ACCORDING TO US journalist Seymour Hersh the Pentagon is accelerating
military plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities with
‘bunker-busting’ bombs, including the use of ‘tactical nuclear weapons’.
The Bush administration has dismissed the story. Nonetheless, it has
not ruled out a military attack if negotiations with Iran over its
refusal to halt its nuclear work fails.
Hersh told the BBC that the US and its allies considered Iran was
between two and ten years away from possessing an operational nuclear
bomb and that planning for military action by the US had moved from
contingency planning to direct operational planning.
Many suspect that Bush’s intention is regime change in Iran; on his
recent visit to India he announced a deal under which India – an ally
which has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty – will get the
latest technology from the US. India will be free to use fissile
material from eight non-inspected nuclear reactor sites to produce
nuclear warheads.
Will the US bomb Iran? -the socialist issue 431. http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2006/431/pp9.htm
