The 2006- war on Iran

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«Ensuring lasting peace for all mankind based on justice and spirituality is the goal of the Iranian government and nation. We believe that what the present world needs is reason, ethics, justice and spirituality and not biological, chemical and atomic weapons or arsenals. This is the very path which the great Iranian nation is treading.» --Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2006-01-17 +

Contents

Planning the attack on Iran

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2005

  • 2005-03-13: Focus: Taking aim at Iran +
    • "Israeli troops are training for an assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Will it happen and what would be the fallout? "
  • 2005-07-18: Former CIA officer: U.S. plans nuclear attack on Iran +
    • "The United States is developing a nuclear plan to attack military bases in Iran, said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA intelligence officer."
    • "Giraldi said that the U.S. nuclear strike against Iran would take place after a 9/11-style attack on the United States, and that the planned attack would be analogous to the unprovoked invasion of Iraq."
  • 2005-09-26: Gulf factor key to PM’s Iran vote decision +
    • "Top-ranking Americans have told equally top-ranking Indians in recent weeks that the US has plans to invade Iran before Bush’s term ends. In 2002, a year before the US invaded Iraq, high-ranking Americans had similarly shared their definitive vision of a post-Saddam Iraq, making it clear that they would change the regime in Baghdad."
  • 2005-12-31: Iran War Looms +
    • "The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. The reckless and unnecessary dangers arising from such a war are so obvious that one wonders why normal political forces in the two aggressor countries -- both of whom love to glorify themselves as democracies -- would not prevent such a war from happening."

2006

  • 2006-01-03: (Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research) Nuclear War against Iran +
    • "Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness". "
    • "The US sponsored military plan has been endorsed by NATO, although it is unclear, at this stage, as to the nature of NATO's involvement in the planned aerial attacks."
  • 2006-02-07: Russian MP Says US To Attack Iran Late March +
    • "A top Russian parliamentary leader has told Ekho Moskvy radio station that an attack on Iran is inevitable and that it will occur on March 28th. The leader of the Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky also believes that the Muslim riots were orchestrated by the US to garner European backing for the military strike."
  • 2006-02-12: (telegraph.co.uk) US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear sites +
    • "Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran's nuclear sites as a "last resort" to block Teheran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb."
  • The United States began planning attack on Iran before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
    • 2006-04-17: ‘US had designs on Iran before Iraq invastion’ +
      • "WASHINGTON: The United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran that involves missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz even before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former US intelligence analyst disclosed on Sunday."
    • 2006-04-17: 'US has planned since 2003 to invade Iran' +
      • "WASHINGTON/TEHRAN: The US has prepared several plans to attack Iran since 2003, a former intelligence expert with the US military reported Sunday in the Washington Post."
    • 2006-04-17: US Plan to Invade Iran Is Updated, Says Top Intelligence Analyst +
      • "WASHINGTON, 17 April 2006 — Disconcerting news from Washington. First we learned earlier this year that the Bush administration was making plans to attack Iraq even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Now we learn Iran may also have been included in that plan."
    • 2006-04-17: US has been planning "Iran War" since 2003 +
      • "BEIJING, April 17 -- The United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran that involves missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz even before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former U.S. intelligence analyst disclosed. "
      • "U.S. and British planners have already conducted a Caspian Sea war game as part of these preparations, the scholar said."
    • 2006-04-17: Iran attack plan 'constant' +
      • "THE United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran even before the March, 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former U.S. intelligence analyst disclosed yesterday."
      • "According to military sources close to the planning process, this task was given to Army General John Abizaid, now commander of CENTCOM, in 2002," Mr Arkin wrote, referring to the U.S. Central Command.
    • 2006-04-17: Analyst discloses US war plans against Iran before Iraq invasion +
      • "WASHINGTON — The United States began planning a full-scale military campaign against Iran that involves missile strikes, a land invasion and a naval operation to establish control over the Strait of Hormuz even before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, a former US intelligence analyst disclosed yesterday."

