On this fateful Ides of March the outline of the war against Iran is coming into focus:
1. First Bush plays the United Nation card against Iran.
2. Then an Iraqi legislator confirms the truth about Iranian involvement in the conflict in Iraq.
3. A newspaper notes that Iran is making preparations for war against the USA.
4. Bush starts to prepare American public opinion for war with Iran by pointing out that Iranian made IEDs have killed American soldiers in Iraq.
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The Iraqi fire is constantly fueled by our neighbor to the east. This violence will never cease without a major change in the Iranian policies. Blowing up the Holy Shrine in Samara is a blunt example of a disgraceful attempt to stoke religious strife and block progress of political process in Iraq, widely exploited by the Iranian regime to foment sectarian frictions.
March 14, 2006 -- It has been clear for some time that the Bush administration considers Iran - perhaps more so than Iraq - to be the cornerstone state in the pacification of the Persian Gulf and environs. Now action appears to be on the agenda.
Yesterday, before the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, President Bush spoke once again of how elusive regional peace will be - warning of "chaos and carnage in the days and months to come."
And then he added a new element to the debate - Iranian interference in the stabilization of Iraq.
Iran's leaders have built a secret underground emergency command centre in Teheran as they prepare for a confrontation with the West over their illicit nuclear programme, the Sunday Telegraph has been told.
The complex of rooms and offices beneath the Abbas Abad district in the north of the capital is designed to serve as a bolthole and headquarters for the country's rulers as military tensions mount.
Some of the most powerful IEDs we're seeing in Iraq today includes components that came from Iran. Our Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, told the Congress, "Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing lethality of anti-coalition attacks by providing Shia militia with the capability to build improvised explosive devises" in Iraq. Coalition forces have seized IEDs and components that were clearly produced in Iran. Such actions -- along with Iran's support for terrorism and its pursuit of nuclear weapons -- are increasingly isolating Iran, and America will continue to rally the world to confront these threats. (Applause.)
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