that Iran said, that Israel said, that Cheney said to Oman that the US might attack Iran...
unsourced, unsubstantiated, speculative
but do the Iranians believe it?
Press TV (Iran) also has an unscientific "quick poll" on that website
according to it, 2/3 of respondents think Fallon resigned from CENTCOM over issue of attack on Iran
game of perceptions, innit.
Cheney also said he believed Iran may have restarted its nuclear weapons development program.
He also went fishing in the Gulf on the sultan's boat.
I wonder if his personal intelligence estimate is a probability of more or less than 0.01 that Iran has restarted a nuclear weapons program.
It might have.
Now.
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