January 23, 2005

How Iran will fight back

Here's an article that will presumably fascinate military anoraks. It details how Iran might respond to a US invasion. What caught my eye here was the fact that the writer believes that Iran might target Gulf and other states that accommodate the US command structure or otherwise facilitate a US invasion.

Still we shouldn't get too worried, Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has said that "we won't back war with Iran". This is the same Jack Straw who said in December 2002 that the chance of a US/UK invasion of Iraq was 60% against. And the same Jack Straw who, when the Iraq Survey Group found no weapons of mass destruction, said that the group's report "highlights the nature of the threat from Saddam in terms of his intentions and capabilities in even starker terms than we have seen before". So we can all rest easy.

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