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To: sea_urchin who wrote (22338)	2/7/2005 3:42:03 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 81023

Re: Experts from the U.S. Defense Department, the Pentagon and Israel have put final touches to a plan to launch a military strike targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities... Well, I'm afraid any "engagement" of Iran won't be limited to a US-Israel-Iran clash... If it were just a US/Israel vs Iran thing then I guess the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities would have happened already. The fact is that the US still has to win over both Russia and China. Russia should prove easier to coax than China... The latter has indeed a powerful leverage on Wall Street: China could easily disrupt the US economy. Of course, by doing so, she would damage her own as well: Chinese exports to US and Chinese-US M&As would suffer... However, unlike the US, China is still a centralized, nominally Communist, country, hence the Chinese leadership's leeway to inflict (economic) hardship upon their people is much greater than the US's. Gus

To: sea_urchin who wrote (22338)	2/9/2005 7:03:09 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81023

> Experts from the U.S. Defense Department, the Pentagon and Israel have put final touches to a plan to launch a military strike targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities cnn.com >>: Iran must halt nuclear program Secretary of state says Iran could be referred to Security Council BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Iran must live up to its international obligations*** to halt its nuclear program or "the next steps are in the offing." "And I think everybody understands what the 'next steps' mean," Rice told reporters after a meeting with NATO foreign ministers and European Union officials.<< Rice has now decided that Iran has "international obligations"