The U.S. government is planning to carry out massive bombardment
against Iran and using bunker-busting 
nuclear bombs in order to
destroy facilities and development centers in which nuclear weapons
exist. These details will be exposed in a new report as part of an
investigation in the New Yorker, to be publicized April 17.
The AFP paraphrases Seymour Hersh, the article's author, as
saying that “Bush and others in the White House have come to view
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a potential Adolf
Hitler.”
"'That’s the name they’re using.' They say, ‘Will Iran get a
strategic weapon and threaten another world war? ” a former senior
U.S. intelligence agent is quoted as saying.
The same agent described the plan being formulated in
the White House as "enormous" and "emotional."
The article states that "a government consultant with
close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush
was 'absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb' if it
is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do
'what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would
have the courage to do,” and “that saving Iran is going to be his
legacy.'"
Another Pentagon official said that the current White House
believes that the only way to solve the problem is to change the
balance of power in Iran.
'Hizbullah comes into play'
The official added that "Hizbullah comes into play.” The article
reported that "one of the military’s initial option plans,
as
presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of a bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapon, such as the B61-11, against underground nuclear sites. One target is Iran’s main centrifuge plant, at Natanz, nearly two hundred miles south of Tehran. Natanz, which is no longer under I.A.E.A. safeguards, reportedly has underground floor space to hold fifty thousand centrifuges, and laboratories and workspaces buried approximately seventy-five feet beneath the surface. That number of centrifuges could provide enough enriched uranium for about twenty nuclear warheads a year.
