Winds of a Gulf War: Confusion about Targets…….
“U.S. ships and Israeli nuclear submarines in the Persian Gulf. The crossing of a U.S.-Israeli fleet through the Suez Canal should be interpreted less as a signal against Iran than a direct threat against Pakistan. True, it took place just after the Security Council vote on the Iranian sanctions, but it responds first and foremost to the gas agreement concluded between Tehran and Islamabad. "Israel To Deploy Nuclear Submarines Off Iran Coast", headlined Israeli newspaper Haaretz on 22 June, reporting on an investigation by the British Sunday Times. According to a statement by an Israeli officer, one of the four Dolphin submarines provided by Germany is already positioned in the Gulf. With its cruise missiles equipped with nuclear warheads (1,500 Km range), Israel can reach any target in Iran. At the close of last week, an impressive naval squadron - consisting of more than a dozen U.S. warships and at least one Israeli missile launcher - crossed the Suez Canal on its way to the Persian Gulf: with a view to escalating military pressure on Iran. The reason is not only, as was reported, to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons in future. There is a more compelling factor: at the beginning of last week, Tehran signed a $7 billion agreement with Pakistan, inaugurating the construction of a gas pipeline from Iran to Pakistan. The project goes back 17 years and had, until now, been obstructed by the United States. Notwithstanding, Iran has already completed 900 Km of the 1500 Km-long gas pipeline……..”
This type of report is becoming a daily thing now. I wonder if the right winger John Bolton and the formerly left winger Mujahideen Khalq are behind it. They just joined in some kind of a demonstration against the Iranian regime in Europe.
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