan de Wit, DeepJournal: "The battle against Iran has already begun. War is only one phase of this process - just as it was with Iraq. The preparation is the most important part of the battle. Whoever thought that the preparation for war ended when Barack Obama took office is advised to take note of the views of critical thinker Noam Chomsky in the previous installment of this DeepJournal series. He says that Obama's policy on Iran is a continuation of the policy of his predecessor, President Bush."

http://www.truthout.org/part-ii-obama-continues-bushs-iran-policy58013



Collateral Damages of Smart Sanctions

Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Truthout: "In contradistinction to war, sanctions are widely portrayed as necessary, almost a healthy medicine to bring about change in the opponent’s policies. However, as the history of the West–Iran conflict proves, sanctions have kept the crisis alive rather than contribute to its resolution. Nonetheless, Western governments do not seem to have lost their dubious fascination for them."

http://www.truthout.org/collateral-damages-smart-sanctions57913

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Springtime for Obama

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

On the non-Marxist left, the triumph of the Obama cult is complete. Only the old-fashioned Leninists, such as the main organizers of the ANSWER rallies, have come out in visible opposition to Obama’s wars. Even the Marxist left, however, is not immune to Obama-mania: the other major antiwar coalition, United for Peace and Justice, led by veterans of the old Communist Party, USA, issued a euphoric statement upon Obama’s election and has been essentially moribund as an active antiwar organization ever since. It was in this kind of political atmosphere, then — one of near complete political isolation — that rally attendees heard Cindy Sheehan wonder whether ‘the honeymoon was over with that war criminal in the White House.’ Sheehan’s remark was met, according to AP, with merely ‘moderate applause’...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/21/springtime-for-obama/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Cindy Sheehan Arrested At War Protest In D.C.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5g_3ntktw&feature=player_embedded#



Scott Horton Interviews Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan discusses the start of the Peace of the Action civil resistance against war and empire in Washington, DC, the scarcity of both peace activists who are willing to challenge a Democratic president and pro-war hecklers who demand obedience to "Commander in Chief" Obama.

http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/03/19/cindy-sheehan-4/



Whose Streets?

(Our Streets between 1pm and 4pm With a Permit)

By Cindy Sheehan

It seems like we march past empty buildings and shake our fists at them and promise that if those empty buildings don't change their ways, we will be back next year to do the same thing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25064.htm



March 2010 Iraq War Protests

Video

There was a protest or demonstration in over 150 cities the week of March 20th. This video shows video and photos of maybe twenty events across the country combining interviews, speeches, and demonstration observations.

http://pjep.org/resources/detail.php?rid=2396


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American Naifs Bringing Ruin to Other Lands

By Paul Craig Roberts

The next step will be a staged "terrorist attack," a "false flag" operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the "false flag" attack will suffice to obtain U.S. and European public support for bombing Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25024.htm



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Exclusive: Rob Edwards

Hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24989.htm



The Petraeus Briefing: Biden's Embarrassment Is Not The Whole Story

By Mark Perry

The Mullen briefing and Petraeus's request hit the White House like a bombshell.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24983.htm



Turkish PM: why pressure Iran, not nuclear Israel?

Turkey's prime minister said Tuesday it was "only rumours" that Iran was making nuclear weapons, stressing Tehran's right to develop civilian atomic power.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37881



Report: Saudis may allow Israel's use of air space

Western security sources believe Saudi Arabia will readily let Israel use the country's airspace to strike neighboring Iran if a war breaks out between the archenemies.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121027&sectionid=351020205



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: Saudi Arabia Seeks Strike on Iran

The German news magazine Der Spiegel has reported that Saudi Arabia is hoping Israel will strike Iran's nuclear facilities, and is even prepared to open its skies to Israeli warplanes to allow such an operation to take place.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136609



Hillary Clinton Threatens Iran With "Painful Consequences"

By Hillary Clinton

Video

U.S. Secretary of State Speaking At AIPAC Conference.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25049.htm



Former Obama Aide New Head of AIPAC

Lee "Rosy" Rosenberg, a jazz recording industry veteran capitalist who accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on his campaign trip to Israel two years ago, takes over on Sunday as the new president of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosenberg also served on the president's national campaign finance committee.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136628



Israel to ask US for bombs in the fight against Iran's Nuclear sites

Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will use a visit to Washington this week to press the US to release sophisticated bunker-busting bombs needed for a possible strike on Iran's nuclear sites.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7069724.ece



AIPAC rallying pressure on Obama over Israel

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has circulated a letter on Capitol Hill, urging members of Congress to pressure the administration of President Barack Obama to end its public criticism of Israeli policies.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=122089&sectionid=3510203


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By RussiaToday

A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24806.htm



Behind Clinton's Tough Talk on Iran

By Mark Weisbrot

The goal of Hillary Clinton's rhetoric Seems to be to promote conflict and convince Americans Iran is a threat to their security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24803.htm



What Should Obama Do Next On Iran?

