* CBS News: Pentagon Developing New Options For Attacking Iran *

[mobes]

"Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan
Pentagon Wary Of Tehran's Expanding Nuclear Program And Support Of Iraqi Insurgents

(CBS) A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what one officer called the "increasingly hostile role" Iran is playing in Iraq - smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops.

"What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and -women inside Iraq," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

U.S. officials are also concerned by Iranian harassment of U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf as well as Iran's still growing nuclear program. New pictures of Iran's uranium enrichment plant show the country's defense minister in the background, as if deliberately mocking a recent finding by U.S. intelligence that Iran had ceased work on a nuclear weapon.

No attacks are imminent and the last thing the Pentagon wants is another war, but Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen has warned Iran not to assume the U.S. military can't strike.

"I have reserve capability, in particular our Navy and our Air Force so it would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," Mullen said.

Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force which directs operations in Iraq. Later this week Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is expected to confront the Iranians with evidence of their meddling and demand a halt.

If that doesn't produce results, the State Department has begun drafting an ultimatum that would tell the Iranians to knock it off - or else.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/ ... 6941.shtml

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[stoker]

If the Neo's attack Iran it will be with tactical nuclear weapons. Most of the targets  are hardened. Does anybody think Puitin will standby and let this happen? Or China?

[Ralph Furely]

what a fabulous country america is.  the ppl supposedly 'elect' leaders, for the ppl, but then the 'leaders' go and attack other countries and all around
do what they fuck they want, regardless of what the ppl have to say.  yet they try to put out the image as tho they are the beacon of freedom, etc.
only a matter of time before everyone in that piece of shit starts to get sick and tired of this bullshit, and revolts.
this shit is out of control.  the american govt' has always loved pointing out all the bad things other govts are up to, yet they are by far
the worst out of all.  
is the rest of the country really still this oblivious to whats going on??  is it still only a minority of ppl like us who see this, and the rest think everything is cool?

this govt is unbelievable.  knowing what i know, this shit still blows my mind daily.

anyway rant over.  someone emailed this to me yesterday, from myspace:

"Iran Ends Oil Transactions In U.S.

Dollars
Eddie NWO Censored
This means WAR - Saddam Hussein was killed for the same reason when he wanted to take EURO instead of the dying US dollar peg just before we invaded Iraq, US Navy 4th fleet is near Venezuela for the same darn reason as Hugo Chavez is taking all of Exxon's oil to China

US Navy re-establishes fleet for Caribbean, Latin America -Apr 24

Stock up gas and food before it reaches $10 a gallon in the next few months and truckers would no longer afford to bring food and supplies into cities

From: Saladin
Date: Apr 30, 2008 10:10 AM

http://www. cbsnews. com/stories/2008/04/30/business/main4057490. shtml?source=related_story
TEHRAN, Iran, April 30, 2008
(AP) Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has completely stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq..
Iran has dramatically reduced dependence on the dollar over the past year in the face of increasing U.S. pressure on its financial system and the fall in the value of the American currency..

Oil is priced in U.S. dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves..

"The dollar has totally been removed from Iran's oil transactions," Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard told state-run television Wednesday. "We have agreed with all of our crude oil customers to do our transactions in non-dollar currencies.."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the depreciating dollar a "worthless piece of paper" at a rare summit last year in Saudi Arabia attended by state leaders from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries..

Iran put pressure on other OPEC countries at the meeting to price oil in a basket of currencies, but it has not been able to generate support from fellow members