"Moscow must expert 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.
Original source URL:
http://www.rense.com/general75/bite.htm
Operation Bite - April 6 Sneak Attack
By US Forces On Iran Planned
- Russian Military Sources Warn
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 expert 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.
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