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The Bomb-Bomb-Iran ‘Parlor Game’
* By Robert Parry Consortium News *
Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.
You might think that – unless you were told that the two nuclear-armed countries are Israel and the United States and the non-nuclear country is Iran. Then, different rules apply, especially it seems in leading American news outlets like the New York Times.
In what reads like a replay of the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Times and other major U.S. news media appear onboard for war, again happy to make the likely aggressors the “victims,” and to turn the prospect of a bloody conflict in a Muslim country into a parlor game.
Indeed, the New York Times on March 28 presented the idea of “imagining a strike on Iran” as “Washington’s grimmest but most urgent parlor game,” assessing how a military strike by Israel, “acting on its fears that Iran threatens its existence,” would play out.
That same day, the Times also led its front page with an alarmist story about Iranian atomic energy official Ali Akbar Salehi saying Iran might soon begin work on two new nuclear enrichment sites built into mountains to protect against bombings.
The article by reporters David E. Sanger and William J. Broad repeated a recurring falsehood in the Times, that it was President Barack Obama who “publicly revealed the evidence of a [previous] hidden site,” a hardened facility near Qum.
The actual chronology was that Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency about the non-operational Qum site on Sept. 21, four days before Obama joined with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in highlighting its existence.
At the time, the Obama administration spun Iran’s earlier disclosure of the Qum facility as having been prompted by Tehran’s awareness that the United States was onto the plant’s existence, but there was no independent evidence of that and the undisputed fact is that Iran disclosed the facility’s existence before Obama’s revelation.
Yet, the Times has now altered the chronology to put Obama’s announcement first, and thus cast Iran into a more sinister light.
Who’s the Victim?
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Brainwashing 101: Keep repeating the ‘Big Lie’ until you have a majority of deluded voters ready to go to war.
If Israel want to bomb Iran, then let them do it w/o American money, weapons and troops. But Israel knows it would get its ass kicked if it bombed Iran and would have to go nuclear ASAP to avoid a devasting defeat.
And using nukes against Iran is one war crime even Israel couldn’t evade. The BDS campaign against Apartheid Israel would kick into high gear.
So Israel will do what it did to scare Americans into invading Iraq; use its fifth columnists and massive sway over the MSM to scare Americans into sending their kids off to fight and die in another war for Israel.
I agree with Lese Majeste,
As we read that scenario ,at the end of it ,it said no one could win and in that there was not anything about people’s losses? American soldiers ( who will be used by Israel) & Iranian people ( who all will gather around a flag no matter who leads them then).
Therefore ,in my opinion all sides must count on Iranians not on Government.
Just let & assist them rise & talk freely to the world by eliminating censorship.
Renounce & denounce those companies that sold their systems & helped or are still helping governments to overhear their people & dessidants for oppressing them.
Iran’s people have long been fighting ( since 100 years ago)to reach democracy .
Some Western governments and large companies were there who didn’t like this happen.You well know why.Their interests.So again crying for Iran’s human rights might be a trap again like the one Mr. Carter did to the Shah & let a regime like this be dominant over the people and be willing to dominate the region.Why not, may be that is one solution, when all saw how USA & other powers supported Saddam in killing large numbers of Iranians.This comment is from a person in Tehran.