More LIES coming from the Bush administration so we can BOMB IRAN!
You know, reader, the UNITED STATES and its "Al-CIA-Duh"-affiliated groups (like MI6 and Mossad) are the TRUE TERRORISTS!
It is WESTERN GOVERNMENTS that are CARRYING OUT TERROR ATTACKS and WE ALL KNOW IT, shitters!!!!!!!
"U.S. Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran Guards" by HELENE COOPER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday.
If imposed, the declaration would signal a more confrontational turn in the administration’s approach to Iran and would be the first time that the United States has added the armed forces of any sovereign government to its list of terrorist organizations.
The Revolutionary Guard is thought to be the largest branch of Iran’s military. While the United States has long labeled Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, a decision to single out the guard would amount to an aggressive new challenge from [the] American administration.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned of the move in recent conversations with European counterparts, saying that a delay in efforts to win approval from the United Nations Security Council for further economic sanctions on Iran was leaving the administration with little choice but unilateral action.
[And she is the "dove" of the group, remember that.
What a CROCK of SHIT!
There is no division amongst the criminals left inside the WH!]
A move toward putting the Revolutionary Guard on the foreign terrorist list would serve at least two purposes for Ms. Rice: to pacify, for a while, administration hawks who are pushing for possible military action, and to further press America’s allies to ratchet up sanctions against Iran in the Security Council. The officials said the declaration was being pushed by Ms. Rice.
[See, it is not Dick driving it all -- or it is. Either way, pffft!]
Listing would set in motion a series of automatic sanctions that would make it easier for the United States to block financial accounts and other assets controlled by the guard. In particular, the action would freeze any assets the guard has in the United States, although it is unlikely that the guard maintains much in the way of assets in American banks or other institutions.
[WTF? They've been under sanctions for 28 years.
What assets could they possibly have in this country?]
Ms. Rice has succeeded over the last year in holding the Bush administration to a diplomatic course.... Vice President Dick Cheney said to be among those pushing for greater consideration of military options.
The debate has been kindled by reports from international inspectors detailing Iran’s progress in its nuclear program, including the installation of more than 1,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium, as well as the assertions from American intelligence officials about an Iranian role in providing arms and other support to Shiite militias in Iraq and to Taliban militants in Afghanistan.
[Which the New York Times dutifully and uncritically blared from its front pages]
Iran has repeatedly denied that it is seeking to build nuclear weapons, that it is helping in any way to facilitate attacks on American troops in Iraq or that it is shipping any weapons to the Taliban, a group Iran opposed in the 1990s.
In June, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said the volume of weapons reaching the Taliban from Iran made it “difficult to believe” that the shipments were “taking place without the knowledge of the Iranian government.” In a television interview the same day, Assistant Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns said there was “irrefutable evidence” that the weapons were coming from the Revolutionary Guard.
[It's called "building a lie, er, a case, for MORE WARS!]
In taking aim at the guard, the administration is also trying to divide Iran’s population.
[I thought we tried to bring people together.
We wouldn't try to divide Iraqis this way.
OR WOULD WE?]
During his news conference on Thursday, President Bush addressed the Iranian people directly:
“My message to the Iranian people is, ‘You can do better than this current government. You don’t have to be isolated. You don’t have to be in a position where you can’t realize your full economic potential.’ ”
[Yeah, DON'T BE LIKE US, Iranians!]
The guard and its military wing are identified as a power base for Mr. Ahmadinejad. Under his administration, American officials said, the guard has moved increasingly into commercial operations, earning profits and extending its influence in Iran in areas involving big government contracts, including building airports and other infrastructure, oil production and providing cellphones.
[Oh, so Iran has it's own MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX just like US -- and WE GOT WAY MORE MONEY and WEAPONS!
Beat ya again, Iranians!]
The immediate legal consequence of the guard’s designation as a terrorist organization would be to make it unlawful for anyone subject to United States jurisdiction to knowingly provide material support or resources to the guard, according to the State Department. Any United States financial institution that becomes aware that it possesses, or has control over, funds of a foreign terrorist organization would have to turn them over to the Treasury Department.
[Therefore, it could be ANYONE!!
So after the Iraq and Lebanon property seizures, he has now added Iran.
If you don't think CRIMINALIZATION of PROTESTS is coming, think again AmeriKan know-nothing shit-suckers!]
Because Iran has done little business with the United States in more than two decades, the larger point of the designation would be to heighten the political and psychological pressure on Iran, administration officials said, by using the designation to persuade foreign governments and financial institutions to cut ties with Iranian businesses and individuals.
[What ASSHOLES we! But all about "peace."
'Scuse me, I gotta reach for the airsick bag. Blaaaaahhhh!]
"US to classify Iranian Guard as terror group; Forces' role in Afghanistan and Iraq cited" by Robin Wright/Washington Post August 15, 2007
[Ah, more war promotion from Robin "Judy Miller" Wright!]
