WHAT WE'RE READING: Iran ramp-up?

By Mary Anna Towler on October 3, 2007

In the October 8 New Yorker: Yet another Seymour Hersh piece warning that the Bush administration is planning to attack Iran. Although the administration had planned to use the threat of a nuclear Iran as justification, that's been abandoned, Hersh writes. The reason: the public wasn't buying it. Now, Hersh says, an attack on Iran has been recast as a counter-terrorism move, to stop Iran from aiding Iraqi insurgents.