Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs

April 11, 2006
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs: "SPEAKING FREELY
Sweet deals: Behind the Iran 'crisis'
By Chris Cook

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On reading the recent wave of stories concerning US readiness to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age unless it gives up efforts to produce nuclear weapons, my first reaction was to be 'shocked and awed'. But then a realization sank in."