{"id":3204,"date":"2007-08-21T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2020-02-10T00:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:57:24","slug":"prelude-to-an-attack-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/prelude-to-an-attack-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelude to an Attack on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bushiranwar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bushiranwar.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>By Robert Baer, Time Magazine<\/p>\n<p>Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it&#8217;s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they&#8217;re guessing; after Iraq the White House trusts no one, especially the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>As with Saddam and his imagined WMD, the Administration&#8217;s case against the IRGC is circumstantial. The U.S. military suspects but cannot prove that the IRGC is the main supplier of sophisticated improvised explosive devices to insurgents killing our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most sophisticated version, explosive formed projectiles or shape charges, are capable of penetrating the armor of an Abrams tank, disabling the tank and killing the crew.<\/p>\n<p>A former CIA explosives expert who still works in Iraq told me: &#8220;The Iranians are making them. End of story.&#8221; His argument is only a state is capable of manufacturing the EFP&#8217;s, which involves a complicated annealing process. Incidentally, he also is convinced the IRGC is helping Iraqi Shia militias sight in their mortars on the Green Zone. &#8220;The way they&#8217;re dropping them in, in neat grids, tells me all I need to know that the Shia are getting help. And there&#8217;s no doubt it&#8217;s Iranian, the IRGC&#8217;s,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Baer, Time Magazine Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it&#8217;s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. 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