Brown accused of backing U.S. plans for bombing raids on Iran | the Daily Mail: "Gordon Brown is backing U.S. plans for 'surgical' bombing raids on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, it has been claimed. A leading American journalist said U.S. commanders had been drawing up plans to target Iran's nuclear facilities but were told this summer to focus instead on the guards, who have been blamed for attacks on U.S. and British forces in Iraq."
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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