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October 10, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1588150,00.html

Only Threat of Force Will Tame Tehran: Britain Must Stop Being Soft and Use Its Might to Stop Terror

(Observer-UK) Michael Rubin - Tony Blair confirmed last week that bombs used to kill eight British soldiers in Iraq were a type used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups that it supports in Lebanon. London considers Tehran responsible for killing British troops in Iraq. In recent weeks death squads have kidnapped and murdered journalists, most famously Steven Vincent, an American freelance writer who had warned of Iranian infiltration of the police. Dozens of Iraqis have fallen victim to Iranian-backed militias. It did not have to be this way. The Iranian challenge in Iraq has long been apparent. In January 2004, Lebanese Hizballah opened offices across southern Iraq. In the center of Basra, Lebanese Hizballah flags flew from an annex to the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq headquarters. The writer, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, is the editor of the Middle East Quarterly.

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