Posted on 04/01/2007 12:27:36 AM PDT by American in Israel
Russian military sources warn
By Webster G. Tarpley
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Mar 26, 2007, 01:02 WASHINGTON DC, -- 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 12 hours, according to Uglanov, from 4 am until 4 pm local time. Friday is the sabbath 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 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 reissued 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 Russian President Vladimir 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 that 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 from 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, which 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 exert 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. *Resources:*http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070319/62260006.html, http://fr.rian.ru/world/20070321/62387717.html /Webster G. Tarpley http://www.tarpley.net/ is a journalist. Among other works, he has published an investigation on the manipulation of the Red Brigades by the Vatican's P2 Suite and the assassination of Aldo/ /Moro, a non-authorized biography of George H. Bush, and more recently an analysis of the methods used to perpetrate the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Fake American documents were planted with newspapers in third countries (Europe) to discredit the United States back when Russia was the Soviet Union.
This tactic was used by the KGB (Vladimir Putin's old outfit) quite a bit.
The idea of an attack will enrage the American hating forces around the world, although I have no objections if its true.
This is nonsense. It has all the credibility of the wild hysteria surrounding August 22nd of 2006. Remember how many thought the Battle of Armegeddon would begin that day with a nuclear strike on Jerusalem? That day came and went without incident.....so will April 6th. The worst thing that could happen that day is Tiger missing the cut at The Masters.
This is the 47th prediction on the last zero attacks on Iran. With a record like that, take this for what it's worth: zero. Ain't gonna happen.
Uh-huh... The Russians have a spy high in the Pentagon and they're going to prove that fact by publishing minute details that only a well-placed mole could know about this supposedly imminent attack. Those Russians, they just love blowing the cover of their top spies in Washington!
Are these the same Russians that claimed that their was a buildup of military forces on the Iranian border, and scant hours later IRAN ITSELF declared that no such buildup had taken place?
I have no guesses any more. I only hope that yours is right. I would be glad to take back some of the exasperated things I have said about W recently.
That would get it on against the whole "Axis" at once. We did it once before. We can do it again. I think the entry of Russia into the mess would keep nukes off the various tables so long as conquest of the "homeland" is out of the discussion. Putting it all off will only make things more intense and more widespread.
If they think they can pull off Taiwan they could not care less about the Olympics. The suggestion is silly.
Actually the whole thing could be US generated psy-ops with nothing to it, unless Iran retaliates against the pressure with something serious against Israel or into the US.
The nerve of these accursed Russkies! Giving away our plans before our own media have a chance to! The NYT should sue them.
There is really no need to pull any ships from the Pacific area. There are two carriers in the Gulf now with a third on the way. Don't forget, we also have Iran surrounded with numerous ground based aircraft carriers (airports) well within strike range. I have always suspected that this is the real reason we wanted to be in Iraq in the first place.
After the Iranian Hostage Crisis on 1979 to 1981 I figure we have a blank check to hit them anytime we want. Payback in spads.
Great April's Fool joke!
I think I read that we even have some F-22 Raptors over there. I hope that we saved at least one to take care of Persia.
On the bright side, all the predictions have got to keep Iran on pins and needles.
"Operation Bite Iran"? Come on, guys. That doesn't sound very authentic.
Indeed, and it is amazing that some freepers fall for this crap
U.S.S. NIMITZ battlegroup is departing San Diego tomorrow to head towards the Fifth Fleet AOR (iirc), where the STENNIS and the EISENHOWER bg's are concentrated. BTW, I would have suspected that the two carriers themselves are actually out of the Gulf. This makes me highly skeptical of the Russian piece, and makes it look like a planned leak to make the Persians highly nervous. NIMITZ won't be on station for ten days at the earliest.
Right now there are internal divisions in Iran. I am of the opinion that the Brits were siezed by the Revolutionary Guards faction surrounding Ahmadhi-Nejad, who was losing mojo to Rafsanjani. Britain's limp response only made Dinner Jacket look like the Cock of the Walk, so for now, he's the Kingfish. However, there's only so much utility they get out of these hostages.
You'll notice they didn't try to take Americans? Methinks there's a well laid plans to start making thier submarines disappear, their fleet visit Davy Jones, and Kharg Island go Up In Smoke should that happen. Methinks we've told them this. The problem is that some people in Iran don't get the message and don't understand just what we can do to them.
How and ever, some people in Iran want such a war. That's the problem. If so, they must be allowed to make the first, overt hostile act, like the Japanese before them.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I'm hoping that the attack is more widespread than just the nuke facilities. We should go after all Revolutionary Guards type units, the entire navy and airforce and hit select mullahs.
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