U.S. EITHER PREPARES OPERATION AGAINST IRAN OR INTIMIDATES TEHRAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.02.2007 13:15 GMT+04:00

American troops are concentrating near the Persian Gulf, which arouses
anxiety of possible military actions by the U.S. against Iran. More
and more American tankers are making for the Persian Gulf. Two
aircraft-carrier groups and marines landing warships arrived to the
region. "Patriot" anti-aircraft missiles are transported to Kuwait,
most probably for the fight against Iranian aviation, the BBC Russian
service reports.

Pentagon specialist on military planning Sam Gardner said that signs
of preparing a massive military operation are evident. "The United
States is on the way to strike Iran. All necessary elements are being
deployed on battle positions. I don’t think that final decision to
strike Iran is made, though. We see either preparations for such a
decision, or efforts to intimidate Iranians," he said.

Analysts say that by doing this Washington tries to make Tehran stop
interference practice in Iraq, because of which, as the U.S. leaders
think, American soldiers die there every day. The U.S. also wants to
make Iran refuse from efforts to produce nuclear weapons. In his part
Tehran categorically rejects all accusations, insisting that Iran
has no relations to what is going on in Iraq and that his nuclear
program is exclusively of peace character.

New Yorker weekly corespondent Seymour Hersh says that the
U.S. Pentagon has set up a special planning group to coordinate
possible attacks on Iran. Hersh, quoting unnamed sources, added
that the group would plan raids to be carried out within 24 hours
of a presidential order for military action. The article also says
that covert intelligence-gathering inside Iran had been stepped up
in recent months, with special operations groups entering from Iraq
to pursue Iranians suspected of working against US interests. An
administration representative immediately denied all results of this
journalistic investigation. But Senate Armed Services Committee member
Carl Levin insists on holding hearings in this regard. He said that
suppositions in the article that the U.S. administration is planning
various secret operations in the Middle East without informing the
Congress are extremely anxious.

Nevertheless, observers in the United States are sure that the American
army that has stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan is not capable to launch
military operations in one more country, and the war against Iran
will not become a reality.