The Iran Plans: Seymour Hersh

The Iran Plans

Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?

by Seymour M. Hersh April 17, 2006

Keywords

Iran;

Nuclear Weapons;

Atomic Bomb;

International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.);

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud;

Clawson, Patrick;

Bush, George W. (Pres.) (43rd)

The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium.

American and European intelligence agencies, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.), agree that Iran is intent on developing the capability to produce nuclear weapons. But there are widely differing estimates of how long that will take, and whether diplomacy, sanctions, or military action is the best way to prevent it. Iran insists that its research is for peaceful use only, in keeping with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that it will not be delayed or deterred.

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