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Operation Bite - April 6 Sneak Attack

By US Forces On Iran Planned

- Russian Military Sources Warn

 

 

General Ivashov Calls For Emergency Session Of

UN Security Council To Ward Off Looming US Aggression

By Webster G. Tarpley

3-25-7

 

 

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 twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday 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 the 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 re-issued 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 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 which 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 of 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, who 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 expert 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.

 

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What do you guys think of it?

 

In my opinion it would be disastreous for Armenia.

 

I am not counting other factors but just two important ones:

 

1. Using mini tactical n. weapons (bunkerbusters) will spread radiation in the area which could reach Armenia.

 

2. Partitioning Iran to Azeri, Iranian and Kurdish parts will make Azerbaijan and Turkey stronger and bigger

[crusader1492]

What do you guys think of it?

 

In my opinion it would be disastreous for Armenia.

 

I am not counting other factors but just two important ones:

 

1. Using mini tactical n. weapons (bunkerbusters) will spread radiation in the area which could reach Armenia.

 

2. Partitioning Iran to Azeri, Iranian and Kurdish parts will make Azerbaijan and Turkey stronger and bigger

 

 

Hopefully no attack will occur. However, if it does your fears should be assuaged by the following:

 

Tactical nukes are small and will not cause much fallout...the small yield nukes would penetrate the ground keeping most of the fallout there.

 

Also concerning the partitioning of Iran: I find this hard to believe in the context that Iran in the 1980's sent 500,000 people to their death defending their borders. With that said, I highly doubt the Persian population would allow the cowardly Azeris to take their land.

[Dave]

Of course it'd be disastrous if it happens, but I think it won't happen any time soon. Why? Because similar claims appeared in dozens of sites 2 years ago, and guess what? Nothing happened.

 

Today, if someone is to launch an invasion and have a "moral excuse" for it, it would be Britain for their kidnapped soldiers. The event eerily reminds us of the Hezballah-Israel war, which started after the alleged kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon.

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Hopefully no attack will occur. However, if it does your fears should be assuaged by the following:

 

Tactical nukes are small and will not cause much fallout...the small yield nukes would penetrate the ground keeping most of the fallout there.

 

Also concerning the partitioning of Iran: I find this hard to believe in the context that Iran in the 1980's sent 500,000 people to their death defending their borders. With that said, I highly doubt the Persian population would allow the cowardly Azeris to take their land.

 

How about if they hit Iran's nuclear laboratories (uranum enrichment). Isn't the fallout strong enough to reach Armenia?

 

This is my primary concern right now.

[Arpa]

Of course it'd be disastrous if it happens, but I think it won't happen any time soon. Why? Because similar claims appeared in dozens of sites 2 years ago, and guess what? Nothing happened.

 

Today, if someone is to launch an invasion and have a "moral excuse" for it, it would be Britain for their kidnapped soldiers. The event eerily reminds us of the Hezballah-Israel war, which started after the alleged kidnapping of Israeli soldiers in Lebanon.

Of late there is so much sabre rattling by Georgy Porgy and Tony Bleary, not to forget Mushy Moshe against “I Ran”. One threatens to invade, that is, after he ends the invasion of I Rak, the other threatens to cut all diplomatic and commercial ties, while that “mouse” of the Middle East threatens to surgically excise the “cancer”.

 

Where do these people learn history?

Of course, we know Moshe insists that during classical times there was only one people, yet he forgets how that “one people” was decimated by those other peoples of the time, including, but not exclusively the likes of AshurBanbal and Xerxes. And that it took another 2000 years to bring them back together . Is Tony the “Rule Brittania” still under the influence of the “Opium Wars” in China, or still living in that great British Empire of Kolkatta/Calcutta. Is it not time he woke up from that stupor?

http://www.bartleby.com/65/op/OpiumWar.html

Opium Wars

1839–42 and 1856–60, two wars between China and Western countries. The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large quantity of opium confiscated from British merchants. Great Britain, which had been looking to end China’s restrictions on foreign trade, responded by sending gunboats to attack several Chinese coastal cities. China, unable to withstand modern arms, was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue (1843). These provided that the ports of Guangzhou, Jinmen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai should be open to British trade and residence; in addition Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Within a few years other Western powers signed similar treaties with China and received commercial and residential privileges, and the Western domination of China’s treaty ports began. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou. British and French troops took Guangzhou and Tianjin and compelled the Chinese to accept the treaties of Tianjin (1858), to which France, Russia, and the United States were also party. China agreed to open 11 more ports, permit foreign legations in Beijing, sanction Christian missionary activity, and legalize the import of opium. China’s subsequent attempt to block the entry of diplomats into Beijing as well as Britain’s determination to enforce the new treaty terms led to a renewal of the war in 1859. This time the British and French occupied Beijing and burned the imperial summer palace (Yuan ming yuan). The Beijing conventions of 1860, by which China was forced to reaffirm the terms of the Treaty of Tianjin and make additional concessions, concluded the hostilities. #1

See A. Waley, The Opium War through Chinese Eyes (1958, repr. 1968); H.-P. Chang, Commissioner Lin and the Opium War (1964); P. W. Fay, The Opium War, 1840–1842 (1975). #2

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How about Georgy? Where did he learn history/schmistory? Does he know that the “capital” of the Middle East is not TelAviv?

