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Analysts US strategy on Iran
may have backfired
Raw
Story
Tuesday April 3, 2007
Some analysts believe that the Bush Administration's strategy
on Iran may have backfired, according to an article in Tuesday's
L.A. Times.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time: Increase the military,
diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to get the country to bow
to the international community on its nuclear enrichment program
and curtail its alleged troublemaking in Iraq," Borzou Daragahi
and Ramin Mostaghim write for the L.A. Times. "But now, with
15 British sailors and marines held captive and Tehran threatening
to withhold its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy
Agency, that strategy has apparently backfired."
Analysts tell the paper, "Months of hard-nosed U.S. political
and military pressure on Iran may have further radicalized and emboldened
the regime, undermining Washington's stated aim of neutralizing
the Iranian threat without resorting to war."
Excerpts from article:
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Elements of Iran's government, painted as a rogue state for its
refusal to halt its uranium enrichment program, responded forcefully
to the U.S.-led challenge, those analysts say. Not only have they
sparked an international crisis by capturing the 15 Britons in disputed
Persian Gulf waters, and airing alleged confessions on television,
they've ramped up security operations in the gulf with war games
and missile launches.
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The clang and clatter of military hardware and rhetoric from all
sides has trickled into Iran's daily discourse. Ordinary residents
say they fear a U.S. attack is imminent and that they are powerless
to prevent it. "Will the Americans attack?" is the question
on the lips of every Iranian who meets a foreign reporter.
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh's New Yorker articles detailing
U.S. plans to attack Iran, and a Russian newspaper report specifying
this Friday as the day for U.S. airstrikes have made the rounds
of blogs and Persian-language satellite channels.
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FULL
LA TIMES ARTICLE CAN BE READ AT THIS LINK
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