WASHINGTON -- The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist," according to US officials, a move that allows Washington to target the group's business operations and finances.
The Bush administration has chosen to move against the Revolutionary Guard because of what US officials describe as the group's growing involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as its support for extremists throughout the Middle East, the sources said. The decision follows congressional pressure on the administration to toughen its stance against Tehran as well as US frustration with the ineffectiveness of UN resolutions against Iran's nuclear program, officials said.
The designation of the Revolutionary Guard will be made under Executive Order 13224, which President Bush signed two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to obstruct terrorist funding. It identifies individuals, businesses, charities, and many extremist groups engaged in terrorist activities. The Revolutionary Guard would be the first national military branch included on the list, US officials said -- a highly unusual move because it is part of a government, rather than a typical nonstate terrorist organization.
The order allows the United States to block the assets of terrorists and to disrupt operations by foreign businesses that "provide support, services, or assistance to, or otherwise associate with, terrorists."
The move reflects the escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran over issues that include Iraq and Iran's nuclear ambitions. The main goal of the new designation is to clamp down on the Revolutionary Guard's vast business network, as well as on foreign companies conducting business linked to the military unit and its personnel. The administration plans to list many of the Revolutionary Guard's financial operations.
A US official familiar with the plan who requested anonymity because the decision has not been announced:
"Anyone doing business with these people will have to reevaluate their actions immediately. It increases the risks of people who have until now ignored the growing list of sanctions against the Iranians. It makes clear to everyone who the IRGC and their related businesses really are. It removes the excuses for doing business with these people."
For weeks, the Bush administration has been debating whether to target the Revolutionary Guard in full, or only its Quds Force wing, which US officials have linked to the growing flow of explosives, roadside bombs, rockets, and other arms to Shi'ite militias in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Quds Force also lends support to Shi'ite allies such as Lebanon's Hezbollah and to Sunni movements such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
[Really shoveling hard, 'ey, girl?
Must SMELL shoveling all that SHIT, huh, Robbie?]
Although administration discussions remain ongoing, the initial decision is to target the entire Revolutionary Guard, US officials said. The administration has not yet decided when to announce the new measure, but officials said they would prefer to do so before the meeting of the UN General Assembly next month, when the United States intends to increase international pressure against Iran.
The Revolutionary Guard -- with its own navy, air force, ground forces, and special forces units -- is a rival to Iran's conventional troops. Its naval forces abducted 15 British sailors and marines last spring, sparking an international crisis, and its special forces armed Lebanon's Hezbollah with missiles used against Israel in the 2006 war. The Revolutionary Guard also plays a key role in Iran's military industries, according to Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
[Oh, she just UNCRITICALLY PUSHES the WHOLE AGENDA, and then acts so SELF-RIGHTEOUS when she's called on it!
Sick of fucking stink-fuck, lying elite media. ]
"Iran is keeping its options open in Afghanistan; Offers support but is willing to assert power" by Kim Murphy/Los Angeles Times August 15, 2007
TEHRAN -- They do the jobs that few Iranians would consider. For $11 a day, the Afghans mend shoes, haul bricks, dig drainage channels, push giant wheelbarrows of scavenged debris through treacherous ribbons of cars.
It has been this way since the various wars in Afghanistan sent an estimated 2 million refugees flooding into neighboring Iran. Since April, however, more than 160,000 Afghans have been rounded up and sent home.
Iran plans to expel up to 1 million in what it asserts is an effort to cut down on illegal immigrants and open up new jobs for Iranians.
[Oh, the Iranians have their own BORDER PROBLEMS!
And WE COMPLAIN about it. What ASSHOLE HYPOCRITES!]
But Afghanistan warns that the exodus could jeopardize its fragile new stability, and for the United States and others, the move by Tehran offers an unsettling hint of Iranian mischief-making in the region.
[Gee, they can't win.
Enforce the border and they sanction weapons movement; inability to enforce the border = sanctioning weapons movement.
There is a third possibility. Maybe Iran isn't arming their enemy at all.]
One of the givens of the Middle East's diplomacy is Shi'ite Iran's enduring hostility toward the Taliban, the radical Sunni movement whose fall from power in 2001 was welcomed in Tehran.
Yet the growing international pressure aimed at Iran's nuclear program appears to have prompted a complex new strategy for Iran in Afghanistan, suggest Iranian analysts here.
Iran still supports the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, they say, but the Islamic Republic is also not averse to asserting itself in a conflict that Washington once thought was over.
