US journalist Seymour Hersh says Vice President Dick Cheney prefers US attack on Iran rather than Israel as Washington has much more firepower.

"I'll tell you what Cheney says privately- what he says privately is, 'we can't let Israel go because, first of all, they don't have the firepower, we do. We have much more firepower. And secondly, if they go, we'll be blamed anyway'," Hersh said in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday.

When asked about a possible military action before the US election, he said, "In general we just don't know. He [Bush] still wants diplomacy, I do believe that, but diplomacy for this president is these guys giving up everything in terms of enrichment before we discuss it and that's a non-starter too."

Earlier, in a report published in the online version of The New Yorker magazine Hersh revealed that US Congressional leaders agreed late last year to President Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran.

The article cites current and former military, intelligence and congressional sources as saying that $400 million was approved by Congressional leaders for clandestine operations against Iran.

The New Yorker report also stated that American Special Forces have been conducting cross-border operations into Iran from southern Iraq since last year.

However, US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker on Sunday dismissed the report on CNN television, saying, "I can tell you flatly that US forces are not operating across the Iraqi border into Iran."

Source: Press TV

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