Just one more Iraqi "fact" goes up in smoke (in the Murdoch press, no less):
"Britain has dropped its allegation that Iran has been supplying extremist groups in southern Iraq with bombs.
"After a thorough assessment of the latest intelligence, military and diplomatic officials have stopped pointing the finger at Tehran, merely saying that the new technology matched bomb-making expertise traditionally found in Syria and Lebanon."
"Britain has dropped its allegation that Iran has been supplying extremist groups in southern Iraq with bombs.
"After a thorough assessment of the latest intelligence, military and diplomatic officials have stopped pointing the finger at Tehran, merely saying that the new technology matched bomb-making expertise traditionally found in Syria and Lebanon."
Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media has generally ignored this admission.
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Indeed. The initial 'scoop' gathered massive headlines - fitting into the world vs Iran paradigm - but this admission, well, a little too inconvenient.
Looks like a signal from Britain that it wants to distance itself from US plan's to strike at Iran in the next 18 months.
Seems the US was using UK intelligence assessments to pad out a credible case to turn coalition aggression against Iran. Blair, hopefully, has no stomach to extend the mess he got into over Iraq to a new junior partner operation in Iran.
Expect the US to launch an airstrike against Iranian nuclear infrastructure sites in the next 18 months. The US has sought permission to use Turkish airbases for this purpose. Its likely that carrier airpower and cruise missiles will also be used.
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