Prelude to an Attack on Iran - TIME

Prelude to an Attack on Iran - TIME: "Prelude to an Attack on Iran Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007 By ROBERT BAER Enlarge Photo U.S. forces detain suspected Shi'ite militants near Seddah, in southern Iraq. Yuri Kozyrev for TIMEArticle ToolsPrintEmailReprintsSphereAddThisRSS Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran's nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they're guessing; after Iraq the White House trusts no one, especially the bureaucracy. "