"Cheney urging strikes on Iran"
By Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef
August 9, 2007
...Cheney, who's long been skeptical of diplomacy with Iran, argued for military action if hard new evidence emerges of Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq; for example, catching a truckload of fighters or weapons crossing into Iraq from Iran, one official said.
The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about internal government deliberations.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opposes this idea, the officials said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated publicly that "we think we can handle this inside the borders of Iraq."
Lea Anne McBride, a Cheney spokeswoman, said only that "the vice president is right where the president is" on Iran policy.
Bush left no doubt at his news conference that he intended to get tough with Iran.
[Full story at the McClatchy Washington Bureau]
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Sometimes, I think I am the only Persian reader over here ;) Two months ago I spent time researching the political economy of Iran, as well as the issues and risks facing Iran. The greatest risks facing Iran is fragmentation in the Trukish, Balouch, Southern Arab, Kurdish, and Lor regions. The foreign funded revolts have resulted in a widening gap between Iranians of various ethnic/social backgrounds and have created widespread conflict due to differences in religion, race, and language. The uprisings and revolts have been increasing in number and intensity over the past year, and the Iranian government has been able to crack-down, repress, restrain, and aggressively punish the instigators and followers of these movements so far. Additional motivations for the revolts are the government's lack of economical assistance and lack of political freedom in these regions. Inflation and unemployment/ economic insecurity play major roles as well. The efforts (via Israel) to separate the Persian Jewish community from the Iranian community have not been successful; however, separation of the Turks and Persians in the NW regions has been reasonably successful. Persian-Turks used to identify themselves as Iranians who are of Turkish decent and who can speak both languages fluently. More recently, Persian- Turks have begun to refer to themselves as Turkish and not Iranian in any context. I speculate that if a war were to occur, it would be primarily a civil war, and not the way it has been mentioned in the above article. I am sure you will have a blast over there :)
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