US journalist says air strikes on Iran planned

25.02.2007, 06.15

NEW YORK, February 25 (Itar-Tass) – Despite the statements by the
George Bush administration to the effect that the US is not going to
attack Iran, the Pentagon has developed a plan of air strikes on a
number of Iranian facilities, investigative journalist Seymour Hersch
said in the latest issue of New Yorker magazine.

He asserted that the plan could be brought into action within 24 hours
of President George Bush’s issuing a respective order.

An operational group that was set up a few months ago at the Joint
Chiefs of Staff originally focused on a possibility of destroying
Iranian nuclear facilities, but later got orders to add to the plan
facilities that could be used for helping insurgents in Iraq, Hersch
said, citing unnamed Pentagon officials.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress