Thomas C Greene in Washington
22st August 2006 Public Service Announcement The Register regrets to report that the world is about to end. It seems that Iran is going to attack Israel today, 22 August, with nuclear weapons, and initiate World War III, as famous Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis explains in his recent Wall Street Journal editorial.
"...confrontation seems to be looming between a nuclear-armed Iran and its favorite enemies, named by the late Ayatollah Khomeini as the Great Satan and the Little Satan, i.e., the United States and Israel," the professor says. "A direct attack on the US, though possible, is less likely in the immediate future. Israel is a nearer and easier target, and [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad has given indication of thinking along these lines." |
Nuclear Showdown: Iran Says It Won't Stop Enrichment - Iran's Supreme Leader Says Tehran Will Continue to Pursue Nuclear Technology, Despite Deadline
Associated Press/ABC
21 August 06 |
Tue Aug 22, 2006
Reuters Israel should prepare for the possibility of a missile attack from Iran, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
"We are liable to face an Iranian missile attack. The Iranians have said very clearly that if they come under attack, their primary target would be Israel," Rafi Eitan, a member of the decision-making inner cabinet, told Israel Radio. Iran could fire missiles at the Jewish state "therefore we must prepare for what could come, and prepare the entire country for a missile strike attack, to prepare all the civilian systems so they are ready for this," Eitan said. Comment: Israel and America literally cannot wait for Iran to attack Israel or the US, or "appear" to attack Israel or the US.
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Associated Press
22 Aug 06 TEHRAN, Iran - Iran hinted Tuesday that its response to a Western incentive package aimed at persuading it to roll back its nuclear program would include constructive ideas that it hopes will open the way for negotiations. Tehran reiterated Tuesday its intention to meet its self-imposed deadline later Tuesday to reply to the package. The official Iranian News Agency said it would deliver its response at 4 p.m. local time (8:30 a.m. EDT).
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Reuters
22/08/2006 Iran, set to reply on Tuesday to an offer by world powers aimed at defusing a nuclear standoff, has insisted it would not stop enriching uranium as they demand by an August 31 deadline to avoid possible sanctions.
Refusing to suspend the work, which Iran says is aimed only at generating electricity but which the West sees as a disguised bid for atom bombs, would be tantamount to rejecting the package of incentives offered in return, Western diplomats say. But a rebuff would not yet trigger immediate action by the U.N. Security Council, which passed a resolution on July 31 giving Iran a month to halt enrichment or risk sanctions. "We are not treating (Tuesday) as a deadline because it is not the Security Council deadline," one Western diplomat said. "If Iran flatly refuses to suspend enrichment, then there will, fairly soon, be more talks in the Security Council." Comment: So we see that today is of little significance in the ongoing attempts to demonize Iran, yet the warmongers in the US are foaming at the mouth in anticipation of the day when they furnish themselves with the justification to 'Iraqify' Iran.
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ThinkProgress
Faiz 20 August 06 Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of a small group of analysts who were asked to discuss their views on the Middle East with President Bush at a private lunch this week, said this morning on ABC's This Week that the mid- to long-term fallout from Israel-Hezbollah conflict could be a good thing because it may prompt Bush to take military action against Iran.
Whatever the President's plans are, there are no good military options in Iran. Watch Interview |
By Debka (notable disinformation source)
20 August 06 Washington is keeping a sharp weather eye out for Tuesday, August 22, which this year corresponds in the Islamic calendar to the date on which many Sunni Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on his winged horse Buraq to "the farthest mosque", which is traditionally identified with Jerusalem.
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Amateur Warlords - Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs
By Eric Margolis
Toronto Sun 20 August 06 |
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