How Mainstream Media Echoed a Fabricated Story
There have been lots of outlets criticizing the fake story of speedboats. But mainstream media outlets did not cover the reality behind the story properly.
There have been lots of outlets criticizing the fake story of speedboats. But mainstream media outlets did not cover the reality behind the story properly.
Think Progress | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
Earlier this week, the Pentagon said that three of its Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz had been harassed and provoked by Iranian speedboats. The Na...
AP | LAUREN FRAYER | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
Iran aired video Thursday of its boats and U.S. naval ships in the Persian Gulf in an apparent attempt to show that there was no confrontation between...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
Small Iranian fast boats swarmed around massive U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, and a man speaking heavily accented English threatened, "I am comin...
NY Times | THOM SHANKER and BRIAN KNOWLTON | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics
Five armed Iranian speedboats approached three United States Navy warships in international waters in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, then m...
AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a sec...
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
A new intelligence estimate downplaying Iran's nuclear ambitions has not changed the way the Defense Department views the country that has been long c...
Washington Post | Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics
Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Ira...
Gareth Porter | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
As we should expect, Bolton's attack is full of dishonest arguments, and it reveals the desperation of the war party.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
The authors of the perverse NIE report, which is influencing policy so negatively, will have much to answer for if their assessment results in a reduction of pressure on Iran.
Huff TV | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Tom Andrews | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
The White House needs to shut up with its threats and start talking with Iran. Threats empower the hawks in Tehran with Bush's favorite weapon: fear.
The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Congressional Democrats are capitalizing on the latest intelligence estimate on Iran's nuclear weapons development to question President Bush's credib...
New York Times | Lisa Tozzi | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics
Just two days after the release of a National Intelligence Report that has made Iran the flashpoint of debate in the presidential race, the Giuliani c...
Steve Young | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Who in the Bush Administration will be in charge of outing the NIE's wife, and when will the President not know about it?* Yours Truly, Joe WIlson *...
New York Times | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
The National Intelligence Estimate released on Monday resounded with the authority of 16 American spy agencies in agreement that Iran halted its nucle...
New York Times | MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen,...
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Omid Memarian | Posted 01.25.2008 | Media