{"id":9930,"date":"2012-01-31T12:45:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T17:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2014-05-14T20:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:41:42","slug":"iran-perceiving-threat-from-west-willing-to-attack-on-u-s-soil-u-s-intelligence-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/01\/31\/iran-perceiving-threat-from-west-willing-to-attack-on-u-s-soil-u-s-intelligence-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, we have the article <a title=\"Washington Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/iran-is-prepared-to-launch-terrorist-attacks-in-us-intelligence-report-finds\/2012\/01\/30\/gIQACwGweQ_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This may be what the U.S. intelligence chief may be saying to the public, but we know from past history that this may bear little resemblance to what the intelligence analysts actually believe.\u00a0 I am waiting for Seymour Hersch or Gareth Porter to come out with a report on what the intelligence experts really think.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this perceived threat seems to be our government&#8217;s fondest hope.\u00a0 They seem to be desperately looking for an excuse to attack Iran.\u00a0 Perhaps if they can escalate the threats to Iran, they can get Iran to act on those threats and try to do a preemptive first strike on us.<\/p>\n<p>If Iran refuses to attack us by midyear in time for Israel to launch an attack on Iran, perhaps we can just make up an attack on us.\u00a0 Latest reports (see <a title=\"Antiwar news - WARNING possible malware at the link http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/01\/30\/israeli-officials-attack-on-iran-must-come-by-summer\/\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Israeli Officials: Attack on Iran Must Come \u2018By Summer\u2019<\/strong><\/a>) have Israel afraid that if they wait too long, Iran will have all its nuclear facilities underground and safe from Israeli attacks.\u00a0 How many Americans is Obama ready to kill so that he can have the Bush excuse for attacking Iran?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post, we have the article Iran, perceiving threat from West, willing to attack on U.S. soil, U.S. intelligence report finds U.S. intelligence agencies believe that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States in response to perceived threats from America and its allies, the U.S. spy chief said Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17140,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions\/17140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}