Act for the Republic and Independence

By Michael F. Scheuer

Explain to the American people that Iran is no threat to the United States unless we or Israel attack it first, and then it would be a serious threat to U.S. access to energy and would likely stage terrorist operations in the continental United States.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24795.htm



Nuclear Iran: Fueled by Fear?

Video By RT

Is it simply fear about nuclear weapons that is fueling this fight or is there more to it? William Weddin says the United States has sought to undermine democracy in Iran and has pushed it to be a military dictatorship ever since the Iranian revolution.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24796.htm



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: Iran 'already' making bomb

The UN nuclear agency yesterday said it was worried Iran may currently be working on making a nuclear warhead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24791.htm



New chief Amano gives U.N. watchdog more bite on Iran

He may be staid and cautious in public, but the new U.N. nuclear watchdog chief has wasted no time putting bite in the agency's approach to Iran after what Western powers say was a lack of backbone under his predecessor.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-46312320100219



Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Word

By Glenn Greenwald

Terrorism is simultaneously the single most meaningless and most manipulated word in the American political lexicon. The term now has virtually nothing to do with the act itself and everything to do with the identity of the actor, especially his or her religious identity. It has really come to mean: "a Muslim who fights against or even expresses hostility towards the United States, Israel and their allies."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24802.htm



Top Russian General: An American Attack on Iran would lead to US Collapse

"The consequences of such an attack will be terrible not only for the region but also for us. Iran is our neighbor and we are very carefully following this situation."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24809.htm



Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran

The United States, separately and through the military bloc it controls, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is accelerating military deployments and provocations throughout Eurasia and the Middle East.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24815.htm



War game shows how attacking Iran could backfire

Israel launches a pre-emptive strike against Tehran's nuclear complex. The strike is successful, wiping out six of Iran's key sites and setting back its suspected quest for a bomb by years. But what happens next isn't pretty.

http://snipurl.com/ugx1f



'S-300 delivery a serious development'

Should Teheran acquire the system, a potential military strike on Iranian nuclear sites could become far more difficult, but it remains far from clear when and if Moscow intends to transfer the military hardware to Iran.

http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=169319



Attack Iran?

"Can we live with a nuclear Iran? Well, we're living with a nuclear North Korea (boxed in and contained by its neighbors). And we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union and Communist China.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24842.htm



A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran

By Ray McGovern

If this kind of scenario is allowed to play out, hostilities with Iran will make the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan look like volleyball games between Mount Saint Ursula and Holy Name high schools. Can President Obama be so naïve as to be unaware of the stakes here?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24878.htm



An appeal to anti-war organizations & activists to oppose the increasing threats against Iran

The U.S. government claims that Iran represents a serious threat to the Middle East region and the entire world. Without a shred of evidence.

http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/9434


From Information Clearing House

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How Wars Are Made
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/19-3

New Grist for Hype on Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/22-1

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Hillary Clinton’s war whoop

CounterPunch
by Marc Weisbrot

02/22/10

In a visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Hillary Clinton recently said that Iran ‘is moving toward a military dictatorship’ and continued the Administration’s campaign for tougher sanctions against that country. What could America’s top diplomat hope to accomplish with this kind of inflammatory rhetoric? It seems unlikely that the goal was to support human rights in Iran. … The most obvious conclusion is that it is to promote conflict and to convince Americans that Iran is an actual threat to their security. Americans generally have to be prepared and persuaded for years if they are to accept that they must go to war...

http://counterpunch.org/weisbrot02222010.html



Attack Iran? Please, no

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

02/23/10

More huffing and puffing about war with Iran, this time from Anne Applebaum of the hawkish Washington Post, but first some words of caution from Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. At a news conference with Secretary of Defense Gates yesterday, Mullen once again reiterated his long-standing caution about a military attack on Iran, even as he laced it with concern about Iran’s nuclear program and Iran’s ‘hegemonic’ goals in the area of the Persian Gulf...

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/533451/attack_iran


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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