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Was the Iranian threat fabricated by Israel and the U.S.?
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Haaretz (One of Israel's leading newspapers)


Haaretz (One of Israel's leading newspapers), May 31, 2014
Posted: June 9th, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.596...

A new book by Gareth Porter, an American historian and researcher specializing in U.S. national security, shows how the actual state of the Iranian nuclear program does not match the Iranian threat narrative. Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Nuclear Scare ... is a highly detailed and well-documented book for all interested in understanding how we arrived at the Iranian nuclear crisis, and the attack scenarios and invented facts and intelligence reports. The story begins with U.S. support for the Iraqis during the 1980s Iraq-Iran war. The critical point [came] with the collapse of the Soviet empire. According to Porter, that event and the end of the Cold War pulled out the rug from under the CIAs raison dtre. The solution the Americans found to continue providing the [CIA] with a tremendous budget was the invention of a new threat the merging of weapons of mass destruction (an ambiguous term in itself) and terror. Iran ... provided the threat that saved the CIA. Running through Porters book is the well-substantiated claim that U.S. and Israeli policies on Iran derived from their political and organizational interests, and not necessarily from careful factual analysis of the Iranian nuclear program, which was subject to IAEA monitoring, or of the intentions of the Iranian leadership. According to Porter, no systematic analysis was made of the goals of the Iranian nuclear program, and neither U.S. nor Israeli policy makers devoted any thought to why all of Irans official declarations on the subject were in line with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Note: For more on the realities of intelligence agency operations, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.


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