So! What will those surgeons in TelAviv do? Surgically excise the cancer? A “cancer” of 80 million people with a scalpel of a people who, at best number 4 million? What is that Tony Bleary do? Opiumly Medicate 70 million people, suck dry their oil wells, have the London Taxis run on “English muffins”? Coming back to Georgy. Where does he think the fuel for his Texas barbeque comes from? From his “godfather” Dickie’s Haliburton or the everburning lamp at the Massada?**

**Note. “massada” is none other than the Arabic/Aramaic word ”mashad” to mean (the land) of martyrs/nahatak, /witnesses/akanates.

 

[Johannes]

Ո՞վ էր այդ հոգեհիւանդը, որ այրեց Արտեմիսի հոյակապ տաճարը, սոսկ իր անունը յիշեցնել տալու համար. դարեր շարունակ:

Այսպիսով Ջորջիկի եւ Տօնիկի անունները միշտ պիտի յիշուին, որպէս պատմութիւն կերտած անձինք:

Edited March 29, 2007 by Johannes

[phantom22]

This is Bush's "last hurrah" before the "tsunami" hits his administration. They will strike before everything starts to unravel in Washington. It is questionable whether Bush will be retired before his term ends. Even Republicans have been whispering "impeachment."

[Arpa]

This is Bush's "last hurrah" before the "tsunami" hits his administration. They will strike before everything starts to unravel in Washington. It is questionable whether Bush will be retired before his term ends. Even Republicans have been whispering "impeachment."

Even though no one asked your opinion about the matter, but how did I know that you would be the first to jump on the Bush wagon?

FYI, I am neither a D or an R. I just look at the affairs with a jaundiced eye.

Now let’s see how the D-s and R-s figure here.

Let’s go back.

What business did that Billy boy from Arkansas have in Somalia? How did they effect life in DC?

Before him. What business we had in Persia that that peanut farmer from Georgia saw to it that the Shah be deposed and created the “Hostage crisis” and installed the Ayatollah?

Did JFK solve the Vietnam problem, or did he conquer the Bay of Pigs (fiasco)in Cuba?

The mess that HST left us with, Korea still festers.

Oh! Oh! How about FDR who met with Churchill and Stalin in Yalta, and of all the places, get this , Tehran, who left us with the messy Iron Curtain that drained our souls and dollars for over 50 years?

So. Give us a piece of your dessicated brain and tell us how all these issues will be solved by our next D president, god forbid that Hilary Clitory. Pelosi? Maybe?

 

[Aubépine]

They have already set up this: http://www.iranbodycount.org/ a la Iraq Body Count.

[phantom22]

There was a time when I switched over to an "R." When Phil Depoian was treated sub-human by his fellow Democrats solely for being Armenian, I was SO disgusted that I changed my registration, first to "I" and then to "R."

 

Since when do I need your or anyone's approval to make a comment? Do you, Arpa, ask approval before you make a comment? I remember very well my support of "R's." A local Congressman, our neighbor, who knew my mother well, I supported. Ditto other "R's." I wasn't exclusively a "D" until the foaming at the mouth mad-dog crew took charge of the "R's."

 

It is the "D's" who are pushing for Genocide Recognition at present. They know what the Genocide was all about. Why do you think that the Turks are expending so much capital to try to quash these non-binding bills in the US Congress?

 

50% of Americans have stated that they will not vote for Hillary under any circumstances. How can anyone with such high negative numbers become President?

 

 

Even though no one asked your opinion about the matter, but how did I know that you would be the first to jump on the Bush wagon?

FYI, I am neither a D or an R. I just look at the affairs with a jaundiced eye.

Now let’s see how the D-s and R-s figure here.

Let’s go back.

What business did that Billy boy from Arkansas have in Somalia? How did they effect life in DC?

Before him. What business we had in Persia that that peanut farmer from Georgia saw to it that the Shah be deposed and created the “Hostage crisis” and installed the Ayatollah?

Did JFK solve the Vietnam problem, or did he conquer the Bay of Pigs (fiasco)in Cuba?

The mess that HST left us with, Korea still festers.

Oh! Oh! How about FDR who met with Churchill and Stalin in Yalta, and of all the places, get this, Tehran, who left us with the messy Iron Curtain that drained our souls and dollars for over 50 years?

So. Give us a piece of your dessicated brain and tell us how all these issues will be solved by our next D president, god forbid that Hilary Clitory. Pelosi? Maybe?

Edited March 29, 2007 by phantom22

[yerevanforeigner6]

Barev all

 

I hope no attack would ever take place.

Attack would be disastrous not just for Iran but Armenia too.

Issues should be peacefully resolved