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Nuking Iran: Jorge Hirsch interviewed by Foaad Khosmood

You had written back in October of 2005 that "The strategic decision by the United States to nuke Iran was probably made long ago." What led you to that conclusion at that time? What do you think of the Hersh piece?

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/apr/1094.html


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jorge+Hirsch

By Mark H. Gaffney

Our problem in 2006 is that the world can no longer afford even a single miscalculation, lest we become irradiated flakes of ash on the wasted winds.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13590.htm

America has refused to give Iran guarantees that it will not use military force against its nuclear sites, according to a leading US official (Richard Beeston writes).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2219342,00.html


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In bland remarks delivered to a small audience of students at the Oxford Union, Richard Perle outlined the Bush administration´s response to the crisis of 9/11 and the neoconservative doctrines of pre-emptive war. In a droning monotone designed to anaesthetize his keen academic audience, Perle explained the need for an invincible American military apparatus and a foreign policy predicated on the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war permitting direct and simultaneous interventions into multiple theatres.

http://tjh.elequity.com/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=559

Western pressure on Iran is driven not by concerns about weapons of mass destruction but by interest in the country's oil reserves, a senior Iranian energy official said, AFP reported.

http://tinyurl.com/nhwxm


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A new world war involving nuclear weapons may have already begun, Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday, warning that an attack on Iran would be disastrous.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13550.htm

By Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung, TomPaine.com

There's one tool Bush hasn't used to try to solve the Iranian dilemma: nonproliferation.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/06/09/bushs_atomic_twostep.php

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4625/


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