America Is Led And Informed By Liars
Does anyone remember all the lies that they were told by President Bush and the “mainstream media” about the grave threat to America from weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? These lies were repeated endlessly in the print and TV media despite the reports from the weapons inspectors, who had been sent to Iraq, that no such weapons existed.
The weapons inspectors did an honest job in Iraq and told the truth, but the mainstream media did not emphasize their findings. Instead, the media served as a Ministry of Propaganda, beating the war drums for the US government.
Now the whole process is repeating itself. This time the target is Iran.
As there is no real case against Iran, Obama took a script from Bush’s playbook and fabricated one.
First the facts: As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran’s nuclear facilities are open to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which carefully monitors Iran’s nuclear energy program to make certain that no material is diverted to nuclear weapons.
The IAEA has monitored Iran’s nuclear energy program and has announced repeatedly that it has found no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons program. All 16 US intelligence agencies have affirmed and reaffirmed that Iran abandoned interest in nuclear weapons years ago.
In keeping with the safeguard agreement that the IAEA be informed before an enrichment facility comes online, Iran informed the IAEA on September 21 that it had a new nuclear facility under construction. By informing the IAEA, Iran fulfilled its obligations under the safeguards agreement. The IAEA will inspect the facility and monitor the nuclear material produced to make sure it is not diverted to a weapons program.
Despite these unequivocal facts, Obama announced on September 25 that Iran has been caught with a “secret nuclear facility” with which to produce a bomb that would threaten the world.
The Obama regime’s claim that Iran is not in compliance with the safeguards agreement is disinformation. Between the end of 2004 and early 2007, Iran voluntarily complied with an additional protocol (Code 3.1) that was never ratified and never became a legal part of the safeguards agreement. The additional protocol would have required Iran to notify the IAEA prior to beginning construction of a new facility, whereas the safeguards agreement in force requires notification prior to completion of a new facility. Iran ceased its voluntary compliance with the unratified additional protocol in March 2007, most likely because of the American and Israeli misrepresentations of Iran’s existing facilities and military threats against them.
By accusing Iran of having a secret “nuclear weapons program” and demanding
that Iran “come clean” about the nonexistent program, adding that he does not rule out a military attack on Iran, Obama mimics the discredited Bush regime’s use of nonexistent Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” to set up Iraq for invasion.
The US media, even the “liberal” National Public Radio, quickly fell in with the Obama lie machine. Steven Thomma of the McClatchy Newspapers declared the non-operational facility under construction, which Iran reported to the IAEA, to be “a secret nuclear facility.”
Thomma, reported incorrectly that the world didn’t learn of Iran’s “secret” facility, the one that Iran reported to the IAEA the previous Monday, until Obama announced it in a joint appearance in Pittsburgh the following Friday with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkoszy.
Obviously, Thomma has no command over the facts, a routine inadequacy of “mainstream media” reporters. The new facility was revealed when Iran voluntarily reported the facility to the IAEA on September 21.
Ali Akbar Dareini, an Associated Press writer, reported, incorrectly, over AP: “The presence of a second uranium-enrichment site that could potentially produce material for a nuclear weapon has provided one of the strongest indications yet that Iran has something to hide.”
Dareini goes on to write that “the existence of the secret site was first revealed by Western intelligence officials and diplomats on Friday.” Dareini is mistaken. We learned of the facility when the IAEA announced that Iran had reported the facility the previous Monday in keeping with the safeguards agreement.
Dareini’s untruthful report of “a secret underground uranium enrichment facility whose existence has been hidden from international inspectors for years” helped to heighten the orchestrated alarm.
There you have it. The president of the United States and his European puppets are doing what they do best–lying through their teeth. The US “mainstream media” repeats the lies as if they were facts. The US “media” is again making itself an accomplice to wars based on fabrications. Apparently, the media’s main interest is to please the US government and hopefully obtain a taxpayer bailout of its failing print operations.
Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a rare man of principle who has not sold his integrity to the US and Israeli governments, refuted in his report (September 7, 2009) the baseless “accusations that information has been withheld from the Board of Governors about Iran’s nuclear programme. I am dismayed by the allegations of some Member states, which have been fed to the media, that information has been withheld from the Board. These allegations are politically motivated and totally baseless. Such attempts to influence the work of the Secretariat and undermine its independence and objectivity are in violation of Article VII.F. of the IAEA Statute and should cease forthwith.”
As there is no legal basis for action against Iran, the Obama regime is creating another hoax, like the non-existent “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.” The hoax is that a facility, reported to the IAEA by Iran, is a secret facility for making nuclear weapons.
Just as the factual reports from the weapons inspectors in Iraq were ignored by the Bush Regime, the factual reports from the IAEA are ignored by the Obama Regime.
