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30.07.06, 08:13
The United States government reportedly began coordinating with NATO its
plans for a possible military attack against Iran.
The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel collected various reports from the
German media indicating that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are
examining the prospects of such a strike.
According to the report, CIA Director Porter Goss, in his last visit to
Turkey on December 12, requested Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to
provide military bases to the United States in 2006 from where they would be
able to launch an assault.
The German news agency DDP also noted that countries neighboring Iran, such
as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Oman, and Pakistan were also updated regarding the
supposed plan. American sources sent to those countries apparently mentioned
an aerial attack as a possibility, but did not provide a time frame for the
operation.
Although Der Spiegel could not say that these plans were concrete, they did
note that according to a January 2005 New Yorker report American forces had
entered Iran in 2005 in order to mark possible targets for an aerial assault.
