Un attacco già deciso?

26/2/2007

Per il celebre commentatore americano Michael T. Klare, l’Amministrazione Bush avrebbe già deciso di attaccare militarmente l’Iran.

The Bush administration has already decided on a military attack on Iran, though the world will have to wait through several months of soap opera at the United Nations and world capitals before this happens. A clear indication of Bush’s intention is found in his recent public statements, which amount to a three-point list of justifications for going to war.

Secondo Klare, nei suoi recenti discorsi pubblici Bush avrebbe più o meno volontariamente rivelato le tre motivazioni per l’attacco. In sintesi, l’aumento delle truppe in Iraq (seppure di 21.500 unità) e l’ammonizione a Teheran contro il sostegno a gruppi armati iracheni che attaccano le truppe USA sono due indizi forti delle intenzioni di Washington.

“We will disrupt the attacks on our forces … And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.”

Consider this Item 1 in his casus belli: because Iran is aiding and abetting the United States’ enemies in Iraq, the US is justified in attacking Iran as a matter of self-defense.

Il 29 gennaio scorso Bush annunciava alla radio:

“If Iran escalates its military action in Iraq to the detriment of our troops and/or innocent Iraqi people, we will respond firmly … It makes common sense for the commander-in-chief to say to our troops and the Iraqi people - and the Iraqi government - that we will help you defend yourself from people that want to sow discord and harm.”

La prima motivazione sarebbe quindi la “auto-difesa” contro le azioni belliche iraniane in Iraq.
La seconda è legata al programma nucleare iraniano, che è funzionale al tentativo di Teheran di “dominare il Medio Oriente”.

In his January 10 address, Bush went on to fill in a second item in any future casus belli: Iran is seeking nuclear weapons to dominate the Middle East to the detriment of the United States’ friends in the region - a goal that it simply cannot be allowed to achieve.

Per Klare, tuttavia, Bush avrebbe svelato anche una terza motivazione: la necessità di fermare l’ascesa del cosiddetto “Arco Sciita” promosso dall’Iran, un arco a vocazione radicale che mette scompiglio nei piani USA di Grande Medio Oriente:

Bush added a third item to the casus belli in his State of the Union address on January 23. After years of describing Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda as the greatest threats to US interests in the Middle East, he now introduced a new menace: the resurgent Shi’ite branch of Islam led by Iran.

Aside from al-Qaeda and other Sunni extremists, he explained, “It has also become clear that we face an escalating danger from Shi’ite extremists who are just as hostile to America, and are also determined to dominate the Middle East.” Many of these extremists, he noted, “are known to take direction from the regime in Iran”, including the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.

Al momento, le preferenze dell’Amministrazione Bush sembrano chiare: la diplomazia si è rivelata incapace di contenere l’ascesa geopolitica iraniana in Medio Oriente; occorre quindi usare la forza, perché Washington non accetterà un Iran dotato di bomba nucleare e ostile ai propri interessi.
Resta però da vedere cosa accadrà in Iran. Teheran potrebbe tentare un’apertura per ottenere rassicurazioni e sfere d’influenza prima che la situazione precipiti?

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