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Report: U.S. 'preparing the battlefield' in Iran

source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/29/us.iran/index.html

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The Bush administration has launched a "significant escalation" of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country's nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic's government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.

White House, CIA and State Department officials declined comment on Hersh's report, which appears in this week's issue of The New Yorker.

Hersh told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" that Congress has authorized up to $400 million to fund the secret campaign, which involves U.S. special operations troops and Iranian dissidents.

"They believe that their mission is to make sure that before they get out of office next year, either Iran is attacked or it stops its weapons program," Hersh said.

The new article, "Preparing the Battlefield," is the latest in a series of articles accusing the Bush administration of preparing for war with Iran. He based the report on accounts from current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources.

Hersh said U.S. efforts were staged from Afghanistan, which also shares a border with Iran.

He said the program resulted in "a dramatic increase in kinetic events and chaos" inside Iran, including attacks by Kurdish separatists in the country's north and a May attack on a mosque in Shiraz that killed 13 people.
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3 comments // Report: U.S. 'preparing the battlefield' in Iran

  • resolute
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      resolute  

    • Whatever happened to diplomacy? I think the military is running our country. If the rest of the world wants to blow itself up-have at it.

      They say we have to protect Israel but really we don't. We just tell them they didn't protect us from terrorists and right now we got too much going to help them.

      How many troops do they have in Iraq? Afghanistan?

      Folks, this is absurb. Our government has gone completely mad to think they need to engage in another war.

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  • J_Jammer
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