War with Iran already underway?

Has the West’s war with Iran already begun? Mystery explosions at nuke sites, ‘assassinated’ scientists and downed drones fuel fears covert conflict is under way
By Daily Mail Reporter – 6th December 2011

* Iran moves long-range missiles to prevent them being targeted in an attack
* Follows mysterious blasts at military base and uranium depot in last month
* Expert says ‘assassinations, cyber war and sabotage already under way’
* Advanced CIA drone crash lands in mountains
* Think-tank warns efforts to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons could fail
* UAE vice president insists Iran is not a threat to Israel or the West
* U.S. insists Iran is becoming ‘pariah’ state for flouting international rules

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard today went on to a war footing as its commander upped his troops’ readiness for operations.

The move by General Mohammed Ali Jaafari, coming after the shooting down of a U.S. drone and the ransacking of the British embassy in Tehran, will raise fears among citizens in the West that the Islamists are escalating towards major conflict.

But following on from mysterious explosions at Iranian nuclear sites, the kidnapping and assassination of scientists and possible sabotage of computers using a virus, an increasing number of experts are suggesting that combat has already broken out – a ’21st century war’.
Operational status: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have been put on a war footing by the country’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over fears of an attack by the West on its nuclear facilities

The key area of dispute is Iran’s rapidly expanding nuclear programme from which President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad insists he will not budge ‘one iota’.

Sanctions and mounting international pressure appear to have failed to persuade the country to slow down its pursuit of uranium enrichment.

And many observers believe the blowing-up of facilities and targeting of key scientists is a more direct way of halting their ambitions. …more