Monday, March 03, 2008

Iran is “meddling” in Iraq

And the Bush administration, without irony, charges that Iran is “meddling” in Iraq, otherwise presumably free from foreign interference. The ensuing debate is partly technical. Do the serial numbers on the Improvised Explosive Devices really trace back to Iran? If so, does the leadership of Iran know about the IEDs, or only the Iranian Revolutionary Guards? Settling the debate, the White House plans to brand the Revolutionary Guards as a “specially designated global terrorist” force, an unprecedented action against a national military branch, authorizing Washington to undertake a wide range of punitive actions. The saber-rattling rhetoric about “containing Iran” has escalated to the point where both political parties and practically the whole US press corps accept it as legitimate and, in fact, honorable, that “all options are on the table,” to quote the leading presidential candidates – possibly even nuclear weapons. “All options on the table” means that Washington is in fact threatening war.

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