For a year or so now the USA has been accusing Iran of meddling in Iran, but supplying little, doubtful or no proof.
Then just hours after Bush announced to the nation that he will be sending approx 20k extra troops to Iraq (while the UK brings 4k home?) the USA storms an Iranian consulate building in Irbil, Kurdistan, siezes computers and documents, hauls down the Iranian flag and arrests the employees. The USA did not inform the Iraqi government or the Kurdistan government of this operation.
According to WSWS,at http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/raid-j12.shtml
A cautious statement from Kurdish authorities pointed out that the consulate was protected by international agreement and warned the operation “does not help the efforts to bring peace, stability and security to the rest of Iraq.” The statement added that it would be “better to inform the Kurdistan government before taking actions against anybody.”
To me this represents an escalation into an undeclared war.
Regarding the accusation of destabilizing Iraq, it was Rumsfeld who overruled his generals and slashed the number of troops invading Iraq. And PNAC, who dominated the early Bush administration, had years if not decades to plan for a post-Saddam Iraq too. The unrest/civil war/destabilization in Iraq is their fault, and may well have been planned as an excuse to accuse Iran.
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