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Iranian Bomb Graph Appears Adapted from One on Internet

From On December 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The suspect graph of a nuclear explosion reportedly provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as evidence of Iranian computer modeling of nuclear weapons yields appears to have been adapted from a very similar graph in a scholarly journal article published in January 2009 and available on the internet.

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IAEA Reliance on Third-Party Data Could Compromise Political Credibility

From On December 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Beginning with a reference to a contentious report by the AP that used an alleged Iranian document provided by an “unnamed country” to suggest “that Iran is working on a bomb,” Mark Hibbs, a senior associate in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program, writes that increasing reliance by the International [...]

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Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA Credulity

From On November 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

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That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the International Atomic [...]

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Obama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Iran Plan

From On October 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Although the place and time of the next round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme have not yet been announced, the manoeuvring by Iran and the United States to influence the outcome has already begun.

Iran sought support for a revised proposal to the talks during the United Nations General [...]

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IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity

From On September 1, 2012 · 1 Comment

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report made public Thursday reveals that Iran has actually reduced the amount of 20-percent enriched uranium available for any possible “breakout” to weapons grade enrichment over the last three months rather than increasing it.

Contrary to the impression conveyed by most news media coverage, [...]

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The Terrorism Issue that Wasn’t Discussed

From On September 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Gareth Porter

In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al Qaeda. Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. [...]

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The Obama-Gates Maneuver on Military Spending

From On April 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

By Gareth Porter

Last week Barack Obama announced that he wants to cut $400 billion in military spending and said he would work Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs on a “fundamental review” of U.S. “military missions, capabilities and our role in a changing world” before making a decision.

Spokesman Geoff Morrell [...]

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Why Washington Clings to a Failed Middle East Strategy

From On January 31, 2011 · 2 Comments

By Gareth Porter

The death throes of the Mubarak regime in Egypt signal a new level of crisis for a U.S. Middle East strategy that has shown itself over and over again in recent years to be based on nothing more than the illusion of power.   The incipient loss of the U.S. client regime in [...]

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From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War State

From On January 17, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Gareth Porter

Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined.  It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite [...]

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"NYT Seriously Distorted the Content" of WikiLeaks Cables

From On December 8, 2010 · 2 Comments

The U.S. media has been quick to accept that Arab countries share a hawkish view on Iran after the release of the WikiLeaks cables. The New York Times was at the front of this push to portray Arab leaders as just as hawkish as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party on Iran.

“The cables [...]

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