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The New Yorker
April 7, 2006
Seymour Hersh

THE IRAN PLANS

Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?

The Bush Administration...has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups...

...The rationale for regime change was articulated in early March by Patrick Clawson, an Iran expert who is the deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and who has been a supporter of President Bush...

...The chairman of the Defense Science Board is William Schneider...[who] served on an ad-hoc panel on nuclear forces sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy, a conservative think tank. The panel’s report recommended treating tactical nuclear weapons as an essential part of the U.S. arsenal...

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Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Earlier: Freedom House gets US gov't money for "clandestine activities inside Iran"

National Institute for Public Policy

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