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A familiar coalition of hawks, hardliners, and neoconservatives expects Barack Obama’s proposed talks with Iran to fail — and they’re already proposing an escalating set of measures instead. Some are meant to occur alongside any future talks. These include steps to enhance coordination with Israel , tougher sanctions against Iran , and a region-wide military buildup of U.S. strike forces, including the prepositioning of military supplies within striking distance of that country.
Once the future negotiations break down, as they are convinced will happen, they propose that Washington quickly escalate to war-like measures, including a U.S. Navy-enforced embargo on Iranian fuel imports and a blockade of that country’s oil exports. Finally, of course, comes the strategic military attack against the Islamic Republic of Iran that so many of them have wanted for so long.
It’s tempting to dismiss the hawks now as twice-removed from power: first, figures like John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, and Douglas Feith were purged from top posts in the Bush administration after 2004; then the election of Barack Obama and the announcement Monday of his centrist, realist-minded team of establishment foreign policy gurus seemed to nail the doors to power shut for the neocons, who have bitterly criticized the president-elect’s plans to talk with Iran, withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, and abandon the reckless Global War on Terrorism rhetoric of the Bush era.
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Source: Prison Planet
Texas Congressman Ron Paul has warned that any strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities undertaken by the Israeli air force will take place with the explicit backing of the U.S. government.
Speaking to Press TV, Iran’s state backed news agency, the Congressman warned that unilateral Israeli action would be an impossibility.
“No matter what they do, it is our money, it is our weapons, and they are not going to do it without us approving it,” Paul commented.
The Congressman’s warning comes in light of a report in the New York Times by nuclear physicist Richard Garwin that suggests Iran has produced nearly enough nuclear material to create one atomic bomb.
The report contradicts last year’s National Intelligence Estimate which stated that Iran halted work toward a nuclear weapon under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 to 2015.
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Source: Haaretz
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday, “We know that certain players are planning an attack against Iran. But we oppose any unilateral step and military solution to the nuclear crisis,” he added.
Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club, an annual forum of opinion-makers in Moscow, Medvedev also said, “The world does not need to tighten its sanctions on Iran at this time.”
The discussions at Valdai dealt with Russia’s international role. In response to a question from Haaretz as to whether the Middle East conference Russia is planning to host in the fall shows involvement similar to that once displayed by the Soviet Union, Medvedev said that Russia is not the heir to the Soviet Union.
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“Russia has a completely different value system,” he said. “When it proposes a mediation service, its sole intention is to assist in bringing about a peace that both Jews and Arabs will enjoy.”
A day before the discussion with Medvedev, the forum’s members met with Russia’s former president and incumbent prime minister, Vladimir Putin.
Putin said he considers Russia’s presence in the Middle East important and that his country intended to use Syrian ports “as it did in the past, but not for defined purposes.”
The president’s adviser, Oleg Tsatsurin, told Haaretz: “Russia would not take any action that would change the balance of power in the Middle East or harm the excellent relations between Russia and Israel.”
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I don’t read Dutch well enough to do a translation, but this site has the gist of it at least…
Source; Daily Kos
The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf is reporting that an attack on Iran is expected. Apparantly, the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD has conducted an ultra secret operation in Iran with the purpose of infiltrating and sabotaging the weapons industry in Iran. They have cancelled the operation, apparantly because of an imminent attack on Iran.
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