The "nuclear weapon" excuse

2002

  • 2002-02-14: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East +
    • "While in New York recently, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer asserted that Iran will have nuclear a capability by 2005. A recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate states that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon by the end of the decade, although one participating agency, assuredly the Department of State, judges it will take longer."
    • "The British government, with Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead, argued that the time was ripe to strengthen the hand of reformers within Iran through engagement. Continued hostility, they said, played into the hands of hardliners who used Western aggression as an excuse to mask their own failure in governance. Moreover, dual containment of both Iran and Iraq, many critics argued, had proved both costly and ineffectual. There seemed to be compelling reasons to repair the two-decade-old breach between Washington and Tehran."

2004

"Another remarkable feature of the new "crisis" is that Iran is successfully portrayed as a villain and threat based on a distant prospect of its acquiring nuclear weapons, even as the United States and Israel brandish those weapons and threaten Iran with attack. If Iran did acquire nuclear weapons it could never use them against Israel or the United States without committing national suicide, whereas the United States has used them in the past and could do so now without threat of nuclear retaliation. However, if Iran built a small stock of such weapons it could pose a low probability threat of a nuclear response to a direct attack. So Iran's real "threat" is the threat of being able to defend itself (see Herman, "Iran's Dire Threat," Z Magazine, October 2004)."

(The Iran "Crisis" A prelude to aggression by Edward S. Herman & David Peterson +)


2005

May 24, 2005. New York, N.Y.

  • Craig Whitney gave some interesting statements:
    • "The main reason that the Bush administration gave for going to war against Iraq, as we should remember, was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and links with the terrorists or the kind of terrorists who had carried out the 9/11 attacks against the United States. But we now know that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction to speak of in 2003, when we went to war."
    • "Does it matter to Americans that our country went to war on a false premise?"
    • "People in a democracy I think, need to know why their elected leaders make mistakes when they make them, and voters need to be able to draw their own conclusions about what went wrong when things go wrong. And that’s why Public Affairs commissioned this book, The WMD Mirage, which collects basic documents from the United States and from the United Nations with the idea of offering readers, voters, a factual starting point at least to help build an understanding of what went wrong and what’s been done to try to right the wrong, because WMD has not gone away as an issue in America’s and the world’s attempts to deal with two other important countries: Iran and North Korea."
  • Charles Duelfer:
    • "Secondly, and we describe this in some detail in the report, there was a greater concern than we could appreciate sitting here in Washington of the threat posed by Iran. And we just, you know, that our gut feeling for that was not the same as the gut feeling one would have sitting in Baghdad, where you had invaded and killed a lot of those people, and then every once in a while they were throwing rockets at you, so there was an ongoing conflict there. And Saddam was certainly aware of the WMD assessments of Iran and he created intentionally a certain ambiguity about what his capabilities were. So there were mixed motivations."

