General Ivashov Calls For Emergency Session Of UN Security Council To Ward Off Looming US Aggression

By Webster G. Tarpley
3-25-7


WASHINGTON DC -- The long awaited US military attack on Iran is now on track for the first week of April, specifically for 4 AM on April 6, the Good Friday opening of Easter weekend, writes the well-known Russian journalist Andrei Uglanov in the Moscow weekly "Argumenty Nedeli." Uglanov cites Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff for his account.

The attack is slated to last for twelve hours, according to Uglanov, lasting from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories.

The first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The US attack plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense system to be degraded, for numerous Iranian warships to be sunk in the Persian Gulf, and the for the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed forces to be wiped out.

The attacks will be mounted from a number of bases, including the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Diego Garcia is currently home to B-52 bombers equipped with standoff missiles. Also participating in the air strikes will be US naval aviation from aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, as well as from those of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Additional cruise missiles will be fired from submarines in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of the Arabian peninsula. The goal is allegedly to set back Iran's nuclear program by several years, writes Uglanov, whose article was re-issued by RIA-Novosti in various languages, but apparently not English, several days ago. The story is the top item on numerous Italian and German blogs, but so far appears to have been ignored by US websites.

Observers comment that this dispatch represents a high-level orchestrated leak from the Kremlin, in effect a war warning, which draws on the formidable resources of the Russian intelligence services, and which deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness by pro-peace forces around the world.

Asked by RIA-Novosti to comment on the Uglanov report, retired Colonel General Leonid Ivashov confirmed its essential features in a March 21 interview: "I have no doubt that there will be an operation, or more precisely a violent action against Iran." Ivashov, who has reportedly served at various times as an informal advisor to Putin, is currently the Vice President of the Moscow Academy for Geopolitical Sciences.

Ivashov attributed decisive importance to the decision of the Democratic leadership of the US House of Representatives to remove language from the just-passed Iraq supplemental military appropriations bill which would have demanded that Bush come to Congress before launching an attack on Iran. Ivashov pointed out that the language was eliminated under pressure from AIPAC, the lobbing group representing the Israeli extreme right, and of Israeli Foreign Minister Tsipi Livni.

"We have drawn the unmistakable conclusion that this operation will take place," said Ivashov. In his opinion, the US planning does not include a land operation: " Most probably there will be no ground attack, but rather massive air attacks with the goal of annihilating Iran's capacity for military resistance, the centers of administration, the key economic assets, and quite possibly the Iranian political leadership, or at least part of it," he continued.

Ivashov noted that it was not to be excluded that the Pentagon would use smaller tactical nuclear weapons against targets of the Iranian nuclear industry. These attacks could paralyze everyday life, create panic in the population, and generally produce an atmosphere of chaos and uncertainty all over Iran, Ivashov told RIA-Novosti. "This will unleash a struggle for power inside Iran, and then there will be a peace delegation sent in to install a pro-American government in Teheran," Ivashov continued. One of the US goals was, in his estimation, to burnish the image of the current Republican administration, who would now be able to boast that they had wiped out the Iranian nuclear program.

Among the other outcomes, General Ivashov pointed to a partition of Iran along the same lines as Iraq, and a subsequent carving up of the Near and Middle East into smaller regions. "This concept worked well for them in the Balkans and will now be applied to the greater Middle East," he commented.

"Moscow must exert Russia's influence by demanding an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council to deal with the current preparations for an illegal use of force against Iran and the destruction of the basis of the United Nations Charter," said General Ivashov. "In this context Russia could cooperate with China, France and the non-permanent members of the Security Council. We need this kind of preventive action to ward off the use of force," he concluded

I guess the other thread was deleted

I guess the other thread was deleted but the source of this I'm assuming is Rense.com which is a joke site which makes up news.

If anything on April 1st the US will send a stealth bomber over Tehran and drop some confetti for April Fools Day

Superior nothing...

It's just idiotic to go from war to war to war to war like this. We're not even done with Iraq, not to mention Afganistan.. and WE STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED OUR ORIGONAL OBJECTIVE!! Bin Laddin's still out there thumbing his nose at us.

Attacking Iran is just plane flat out stupid.

Superior nothing...

It's just idiotic to go from war to war to war to war like this. We're not even done with Iraq, not to mention Afganistan.. and WE STILL HAVEN'T FINISHED OUR ORIGONAL OBJECTIVE!! Bin Laddin's still out there thumbing his nose at us.

Attacking Iran is just plane flat out stupid.

DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the exercise was launched March 27 the day before the Arab League summit opens in Riyadh, to demonstrate the Bush administration’s determination not to let Iran block the Strait of Hormuz to oil exports from the Persian Gulf, or continue its nuclear program.

