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Disastrous consequences of an attack on Iran

 I think the mischief and misery and unintended consequences of an attack on Iran would be beyond belief.”…..

Ian McEwan: misery of attack on Iran would be beyond belief. Lisa Allardice guardian.co.uk,  25 March 2012 Author says regime is ‘looking very wobbly,’ but that an attack would reunite the country behind its leaders
Ian McEwan, the writer whose 2005 novel Saturday was widely
interpreted as making the case for military intervention in Iraq, said
on Sunday any attack on Iran with the aim of destroying its nuclear
capability would end in disaster.

Speaking at the Guardian’s Open Weekend festival, McEwan said: “I
belong to that very large cohort who think it would be absolutely
disastrous to attack Iran … I think the mischief and misery and
unintended consequences of an attack on Iran would be beyond
belief.”…..
McEwan said the Iranian regime was now “looking very wobbly” with
“real splits between Ahmadinejad and the supreme leader Khamenei” –
but any attack on the country would “bind the country back together
behind the theocracy”.

He also rejected Israeli claims that if military action were not taken
against the Iranian nuclear programme within months, Tehran’s weapons
capability would be secreted away underground in facilities where it
could no longer be knocked out.

“I wish that Israel had never embarked on [its own nuclear weapons
programme] because it was inevitable that one or other of the powers
in the region would follow … [but] There is a massive feeling of
resentment against the [Iranian] regime, within the population and
it’s quite a sophisticated population, to drive them to the other side
would be a disaster……
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/mar/25/ian-mcewan-iran?newsfeed=true

March 26, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, social effects, weapons and war