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    IRAN AND PEARL HARBOR SYNDROME
    By Pyotr Romanov

    Focus News, Bulgaria
    May 4 2006

    The Paris meeting on Iran, which the media dubbed "secret" because
    journalists were barred from it from start to finish, ended in failure
    as expected.

    The positions of the sides remained the same. The United States wants
    the UN Security Council to pass the toughest possible resolution on
    Iran's nuclear file. By and large, the Europeans are leaning toward
    the U.S. proposal, while permanent members of the Security Council
    Moscow and Beijing insist on talks. The negotiators were trying hard
    to conceal what has long become an open secret.

    Trying to help Beijing and Moscow out of the predicament,
    U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has suggested that they should
    abstain from voting on the problem at the Security Council. If the
    Council is torn apart by contradictions and fails to exert pressure
    on Iran, the U.S. and other countries may themselves punish Iran.

    Other U.S. officials have expressed the same opinion. U.S. State
    Department spokesman Sean McCormack has just made another statement
    to this effect.

    Moscow also has to adjust its position. Chairman of the Duma committee
    on international affairs Konstantin Kosachyov has just declared
    that Iran's ostentatious refusal to comply with the Security Council
    requirements was fraught with serious consequences. He did not rule
    out sanctions against Iran.

    It is even more interesting to hear the opinions of intelligence
    officers, military men and independent experts. U.S. intelligence
    spokesmen openly admit that they know very little about Iran; such
    statements, however, should not calm Tehran down because they clearly
    show that the U.S. and its foremost allies are channeling all the
    necessary financial, material and intellectual resources into the
    effort. It is hardly a coincidence that when U.S.-Iranian dispute
    reached its peak, the military announced successful testing at the
    Eglin air base in Florida of the 10-ton Massive Ordnance Air Burst
    (MOAB), which the press immediately dubbed the Mother of All Bombs.

    The use of tactical nuclear arms, primarily anti-bunker weapons, has
    not been ruled out, either. It is not surprising that Moscow insists
    on negotiations - it does not want a nuclear war near its borders,
    all the more so since nuclear issue is no bluff. Former U.S.

    Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that the American military
    should analyze all options against Iran, including the use of nuclear
    weapons.

    It is not merely the doctrine of a preventive strike that is pushing
    the U.S. to be tough. In effect, the doctrine itself reflects the
    painful Pearl Harbor syndrome, and a highly dubious assumption that
    it was possible to nip Hitler in the bud if the U.S. had intervened
    in Europe earlier. The trauma inflicted on the U.S. by the barbarous
    hostage seizure in Iran has not healed, either. Good old Freud is
    here again.

    Finally, the Americans are worried by some forecasts. Zbigniew
    Brzezinski thinks that the U.S. will wage war with Iran for 30 years
    and lose its world supremacy as a result. This prediction suggests the
    conclusion - either not go to war at all, or strike without mercy and
    win a quick victory. Thus, the American Eagle is now looking around
    with particular attention and is ready to nip in the bud anything it
    perceives as an attack. Invasion of Iran on the basis of unverified
    data may be just a prelude, all the more so since presumption of
    innocence does not apply to Iran. Defending its right to a civilian
    nuclear program, Tehran has already said too much and got bogged down
    in contradictions.

    Even some independent Russian experts believe that war is inevitable.

    Chairman of the Presidium of the Institute of Globalization Problems
    Mikhail Delyagin said: "I think that the actions, which have been
    taken, and the propaganda accompaniment, which we have been hearing,
    give us enough grounds to predict that the decision on a missile
    attack... has been made. Considering the election race, this should
    happen in late spring or summer."

    It is rumored that in Yerevan, capital of Armenia, wealthy Iranians
    of Azeri background have already rushed to buy housing, just in case...

    In turn, the press is trying to predict what Iran will do in return.

    Quoting its sources in Tehran, the British Sunday Times writes that
    Iran is ready for an adequate reply. There are 40,000 trained suicide
    bombers, who will attack American, Israeli and British targets, 29 of
    which have already been selected. The Iranian president is talking
    about an asymmetrical blow at Israel. Tehran has also repeatedly
    threatened to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

    To sum up, Pearl Harbor and the good old Freud are spelling a lot
    of trouble.
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