Like the Bush Regime, the Middle East policy of the Obama Regime is based in lies and deception.
Who is the worst enemy of the American people, Iran or the government in Washington and the media whores who serve it?
Actually as reported by the press the US knew about the facilites for some time and their hand was forced once Iran found out they knew and came forward. A lot speculation says Iran only came forward in effort to minimize the damage. I obviously cannot confirm this other than what is written in the press but maybe the author can check his sources to see if this is in fact true. As for war I think it is wrong to presume this is stage setting. The fact is the US has neither the economic or political capital to pursue one at this time. It is why Iran is so boisterous an unyielding in their defense because they know at best they may be hit by a limited strike they can survive. There is the spector of nucler tipped bunker busters being used but I have a hard time seeing the Obama regime agreeing to that. The real problem is because Iran is essentially a closed society the world has to largely take them at their word. Taking into context the oppresion of the protest crackdowns it is not unreasonable to doubt the sincerity of the Iranian nuclear program. Time will tell.
Dear Mr. Davit: You also read in the newspapers that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction,” with the highest officials in the US government raising the specter of “mushroom clouds” going up over American cities. As the evidence has made completely clear for years, the US media is a Ministry of Propaganda that repeats whatever lies the US government issues.
Of course I checked my sources. That is why I am usually right and the media is usually wrong. The media never checks. It just lies for the government.
Now, see if you can give some thought to whether the US government knew about the Qom facility. Considering the way the
US government twisted Iran’s disclosure of the facility to demonize Iran and create fear among people sufficiently naive to believe anything the US government says, do you really think the US government would have sat on the information, thus helping Iran to keep the facility a “secret.”
Now, examine the “secret” designation. Under the Safeguards Agreement, all Iran is required to do is to inform the IAEA of a new facility prior to the facility being competed. Therefore, the facility is not a secret one unless Iran completes the facility and operates it without informing the IAEA. Iran did not do this, so the charge that the facility is “secret” is itself a total lie.
Iran is in compliance with the Safeguards Agreement, and the US government is again lying through its teeth. It is “weapons of mass destruction” all over again.
This is right to the point, and absolutely 100% correct.
Dr. Roberts,
Thank you for your reply. After looking at more facts, your points, and Carter’s recent statements I am inclined to believe this “secret site” disclousure by the US was a propoganda move not entirely based on facts. However, the IAEA did state they were outside the law but they did not offer any details. Was the IAEA asked to state this to further an agenda?
Despite all of this It seems to have done the trick. Obama got more out of Iran than the Bush regime did in 8 years. Its only talk but I firmly beleive the Iranian regime was more motivated because of the domestic issue. They have correctly surmized they cannot fight the nuclear issue and the domestic at the same time. Further I also believe a lot of the “Nuclear and Holocaust” drama was in fact aired by Iran to deflect interest interanally and externally from the reform movement. It is quite sad because the rapes, beatings, and killings will be literally swept under the carpet if the regime has its way. My friends have family in Tehran and it has literally turned into a police state with the IRGC. They were recentlay dismayed when the Iranian telecom was privatized only to have 51% purchased by the IRGC!
On Iraq-evil, evil, evil gods only if they guy in Iraq had been able to connect with the shoe!!! :)
Thx
Bill
This comes solely from government official’s claims. No evidence for this whatsoever has been provided as of yet as far as I’ve seen. The reason for the claim, though, whether true or not, is clear enough: Iran cannot be seen as having willfully and voluntarily declared the site to the IAEA, because people might get funny ideas like that Iran is fulfilling its obligations under the NPT. Such thought crimes cannot be tolerated, so a propaganda alternative to reality needs to be manufactured — much as in the case of Iraq.
This latest propaganda case comes shortly on the heels of the asinine claim that the IAEA has been deliberately helping Iran to cover up a weapons program, which was trumpeted by the NYT and other mainstream media with a straight face. See here for further information and a look at how Orwellian the arguments are that are being put forth under this latest campaign of deception:
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/09/27/iran%E2%80%99s-new-nuclear-site-much-ado-about-nothing/
I have read a number of articles that the informaiton about the second site may have come from the British. Of course no evidence. This does beg the question was it prudent to lie or not to? Based on the results I think it worked because the Iranians for once seemed to budge. I always believe in the truth but to be pragmatic war is deceit. While either side is not technically at war they have been ideologically for decades. Sort of sad that either side has to resort to these tactics to achieve results.
By the way I got a laugh out of the IAEA cover up claim championed by Israel and the French. If Israel had its way we would have turned Iran into big pile of glass by now.
