Friday, 5 February 2010

U.S. Central Command chief: an attack on Iran could provoke nationalism


"General David Petraeus, the U.S. military strike against Iran may have the unintended consequence of provoking nationalism which is in the best interest of the conservative government in Tehran.

And gave the Iranian elections in June, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term, but called the spark of the worst internal crisis in the history of the Islamic Republic of putting internal pressure on the Government is already facing a threat of exposure to further sanctions over its nuclear program.

Petraeus said U.S. Central Command chief, which included Iran in an interview this week: "It is possible to use a military strike to play on national trends, there is certainly a history of fabricated facts that other countries with totalitarian regimes to inflame nationalist sentiment."

He was tension over Iran's nuclear program unbridled speculation that Israel may be carried out veiled threats of preemptive strike against arch-foe. However, Israel's envoy in Washington said in December that the American-Israeli Dialogue on Iran has not yet reached the point of discussing the military option.

He warned U.S. officials including Defense Secretary Robert Gates that any strike on Iran would not prevent them from continuing to seek to acquire nuclear weapons, but will defer only that, a view approved by Petraeus.

Dennis Blair, told the director of national intelligence the U.S. Congress on Tuesday that Iran still retains the option of making nuclear weapons exist, but it is still not clear whether they have the political will to do so.

Commenting on the progress made by Iran's nuclear program, Petraeus said: "on the one hand there is no doubt that work was continuing on various aspects of the nuclear program, but I'm not sure it always goes quickly as you would expect different times."

Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that his country was ready to send enriched uranium abroad in return for access to nuclear fuel under the plan of the West hopes to prevent the use of such material to make bombs.

On the same day, Iran said it would soon nine other convicts in the riots that followed the presidential elections in June, which he said that protesters had been rigged.

Petraeus warned that the "big winner" in the election was the Iranian security apparatus, and they expanded the influence of the Revolutionary Guard, including the magnitude of the special.

He added: "We have become a matter of religious government that has democratic elements is limited to the Government .. excreted hijacked election system and to keep him in power security services".

Asked about how to change that to the opportunities of diplomacy, Petraeus said: "I do not think that the situation for those trying to pursue diplomacy will be easier if the reduced role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs even more."

And expanded the scope of the United States missile defense Onzationa land and sea in the Gulf region and around in order to face the Iranian threat and reassure Gulf allies, worried.

Petraeus stressed that the gradual mobilization - an approach involving the Departments of Bush and Obama - did not result in the events that occurred in Iran in recent months.

He added: "accumulated through years of Iranian language firearms and activities in Iran worrisome and Iran weapons, money and training, explosives and guidance in some cases for a variety of extremist elements."

The United States accused Iran of seeking to stir up a "fear of Iran" in the Middle East, the deployment of missile defense systems in the Gulf.

The United States and leading European allies to expand the United Nations sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear activities. And invited the United States, Britain, Germany and France to impose a fourth round of United Nations sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment activities as called five resolutions of the Security Council.

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