Tag Iran

US wants sanctions on Iran

The UN is backing away from such measures so the neocons naturally want to ignore the UN (again). Russia opposes sanctions which would be dumb for two reasons, 1) Iran will retaliate by cutting off oil exports and 2) large…

Hezbollah wages new generation of warfare

“I think that there is, perhaps for the first time, a very real possibility that the fourth-generation non-state force will win at the tactical and physical levels…” — William Lind, director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free…

An attack on Iran = catalyst of chaos

John Robb on what will happen after the inevitable and coming attack on Iran by the US. The first wave: local counter-attacks. Oil prices spike. Global condemnation of the attack. The second wave: the instability spreads across the globe and…

Pentagon not happy with Bush Iran plans

Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials. The generals and admirals have told the Administration that the bombing campaign will probably not succeed…