Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says

[morningfog]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Baghdad in the event of a strike on Syria, officials said, amid an expanding array of reprisal threats across the region.

Military officials have been trying to predict the range of possible responses from Syria, Iran and their allies. U.S. officials said they are on alert for Iran's fleet of small, fast boats in the Persian Gulf, where American warships are positioned. U.S. officials also fear Hezbollah could attack the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

While the U.S. has moved military resources in the region for a possible strike, it has other assets in the area that would be ready to respond to any reprisals by Syria, Iran or its allies.

Those deployments include a strike group of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and three destroyers in the Red Sea, and an amphibious ship, the USS San Antonio, in the Eastern Mediterranean, which would help with any evacuations.

The U.S. military has also readied Marines and other assets to aid evacuation of diplomatic compounds if needed, and the State Department began making preparations last week for potential retaliation against U.S. embassies and other interests in the Middle East and North Africa.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323893004579057271019210230.html

[NuclearDem]

1. More powder for the keg...

[delrem]

2. Oh. I expected: Iran is next, says the US

It's good to see that the US is capable of some subtlety, however little.

[Scootaloo]

3. Uhm... that's not revenge. it's reciprocation.

See, you don't attack a nation's ally and declared protectorate, without that nation deciding you need to be taken down a peg or two.

My recommendation? Don't attack Syria. it's a ridiculous idea anyway.

Sadly I know that talking heads are already using this as further reason to kill Syrians, in the hopes we can kill Iranians too. Look for it in the Du's Swamp forum.

[delrem]

7. On the other hand, it looks like that is exactly what the US is hoping for.

It's clear that the US is totally on board the PNAC plan, the final step being taking out Iran. In that scenario the Syrian conflict fresh after the Libyan "liberation" is the penultimate act.

To be sure Russia and China, and the rest of the world, understand this. People that complain that Obama is showing his hand haven't read the neocons.

[polly7]

10. I agree .... Iran has been the big goal all along.

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I'm amazed at how they really do think everyone but them in the world is completely stupid. It was obvious from the first war-talk on Iraq ... it's just as obvious now.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. What no stateside sleeper cells..they need to sex up this dossier fast!...nt

[morningfog]

5. We still have time before Shock and Awe II.

[Jesus Malverde]

9. bummer...nt

[fujiyama]

6. The propaganda is getting more desparate

Pathetic.

[Arcanetrance]

8. If you're that worried about a reprisal from Iran and other countries maybe we shouldn't go in

We have a large military but enough peasants can slay a dragon as the saying goes.

[Democracyinkind]

11. This is what Syria is all about.

We gotta bomb Iran before the world wakes up to the fact that Ahmedinejad is no longer president. So let's provoke the shit out of them...

[ocpagu]

12. Moving already to Iran?

As subtle as an elephant...