Tehran's role is extensive

[DemFromMem]

Is this whole mess a smokescreen to take the heat off Tehran? Let's see if Bush can keep his eye on the ball...

Tehran's role is extensive
By Ze'ev Schiff

Well-placed sources in Israel argue that Iran is behind the decision to attack Israel and that Tehran influenced the timing of the Hezbollah attack in which two soldiers were abducted last Wednesday. Iran is Hezbollah's main arms supplier, including long-range rockets and missiles of the kind that struck an Israeli destroyer and sunk a Cambodian freighter on Friday night. This in addition to massive transfers of cash.

The arms supply is passing through Syria, and Damascus also extends its support to Hezbollah, though Iran leads the effort against Israel. Intelligence assessments in Israel hold that Iranian officers were responsible and took active part in the launching of missiles against the Israeli warship and the Cambodian freighter. The Chinese-made missile, C-807, has been in the Revolutionary Guards' arsenal for some years.

The Navy was surprised by the existence of such missiles in the Hezbollah arsenal, and failed to counter the attack. As a result of the IDF's intensifying operations in Lebanon, Tehran ordered most of its people operating in Lebanon to leave. Some advisers, all members of the Revolutionary Guard remain. These are mainly responsible for instruction in the use of long-range rockets, the operation of Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles and also in planning and combat operations training.

No direct threat

What distinguishes Iran from all the participants in this conflict is that it is the only one not menaced by direct military threat. It is believed Iran influenced the timing of the attack to divert international attention from the pressure on Tehran to cease its uranium enrichment program, a matter that is likely to be brought before the UN Security Council in the future.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738728.html

[burythehatchet]

1. could be true

not credible for me because it comes from "Well-placed sources in Israel"

[Recursion]

5. Oh come on...

We're turning into the caricature that Freepers paint of us:

"Israel and Bush say Iran is bad, so Iran must be good"

The fact that Iran hates Israel does not by itself make them a friend of the Palestinians or Lebanese, and it does not by itself make them a constructive force in the region. If you seriously doubt that Iran sends money, arms, and advisory personnel to Hezbollah, or that Hezbollah has a stated and explicit mission and vision of destroying Israel, we live in different worlds.

I'm not saying Hezbollah was not of Israel's own making -- it is. It's the flip side of the violence of Israel's occupation of Lebanon. But that's why Hezbollah deserves as strong a condemnation as Israel, and why external forces like Syria and Iran who use Lebanon's suffering for their own gain deserve condemnation too.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Who needs a military crisis and a casus beli?

The US/UK/Israel alliance needs a motivation for a wider regional war if they intend to 'wipe the slate clean' in the middle east. I view this as the start of WWIII and in particular as the massive overstepping and new most hideous blunder of The Cabal as the seek to provide the justification for their next campaign.

Does it play for Iran as well? Of course, all good gambits offer the opponent an opportunity that they cannot turn down. So in this case Iran saw the chance to blow away the nuclear issue by unleashing Hezbollah on Israel's northern border, Hezbollah saw an opportunity to off balance the IDF and take the pressure off of their comrades in Gaza, and we get our just cause for the next war.

This all is most likely going to spiral out of control, just in time for the november elections. What a coincidence, yet another crisis to float the cabal through another bogus election at home.

[pelsar]

3. actually its far worse for the palestenian in gaza...

off balance the IDF and take the pressure off of their comrades in Gaza,....the news from gaza in terms of the international news is nil compared to what it used to be....and they're still being attacked.

next kakamamy theory.....

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I guess we will just have to see about the kakmamy part.

I say the IDF has its hands full in Lebanon with a Hezbollah and a Lebanese Army that is a bit more capable than they anticipated and will not be able to deal with the Gaza situation. You can toss insults, I'm fine with that, but if you would like to engage in debate then perhaps you might propose your own theory of what is going on here and we can see which one ends up matching reality better.