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...French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that the international community had to "prepare for the worst" in its negotiations with Tehran - and that "the worst is war." That declaration came just one month after Sarkozy himself offered his own stark assessment of the two choices at hand - "an Iranian bomb and a bombardment of Iran" - should negotiations with Tehran fail...
...Others suggest that Sarkozy and Kouchner (who has since stressed that "everything should be done to avoid war") are not just posturing, but really do believe that time is short before the unwanted military option becomes inevitable for Iran. "The problem is that the Iranian leadership likes to believe the military option isn't open to the U.S. while it's tied up in Iraq with an unpopular war," explains François Heisbourg, special advisor to the Foundation for Strategic Studies in Paris. "Sarkozy and Kouchner are trying to tell them, 'Yes, it is. Believe it and fear...
...general was armed with the modern military's deadliest weapon, the PowerPoint-presentation-serried ranks of bar charts marching toward victory, which provided camouflage for the gaping holes and contradictions in the Petraeus-Crocker story. Crocker, for example, seemed particularly insistent on roping Iran into the scenario. "The Iranian President has already announced that Iran will fill any vacuum in Iraq," the ambassador testified. But Crocker also testified that the Iraqi Shi'ites were Arabs who had fought fiercely against the Iranians in the eight-year war and were very unlikely to cede control to their Persian neighbor without...
Jett says, however, that if Ortega envisions making his country a launch pad for the Iranians, much the way Cuba was for the Soviets in 1962, he could be courting trouble. "I don't know that Nicaraguans would see it in their best interest to do that, because then they would become targets - in a real way." Indeed, Jett says, "It would not only upset the United States but all the neighboring countries in Central America." Already, Iran's presence in Nicaragua has upset neighboring Honduras, where two newspapers recently reported the arrival of Iranian diplomats who entered Honduras from...
...activities] could be much harder to detect than the Cuban Missile Crisis," says Jett. who notes that in the 1960s satellite photos detected the danger, but today a nuclear bomb can be hidden in a suitcase and go undetected. Neither Managua or Tehran has much to gain by an Iranian military presence, says Jett. "I would think they would just keep it covert and low key to the extent that they...