U.S. Left the Kurdish Trace in Iran
So far, the C.I.A. has found no evidence of secret nuclear weapon program of Iran, Seymour M. Hersh wrote in the article released by The New Yorker yesterday. Nevertheless, the United States and Israel are staging the attack on Iran and are involved in conducting clandestine cross-border forays into that Islamic state, the famous journalist made clear. The White House rebuffed by calling the information a blatant lie. And this response of the Bush administration echoed its reaction to Hersh’s article about Abu Ghraib prison.
“The C.I.A. found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency,” Seymour Hersh wrote.
According to the journalist, the assumptions of C.I.A. are based on “technical intelligence collected by overhead satellites, and on other empirical evidence, such as measurements of the radioactivity of water samples and smoke plumes from factories and power plants.”
Regardless, republican President George W. Bush is apparently resolved to go the whole hog against Iran despite the recent victory of democrats in the Congress. In interpretation of today’s White House, it means the enforced coup d’etat in that Islamic state.
According to Hersh, the United States and Iran have been conducting clandestine activities in Iran for half a year already. In Iran, the United States acts via the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan group of Kurdish resistance. “The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as “part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran,” the journalist wrote.
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