Eddy around American Undercover mission in Iran

According to a report of the American star reporter US special-purpose forces penetrated and identify Seymour Hersh secretly into Iran goals for a possible attack. The white house disclaims and says, the report is "full inaccuracies".

Berlin - the US journalist Seymour Hersh is famous for his searches: From the My-Lai-massacre during the Viet Nam war up to the Folterorgie in Abu Ghureib the reporter scandals uncovered, which shook the American society.

In the newest expenditure of the magazine "The New Yorker one" it reports now of US special-purpose forces, which look in Iran for chemical and nuclear plants. Secretly, understands itself. Since summer US teams advanced again and again over the border of Pakistan into Iran, write Hersh. A goal of the Undercover missions is it to identify goals for a possible bombardment.

Hersh quotes a government advisor with the words: "the civilians in the pentagon want to go into Iran and destroying just as military infrastructure as possible". Another high-ranking informant says to the reporter: "the Bush government regards this as a large military zone. Next we will have an Iran war ".

President George W. Bush signed a set of secret instructions, which authorized the Undercover employment of US troops in up to ten countries, so Hersh further.

The white house disclaimed the report immediately. to "we see Iran with concern" natural, said Dan Bartlett, a close Bush coworker, opposite CNN. Hershs report it is however "full inaccuracies and I do not believe that some its conclusions correspond to the facts".

Bartlett said, which would continue to meet the USA to Iran with diplomatic means. However one will not exclude military means. "never in history a US president excluded, said ever military means" Bartlett.

According to Hershs report the American units with scientists of Pakistan co-operate, who confessed in former times in close contact with the Iranians. In the exchange for the information of the Pakistaner, so, the Americans did to Hersh without the distribution of the "father of the atom bomb of Pakistan", A.Q. Khan. This was assured to the president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. Khan is considered as key figure in the passing on of nuclear technology at Iran, Libya and North Korea.

translated from an international source: www.spiegel.de