Abulfazl Amooei, a political analyst for Hamshahri diplomatic magazine, which reflects the views of Iran's Islamist hard-liners:
"It is better for Iran if America is entangled in Afghanistan with the Taliban, because as soon as the United States has no problem in Afghanistan, it can turn to the next area in the Middle East. It can come to Iran and say, `I am in your neighborhood, and I will attack you if you do not suspend your nuclear enrichment activities.' "
[Give the Persians credit; they ain't stoo-pid like Amurkns]
Iran appears to be mounting a high-profile publicity campaign against the United States along its western edge, in Iraq and neighboring Sunni nations in the Persian Gulf, and a subtle, below-the-radar exercise in keeping its options open to the east, in Afghanistan.
For years, Iran's power in the Middle East was held in check through a combination of US sanctions and a long war in the 1980s with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, whose regime was fueled with aid from the United States and Sunni Arab nations that feared the growing influence of the Islamic Republic and the potential expansion of its hard-line theological revolution.
[Oh, so we SUPPORTED the evil one all those years. How about that?
So WHY'D WE KILL HIM if he was such a bulwark against Iran?
Iran is our enemy that is killing Amurkns, so that means Saddam was our... FRIEND?
Oooops! Sorry, Saddam!]
But the US-led military ouster of Hussein in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan during the Bush administration opened a new chapter for Tehran.
Now, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has forged cordial relationships with Iraq's new Shi'ite-dominated government and with Karzai. Last week, the Afghan president rebuffed President Bush's attempts to characterize Iran as a destabilizing force in the region, contending on CNN that Iran had been "a helper" on fighting terrorism and narcotics.
Just as worrisome for Sunni Arab governments in the Middle East, Ahmadinejad's tough talk against the United States and Israel has won Iran unexpected and growing popularity in the Sunni Muslim world. Tehran now sees itself poised to become the dominant power broker in the Mideast and deeper into Asia.
[I heard everybody hated Iran, WTF?
I wasn't LIED TO AGAIN by my shitty, Zionist-filtered crap rag, was I?
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!]
The Bush administration has charged that Iran is supplying weapons to anti-American fighters in Iraq. And, recently, US and British officials for the first time said they have intercepted Iranian-made weapons in Afghanistan bound for the Taliban.
The Iranian government vehemently has denied any connection, and the Afghan government also has expressed doubts. But if such shipments eventually are traced to the Iranian government, this would represent a troublesome new development for the United States and others."
[Wouldn't be troublesome for Bushie.
The forged "proof" would give him exactly what he wants -- an EXCUSE to BOMB Iran!
Cui Bono, reader?]
"US feels heat as Iranian leader visits Afghanistan" by Robert Tait/The Guardian August 15, 2007
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, signalled his determination to counter US global power yesterday by meeting his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, in a demonstration of growing Iranian influence in Afghanistan. The visit... is certain to alarm the Bush administration.
Iran, which is mainly, Shia, denies helping the Taliban, whose puritanical Sunni ideology it has condemned. Mr Ahmadinejad deepened the disagreement... describing Iran and Afghanistan as:
"Two brother nations with common interests, cultures and histories. The present condition of the region demands more exchange and negotiations between Tehran and Kabul. In this trip economic cooperation, especially over Iran's participation in Afghan development plans, will be discussed."
The trip is intended to put the seal on a range of Iranian-led reconstruction projects as well as consolidate areas of cooperation such as combating drug traffickers. Iranian aid - worth £125m - has been provided for three projects: a water research centre, a dental college and equipping Kabul's medical university.
[Wait a minute!
So the IRANIANS are rebuilding the place while WE AIR BOMB IT into OBLIVION?
What is wrong with this picture, ma'am?]
Illustrating the trip's importance to Iran was the presence of several senior government figures in the party, including Ali Larijani, secretary of the supreme national security council, Manouchehr Mottaki, the foreign minister, and the economy minister, Davoud Danesh-Jafari.
Iran gave Washington informal help in overthrowing the Taliban government following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. Months later, Mr Bush killed any prospect of a thaw in relations by labelling Iran as part of the "axis of evil", along with Iraq and North Korea.
[That's Bush's gratitude for you! You extend a hand, and he SHITS IN IT!]
There are also at least 2 million Afghan refugees in Iran. The issue has caused recent tensions after Tehran forcibly sent around 100,000 back to Afghanistan, arguing that they were illegal migrants and a huge drain on the Iranian economy.
After leaving Kabul, Mr Ahmadinejad was due to fly to Turkmenistan and then to Kyrgyzstan for a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a body created by Russia and China to address regional security, foster economic integration, and counter US influence in central Asia."
[So what is the Bush Administration going to do about all this?]
"According to news accounts, there [is] an “intense internal debate” in the White House over how to respond to Iran’s support for Shiites in Iraq and to its nuclear program. They said Vice President Dick Cheney had been arguing for military action.... they had not ruled out using “tactical” nuclear weapons against Iran to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons (New York Times August 15)."
[How about waking up to that someday? The U.S. has NUKED Iran!
WAR CRIME!]
