New Chomsky Interview: War with Iran

[Payman Arabshahi <payman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"The fact is that war with Iran is probably underway. It's known that 
about 12% of the Israeli airforce is in south eastern Turkey. They're 
there because they're preparing for the war against Iran. They don't 
care about Iraq. Iraq they figure's a pushover, but Iran has always 
been a problem for Israel. It's the one country in the region that 
they can't handle and they've been after the US to take it on for 
years. According to one report, the Israeli airforce is now flying at 
the Iranian border for intelligence, provocation and so on. And it's 
not a small airforce. It's bigger than the British airforce, bigger 
than any NATO power other than the US. So it's probably underway. 
There are claims that there are efforts to stir up Azeri separatism, 
which makes some sense. It's what the Russians tried to do in 1946, 
and that would separate Iran, or what's left of Iran, from the Caspian 
oil producing centres. Then you could partition it. That will probably 
be underway at the time and then there'll be a story about how Iran's 
going to kill us tomorrow, so we need to get rid of them today. At 
least that's been the pattern."

New Chomsky Interview: "U.S. Is A Leading Terrorist State"
by Noam Chomsky ? Monday December 30, 2002 at 03:41 PM

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