chomsky -- what are iran's intentions?

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http://www.nationofchange.org/what-are-iran-s-intentions-1330791290

The Jan­u­ary/Feb­ru­ary issue of For­eign Af­fairs fea­tured the ar­ti­cle “Time to At­tack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Op­tion,” by Matthew Kroenig, along with com­men­tary about other ways to con­tain the Iran­ian threat.

The media re­sound with warn­ings about a likely Is­raeli at­tack on Iran while the U.S. hes­i­tates, keep­ing open the op­tion of ag­gres­sion – thus again rou­tinely vi­o­lat­ing the U.N. Char­ter, the foun­da­tion of in­ter­na­tional law.

As ten­sions es­ca­late, eerie echoes of the run-up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are in the air. Fever­ish U.S. pri­mary cam­paign rhetoric adds to the drum­beat.

Con­cerns about “the im­mi­nent threat” of Iran are often at­trib­uted to the “in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity” – code lan­guage for U.S. al­lies. The peo­ple of the world, how­ever, tend to see mat­ters rather dif­fer­ently.

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1. Informational kick

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2. Say that the even-more-conservatives win the Iranian elections and Rassanjani is ousted

the "new" Ayatollah, (the real power in Iran) has said that using an atom bomb would be anti-Islamic. Is possible that this could start negotiations for an accommodation short of war?

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3. BRAIN FART Not Rafsanjai but Ahmadenejad n/y