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U.S. Media continues its amnesia over recent terrorist attack on Iran's
scientists
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2010/12/media-continues-its-amnesia-over.html Letter to New York Times reporter David E. Sanger from Michael Hoffman
Dear Mr. Sanger
Why did you omit mention of the recent, Nov. 29 assassination of Iranian
nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari in your Dec. 10 report on U.S.
opposition to Iranian nuclear power?
You mentioned the Stuxnet "worm" whose provenance pre-dates the
assassination, but the not the assassination itself, or the murder of
another scientist's wife, Mrs. Fereydoon Abbasi, in the same attack.
Sincerely,
Michael Hoffman
Note how Sanger (below) reports that Gary Samore, an Obama
administration official, is pleased that covert attacks against Iran,
such as the Stuxnet worm, are in place. By omitting reference to the
recent assassination of the Iranian scientist, Sanger does not have to
ask the administration any embarrassing questions about whether they are
pleased about that covert operation as well.
Furthermore, it seems that Mr. Sanger, along with most of the US media
including NPR, intends to have us forget about the terror attack against
Iran's scientists. By omission and distortion, the US propaganda system,
in which Mr. Sanger is a prominent player, seeks to teach us that terror
attacks worth remembering occur only against the Israelis and the West,
not Muslims or Iranians.
Gary Samore represented the Obama administration on Iran at the
conference of the noble-sounding "Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies" ((
http://www.defenddemocracy.org) which David Sanger fails
to mention is actually a neocon front group whose "Leadership council"
consists of Newt Gingrich, Sen. Joe Lieberman andWilliam Kristol.
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U.S. and Allies Plan More Sanctions Against Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/world/middleeast/11nuke.html?hp by David E. Sanger | NY Times | Dec. 10, 2010
WASHINGTON Three days after the first nuclear talks with Iran in more
than a year adjourned with no progress, President Obama's chief nuclear
adviser said on Friday that the United States and its allies planned a
new round of sanctions against the country in coming weeks, part of an
effort to test "how high Iran's pain threshold is" and force the country
into suspending its production of nuclear fuel.
Another session of talks with Iran is scheduled to take place next
month, probably in Turkey. But at a conference on Friday held by the
Foundation for the Defense of DemocraciesMr. Obama's coordinator for
weapons of mass destruction, Gary Samore, suggested that Iran may have
decided to resume talks with the with the members of the United Nations
Security Council and Germany "because it believes it can manipulate the
appearance of negotiations to weaken existing sanctions and avoid
additional measures."
"This ploy will not work," Mr. Samore said. "In the wake of the Geneva
talks, we and our allies are determined to maintain and even increase
pressure. We need to send the message to Iran that sanctions will only
increase if Iran avoids serious negotiations and will not be lifted
until our concerns are fully addressed."
Mr. Samore was not specific about the sanctions now being contemplated.
He also would not comment on the effects of the Stuxnet worm, which
appears to have been directed at disrupting Iran's centrifuges.
"I'm glad to hear they are having troubles with their centrifuge
machines," he said with a smile, "and the U.S. and its allies are doing
everything we can to make it more complicated." But he said nothing
about who was responsible for the worm. (END QUOTE)
For further research: NPR's Propaganda System against Iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bf-FAhIkE0 ****
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