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Sneak
Attack on Iran Planned for Early April According to Russian Military
and Press Sources
 The following
report from Russian press and military intelligence sources is a sensible
warning relying on many other published sources for the background information
on a military strike - possibly employing tactical nuclear bunker busters
- on Iran. The recent Seymour Hersh article entitled “The Redirection”
provides important background information as well.
It is essential that the Senate pass the “Webb” amendment
requiring the President to obtain permission from Congress to attack
Iran, or such an attack may happen as herein predicted. Please call
your Senator to urge them to support the Webb amendment to the Senate
version of the Iraq Supplemental Budget Bill.
General Leonid Ivashov (Ret.), the source of some of the information,
is the former Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. Webster Tarpley’s
below analysis is excellent, drawing on his fluency in several European
languages:
 Operation
Bite: April Sneak Sttack Against Iran Planned, Russian Military Sources
Warn, General Ivashov Calls for Emergency Session of the UN Security
Council to Ward Off Looming American Aggression...
by Webster G. Tarpley
Washington DC, March 25 — The long awaited US military attack on
Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4
AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the
well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly “Argumenty
Nedeli.” Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian
General Staff for his account.
The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov,
lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran.
In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets
are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities,
research centers, and laboratories.
The first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers
are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The US attack
plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense system to be degraded,
for numerous Iranian warships to be sunk in the Persian Gulf, and the
for the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed forces to be
wiped out.
The attacks will be mounted from a number of bases, including the island
of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is currently home
to B-52 bombers equipped with standoff missiles. Also participating
in the air strikes will be US naval aviation from aircraft carriers
in the Persian Gulf, as well as from those of the Sixth Fleet in the
Mediterranean. Additional cruise missiles will be fired from submarines
in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of the Arabian peninsula. The
goal is allegedly to set back Iran’s nuclear program by several
years, writes Uglanov, whose article was re-issued by RIA-Novosti in
various languages, but apparently not English, several days ago. The
story is the top item on numerous Italian and German blogs, but so far
appears to have been ignored by US websites.
 Observers
comment that this dispatch represents a high-level orchestrated leak
from the Kremlin, in effect a war warning, which draws on the formidable
resources of the Russian intelligence services, and which deserves to
be taken with the utmost seriousness by pro-peace forces around the
world.
Asked by RIA-Novosti to comment on the Uglanov report, retired Colonel
General Leonid Ivashov confirmed its essential features in a March 21
interview: “I have no doubt that there will be an operation, or
more precisely a violent action against Iran.” Ivashov, who has
reportedly served at various times as an informal advisor to Putin,
is currently the Vice President of the Moscow Academy for Geopolitical
Sciences.
Ivashov attributed decisive importance to the decision of the Democratic
leadership of the US House of Representatives to remove language from
the just-passed Iraq supplemental military appropriations bill which
would have demanded that Bush come to Congress before launching an attack
on Iran. Ivashov pointed out that the language was eliminated under
pressure from AIPAC, the lobbing group representing the Israeli extreme
right, and of Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni.
 “We
have drawn the unmistakable conclusion that this operation will take
place,” said Ivashov. In his opinion, the US planning does not
include a land operation: “ Most probably there will be no ground
attack, but rather massive air attacks with the goal of annihilating
Iran’s capacity for military resistance, the centers of administration,
the key economic assets, and quite possibly the Iranian political leadership,
or at least part of it,” he continued.
Ivashov noted that it was not to be excluded that the Pentagon would
use smaller tactical nuclear weapons against targets of the Iranian
nuclear industry. These attacks could paralyze everyday life, create
panic in the population, and generally produce an atmosphere of chaos
and uncertainty all over Iran, Ivashov told RIA-Novosti. “This
will unleash a struggle for power inside Iran, and then there will be
a peace delegation sent in to install a pro-American government in Teheran,”
Ivashov continued. One of the US goals was, in his estimation, to burnish
the image of the current Republican administration, who would now be
able to boast that they had wiped out the Iranian nuclear program.
Among the other outcomes, General Ivashov pointed to a partition of
Iran along the same lines as Iraq, and a subsequent carving up of the
Near and Middle East into smaller regions. “This concept worked
well for them in the Balkans and will now be applied to the greater
Middle East,” he commented.
“Moscow must expert Russia’s influence by demanding an emergency
session of the United Nations Security Council to deal with the current
preparations for an illegal use of force against Iran and the destruction
of the basis of the United Nations Charter,” said General Ivashov.
“In this context Russia could cooperate with China, France and
the non-permanent members of the Security Council. We need this kind
of preventive action to ward off the use of force,” he concluded.
Sources:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17416.htm
http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070319/62260006.html
http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070321/62387717.html
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