Ora tocca all'Iran?

Sempre più spesso Bush e i suoi aollaboratori stanno tirando in ballo l'Iran. Perché? L'articolo che segue insinua dubbi terribili sulle intenzioni di Bush. C'è solo da sperare che sbagli per eccesso di pessimismo.

Toronto Sun - July 25, 2004

Iran nuovo capro espiatorio U.S.

Coloro che hanno ingannato l'America nell'attacco contro l'Iraq,

potrebbero farlo ancora, avvisa Eric Margolis

L'Iran aiutò al-Qaida a realizzare gli attacchi dell'11 Settembre contro gli Stati Uniti?

Forse, ha suggerito la commissione USA 9/11. [...]

... "E' possibile che abbiamo attaccato il paese sbagliato", ha osservato mestamente uno dei dimmer lights (?) al Congresso. ...

Non è stata prodotta alcuna reale evidenza che l'Iran fosse informato degli attacchi dell'11/9 o li abbia agevolati. In fact, the Bush administration has still never produced the white paper promised by Colin Powell in late 2001 proving bin Laden and al-Qaida were behind 9/11.

Why would Iran, knowing it was in Bush's gunsights, join in a monstrous terrorist attack that, if linked to Tehran, could have conceivably brought U.S. nuclear retaliation?

Questa rubrica ha a lungo predetto che che l'amministrazione Bush avrebbe orchestrato un crisi pre-elezioni contro l'Iran destinato a eccitare lo spirito patriottico negli Stati Uniti e a distrarre l'attenzione del pubblico e dei media dal fiasco in Iraq.

Growing clamour

The growing clamour over Iran's nuclear intentions, with rumblings about air strikes against Iran's reactors in the fall, may prove to be a part of just such a manufactured crisis.

Remember, these latest fevered claims about Iran come from the same "reliable intelligence sources" and neo-conservative hawks who insisted Iraq had a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that threatened the U.S., with intimate links to al-Qaida.

The Iran-Afghan border is 1,000 km of wild, broken terrain that is extremely difficult to police. Large numbers of smugglers cross this border on countless hidden trails, bringing hashish and gems into Iran. The U.S., with fleets of planes, helicopters and sensors, cannot stop a flood of undocumented Mexicans crossing its own southwestern borders.

Why should the poorly equipped Iranians do any better?

Didn't these same 9/11 hijackers also enter the U.S. unchallenged? Of course. They slipped unnoticed into Iran and the U.S. No one knew their intentions. This is the most likely explanation.

Iran does not have a unified government. This nation of 72.5 million is afflicted by feuding factions that have produced a state of political chaos. Iran has certainly been involved in acts of terrorism, notably against Jews in Argentina.

And militants from the intelligence service or Pasdarann (Revolutionary Guards), might have let al-Qaida mujahidin slip across the border without Tehran's knowledge.

But far more important are two key facts that most media and the government aren't telling you.

First, Iran and al-Qaida were bitter enemies. [...]

ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor

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