Iran's
'elite' Revolutionary Guards have developed plans to damage an oil tanker in the
Gulf to create an environmental disaster, German magazine Spiegel reported on
Sunday.
Citing
Western intelligence sources, the weekly said the top-secret plan, codenamed
"Dirty Water", is aimed at blocking the oil-rich Gulf to shipping and
forcing Western countries to become involved in a huge clean-up operation.
Spiegel
said the Revolutionary Guards believe this in turn would prompt Western nations
to suspend sanctions imposed over Iran's nuclear programme which have started
to hit the economy hard this year.
The
plan, developed by the head of the Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, and
Admiral Ali Fadavi, head of the force's navy division, would also
"punish" Arab states around the Gulf for their support of the West
and Israel, the report said.
A
clean-up operation could only take place with Iranian technical help, requiring
a temporary lifting of sanctions, the plan says, according to Spiegel.
Jafari
and Fadavi have passed the plan to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who would have the final say on whether to implement it, Spiegel
said.
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