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said last week, that during his
tenure (under President George
W. Bush), a strike on Iran was
"way down the list" of options.
But now it "seems inexorable"
does diplomatically, Tehran keeps
nuclear program.
MOSCOW
President Dmitry Medvedev
signed law that empowers the
FSB to issue official "warnings"
to private citizens, officials and
organizations, even in the ab-
sence of grounds to accuse them
of a crime. The agency can issue
create conditions in which
sential element in a military
strike on Iran's nuclear facili-
ties. Last week Romanian
and Israeli search and rescue
teams recovered seven bod-
ies from the wreckage of an
Israeli Air Force CH-53 Ya-
sur transport which crashed
lin the high Carpathian
Mountains of central Roma-
nia.
The helicopter came down
Monday afternoon during a
joint Israeli-Romanian Blue
Sky 2010 military drill. Six
Israeli Air Force servicemen
and one Romanian Air Force
captain were lost with the
craft.
Iranian President Mah-
moud Ahmadinejad ex-
pects the US to launch a
military strike on "at least
two countries" in the Mid-
dle East in the next three
months.
Ahmadinejad did not spec-
ify whether he thought Iran
itself would be attacked nor
did he say what intelli-
gence led him to expect
such a move.
The United States and Is-
rael have refused to rule
out military action against
Iran's nuclear program
which they fear could lead
to it making a bomb, some-
thing Iran denies."They
have decided to attack at
least two countries in the
region in the next three
months," Ahmadinejad
said.
Israel has previously con-
ducted pre-emptive strikes
against suspected nuclear
targets. In 1981 it de-
stroyed Iraq's only nuclear
reactor and in 2007
bombed a suspect site in
Syria. Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahu
has called the prospect of a
nuclear armed Iran "the
ultimate terrorist threat."
Ahmadinejad said Iran had
"very precise information
that the Americans have
hatched a plot to wage a
psychological war against
Iran."