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Operation Bite - April 6 Sneak Attack
By US Forces On Iran Planned
- Russian Military Sources Warn
General Ivashov Calls For Emergency Session Of
UN Security Council To Ward Off Looming US Aggression

By Webster G. Tarpley
3-25-7

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 twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday 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 the 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 re-issued 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 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 which 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 of 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.

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, who 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 expert 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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of course this has already been out so my reprinting it won't do much....at most it'll change the time which they probably already changed when the article was first released in russia.


kinda scary that we're looking at a 3rd front and we're already having serious trouble with the first two fronts.

man, i just wish israel would stop messing with our politics.

How is this a sneak attack if the date and time are posted?

The U.S. is going to f*****g destroy this planet

CBC has nothing on this report which makes me question everything about it. This is a pretty huge deal and for CBC to completely ignore it means something is up (in that "nothing is up"). CNN has nothing. Should I check Yahoo?

I hope its nothing because America invades one more country, I'm afraid the only people who would be right are those who are supposedly our enemy. America is out to conquer like nations before this century. America has become what it fought against in 1776.

And Iran cannot even use those nukes if they get them!

You'd need a bomber the size of a B-52 to drop it Hiroshima style.

It'd be a giant piece of equipment weighing over two tons with a radioactive footprint so moving it quietly is out of the question.

And you need even more work to design it down to the point where it could fit in an ICBM.

THEN you'd need an ICBM to strap it to, which would require even more R & D!

This is like killing a guy for posession of a deadly weapon when they're holding a bullet without a gun.

Send me in, I'd kill everyone by myself - Go 'Merica!

Somebody on another forum, half-joking, said that the US won’t unleash world war 3 until after April 15. Any sooner the Feds would risk not collecting all of their income tax revenue in the pandemonium of a global breakdown.

If it wasn’t for the brazen ruthlessness that characterizes America’s rulers, I would dismiss this “leaked intelligence” out of hand. The US is economically and militarily at a breaking point, and Iran is not exactly an easy target. The key assets of the Iranian nuclear program are deep underground and most probably safe from a conventional strike. So the claim that nuclear weapons are part of the plan rings true. An attack with nukes, even small nukes, is going to cause radioactive fallout. Civilians downwind will be poisoned and killed as a result. Imagine what effect the television reporting of that will have on world opinion. America will be isolated as a pariah state.

A successful air attack might significantly set back the Iranian nuke program but it won’t eliminate its leadership. There will be no regime change in Iran, its people and military back the government. Any suggestion of large scale ground operations is out of the question, the manpower of the US military is tapped out.

The Iranian air defense grid will not be as easy to take down as it was in Iraq in 2003. They have been preparing for this type of confrontation for the last 15 years. Iran is much larger in population and territory than is Iraq.

The largest consequence of attacking Iran will be the retaliatory response. The Persians have an enormous arsenal of missiles. They might be able to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and cut off all oil exports coming from gulf waters. Saudi and Kuwaiti oil refineries could be destroyed as well. Whatever restraint Iran has shown in its involvement inside Iraq will be discarded. The US-Shia coalition will strain and maybe break.

There is a huge amount of resentment toward the US around the Middle East. Nuking Iran could unleash political upheavals that will topple the governments of American client states.

The weak US economy will suffer greatly from all of this. Wall Street will probably see major losses. Domestic turmoil and marshal law could result. The Patriot Act and police state tactics could come into full swing. An attack on Iran might be a sign that America’s rulers are prepared to deal with their opponents, at home and abroad, with an iron fist.

Does anyone here realize that the article is BS? If not, why not?

I bet they start bombing on April 1st

Look out USN....

http://www.rense.com/general59/theSunbu ... wesome.htm

I think the war will lose its luster once a few CVNs are sunk.