Hersh on Iran

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Shifting Targets

The Administration’s plan for Iran.

by Seymour M. Hersh

...there has been a significant increase in the tempo of attack planning. In mid-August, senior officials told reporters that the Administration intended to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization...the agency (CIA) had increased the size and the authority of the Iranian Operations Group..

“They’re moving everybody to the Iran desk,” one recently retired C.I.A. official said. “They’re dragging in a lot of analysts and ramping up everything. It’s just like the fall of 2002”