Obama Should Heed Kennedy’s Cuba Lessons When Thinking About Iran

President Obama, 47, will inherit the latest bag of dirty tricks that, so far, have failed to undermine the regime, much less dislodge it from power or cripple its nuclear weapons effort.

“The covert American program, started in early 2008,” New York Times reporter David E. Sanger revealed on Jan. 11, “includes renewed American efforts to penetrate Iran’s nuclear supply chain abroad, along with new efforts, some of them experimental, to ... Full Story »

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Peter Henry
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by Peter Henry - Jan. 20, 2009

Please be careful of facts! Iran, at least currently, does NOT have nuclear weapons "on the way" according to the IAEA, which is in the best position to know. A failure to get facts straight casts doubt on the entire article. However, the article contains welcome speculation on a very curious article written by Sanger and published by the NYT. One version of it is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html It discusses Israeli requests for US support of a bombing campaign against Iran and it went out of its way to drop names and to make public allegations about current clandestine operations. This article interprets Sanger's article as a "beltway to beltway" communication warning Obama against continuing clandestine sabotage operations, likening them to the Bay of Pigs disaster.

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