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Article: Setting a trap: Iran's Revolutionary Guard wants a U.S. attack.(Columnists)(United States)
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- Commonweal
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- October 12, 2007
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The degree of alarm and war propaganda generated in the United States and elsewhere by the Iranian nuclear program reflects a variety of ideological, political, and industrial interests that have little or nothing to do with the actual risks a potentially nuclear Iran poses to anyone. What most of those involved in the current debate fail to appreciate, or do not know, is that an important part of Iran's Revolutionary Guard leadership actually wants the United States to attack Iran, and is attempting to provoke it to do so.
Iran's ability to manufacture a militarily useable nuclear weapon is by general professional and intelligence consensus (even in the United ...