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Gareth Porter, Asia Times:

Recent reports in the Turkish and German media of the US asking the Turkish government to support a possible attack on Iran and alerting allied countries of preparations for such an attack appear to be part of a strategy to pressure the Iranian regime rather than the result of a new policy to strike the country.

The stories appeared in Turkish and German newspapers after a December 12 meeting between US Central Intelligence Agency director Porter Goss and his Turkish counterpart. The Turkish center-left newspaper Cumhuryet reported that Goss had warned the Turkish government to be ready for possible US use of air power against both Iran and Syria. On December 23, the German news agency DDP quoted "Western security sources" as saying that Goss had asked the Turkish prime minister to support a possible strike against Iranian nuclear and military facilities. And the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegal cited North Atlantic Treaty Organization intelligence sources as saying the US had informed NATO allies that it was studying the military option against Iran.

The reports, which have not been widely picked up by US news media, seemed to suggest that the administration of President George W Bush was now closer to war against Iran. But the circumstantial evidence points to strategic disinformation planted by the administration - perhaps with help from friendly officials in NATO - to ratchet up the pressure on Iran over its position on nuclear-fuel enrichment.

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