[PAA-Discuss] Operation Bite:4/6sneak attack by US forces against Iran planned, Russian military sources warn

Tue Mar 27 02:59:16 EDT 2007

Operation Bite: April 6 sneak attack by US forces against Iran planned,
Russian military sources warn

By Webster G. Tarpley

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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.

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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.

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Webster G. Tarpley 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. 

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