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Russian Army Chief: Decision On Iran Attack To Be Made By Summer
Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Makarov says that a decision by the U.S. and Israel on whether or not to launch a military attack on Iran will be taken before the summer.
“Iran, of cause, is a sore spot. Some kind of decision should be taken, probably nearer to summer,” Makarov told RIA Novosti.
He added that Russia has created a new crisis center that receives information regarding Iran in real time.
Discord between the Obama administration and Israeli leaders over the timing of a planned strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has characterized the build-up to war.
Newsweek reported yesterday that Mossad boss Tamir Pardo made a secret visit to officials in the United States earlier this month to determine what the consequences would be if Israel bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities without first receiving the green light from Washington.
Pardo had a number of questions, including: “What is our posture on Iran? Are we ready to bomb? Would we [do so later]? What does it mean if [Israel] does it anyway?”
Meanwhile, the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has issued three reports that predict Iran will engage in “low-level provocation” in response to sanctions by disrupting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil choke point that Tehran has repeatedly threatened to close.
“Iranian authorities could disrupt supplies of oil from the Persian Gulf by imposing tanker inspections or boarding merchant ships in its territorial waters, supporting oil prices because markets would increasingly view armed conflict as “a real, if remote, possibility,” the report stated.
This would be beneficial for oil-producing states in the region such as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E., Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, notes the report, because such tension would push the price of oil to $150 a barrel.
Israel blamed Iran for two attacks yesterday targeting cars belonging to the Israeli embassies in New Delhi, India and Tbilisi, Georgia. Iran has denied having any involvement in the attempted bombings in which the wife of Israel’s defense attache was injured, saying they were false flag attacks launched by Israel itself to “tarnish Iran’s friendly ties with the host countries.”
A man thought to be an Iranian national was also maimed by his own bomb today after throwing a grenade at a taxi in Bangkok. When police attempted to apprehend him, he then threw another grenade which bounced off a tree and blew both of his legs off.
A “senior Israeli official says Thai police believe incident was botched terror attack,” reports Haaretz, though why the man chose an unknown Bangkok taxi driver as the target of his “terror attack” and what this has to do with Israel has not been properly explained.
6 Comments on "Russian Army Chief: Decision On Iran Attack To Be Made By Summer"
BillT on Wed, 15th Feb 2012 1:45 pm
A new war would take the sheeple’s minds off of the rape of their bank accounts and future by the banksters. It would justify the high gas prices just before the elections and make an excuse for the millions more who would be on unemployment or have passed their 99 weeks.
bobinget on Wed, 15th Feb 2012 4:40 pm
The key word here: ‘decision’. We are being told none has been made.
If one nation continues to publicly threaten another for years, one logical conclusion: historically, has been armed conflict.
(just imagine the situation reversed, how long would any president remain in office?)
IMO, if Israel and Iran engage, it will lead to all out world war. Any discussion of ‘peak oil’ will be made moot. At the lowest point in nuclear war, cut off from this sort of comunication we will wish there were no future. Every human in the developed world will be negatively affected. The mid-east will take years, perhaps a decade to recover.
Millions will die of radiation related illness.
IN time the planet will go to a new normal. One where
oil doesn’t play the central role in every economy.
Make plans to plant a garden now.
Kenz300 on Wed, 15th Feb 2012 9:25 pm
A war with Iran would push the world economy into a depression.
cusano on Thu, 16th Feb 2012 12:42 am
There is only one way to avoid what the previous comments correctly state. Quick and total defeat of Iran…thus the world economy would begin ‘healing’ right away. You know…like the first Iraq war back in the 90’s. We kicked ass…and we were home for the 4th of July. In order to do that to Iran…it would have to get ugly.
BillT on Thu, 16th Feb 2012 1:22 am
cusano…get real! That event in the 90’s was not what the US news portrayed it to be. What did it accomplish? The MIC made huge profits and we went back to pretending we were a great country for a while longer. Then 12 years later, we went back for a real fight and got our butts kicked for 9 years until we did a strategic retreat because we couldn’t win. Ditto Afghanistan. Ditto any other country with a resistance. Iran would not be a cake walk with anything less than nukes and you don’t want that to happen in oil country. If we invade Iran, expect the body bags to be shipped by freighter because there will be so many returning to the US full.
MikeK on Thu, 16th Feb 2012 6:30 am
cusano, wow, how history is forgotten so quickly. When America attacked Iraq in 1991, it attacked a country that had just recently come out of a brutal war with Iran in which hundreds of thousands of it’s men died. Militarily Iraq was in complete shambles, and the country was completely demoralized. As was reported so faithfully by the American MSM at the time, most of Hussein’s troops were actually Shia conscripts who had no interest in fighting for the Sunni dominated government. Now the kicker; even then the US failed to decisively win the war! Remember? Bush refused to take out Hussein and go into Baghdad fearing the losses the “coalition” would sustain. When America did finally go into Baghdad in 2003, after Iraq had suffered under more than a decade of sanctions that crippled its economy and weakened it to almost nothing militarily, still it took over seven years to win the war, if one can say that America ever won it! To suggest a quick and decisive win in Iran, a country that is hardly in the position Iraq was, is more than fool-hardy. America might win that war if it had ten years to concentrate attacks, but I’m fairly certain that the fragile American economy will collapse first.