Friday, June 19, 2009

Iran's Election and US - Iranian Relations


by Stephen Lendman
Global Research, June 18, 2009

"....Also disturbing are more moderate, supposedly even-handed, and progressive US voices....On June 13, Stephen Zunes asked....Juan Cole admitted....

The Nation magazine has had a shameful record since inception.... Now it's at it again in a June 13 Robert Dreyfuss article headlined.....

A lack of journalistic and analytical integrity on the left and right continues to hype fraud without a shred of supportive evidence, so something sinister may be visible on Iranian streets. If true, the Obama administration likely is behind it or at least in support, so Iranians need remember their history....

Iranian Street Protests and Their Ominous Possibilities

Leading up to and after the Iranian election, The New York Times played its customary role as lead media gatekeeper/instigator doing what it does best - sanitizing news, filtering out uncomfortable truths, and presenting distorted opinions for the powerful interests it represents.....

What's going on? Are anti-Ahmadinejad protests spontaneous or are covert instigators inciting them?....

Writing in the New Yorker's June 29, 2008 issue, Seymour Hersh said "Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership."....."

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