TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, August 20, 2006

From Southern Africa newswire / News24 17/08/2006 20:43:

"Tehran - Iran will launch a series of large-scale military manoeuvres across the country and has not made plans for an end to the ongoing war games, the army said on Thursday.

"The manoeuvres are aimed at introducing Iran's new defensive doctrine," military spokesperson Mohammad Reza Ashtiani was quoted as saying by state-run television.

He said the exercises would begin on Saturday in the south east of the country.

"It will continue in the whole of Iran, stage by stage for an unspecified period," Ashtiani said.

The announcement came as Iran faces heightened international scrutiny because of its contentious nuclear program and for supporting Hezbollah.

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the interior ministry said that Iran also planned to boost security patrols on its borders.

Ministry spokesperson Mostafa Pourmohammadi said the move targeted smugglers.

Drug traffickers killed 8 police officers during a fire fight in southeastern Iran last week.

Iran has routinely held war games over the past two decades to improve its combat readiness and test locally made equipment such as missiles, tanks and armoured personnel carriers.
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From Wayne Madsen Report:

"Aug. 19/20, 2006 -- Additional clues point to U.S. attack on Iran. State Department sources report that State's Iran Desk Officer Henry Wooster has suddenly been transferred to another position. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney's office is assembling a group of neo-cons from the Pentagon, State Department, and the National Security Council to cook up intelligence and talking points that will show Iran to be an imminent nuclear threat.

Aug. 18, 2006 -- African uranium redux. The neo-cons are re-using their Iraq War playbook. In this case it is Iran, not Iraq, supposedly purchasing uranium from Africa, not from Niger, but from Congo.

On Aug. 6, 2006, Rupert Murdoch's main British mouthpiece, The Sunday Times, reported that "Iran is seeking to import large consignments of uranium from Africa." It was a similar utterance, contained in a bogus 16-word claim by George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address that was used, in part, to justify America's and Britain's disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq. . .

"The Congo mine has been closed for decades," according to a very knowledgeable U.S. government source who has dealt extensively with African uranium production.

[Belgian magazine] Trends also discovered some proof that official Congolese Gécamines (the Congolese state mining company) uranium sales records from 1966 to 1968 were tampered with to make it look like there were recent sales of uranium from Katanga to Iran.

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