Obama Should Heed Kennedy’s Cuba Lessons When Thinking About Iran

President Obama, 47, will inherit the latest bag of dirty tricks that, so far, have failed to undermine the regime, much less dislodge it from power or cripple its nuclear weapons effort.

“The covert American program, started in early 2008,” New York Times reporter David E. Sanger revealed on Jan. 11, “includes renewed American efforts to penetrate Iran’s nuclear supply chain abroad, along with new efforts, some of them experimental, to ... Full Story »

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James Canning
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by James Canning - Jan. 19, 2009

Reasonably interesting story, but the author falls down entirely by claiming, with no support whatever, that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and will be ready to deliver them by missiles in the near future.

Turkey, Syria, Russia and China all believe Iran does not have a covert nuclear weapons development program, and this opininion is shared by the head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei. Demonization of Iran is an ongoing program of the Israel lobby and it poses a serious threat to the national interests of the US. The same sort of rubbish regarding Iraq set up the insane war and the squandering of $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars just as the country slides into its worst recession in the past 50 years.

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