US Commandos in Iran-- A BIG News Item in Middle East

[TexasLawyer]

I guess they know about it now...

The Tehran Times

U.S. plans to rig election or orchestrate a coup in Iraq: Leader


TEHRAN (MNA) -- The following is the message of Grand Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to the Hajj pilgrims, as fully appeared in www.khamenei.ir, run by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO).

The message was issued on Zihajjah 7, 1425 (Junuary 18, 2005). The Leader described the present juncture as fateful and sensitive for the Islamic Ummah. He expounded on the dangerous machinations and plots that are being hatched by the United States and the Zionists for the Middle East, North Africa and the whole Islamic world and referred to the likely U.S. scenarios aimed at changing the course of the upcoming elections in Iraq. Ayatollah Khamenei also hinted at the measures that may be taken by the Iraqi people and intellectuals to thwart the U.S. plots. In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful O our people! Respond to Allah’s summoner and have faith in Him. He will forgive you some of your sins and save you from a painful punishment.’ (The Qur’an, 46:31)

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The Zionist octopus along with the U.S. imperialism, vicious and despicable, now harbor plans for the entire region of the Middle East, as well as North Africa and the whole Islamic world. They have made the general awakening, which has breathed a new life into the Islamic Ummah, the target of their vengeance and spite.

The U.S. and Western imperialists have finally concluded that Muslim countries and nations, especially those of the Middle East, form the core of this awakening and resistance to their plans for global domination. They foresee that if they fail to control or suppress this Islamic awakening in the next few years with political and economic measures, through propaganda, and as the last resort through military aggression, all their plans for an absolute global hegemony and control of the most vital oil and gas resources, which make the sole powerhouse of their industrial machinery and cause of their material edge over the rest of humanity will come to nothing. If that happens, the big Western and Zionist capitalists, who are the real backstage actors of all imperialist governments will fall from the height of their power and their imposed domination over the nations.




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(translation: They're PISSED)

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Arab News (Saudi Arabia)

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=57699&d=18&m=1&y=2005

Tuesday, 18, January, 2005 (07, Dhul Hijjah, 1425)

US Commandos Inside Iran Select Sites for Airstrikes: Report
Agencies

WASHINGTON, 18 January 2005 — Teams of US commandos have been operating inside Iran since last summer, selecting suspected weapons sites for possible airstrikes, The New Yorker reported yesterday. The magazine’s award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, who last year exposed the extent of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, wrote that he was repeatedly told by US intelligence and military sources that “the next strategic target was Iran.”

President George W. Bush has signed a series of orders authorizing commando groups to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia, the New Yorker said. The Bush administration has been conducting secret spying missions inside Iran at least since mid-2004, gathering intelligence on declared and suspected nuclear, chemical and missile sites, it said.


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Tuesday, 18 January 2005

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/source/XXVII/304/images/page1.pdf

The Gulf Daily News (Bahrain)

NEXT US TARGET 'IS IRAN'

WASHINGTON: Teams of US commandos have been operating inside Iran since last summer, selecting suspected weapons sites for possible air strikes.

The New Yorker's award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh wrote yesterday that he was repeatedly told by US intelligence and military sources that "the next strategic target was Iran".

President George W Bush has signed a series of orders authorising commando groups to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as 10 nations in the Middle East and South Asia, the magazine said.

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[oneighty]

1. Commando groups?

I find that hard to believe. Bush is sending in US uniformed special forces in civilian clothes? That is both spying and an act of war.

Perhaps Iranian citizens are the Commandos?

Strange.

180

[TwentyFive]

2. Airstrikes against Iran weapons stockpiles? Might be a good thing.

I'm opposed to the Iraq war, but if Iran making nuclear weapons, then we should know about it.

Problem is, I don't trust anything said by this corrupt administration.

[Donna Zen]

5. An circle composed of jerks.

Bush invades Iraq--->threatens Iran---->Iran who had longer desired a nuclear program speeds up the time table to avoid bush---->moderate Arab countries war of a melding between Iran and Iraq--->moderate Arab countries are forced to back off reform movements in a reaction to a 500 lb. gorilla in the Gulf-->an Iran with a bomb gradually takes over Iraq--->bush fudges the election results--->

The war in Iraq is the most worst foreign policy-geopolitical blunder ever made...perhaps by any country.

On a day when DiFi and Joey B chose to congratulate C. Rice, may we pause and take stock of where we are.

[Tinoire]

3. And there you have it folks

They foresee that if they fail to control or suppress this Islamic awakening in the next few years with political and economic measures, through propaganda, and as the last resort through military aggression, all their plans for an absolute global hegemony and control of the most vital oil and gas resources, which make the sole powerhouse of their industrial machinery and cause of their material edge over the rest of humanity will come to nothing.

And there you have it folks.

In addition to being pissed, they're not stupid either.

Thanks for posting this

[leveymg]

4. They're Pissed. How Would We React If Iranian Commandos Were In the US

scoping out targets at American nuclear sites? Cassus Belli

It's remarkable that this sort of provocation hasn't already sparked some kind of actual response. But, that would be playing Bush's neocon game by the rules they set. Bush is obviously inviting retaliation from Iran and one or more of those other nine possible targeted countries.

This looks like the start of much bigger War, one which America is going to lose politically and economically, if not militarily. Vietnam with nuclear reactor strikes and nerve gas counter-strikes comes to mind.

God spare us all.

[TwentyFive]

6. But we're not terrorists like Iran! Oh, wait, I can't say that anymore nt

[RobertSeattle]

8. Good what - what hypocrites the US is

I'm half waiting for the NRA to come to Iran's defense since the "right to self-defense with arms" is a basic right...

[madrchsod]

7. is bush willing to sacrifice

thousands of men and women who will be killed and wounded during the ensuing naval battle to prove a point? will his armed forces allow him to do this?

[leveymg]

9. Yes and no. Bush is willing to sacrifice millions. No, the Generals won't

stop him. The Joint Chiefs and the CIA have already been purged.

This is like Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany in 1937. There are still a few silent, conscientious objectors in the officer corps and the intelligence services, but no one is likely to come forward unless there seems to be chance that the people are going to rise up.

Are we going to rise up? What can we do to prevent another World War?