2006

  • 2006-01-06: Uncertain outcome to Iran impasse +
    • "Iran denies it plans to develop nuclear weapons, but also says it will not be intimidated by international pressure."
    • "The Western powers represented at the meeting are pretty clear that it is time to take Iran to the Security Council - even if they are not sure what it should then do."
    • "Russia has hinted that it will not stand in the way of such a move. China's position is more opaque."
    • "Iran talks of wanting to maintain dialogue, but it also complains of big-power bullying."
    • "From Washington, the word remains that the United States will not and should not take the military option off the table, and that will be in the back of many people's minds."
  • 2006-01-12: EU calls for UN action over Iran +
    • "Foreign ministers from the UK, France and Germany have said the time has come for Iran's nuclear issue to be dealt with by the UN Security Council."
  • 2006-01-16: (nysun.com) Alarm Spreads Over Defiance By Iranians +
    • "A committee led by the French, which includes America and other European powers, is drawing up a list of sanction options likely to influence any resolution put before the U.N. Security Council next month."
    • "Today America's undersecretary of state for political affairs, Nicholas Burns, will meet in London with representatives from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the prospects of holding an emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear agency to refer Iran to the Security Council."
  • "right to produce nuclear energy" = "The use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right."?
    • 2006-01-17: (Islamic Republic News Agency) President Ahmadinejad allows CNN to resume broadcasts +
    • «The ban imposed on CNN on Monday said that the network and its reporters were no longer authorized to operate in Iran after they misquoted and/or distorted President Ahmadinejad's remarks at a press conference on Saturday.»
      • «At the press conference, President Ahmadinejad stressed that Iran had the right to produce nuclear energy but was misquoted in CNN programs as saying "The use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right." According to government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham, President Ahmadinejad wrote to Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad-Hossein Safar Harandi asking him to lift the ban on CNN's broadcasts.»
      • «"Taking into account the CNN's apology, we are asking that the channel be allowed to resume its activities, although we maintain the view that the news it broadcast was contrary to professional ethics of journalism which requires truthful dissemination of news in the interest of all," he said.»
    • 2006-01-17: (scotsman.com) Iran lifts ban on CNN after apology +
  • 2006-04-03 Blix: Iran Years Away From Nuclear Bomb +
    • "Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Iran is a least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement."
  • 2006-04-11: Robert Scheer: Now Powell Tells Us +
    • "On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making the claim. Now he tells us."

The petroleum exchange which was “canceled” right before opening in a desperate attempt to avoid invasion and establish diplomatic relations

2004

  • 2004-10-27: (globalresearch) The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target: The Emerging Euro-denominated International Oil Marker +
    • "The rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground in Iraq portends an even direr situation for American soldiers and the People of the world community - should the Bush administration pursue their strategy regarding Iran. Current geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran extend beyond the publicly stated concerns regarding Iran's nuclear intentions, and likely include a proposed Iranian "petroeuro system" for oil trade. Similar to the Iraq war, upcoming operations against Iran relate to the macroeconomics of the `petrodollar recycling' and the unpublicized but real challenge to U.S. dollar supremacy from the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency."
  • 2004-12-28: (iranmania) Oil bourse closer to reality +
    • "Iran announced in September its petroleum exchange will become operational by March 2006."

2006

  • 2006-01-15: The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse +
    • Historically, imperial taxation has always been direct: the subject state handed over the economic goods directly to the empire. For the first time in history, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation.
    • "Whatever the strategic choice, from a purely economic point of view, should the Iranian Oil Bourse gain momentum, it will be eagerly embraced by major economic powers and will precipitate the demise of the dollar. The collapsing dollar will dramatically accelerate U.S. inflation and will pressure upward U.S. long-term interest rates."
  • 2006-03-27: Rapprochement? +
    • "Not Only Will the US Not Attack Iran, It Looks Like the Biggest Thaw in US/Iranian Relations Since 1979 is Suddenly and Inexplicably Underway"
    • "48 Hours That Changed the World - Oil Bourse Disappears; US-Iran OK Bi-Lateral Talks"

"the U.S. nuclear strike against Iran would take place after a 9/11-style attack on the United States, and that the planned attack would be analogous to the unprovoked invasion of Iraq"

Psychological Operations

The Mohammed PsyOp - The West "Cartooned" - Into support for the on-going global war

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  • January 2006: Scandinavian media declare war against the Muslim world
    • Scandinavian "news outlets" are now declaring war on all Muslims by printing despotic pictures of the Muslim prophet Muhammed. This obvious attempt at provoking Muslim people into doing something stupid can only be seen as a declaration of war. Danish newspapers first printed the blasphemy, then Norwegian newspapers and now newspapers in France have printed the spotting drawing of the prophet. The drawing first appeared in a Danish newspaper which were arrogant enough to hold a contest where they offered a reward to the local person most ignorant and most willing to make a spotting drawing of the prophet Muhammed.
    • Merete Eldrup, managing director of JP/Politikens Hus, the company that published the cartoons, is the wife of Anders Eldrup.
    • Anders Eldrup is a known member of the Bilderberg Group and has been been among the attendees at the last five Bilderberger meetings.
  • 2006-02-06: Norway rejects apology by Syria Foreign Ministry for violent protests over cartoons

