By empty (5/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Washington has drawn up a plan for military action against Iran, which it accuses of supporting terrorism and having a secret nuclear weapons program, a Russian newspaper reported Thursday, citing diplomats. \"The military action is designed to complete a popular uprising on which the Pentagon is counting,\" said Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily, adding that the operation\'s launch date would be decided at a meeting to be held Thursday in the White House. The action will be launched mainly from Iraq but military bases in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan will also be used, the paper said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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