Iran

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Stoßrichtung Iran
Eine neue, ablenkende Eskalation im Mittleren Osten käme manchen Bushisten recht - von Gudrun Harrer



Knappe eineinhalb Jahre nach dem Fall Saddam Husseins und zwei Monate vor den amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlen sind weite Teile des Zentralirak in der Hand von Rebellen. Zwar hat die Republikaner-Convention ihrem Kandidaten, US-Präsident George Bush, den erhofften Auftrieb beschert, aber gar so sicher dürften sich seine Partei- und Gesinnungsgenossen auch wieder nicht sein.

Nur so, durch Nervosität, ist die Entgleisung - oder eher doch zynisch kalkulierte Aussage - von Vizepräsident Dick Cheney zu erklären, die in einem zivilisierten Land eigentlich sofort eine Rücktrittsdebatte auslösen müsste: Bei einer "falschen Entscheidung am 2. November" - also einer Wahl Kerrys - würden die USA "wieder angegriffen", sagte Cheney.

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Kuwaiti Daily: Iran Delivered Missiles to Hizbullah in Lebanon via Syria

The Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa recently reported that Iran has delivered missiles to Hizbullah in Lebanon via Syria, and that Iran and Syria are cooperating closely in missile development and deployment. The following are excerpts of the article: [1]

"Two cargo aircraft landed on the morning of Wednesday, August 4, 2004, at one of the Syrian military airfields in north Damascus. There to greet the planes were Iranian Ambassador to Syria Riza Baqiri and Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mas'ud Idris."

Al-Siyassa also reported that "several Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers had arrived the previous day from their headquarters at a Hizbullah military camp near the town of Qasrbana in al-Buqa' in order to unload a significant number of surface-to-surface missiles."

According to information received from the Syrian opposition in London on Saturday, August 14, the missiles "are of the most recent and improved Iranian model, with a 250- to 350-kilometer range, with which it is possible to hit any target in Israel." The sources also reported to Al-Siyassa that the two deliveries comprised 220 missiles "that Iran had not so far supplied to any foreign entity…

"Over Thursday and Friday [August 12-13], the missiles were transported in civilian Syrian and Lebanese trucks to three Hizbullah military bases" in the regions of Jenta and Yahfufa near the Syrian border, as well as to southern Ba'albek.

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