Summary
There was no end of possible triggers for a clash: the US had sent a huge naval battle group to the narrowest point of the Persian Gulf for the first time in many years, London and Washington were openly briefing selected journalists with flimsy evidence about alleged Iranian supplies to Iraqi "insurgents". It is a decisive breakthrough that will be hard to come back from, despite the best efforts of diehard neocon ide o lo gue s in Wa shi ngto n . Until recently, the Bush administration's doctrine of confronting Iran on the nuclear controversy and its role in Iraq was shaped by neocon think tanks, in particular the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
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And Then, Remarkably, Nothing Happened
A perfect illustration of how positive news often ends up on the newsroom spike is the silence over the war of words between the US/UK and Iran. In the first four months of thi...
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