Russia Predicts US Attack on Iran - One Year Ago

Unearthed from a recent column by Heather Wokush is the prediction from Alexei Arbatov, head of the International Security Center in Moscow, that the United States will attack Iran soon.

"If [the U.S.] ventures a military operation, it will conduct it next year after thorough political, military and propaganda preparations," said Arbatov in a April 17, 2006 article in the Russian News and Information Agency Novosti (RIA-Novosti).

The Russian news service reported on Tuesday, March 27, "a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders" as well as U.S. Naval presence which has, "reached the level that existed shortly before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003."

Their main source for the article, Col.-Gen. Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences, said the Pentagon is planning to deliver a massive air strike on Iran's military infrastructure in the near future.

Wokush refers to another Russian estimate of American armed conflict, "predicting the US will attack Iran on April 6th, Good Friday".

Her researched and eye-opening article can be found here (article).

And in case you missed it something occurred just before the unanimous March 24 vote by the United Nations Security Council to impose stricter sanctions on Iran. There was a dispute between Iran and the the U.S. State Department on whether visas for the Iranian President, who sought to attend the session, had ever been granted. (article)