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Detailed contingency planning for a possible attack on Iran has been carried out for more than two years by Centcom (US central command), according to defence sources.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2512097.ece



Attack on Iran: Morality Lost in the Garden of Deceits
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II22Ak01.html


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Secret US Air Force Team to Perfect Plan for Iran Strike

Sarah Baxter reports for The Sunday Times UK: "The United States Air Force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with 'fighting the next war' as tensions rise with Iran. Project Checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 Gulf War's air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the Pentagon in June."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092407K.shtml



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Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6690/


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U.S. IS GOING TO ATTACK IRAN
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Mit harten Sanktionen soll Iran dazu gebracht werden, seine atomaren Ambitionen aufzugeben - fordern Frankreich und die USA. Zugleich machen Konzerne beider Länder ungestört Geschäfte mit Teheran, wie ein Dossier des Auswärtigen Amtes nach Informationen des SPIEGEL zeigt.

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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/debatte/0,1518,507240,00.html

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the threat posed by Iran may force the U.S. to consider a preemptive strike, and conceded that the Iraq war, which he advocated, has made the Middle East "less stable.''

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He is understood to be increasingly frustrated by the snail-pace progress of four months-long talks with Russia and China over punishing Tehran for failing to comply with successive Security Council resolutions.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2485358.ece


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John Burroughs, Executive Director
Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy
U.S. affiliate of International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
675 Third Avenue, Suite 315
New York, NY 10017-5704 USA
tel 212 818 1861; fax 212 818 1857
johnburroughs @lcnp.org
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When a country speaks of using force, it should bear in mind that such a move will work only if all other options have been used and proved useless and that its implementation should be within the framework of the UN Security Council, he noted.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0709185739013008.htm



Rice warns U.N. arms chief on Iran offers

"It is not up to anybody to diminish or to begin to cut back on the obligations that the Iranians have been ordered to take" by the U.N. Security Council, Rice said.

http://www.adn.com/24hour/politics/story/3702047p-13124970c.html


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Iran's Ambassador to Kuwait City Ali Jannati said on Wednesday that in case of any military attack on Iran, the country will target all US military bases used for Washington's attack.

http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0709192892181107.htm


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Gareth Porter reports for IPS News: "Petraeus's contradictory statements on the Quds Force are emblematic of a US administration propaganda line that has in essence fallen apart because it was so obviously out of line with reality. Nine months after the George W Bush administration declared that it was going to go after Iranian agents in Iraq who were threatening US troops, the US military still has not produced any evidence that Quds Force operatives in Iraq were engaged in assisting the militias fighting against US troops."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091907D.shtml



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