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CBS
April 29, 2008
CBS Evening News, 6:30 PM
KATIE COURIC: Now to the growing tensions between the United States and Iran over that country’s nuclear program, as well as accusations that it’s supporting Iraqi insurgents. As David Martin reports tonight the U.S. military is ready to send an unmistakable message to the Iranians.
DAVID MARTIN: A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf today as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. Planning is being driven by what one officer called the increasingly hostile role Iran is playing in Iraq – smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops.
DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES: What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and women – and inside Iraq.
MARTIN: U.S. officials are also concerned by Iranian harassment of U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf, as well as Iran’s still growing nuclear program. New pictures of Iran’s uranium enrichment plant show the country’s defense minister in the background, as if deliberately mocking a recent finding by U.S. intelligence that Iran had ceased work on a nuclear weapon. No attacks are imminent, and the last thing the Pentagon wants is another war, but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs has warned Iran not to assume the U.S. military can’t strike.
ADM. MIKE MULLEN [Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff]: I have reserve capability, in particularly our Navy and our Air Force, so it would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability.
MARTIN: Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force, which directs operations in Iraq. Later this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki is expected to confront the Iranians with evidence of their meddling and demand a halt.
And if that doesn’t produce results, the State Department has begun drafting an ultimatum which would tell Iran to knock it off or else. Katie?
COURIC: David Martin at the Pentagon tonight. David, thank you.
April 29, 2008
CBS Evening News, 6:30 PM
KATIE COURIC: Now to the growing tensions between the United States and Iran over that country’s nuclear program, as well as accusations that it’s supporting Iraqi insurgents. As David Martin reports tonight the U.S. military is ready to send an unmistakable message to the Iranians.
DAVID MARTIN: A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf today as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. Planning is being driven by what one officer called the increasingly hostile role Iran is playing in Iraq – smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops.
DEFENSE SECRETARY ROBERT GATES: What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and women – and inside Iraq.
MARTIN: U.S. officials are also concerned by Iranian harassment of U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf, as well as Iran’s still growing nuclear program. New pictures of Iran’s uranium enrichment plant show the country’s defense minister in the background, as if deliberately mocking a recent finding by U.S. intelligence that Iran had ceased work on a nuclear weapon. No attacks are imminent, and the last thing the Pentagon wants is another war, but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs has warned Iran not to assume the U.S. military can’t strike.
ADM. MIKE MULLEN [Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff]: I have reserve capability, in particularly our Navy and our Air Force, so it would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability.
MARTIN: Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force, which directs operations in Iraq. Later this week, Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki is expected to confront the Iranians with evidence of their meddling and demand a halt.
And if that doesn’t produce results, the State Department has begun drafting an ultimatum which would tell Iran to knock it off or else. Katie?
COURIC: David Martin at the Pentagon tonight. David, thank you.