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An source has told Raw Story that the Pentagon is arranging “second-state contingency” plans for an attack on Iran.

The official, who is close to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking officials of each branch of the US military, says the Chiefs have started what is called “branches and sequels” contingency planning.

“The JCS has accepted the inevitable,” the intelligence official said, “and is engaged in serious contingency planning to deal with the worst case scenarios that the intelligence community has been painting.”

A second military official, although unfamiliar with these latest scenarios, said there is a difference between contingency planning — which he described as “what if, then what” planning — and “branches and sequels,” which takes place after an initial plan has been decided upon.

More on that here. Meanwhile, a global opinion poll (with 27,000 respondents) suggests that world opinion is strongly against a US attack on Iran:

…the soundings conducted by polling firm GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, only 11 percent of those polled favored military strikes to stop it.

“There is next to no appetite for that level of intervention,” said Doug Miller, President of GlobeScan which interviewed more than 27,000 people.

“Recent events suggest that maybe we should try something other than military force. It seems that Iraq has very much influenced people,” he said.

Not surprising in the least. And that’s with 60 percent of respondents believing that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

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