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PROGRAMMES INSIDE IRAQ - What now for UK policy on Iraq?

Anti-war activist Lindsey German

Tony Blair's ten years as the prime minister of Britain has come to an end. Gordon Brown, Britain's new prime minister,   more...has vowed to learn from his predecessor's experience in Iraq.

Blair's alliance with the US administration brought him widespread criticism for changing the nature of Britain's Labour party and leading the British public into a highly unpopular war in Iraq.

Brown has acknowledged that mistakes have been made during the war. He has promised changes in Britain's Iraq policy along with domestic reforms aimed at reviving public confidence in the Labour party.

John Rentoul, a columnist for The Independent on Sunday and Blair biographer

Pledging to rethink Britain's Middle East policy, Brown has said future counter-terror strategy will focus on tactics other than the use of force.

Yet the incoming prime minister faces pressure to maintain Britain's close ties to the US administration, which is currently renewing offensives against alleged al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.

A change of leadership will also take place in the US next year. But could the possibility of a Democrat victory in next year's US presidential elections set in motion a new US-UK approach to Iraq?

Will Brown pull troops out of Iraq, or will he continue with the same policies?

In the wider region, will Brown's plan to accomplish a 'Mideast peace settlement' manage to take hold? And if so, how might this affect Iraq?

Joining Inside Iraq this week is anti-war activist Lindsey German and John Rentoul, a columnist for The Independent on Sunday and Blair biographer.

This episode of Inside Iraq aired from Friday 29 June 2007

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Noam Chomsky goes into detail over the reasons the US Government is pushing for a war against Iran.

Are assumptions about Iran wrong?
Transcript:

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR: ElBaradei, is the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stated quite definitively there is no evidence of a nuclear weapons   more...program in Iran. The recent resolution—the Kyle-Lieberman amendment—and the recent U.S. sanctions against Iran, which one of the charges is that Iran has been helping what they call insurgents in Iraq. There's practically no evidence of that either. Based on what we know as evidence, there's not a lot of reasons for U.S. policy to be as aggressive right now towards Iran as it is, certainly not for the stated reason. What really does motivate U.S. policy towards Iran?

NOAM CHOMSKY, PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS, MIT: Well, if I can make a comment about the stated reasons, the very fact that we're discussing them tells us a lot about the sort of intellectual culture and moral culture in the United States. I mean, suppose it was true that Iran is helping insurgents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United States helping insurgents when the Russians invaded Afghanistan? Did we think there was anything wrong with that? I mean, Iraq's a country that was invaded and is under military occupation. You can't have a serious discussion about whether someone else is interfering in it. The basic assumption underlying the discussion is that we own the world. So if we invade and occupy another country, then it's a criminal act for anyone to interfere with it. What about the nuclear weapons? I mean, are there countries with nuclear weapons in the region? Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons. The United States gives more support to it than any other country in the world. The Bush administration is trying very hard to push through an agreement that not only authorizes India's illegal acquisition of nuclear weapons but assists it. That's what the U.S.-Indo Nuclear Pact is about. And, furthermore, there happens to be an obligation of the states in the Security Council and elsewhere to move towards establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the region. Now that would include Iran and Israel and any U.S. forces deployed there. That's part of Resolution 687. Now to your question. The real reasons for the attack on Iran, the sanctions, and so on go back into history. I mean, we like to forget the history; Iranians don't. In 1953, the United States and Britain overthrew the parliamentary government and installed a brutal dictator, the Shah, who ruled until 1979. And during his rule, incidentally, the United States was strongly supporting the same programs they're objecting to today. In 1979, the population overthrew the dictator, and since then the United States has been essentially torturing Iran. First it tried a military coup. Then it supported Saddam Hussein during Iraq's invasion of Iran, which killed hundreds of thousands of people. Then, after that was over, the United States started imposing harsh sanctions on Iran. And now it's escalating that. The point is: Iran is out of control. You know, it's supposed to be a U.S.-client state, as it was under the Shah, and it's refusing to play that role.

JAY: The sanctions that were just issued recently [are] the beginnings of a kind of act of war, this ratcheting up of the rhetoric right at a time when the IAEA is saying, in fact, Iran's cooperating in the process. But it's all coming down to this question of does Iran even have its right to enrich uranium for civilian nuclear, which in fact it has, under the non-proliferation treaty. But Bush in his last press conference, where he had his famous World War III warning, has said even the knowledge of having nuclear weapons we won't permit, never mind a civilian program. This puts U.S. policy on a collision course with the IAEA, with international law.

CHOMSKY: Just a couple of years ago, from 2004 through 2006, Iran did agree to suspend all uranium enrichment, halt even what everyone agrees they're legally entitled to. That was an agreement  less

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