By Sean Osborne
Northeast Intelligence NetworkMonday, April 2, 2007
This Jerusalem Post & AP was released at 06:15 AM EDT Sunday morning. It cites Russianintelligence (i.e.: government) sources as reported in the Russian (i.e.: government controlled media) - which are the same sources/same regimethat has been outrageouslyassassinating anyone and everyone investigating its owncovert activities - announcing a USattack to occur within a 12-hour period next Friday (Good Friday) on targets within Iran.Then the Russian Defense Ministry denounces these reports as "myths." What have we here, the Russian government playing good cop-bad cop? This reportfollowed immediately on the heels that Russia was suspending HEU fuel shipments to Iran due to non-payments on the nuclear proliferation contract between them. There are lies and then there are damned lies. This is the latter. It could also be cited as an operational deception ora gambit designed to mask the Russian role in the coming Middle East power-play by the Iranian-Syrian-Russian axis.
This report is not new news.It has been circulating for some time now. I am on record as stating that I believethis Russian-sourced reportto be disinformation - even though in recent days the signs supporting the possibility of a US strike next month (May) have become stronger with the deployment of two more US Navy aviation and amphibious strike groups this week. Thisconstitutes a USstrike thatIran has earnedwith compoundinterest over the past 27 years.
What is new is that the JP&AP report associates it with the Iranian deception of an Israeli premeptive strike against it neighbors. This is looking more and more like massive chess match which will ultimately determine whether the West or the Russo-Islamofascist alliance becomes the power broker in the Middle East. The US has been forced to seek an allyin the nations of Sunni Islam - nations whose own citizenry are at war with the US via the Islamic religion and clergy.
However, getting back to the Iranian deception. It is thinly disguised. It is designed to maska long-plannedIranian-Syrian-Hezbollah strike against Israel and make it appear that the Iranians are leading a legitimate pre-emptive strike on Israel. This plan has been abundantly clear for the past eight months and longer. The Israeli response to the provocations by Hezbollah last summer initially caught these enemies by surprise, yet ultimately set the course for what is coming - a much larger regional war against Israel and the Western allies.
Given the dates in the Russian and iranian deceptions - I assess that their planned strike could occur within the next 30 days, perhaps even as early as Monday evening as Israel enters Pesach/Passover observations.
The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a security official as saying, "Russian intelligence has information that the US Armed Forces stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a missile strike against Iranian territory."
The Russian Defense Ministry rejected the claims of an imminent attack as "myths." There was no immediate response from Washington.
The reports come as the Iranian chief of staff, Hassan Fayrouz Abadi, was quoted on Saturday by Iran's Fars news agency warning leaders of Arab countries that Israel plans to open a "suicidal attack" on its neighbors this summer, to "prevent the withdrawal of the US troops from Iraq and the area."
"I warn the dear leaders and Muslim brothers in the neighboring countries of the occupied territories that this suicidal attack of the Zionists is threatening them," he said.
The countries in danger, he said, were "Lebanon and Syria, and later Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia."
Also on Saturday, Russia urged Britain and Teheran to resolve the dispute over 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran last week, a local news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin urged the two sides to provide the United Nations with their own assessments as to what happened and where exactly the detention occurred so that the body could conduct an independent probe.
"We hope these actions will provide a foundation for the soonest possible resolution of the crisis," Kamynin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that the captured British sailors and marines trespassed in Iranian waters and called world powers "arrogant" for failing to apologize, the country's official news agency reported.
"The British occupier forces did trespass our waters. Our border guards detained them with skill and bravery. But arrogant powers, because of their arrogant and selfish spirit, are claiming otherwise," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a speech in the southeastern city of Andinmeshk.
The European Union grappled with a double bind over Iran Saturday - the country's nuclear program and its seizure of the British troops - and reported no progress on either issue.
A debate about Iran's nuclear ambitions had been scheduled as a key agenda item but "was overshadowed to a certain extent by the issue of the sailors and marines," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after hosting a two-day EU foreign ministers meeting in Bremen, Germany.
The Foreign Ministry in Iran dismissed the EU's "biased and meddlesome" comments on the captured troops, saying the dispute solely involved the governments of Iran and Britain.
Speaking to reporters in Bremen, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett urged Iran to resolve the crisis over the military personnel peacefully, saying London remains open to dialogue.
"We encourage Iran to peacefully resolve this issue," she said.
"We continue to express our willingness to engage in dialogue and discussions with Iran," she added. "That is very much in the best interest of our people and that is our foremost concern."
"I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen," she said. "What we want is a way out of it."
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