There is more sabre-rattling from Washington – but this time the question being asked in many quarters is whether former American President George W Bush’s one-time director of the CIA Michael Hayden is genuinely speaking unilaterally when he says a strike by the United States on Iran is now “inexorable” or if he is being used as a proxy – and, if so, by whom.
Mr Hayden said in TV and newspaper interviews last week that military action against Iran is more likely than ever because Tehran is continuing its nuclear operations regardless of what the US says or does. He said that, when he was in office, a military strike against Iran was “way down on the list” but now “seems inexorable”.
And he added: “In my personal thinking, I have begun to consider that it may not be the worst of all possible outcomes.”
