The US and Iran are Talking. Why the Continued Fear Mongering? (crooksandliars)
I have such a difficult time with all the misinformation and propaganda
surrounding Iran and any nuclear program that they may or may not be
developing. It's impossible for an intellectually honest discussion to happen.
And even when we have positive developments, members of the news corps are
still fear mongering the great Iranian nuclear bogeyman:
> Last Saturday—the same day the United States and Iran were having
"constructive and useful" discussions on Iran's nuclear program in Istanbul,
according to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton -- the _New York Times_
published a piece titled, "Seeking Nuclear Insight in Fog of the Ayatollah's
Utterances," over the byline of James Risen.
>
> That piece contained the following paragraph:
>
>> Complicating matters further, some analysts say that Ayatollah Khamenei's
denial of Iranian nuclear ambitions has to be seen as part of a Shiite
historical concept called taqiyya, or religious dissembling. For centuries an
oppressed minority within Islam, Shiites learned to conceal their sectarian
identity to survive, and so there is a precedent for lying to protect the
Shiite community.
>
> No "analyst" at all was specifically cited in support of this argument
anywhere in the article. It should be obvious ...
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The US and Iran are Talking. Why the Continued Fear Mongering? (crooksandliars)
I have such a difficult time with all the misinformation and propaganda surrounding Iran and any nuclear program that they may or may not be developing. It's impossible for an intellectually honest discussion to happen. And even when we have positive developments, members of the news corps are still fear mongering the great Iranian nuclear bogeyman: > Last Saturday—the same day the United States and Iran were having "constructive and useful" discussions on Iran's nuclear program in Istanbul, according to EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton -- the _New York Times_ published a piece titled, "Seeking Nuclear Insight in Fog of the Ayatollah's Utterances," over the byline of James Risen. > > That piece contained the following paragraph: > >> Complicating matters further, some analysts say that Ayatollah Khamenei's denial of Iranian nuclear ambitions has to be seen as part of a Shiite historical concept called taqiyya, or religious dissembling. For centuries an oppressed minority within Islam, Shiites learned to conceal their sectarian identity to survive, and so there is a precedent for lying to protect the Shiite community. > > No "analyst" at all was specifically cited in support of this argument anywhere in the article. It should be obvious ...
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