I don't quite understand how we know so much about them, and if this is accurate, why we are just standing by waiting for them to build up their forces even more. I know our current policy, as announced by Secy Rice, is that we hope to destabilize their regime by encouraging dissidents within the country. It seems to me that (even if these dissidents exist in numbers great enough to make a difference) this would take awhile, and it hardly seems that Iran is going to sit around and wait for it.
Telling them we know what they are doing causes chaos and replanning in their ranks.
Yup. Many FReepers have expressed the same sentiment. By the time internal dissent may have an effect, they'd have nuclear weapons. So... (Smoke & Mirrors by Rice?)
I have a feeling we had a deal with the UAE for some useful real estate...