The problem is that no one trusts the Iranians as far as you can pick them up and throw them. They are deceitful, lie at every opportunity and really are trying to get nuclear weapons. They are developing the delivery systems too. It appear that they are also on a collision course with the west and are on a war footing. Now ,how can you trust them when they say they want it only for peaceful purposes?
Is a corollary of that, PJ, that you trust U.S. government officials as far as you can throw them, that they are not deceitful and don’t lie at every opportunity about Iran trying to get nuclear weapons?
There’s this little thing called “evidence”…
Jeremy is correct in his statement as you are as well. Sort of sad. The only difference I think is to what extreme either side will go to achieve its ends. The Iranians in my mind win this battle hands down. One only needs to look at the tens of thousands political disdents liquidated since 1981, the cover up of the rapes during the election, and that they turned on the secular left who helped them overthrow the Shah. Further compounding the issue is the religious aspect. The Iranian goverments foundation is rule by the jurisprudent and it is quite exceptable and even encouraged under Shia Islamic law to dissemble or deceive if it further the religion. For the Iranian regime Islam is their entire life. The nuclear issue is all part of it. My one worry is they are using the almost identical nuclear technology Pakistan stole form URENCO and we all know what Pakistan did with that.
What is the point of this unsubstantiated propaganda against Iran? Why do people feel compelled to demonize Iran, a
country that has been under assault from Israel and the US for decades, a country that suffers from Iranian groups paid with US money to spread destabilizing lies?
God, you war-loving Americans are a bunch of jackasses. Doing it all for your lord Israel, huh? Another war that will 2x fuck up your own economy. Why don’t the Obomber invade North Korea? Only because its nukes are not a direct threat to Israel, but to South Koreans….?
Tell me Hammond, is this the right thing to do?? I know most Americans hate war and are too “innocent” to help anything…. Sad!
Unfortunately, most Americans are very gullible and believe things their government tells them. Which is why I started FPJ.
Thanks a lot for these very important informations.
I have a few questions
Why do the US govt act like this ? What are their interests in that ? What are they trying to do ? Why do they absolutely want to “scare hell out of the American people” ? What kind of project do they have ? What is the weight of militaro-industrial interests in all that ?
Does anyone know good resources to learn about these issues ?
Thanks again.
Hello. Nice article. The only piece of the argument that is not addressed is the number of centrifuges. Obama is claiming that there too many centrifuges in the Qom facility, and far exceed what would be needed for a commercial plant. Also, many of the reports from intelligence people suggest that this facility makes sense for Iran to enrich more uranium, which would be necessary for them to build a bomb someday presumably in the future.
Also, I don’t think the issue is as one-sided as the author makes it appear. We are talking about Iran. For twenty-years, they hid their nuclear proliferation from the IAEA and lied about the fact it even existed. They have violated IAEA agreements in the past and have been sanctioned.
The question really boils down to this: Is Iran pursuing a nuclear weapon? From their standpoint, it would certainly make sense, wouldn’t it? They have a history where they have been under attack. The U.S. and Israel are almost certainly aligned against them and trying to displace the regime.
Vic is totally wrong on every point. How do people get so thoroughly misinformed?
Yesterday ElBaradei said that “Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East given the nuclear arms it possesses.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23636.htm
“We are talking about Iran. For twenty-years, they hid their nuclear proliferation from the IAEA and lied about the fact it even existed. They have violated IAEA agreements in the past and have been sanctioned.”
Sorry, Vic. Sometimes the time machine will do that to you. Our diagnostics would suggest that you set the dial at 2009 when you should have set it to 2002. And the country was Iraq, not Iran. Remember?
Obama as an election agenda promised everyone that he does not favor the decision of waging war against any nation. Ofcourse, with a caveat that his government’s policies against Iran would be the same as the Bush administration. But, it seems that the pre-election policies are put to ‘RIP’ now.
It is a planned move that there was a caveat laid before the public to serve as a path for justifying its decision to go to war in the future (a pre-conceived decision). Now, the efforts are to convince the people to believe that the Iran government is heading exactly in the direction which would attract American wrath.
By now everyone would have understood that the policies of the government are in alignment with a far superior power than the President of The United States of America – the beauracrats. The beauracracy ensures that regardless of the party in power, the policies remain the same. The result, that in an attempt to prevent a holocaust, many holocausts are being carried out. Several innocent people die in a war and when there are defence forces in rehabilitation mission, small pockets of resistance continues in the form of suicide bombing which further helps in justifying the war – eventually sacrificing hundreds of people in the forces and spending billions of dollars.
Just a little peek in history tells us that holocaust was a crime carried out by Nazi rulers against the Jews over several years. Where was the saviour during that period to prevent the execution of millions of people? Why has situation changed today so suddenly? That the insecurity and paranoia of a section of the society is jeopardising a country’s billions of dollars, reputation and above all the lives of many people in the forces.