Follow the money

The Global Chess-game

The aggressors

  • 2006-04-04: Iran's spies watching us, says Israel +
    • "Senior Israeli military commanders say Iran has spent tens of millions of pounds helping its close ally, Hizbollah, the Shia Muslim militant group that controls southern Lebanon, to set up a network of control towers and monitoring stations along the entire length of Israel's border with south Lebanon."
    • "Some of the new control towers, which are made of reinforced concrete and fitted with bullet-proof reflective glass, are less than 100 yards from Israeli army positions and are clearly visible for long stretches along Israel's border. "
  • 2006-04-21: US prepared to go it alone over Iran +
    • "US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has invoked self-defence as a potential justification for military intervention in Iran. Rice said the US had the authority to act alone or with a coalition if the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme could not be resolved within the context of the United Nations Security Council."
  • 2006-05-09: 'Iran wants to change world order'
    • "Iran is interested not only in turning into a superpower, but also in changing the world order," Kuperwasser said at a conference on power projection at the Fisher Institute of Strategic Studies in Herzliya.
    • "Iran is at the forefront of global terrorism, and aids Hizbullah in Lebanon, al Qaida, and Palestinian terror organizations, and is behind attacks on US armed forces in Iraq," the general asserted.

The defenders

  • 2003-10-23: Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State And then kick America out of the Eastern Hemisphere’s oilfields +
    • "About one month ago, Russia discreetly invoked MAD again, but this time in the Middle East in direct response to hysterical Israeli threats to nuke Iran with submarine-launched American Harpoon missiles. Quietly and with the minimum of fuss, Russia deployed its most advanced tactical nuclear missiles and crews to both Syria and Iran, thereby sending an unmistakable diplomatic signal that if Israel attacked Tehran or Damascus with nuclear weapons, Russia would in return instantly and anonymously vaporize the Jewish State."
  • 2006-04-02: John McCain Warns of Iran 'Armageddon'
    • 2008 presidential hopeful John McCain said Sunday that the consequences of a military conflict with Iran over that country's nuclear program could be so serious they could lead to "Armageddon."
  • 2006-04-21: US prepared to go it alone over Iran +
    • "The UN Security Council has given Iran until the 28th of April to comply with its demands to stop enriching uranium. Iran has ignored the ultimatum, while China and Russia have both made clear they will use their power of veto against sanctions. However, a senior US official at the meeting said they are in the minority: "We heard last night, and again today, from individual countries, that all of those who spoke, and it was the great majority, are looking at sanctions", said senior White House official Nicholas Burns."

The war

2005

  • 2005-06-23: US war with Iran has already begun +
    • "Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to war."
    • "The violation of a sovereign nation's airspace is an act of war in and of itself. But the war with Iran has gone far beyond the intelligence gathering phase."
    • Comments: US war with Iran has already begun +
      • "Of course, this (Iran) war has begun. The U-2 spy plane crash today was from an operation over Iran - and not Afghanistan. There is no need for the high-altitude U-2s over Afghanistan when ordinary F-16s fly patrols there all the time."
  • 2006-04-09: Iran says US military strike talk 'psychological warfare' +
    • «Iran has branded as "psychological warfare" media reports that the US military was planning air strikes to force Tehran to abandon its controversial nuclear program.»
    • «"We regard that (planning for air strikes) as psychological warfare stemming from America's anger and helplessness," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.»

2007

March/April: The British Spyboat Capture

  • April 05, 2007: 'We Gathered Intelligence' (sky news)
    • "The captain in charge of the 15 marines detained in Iran has said they were gathering intelligence on the Iranians."
    • "Sky News went on patrol with Captain Chris Air and his team in Iraqi waters close to the area where they were arrested - just five days before the crisis began."

See also

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