January 27, 2007
Writing for Global Research, General Leonid Ivashov, vice president
of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of
Staff of the Russian Armies, forecasted an American attack on Iran by
the end of April. General Ivashov presented the neoconservative
reasoning that is the basis for the attack and concluded that the
world's protests cannot stop the US attack on Iran.
There will be shock and indignation, General Ivashov concludes, but
the US will get away with it. He writes:
"Within weeks from now, we will see the informational warfare machine
start working. The public opinion is already under pressure. There
will be a growing anti-Iranian militaristic hysteria, new information
leaks, disinformation, etc.... The probability of a US aggression
against Iran is extremely high. It does remain unclear, though,
whether the US Congress is going to authorize the war. It may take a
provocation to eliminate this obstacle (an attack on Israel or the US
targets including military bases). The scale of the provocation may
be comparable to the 9/11 attack in NY. Then the Congress will
certainly say 'Yes' to the US president."