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April 4, 2007

The impetus for war with Iran

The Mother Jones blog reports on the U.K.’s ‘The Independent’ news article, The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis.

Patrick Cockburn reports that Iran’s capture of 15 British marines and sailors was a direct response to a botched U.S. operation in January, when the military snatched 5 Iranians in Arbil — identified as members of a Revolutionary Guard, or Pasdaran, unit — who were suspected of arming insurgents. (These men are still being held.) Cockburn reports that U.S. forces were actually after two senior Iranian security officials, Mohammed Jafari, the deputy head of the Iranian National Security Council, and General Minojahar Frouzanda, the Pasdaran’s intel chief. At the time, both officials were in Iraq on official business, meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
by @ 5:26 pm. Filed under National Issues

One Response to “The impetus for war with Iran”

  1. Janus Says:

    I thought I’d raised a glass for this a month ago; have to keep better track. Maybe the Republican’s plan on attacking one nation after another, leaving serial disasters behind.
    You can find more of Cockburn’s work at Counterpunch; here’s another:
    http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html

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