Taking part are the USS Stennis and USS Eisenhower strike forces.

With Iran’s Revolutionary Guards one week into their marine maneuvers, military tensions in the Gulf region are skyrocketing and boosting world oil prices.

Intelligence sources in Moscow claim to have information that a US strike against Iranian nuclear installations has been scheduled for April 6 at 0040 hours. The Russian sources say the US operation, code-named “Bite,” will last no more than 12 hours and consist of missile and aerial strikes devastating enough to set Tehran’s nuclear program several years back.

The maneuver also occurs four days after 14 British seamen and one crew-woman were seized by an Iranian Revolutionary Guards warship, with no sign that their release is imminent.

London insists its marines were on routine patrol on the Iraqi side of the Shatt al Arb on behalf of the Iraqi government. Tony Blair has threatened “a new phase” in the crisis if the captured personnel are not speedily released.

The warplanes are flying simulated attack maneuvers on enemy shipping with aircraft and ships, hunting enemy submarines and seeking mines, off the coast of Iran.

US Navy Cmdr Kevin Aandahl declined to say when the maneuver was planned or how long it would last. He said US warships would stay out of Iranian territorial waters up to 12 miles from the Iranian coast. Tehran does not recognize this limit and claims a deeper stretch of water.

Our military sources explain the presence of the French naval strike group led by the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle which joined the two US carriers last Friday: The group will carry out security missions in the Arabian Sea and its warplanes fly in support of NATO in Afghanistan.
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By the way, its damn hot in Iran right now. Heat wave reported from friday for 10 days with temp reaching to 60 c. Some say its so hot more than 400 people have died.
No weapon in iran will oporate in this heat! Like missiles etc.
Western weapon systems are far better in heat.

Maybe its



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_control

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequenc...esearch_Program

US is using its secret weapon to sabotage Iranian missile capabilities? I have this feeeling I need to take a long holidays for a while somewhere outside of Iran.
Its all is looking like the war is coming, I already lost a few relatives in Iraq-Iran war when I was a little child, I think it wouldnt be wise to have a family in Iran now.

Any thoughts on this date and this heat wave?

I heard the date of April 17th.

But I don't think the Russian would be given the true date, because they would leak it....like they always do.

The suffix of Modified Estimation is now being added to the operation. Any searches for this operation on google should now be phrased as B.I.T.E.M.E.

The time line was flawed from the beginning. The U.S. never attacks without a new moon. There was no new moon on the Sixth. We always attack in the dark of the moon because our night vision technology is far superior to the NVG stuff of most other nations. Also, there was no new military rocket launch last month. Double whammy.

The new moon theory makes sense to me but I checked it with the past three wars (gulf, afganistan and Irag) and it didn't work out. The dates I used were from wiki -

Gulf, August 2nd 1990
Afganistan, October 7th 2001
Iraq, March 20th 2003

You can calculate the phase of the moon here -
http://www.shetline.com/java/moonphase/moonphase.html

I am unfamilure with "military rockets" and how a launch could be an indication of a coming strike. Could you give a little information please? Thanks man.

I honestly don't think the moon has any impact on when to attack anymore. Sure, spec ops teams infiltrating before the main attack happens would obviously like the darkness to be as complete as possible when they move around, but once they are in position it is mostly irrelevant as they are could be there for successive days and nights, thus compared to operating in daylight, moonlight is a lot easier. Aircraft and cruise missiles couldn't care less whether it's daylight, full moon or otherwise. The main reason for actually attacking at night, especially through the wee hours, is that the enemy is at his minimum alertness

Just my two cents!

Best,
Badeskov

Actually, SF teams generally want a little moonlight for devices like Night Vision Goggles (NVGs). NVGs are image intensifiers, so need some moonlight to work.

I tend to agree with you, however, they do have IR illuminators in case that it is pitch dark. But even in pitch dark, the latest generation (4th?) NVGs can actually get quite a bit of light out of what seems like nothing. Then again, admittedly, my knowledge in this field is now superficial and I am sure a lot has happened since I was playing around

Best,
Badeskov

Well, my experience has been with Gen 3, but they also had an IR illuminator built into the headset. The big difference in operational use would be that if you used the illuminator it would be an active system which could be detected; the NVG only system was passive and not detectable per se.

Perhaps the Gen 4s have a radically improved intensifier. I know that our Gen 3s have to be treated as classified equipment.

Well, my experience has been with Gen 3, but they also had an IR illuminator built into the headset. The big difference in operational use would be that if you used the illuminator it would be an active system which could be detected; the NVG only system was passive and not detectable per se.