The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Obama’s line on the Iran nuclear deal: A second false narrative Buying into the narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state could harm the thawing of relations between the country and the US RELATED: Chuck Spinney: Uri Avnery on Sheldon’s Stooges — Netanyahu Declares War on Obama, Zionists Empty the Bench… Intelligence Director Clapper …
Iran Seen from Beijing China views Iran as a central element in its much-touted Silk Road Economic Belt, which aims to extend Beijing’s influence overland through Central Asia to the Persian Gulf and Europe. Read full article.
The author of the below op-ed is the Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations. It is worth reading carefully, because this op-ed is well sourced, and Ambassador Khoshroo’s argument with respect to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s penchant for threat inflation can be compared to Gareth Porter’s history of Israel’s gaming to the Iranian threat. Netanyahu’s Nuclear Deceptions A …
The long history of Israel gaming the ‘Iranian threat’ Years before his recent grandstanding in Congress, Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders conjured a threat where one previously didn’t exist Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly published Manufactured Crisis: The …
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Four ways the West got the Iran nuclear issue wrong For more than three decades, the United States and its European allies have committed one fundamental error after another. Four major failures of policymaking and intelligence represent the broad outlines of this systematic problem. LIST ONLY: 1. Denial of Iranian rights, followed by denial of …
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Ex-IAEA Chief Warns on Using Unverified Intel to Pressure Iran EXTRACT Blix, who clashed with US officials when he was head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq from 2000 to 2003, said he has long been skeptical of intelligence that has been used to …
Department of State Delays Release of Iran History The U.S. Department of State has blocked the publication of a long-awaited documentary history of U.S. covert action in Iran in the 1950s out of concern that its release could adversely affect ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. The controversial Iran history volume, part of the official …
