[lbo-talk] Lebanon Crisis - A pretext for war on Iran # 1

[Steven L. Robinson]

[In the articles below do we see a likely pretext for the long anticipated
U.S. attack on Iran?  Hostages taken by Hezbollah are - it is alleged-
ttransfered to Lebanon,  becoming an apparent second Iran hostage crisis
seized upon by a United States eager to strike at the Iranian Government. It
may well be that the nerve center of the attack on Lebanon is in Washington
DC and not the Israeli government.  SR]

Soldiers 'being smuggled out'

13/07/2006 18:16 - (SA)

Jerusalem - Israel has information that Lebanese fighters who captured two
Israeli soldiers are trying to transfer them to Iran, foreign ministry
spokesperson Mark Regev said.

Regev did not disclose the source of his information. [From the Pentagon in
DC? SR]

Hezbollah fighters, who are backed by Iran, seized the soldiers on Wednesday
in a cross-border raid. Israel has since attacked Lebanon by air and sea,
and has sent in troops to look for the captured soldiers.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1967496,00.html

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Iran denies Israel fears that soldiers head to Iran

13 Jul 2006 16:24:41 GMT

Source: Reuters

TEHRAN, July 13 - Iran's Foreign Ministry denied on Thursday Israeli
suggestions that Iranian-backed Hizbollah guerrillas could take two captured
Israeli soldiers from Lebanon to Iran, saying Jerusalem was "talking
absurdities".

"I strongly deny such reports," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi
said. "Because of its desperation and increasing isolation in the world and
because of the tension and crisis created inside Israel, it is now talking
absurdities."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13865884.htm