You certainly know your stuff!
There is an interesting analysis over at Mutter's which includes- Pakistan entering into the conflict, and pro OBL forces (ISI) taking control of the Paki nukes.
Here's an article from the "Final Phase". Once again Iran appears to be blatantly advertising its nuclear intentions.
(IRAN-NUKES)
www.channelnewsasia.com/s...88/1/.html
VIENNA : Iran has begun converting a large amount of uranium mineral into the feedstock for enriching uranium -- a necessary stage in the nuclear fuel cycle -- a senior Iranian official told reporters.
"Some of the amount of 37 tons has been used. Tests have been successful," Iranian atomic energy chief Reza Aghazadeh said Tuesday.
He was referring to 37 tons of uranium yellowcake which Iran had previously said it would be converting into the uranium gas that is fed into centrifuges to make enriched uranium.
The UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has called on Iran to suspend all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including conversion activities.
But Aghazadeh, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an IAEA general conference, said Iran did not recognize the validity of this IAEA demand, since uranium enrichment is allowed under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), whose safeguard rules the IAEA monitors.
In a former life I was a military intelligence officer. But the mutter discussion clip has some validity in that Musharrif has a lot of folk gunning for him and such a move could occur. I don't think Pakistan has the ability to enter the conflict, no deployment capability. Getting Paki nukes to Iran is a whole other matter AND India would still need to be recconed with. I think projecting responses out of the Iran/Iraq theater gets really 'what iffy' if youknowwhatImean.