Iran
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Former Israeli Nuke Chief: Iran Is 10 Years Away from Having the Bomb
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed in a Senate hearing – following the release of the classified National Intelligence Estimate in 2011 – that he has a “high level of confidence” that Iran “has not made a decision as of this point to restart its nuclear weapons program.” Mohamed ElBaradei – who spent more… Continue reading
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An Attack on Iran is Still on the Pentagon’s Drawing Board. Israel Prepares to Launch “The First Strike” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Under the title “Netanyahu orders IDF to prepare for possible strike on Iran during 2014?, Haaretz confirms that a war on Iran is still contemplated and that Israel is actively preparing to launch a first strike, despite talks between the West and Iran concerning Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Continue reading
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What if NYT Factchecked Netanyahu’s Claims? By Peter Hart
Israel made headlines last week when it intercepted a ship that it claimed was carrying a shipment of Iranian weapons to Gaza. The supposed contents of the ship were put on display yesterday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an event that was dubbed “a public relations spectacle” by the New York Times’ Isabel Kershner… Continue reading
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What if NYT Factchecked Netanyahu's Claims? By Peter Hart
Israel made headlines last week when it intercepted a ship that it claimed was carrying a shipment of Iranian weapons to Gaza. The supposed contents of the ship were put on display yesterday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an event that was dubbed “a public relations spectacle” by the New York Times’ Isabel Kershner… Continue reading
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Is Netanyahu Certifiable? By Alan Hart
NetanyahuThe expanded and most explicit form of my headline question is this. Is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of sound mind and knowingly talking propaganda nonsense about threats to Israel’s security in order to fool the world including most of its Jews, or, is he unbalanced, mentally disturbed, even clinically insane? Continue reading
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White House tightens enforcement of Iran sanctions amid meetings with Israelis By Philip Weiss
What is the role of Israel in shaping US foreign policy? The White House has now tightened its enforcement of sanctions on Iran, potentially threatening the breakthrough deal with Iran, in the midst of high-level meetings between White House security officials and Israeli officials, at the White House. Continue reading
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Reflections on the Iran nuclear deal By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
The underlying logic for the Iran nuclear negotiations was and continues to be preposterous: on one side of the negotiating table sat major nuclear powers who are all in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires them to have either dismantled or drastically reduced their nuclear arsenal; on the other side, an NPT-… Continue reading
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Israel Aims to Sabotage the Geneva Agreement with Iran By Dimitri Minin
Israel is stepping up its efforts to sabotage the agreements reached in Geneva on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program. On December 1 the head of the Israeli military intelligence agency AMAN, Amos Yadlin, and former CIA director Michael Hayden simultaneously and in unison, although in different parts of the world, stated that Iran has… Continue reading
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Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony By John Kozy
When Israel is seen as an English colony, England has to be seen as primarily responsible for all of the horrors committed by its “colonists.” In fact, England and France must be seen as primarily responsible for the horrors committed by all the West in the Middle East at least since 1857, the end of… Continue reading
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Israel — Just Another Hapless British Colony By John Kozy
When Israel is seen as an English colony, England has to be seen as primarily responsible for all of the horrors committed by its “colonists.” In fact, England and France must be seen as primarily responsible for the horrors committed by all the West in the Middle East at least since 1857, the end of… Continue reading
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Iran: White House gave false details of nuclear agreement + One-sided interpretation of N-deal
Iran…claims that the American factsheet, posted a few hours after the deal was announced on the website of the White House, has omitted some key points and is misleading the public by adjusting the language of the original agreement.Tehran has strongly rejected Washington’s interpretation of the long-awaited interim nuclear agreement reached by the P5+1 nations… Continue reading
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Recognizing absolute US CRIMINAL evil on Iran: a factual analogy By Carl Herman
A rogue US 1% renew threats of war on Iran, including US Secretary of State John Kerry lying to pretend Iran is hostile. The US 1% criminal threat of war continues a history of US lies and War Crimes on Iran that most Americans know aspects of, but do not see clearly and comprehensively apart… Continue reading
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Iran Talks: Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at “Last Moment” By Gareth Porter
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov revealed a crucial detail Thursday about last week’s nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva that explains much more clearly than previous reports why the meeting broke up without agreement. Lavrov said the United States circulated a draft that had been amended in response to French demands to other members of… Continue reading
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Media: Iran's Suspicious Smile By Peter Hart
There are suspicions, mostly coming from some US and Israeli officials, that the country’s enrichment activities are intended to produce a nuclear weapon. But international inspectors have never found evidence of this, and official US intelligence estimates are that Iran is not currently working on a weapons program. Continue reading
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Again: all US talk on ‘Iran’s nuclear program’ are OBVIOUS lies
As US “leaders” threaten more unlawful war on Iran, the following three points document that the ongoing “reasons” to war-murder Iranians are known lies as they are being told. In context, we know now from official US government reports that all “reasons” for war on Iraq were known to be lies as they were told: Continue reading
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Iran Foreign Minister: “We Informed US of Chemical Weapons Transfer to Syria 9 Months Ago”
In an interview with Aseman (Sky) weekly in Tehran, Zarif added, “In the same note, we warned [Washington] that radical groups might be planning to use these chemical agents. During this period [of war in Syria] Takfiri groups have been encouraged to continue their fratricide and war the result of which has been human catastrophes… Continue reading
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Former UN Israeli ambassador: “North Korea…should be wiped off the face of the map”
On 4/14/13 Former Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman told Fox News that North Korea should be wiped off the map if they persisted with their current behaviour Continue reading
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Former UN Israeli ambassador: "North Korea…should be wiped off the face of the map"
On 4/14/13 Former Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman told Fox News that North Korea should be wiped off the map if they persisted with their current behaviour Continue reading
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Obama relies on NLP to cloud minds and avoid diplomacy with Iran over its nonexistent nukes By Patrick Henningsen
For the second time in as many years, Iran has once again made the right moves towards proving to the world that it is not, and will not be pursuing a nuclear weapons program. This time it announced it’s halting its 20% enriched uranium, and has a solid partner in Russia to help make this… Continue reading
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USA Today, Maddow and Iran Misinformation: Treating nuclear claims as facts
The recent elections in Iran may change some things–but inaccurate media depictions of Iran might not change much at all. Continue reading
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