U.S. Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran - report Here's the new Seymor Hersh piece for the New Yorker: [A] lesson was learned in the [speedboat] incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’ he said. Update: Israel: They'll nuke us within a year!...