World-News

By Robert Baer

Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18210.htm

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Prelude to an Attack on Iran

Robert Baer reports for Time Magazine: "Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran's nuclear facilities."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082107J.shtml



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Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy newspapers, report: "As President Bush escalates the United States' confrontation with Iran across a broad front, US allies in Europe and the Middle East are growing worried that the steps will achieve little, but will undercut diplomacy and increase the chances of war."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081807A.shtml



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The Bush administration has leaped toward war with Iran by, in essence, declaring war with the main branch of Iran's military, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), which it plans to brand as a terrorist organization.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH18Ak04.html


From Information Clearing House



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Die amerikanische Regierung will die Revolutionären Garden künftig offiziell als Terrororganisation bezeichnen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25979/1.html

Washington's envoy to Iraq warned Americans on Thursday that pulling U.S. troops out of the country could open the door to a "major Iranian advance" that would threaten U.S. interests in the region.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAR670980.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/16/3201



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Robin Wright reports for The Washington Post, "America's allies are increasingly concerned about the Bush administration's plans to unilaterally escalate pressure on Iran, fearing that an evolving strategy may also set in motion a process that could lead to military action if Iran does not back down, according to diplomats and officials of foreign countries."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607A.shtml

The New York Times writes, "The dangers posed by Iran are serious, and America needs to respond with serious policies, not more theatrics. Labeling Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization - as the State Department now proposes - is another distraction when what the Bush administration needs to be doing is opening comprehensive negotiations with Tehran, backed by increasing international economic pressure."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081607M.shtml



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Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

08/15/07

Growing numbers of US forces in Baghdad are being killed or injured in attacks by Shi’ite militias with links to Iran. The US says this is because of a ’surge’ in Iranian assistance aimed at ousting the Americans from Iraq, despite there being no new evidence to back up the claim. It could simply be that the US soldiers are dying because they have significantly stepped up operations against Shi’ites in the capital...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH16Ak04.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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