{"id":4161,"date":"2011-12-07T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2011-12-07T20:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:13:29","slug":"war-with-iran-already-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"War with Iran already underway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has the West’s war with Iran already begun? Mystery explosions at nuke sites, ‘assassinated’ scientists and downed drones fuel fears covert conflict is under way<\/strong>
\nBy Daily Mail Reporter – 6th December 2011<\/p>\n

* Iran moves long-range missiles to prevent them being targeted in an attack
\n* Follows mysterious blasts at military base and uranium depot in last month
\n* Expert says ‘assassinations, cyber war and sabotage already under way’
\n* Advanced CIA drone crash lands in mountains
\n* Think-tank warns efforts to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons could fail
\n* UAE vice president insists Iran is not a threat to Israel or the West
\n* U.S. insists Iran is becoming ‘pariah’ state for flouting international rules<\/p>\n

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard today went on to a war footing as its commander upped his troops’ readiness for operations.<\/p>\n

The move by General Mohammed Ali Jaafari, coming after the shooting down of a U.S. drone and the ransacking of the British embassy in Tehran, will raise fears among citizens in the West that the Islamists are escalating towards major conflict.<\/p>\n

But following on from mysterious explosions at Iranian nuclear sites, the kidnapping and assassination of scientists and possible sabotage of computers using a virus, an increasing number of experts are suggesting that combat has already broken out – a ’21st century war’.
\nOperational status: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have been put on a war footing by the country’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over fears of an attack by the West on its nuclear facilities<\/p>\n

The key area of dispute is Iran’s rapidly expanding nuclear programme from which President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad insists he will not budge ‘one iota’.<\/p>\n

Sanctions and mounting international pressure appear to have failed to persuade the country to slow down its pursuit of uranium enrichment.<\/p>\n

And many observers believe the blowing-up of facilities and targeting of key scientists is a more direct way of halting their ambitions. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Has the West’s war with Iran already begun? Mystery explosions at nuke sites, ‘assassinated’ scientists and downed drones fuel fears covert conflict is under way By Daily Mail Reporter – 6th December 2011 * Iran moves long-range missiles to prevent them being targeted in an attack * Follows mysterious blasts at military base and uranium more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1469],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}