D’une part, on apprend que les USA vont armer les pays du Golfe armer un peu plus encore qu’ils ne sont contre une attaque iranienne toujours possible. Nous vivons en effet depuis plus de 5 ans sous la menace constante d’une attaque iranienne, c’est bien connu, prouv\u00e9 et document\u00e9. (L’insupportable rengaine du pr\u00e9sident iranien: \u00abToutes les options sont sur la table<\/em>\u00bb, signifiant par l\u00e0 qu’outre Isra\u00ebl, il pourrait envisager de rayer de la carte, \u00e9galement, dans la m\u00eame salve coranique, la Commission europ\u00e9enne et les Etats-Unis d’Am\u00e9rique.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’affaire porte sur une pinc\u00e9e de $milliards de Patriot<\/em>, dont on conna\u00eet l’efficacit\u00e9, le tout \u00e9tant bon pour le commerce et le Complexe en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral. Le Guardian<\/em> d\u00e9plore, ce 1er f\u00e9vrier 2010<\/a>, ce qu’il nomme un retour \u00e0 Bush.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abIn one of the clearest statements of US intentions towards Iran, the defence secretary, Robert Gates, talked on a visit to Iraq in December about the inherent unpredictability of war. If they had learned anything from the past six years in Iraq, he said, it was that. Mr Gates said that military strikes would only delay Iran’s nuclear programme by about two or three years and that significant additional sanctions were the best of a series of bad options. If Mr Gates’ view still holds, yesterday’s reports that the US administration was fast-forwarding deployment of anti-missile defences in at least four Arab countries, and placing ships off the Iranian coast, should be seen as a preparation not for war, but for more sanctions. Unfortunately, any US military buildup in the Persian Gulf is inherently unpredictable.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMr Obama is signalling that he is about to withdraw the hand he extended, after the offer to enrich uranium outside Iran’s borders was rejected. In truth, negotiations were too narrowly focused and given too little time months, in comparison to the years in which sanctions have operated unsuccessfully. Instead of probing the divisions that exist between pragmatists and ideologues within the ruling elite, Mr Obama may be unintentionally cementing them. He is reverting to a policy that his predecessor, George Bush, followed on Iran, and it is far from clear whether the result will be any different. China and Russia will not follow him down this path.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n