CSM Hosts Israeli Right Wing Fanatics To Promote Attacks on Iran

May 8 (LPAC)--One day after LPAC warned its readers about the gear-up of war against Iran, as the focus of Dick Cheney's trip to Southwest Asia, a leading U.S. daily, the Christian Science Monitor reported that the U.S. must hit Iran.

Declaring further diplomacy has no chance of stopping Iran's nuclear program; nor will UN sanctions have any effect, the CSM reported on May 8, using well-known right-wing fanatic Louis Rene Beres, of the so-called Freeman Institute, a collection of American and Israeli followers of Jewish fascist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, to write the report. CSM's article has drawn the attention of the Iranian media as well.

According to Beres' CSM report, a nuclear Iran would not resemble any other nuclear power. There could be no stable "balance of terror" involving that Islamic Republic. Unlike nuclear threats of the cold war, which were governed by mutual assumptions of rationality and mutual assured destruction, a world with a nuclear-armed Iran could explode at any moment, it said. The CSM report added that it would be lawful because the US and/or Israel would be acting in appropriate self-defense. Both countries could act on behalf of the international community and could do so lawfully without wider approval.

Precise defensive attacks against Iran's nuclear assets would be effective, and they would be entirely legal, CSM noted. According to the report, they would be effective because the U.S. has at its disposal the "McInerney Plan" (after Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, USAF/ret.). It calls, in part, for an immediate strike force to hit Iran's nuclear development facilities, command and control centers, integrated air defenses, selected Air Force and Navy units, and its Shahab-3 missiles, using more than 2,500 aim points. Operationally, the United States Air Force is best configured for such a complex task, but it would not necessarily be impossible for the Israeli Air Force to execute.

Unless there is a timely defensive first strike at pertinent elements of Iran's expanding nuclear infrastructures, it will acquire nuclear weapons. The consequences would be intolerable and unprecedented, the report added.

Beres is known as a propagandist for the Israeli Likud and far right fringe, including those religious fanatics who long to blow up "Temple Mount" and start a religious war with the Palestinians. McInerney is a Fox News carnival barker and hard-core "neo-con" who is used as a frontman for the "chickenhawks" because he has military experience. He is considered a disaster by U.S. military professionals because of his early--and continued support--for the failed war in Iraq.