Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Tamburi di guerra

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'US ready to strike Iran on Good Friday'
Jerusalem Post staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST  Apr. 1, 2007
The United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's
nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m.
until 4 p.m. on April 6," according to reports in the Russian media on
Saturday.
According to Russian intelligence sources, the reports said, the US
has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault
could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and
warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted a security official as saying,
"Russian intelligence has information that the US Armed Forces
stationed in the Persian Gulf have nearly completed preparations for a
missile strike against Iranian territory."
The Russian Defense Ministry rejected the claims of an imminent attack
as "myths." There was no immediate response from Washington.
The reports come as the Iranian chief of staff, Hassan Fayrouz Abadi,
was quoted on Saturday by Iran's Fars news agency warning leaders of
Arab countries that Israel plans to open a "suicidal attack" on its
neighbors this summer, to "prevent the withdrawal of the US troops
from Iraq and the area."
"I warn the dear leaders and Muslim brothers in the neighboring
countries of the occupied territories that this suicidal attack of the
Zionists is threatening them," he said.
The countries in danger, he said, were "Lebanon and Syria, and later
Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia."
Also on Saturday, Russia urged Britain and Teheran to resolve the
dispute over 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran last
week, a local news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin urged the two sides
to provide the United Nations with their own assessments as to what
happened and where exactly the detention occurred so that the body
could conduct an independent probe.
"We hope these actions will provide a foundation for the soonest
possible resolution of the crisis," Kamynin was quoted as saying by
the Interfax news agency.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted that the captured
British sailors and marines trespassed in Iranian waters and called
world powers "arrogant" for failing to apologize, the country's
official news agency reported.
"The British occupier forces did trespass our waters. Our border
guards detained them with skill and bravery. But arrogant powers,
because of their arrogant and selfish spirit, are claiming otherwise,"
IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a speech in the southeastern
city of Andinmeshk.
The European Union grappled with a double bind over Iran Saturday -
the country's nuclear program and its seizure of the British troops -
and reported no progress on either issue.
A debate about Iran's nuclear ambitions had been scheduled as a key
agenda item but "was overshadowed to a certain extent by the issue of
the sailors and marines," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier said after hosting a two-day EU foreign ministers meeting
in Bremen, Germany.
The Foreign Ministry in Iran dismissed the EU's "biased and
meddlesome" comments on the captured troops, saying the dispute solely
involved the governments of Iran and Britain.
Speaking to reporters in Bremen, British Foreign Secretary Margaret
Beckett urged Iran to resolve the crisis over the military personnel
peacefully, saying London remains open to dialogue.
"We encourage Iran to peacefully resolve this issue," she said.
"We continue to express our willingness to engage in dialogue and
discussions with Iran," she added. "That is very much in the best
interest of our people and that is our foremost concern."
"I think everyone regrets that this position has arisen," she said.
"What we want is a way out of it."
AP contributed to this report.

according to reports in the Russian media on Saturday.
Cioe' le solite stronzate senza nulla a sostegno.
-Stefano

Saturday.
Però questa notizia è già stata smentita l'altro iei o ieri. Mah...

 Perņ questa notizia č gią stata smentita l'altro iei o ieri. Mah...
A dire la verita' e' stata smentita il giorno stesso: il 1 Aprile :)
-Stefano

 Però questa notizia è già stata smentita l'altro iei o ieri. Mah...
Perchè poi ti pare possibile che gli Usa attacchino uno Stato
(se non costretti) due giorni prima di Pasqua?
Almeno fagli fare le feste tranquilli ai soldati che giorno più
giorno meno non mi pare possa influire sull'ipotetico attacco,
mentre i risvolti sulle polemiche sarebbero molto forti
Ciao! 

 Senza porsi neanche il problema dell'esecuzione di 15 ostaggi.
davvero? spiega a noi rossobruni chi mai ha detto che i 15 ostaggi
saranno accoppati...
comunque la notizia qualcosa ci dice, ovvero che in Russia sono
convinti che la guerra ci sarà, o almeno così vogliono far credere ai
media. Si può discutere almeno dei motivi di questa strategia
mediatica?

 fessi.
io non ho detto che non è disinformazione, ho semplicemente chiesto
qual è l'interesse russo a far credere di essere convinti di una
guerra imminente. Io non me lo spiego

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Credo sia il tentativo di evitare che gli eventi procedano verso il
conflitto al riparo della cortina propagandistica; di tenere il più
possibile alta l'attenzione dell'opinione pubblica (e sperabilmente
stimolare il senso critico dei cittadini) su cosa si sta preparando;
di evitare che Bush, e anche Blair purtroppo, possano preparare la
guerra al riparo dello sguardo dei cittadini fino al fatto compiuto.
In questo modo invece sono obbligati a soppesare ogni loro azione e a
renderla credibile, che non appaia arbitraria e dettata da interessi
che i cittadini non condividerebbero.