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The uproar and controversy over purported U.S. plans
to attack Iran show no sign of dying down. While President George W.
Bush assures us that talk of impending war is little more than ‘wild
speculation,’ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently threatened
to assemble a ‘coalition of the willing’ against Iran outside the U.N.
if the security council fails to take action. All this has convinced
many Iranians that “the nuclear issue is just the latest stage in a
struggle between Washington and Tehran dating back to the 1979 Islamic
Revolution,’ according to The Financial Times. [read more]