Iran attack - leaked memo

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Kevin Boyle has sent us this.

Noel

*Whistle blower leaks UK plans for Iran
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:48:58 -0800

Summary:*

John Sawers is the Political Director of the British Foreign Office,
and one of their most senior civil servants. He served as Tony
Blair's envoy to Baghdad. A letter he wrote to Tony Blair days
after the occupation of Iraq was leaked. In it, he appears
intelligent, insightful, and well informed.

Now another letter of his is leaked. In this one, he describes the
plan the Foreign office is going to follow over the next few months.
This plan is to convince Russia and China to agree to an attack on
Iran. This letter documents a British diplomat talking to his
counterparts in France, Germany and the US, about what appears to be
a coordinated strategy. Their goal is UN approval for an unprovoked
war on Iran.

This is the proof Katharine Gun called for days ago; "I urge
those in a position to do so to disclose information which relates to
this planned aggression...Such government activities are not
paper-free endeavors...documents are being drafted now or already
exist. As the political momentum builds towards a military
'solution', it would be wrong to wait until bombs have
fallen on Iran and families destroyed before finally informing the
public."

The following memo is a government document describing how they will
build that political momentum towards a military solution. Sawers
writes to his colleges that they will introduce a Security Council
resolution which Iran is likely to reject. He does not want to tell
Russia and China what will happen to Iran at that point. This could
be because they are considering nuclear attack, but that is
speculation on my part. This will be another unprovoked war of
aggression, though they will likely call it a pre-emptive attack.
This should have happened by June of this year. The government has
already set its policy objective; attack Iran. Another war is coming
unless 'we' stop it. The plan is to win Russian consent
by the G8 summit in June. This is when they (Britain, France,
Germany, US) are in position to offer Russia the largest economic
incentives. This makes it likely the war is also about economic
incentives. (If, for example, there war were to be about security
concerns, possible nuclear weapons, the UK might try to convince
Russia by showing them Iranian documents and nuclear material. The UK
is bargaining with money, the war is likely about money.)

The letter begins with his address to officials of co-conspiring
governments.

*By Times Online
Republished from Times Online
The UK, US, France, Germany to bring security council resolution by
June*

"Stanislas de Laboulaye, Michael Schaefer, Nick Burns, Robert
Cooper.

Nick, Michael and I had a word yesterday about how to handle the E3+3
meeting in New York on Monday. We agreed that we would need to have a
shared concept of what would happen in the Security Council after the
period specified by the proposed Presidential Statement. I agreed to
circulate a short paper which we might use as a sort of speaking note
with the Russians and Chinese. This is attached.

Implicit in the paper is a recognition that we are not going to bring
the Russians and Chinese to accept significant sanctions over the
coming months, certainly not without further efforts to bring the
Iranians around.

Kislyak might argue that those diplomatic efforts should start
straightaway after a Presidential Statement is adopted. Our own
assessment here is that the Iranians will not feel under much
pressure from PRST on its own, and they will need to know that more
serious measures are likely. This means putting the Iran dossier onto
a Chapter VII basis. We may also need to remove one of the Iranian
arguments that the suspension called for is 'voluntary'.
We could do both by making the voluntary suspension a mandatory
requirement to the Security Council, in a Resolution we would aim to
adopt I, say, early May.

In return for the Russians and Chinese agreeing to this, we would
then want to put together a package that could be presented to the
Iranians as a new proposal. Ideally this would have the explicit
backing of Russia, China and the United States as well as the E3,
though Nick will want to consider the scope of presenting this in
that way. Our thought is that we would need to finalise this during
June, and the obvious occasion to do so would be in the margins of
the G8 Foreign Ministers' meeting. The period running up to the
G8 Summit will be when our influence on Russia will be at its maximum,
and we need to plan accordingly.

In parallel with agreeing a new proposal, we will also want to bind
Russia and China into agreeing to further measures that will be taken
by the Security Council should the Iranians fail to engage positively.
That would be reflected in Step Four. We would not, at this stage,
want to be explicit about what would be involved then – there
will need to be extensive negotiations on that in May/June.

I am not sure how far we will get on Monday. The prospect of an E3+3
Ministerial in Berlin on 30 March would give Kislyak the opportunity
to push this down the road by ten days. But I suspect we will need a
meeting at Ministerial level anyway to get agreement to this sort of
approach, including an early Chapter VII Resolution.

We have earmarked a conference call between the five of us on Friday
afternoon. Can I suggest that we do this at 1530 GMT. We will need to
be circumspect on an open line, but as we are not planning to hand a
paper over to the Russians and Chinese, I don't think we need
to go into detailed drafting. What we need is agreement on the
concepts.

Looking forward to seeing you all in New York on Monday."

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