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US spells out plan to bomb Iran

THE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran’s atomic weapon programme if international diplomacy fails, Pentagon sources have confirmed. Strategists are understood to have presented two options for pinpoint strikes using B2 bombers flying directly from bases in Missouri, Guam in the Pacific and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean

Our New Pen Pal

Americans and Iranians don’t talk to each other—officially, anyway. Apart from a furtive arms-for-hostages deal in the Reagan era, the two sides haven’t sat down since Ayatollah Khomeini incited his youthful Islamist radicals in Tehran—among them Mahmoud