How reporters trumped up a story about Iranians killing Americans in Iraq.
Gareth Porter
Gareth Porter, a historian and journalist, writes regularly on U.S. policy in Iran and Iraq for Inter Press Service. His most recent book is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2005).
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The Spoiler
Whenever the administration shifts toward engagement, one figure is there to stop it. How Dick Cheney ensures diplomatic failure with Tehran.
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First Rejected, Now Denied
In a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied knowledge of Iran’s secret 2003 negotiating proposal to the United States. Her denial is part of a broader administration strategy aimed at buttressing the Bush administration’s coercive policy toward Iran from congressional pressures for diplomatic engagement with the country. Rice’s State Department had […]
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Advice Not Taken
The Iraq Study Group was warned by the former State Department coordinator of intelligence on Iraq that the option of sharply increasing the number of U.S. trainers in the Iraqi military — a plan that the ISG recommended in their final report and the Pentagon has now approved — probably would fail, even if accompanied […]
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Burnt Offering
Iran’s “mad mullahs” want nuclear weapons to destroy Israel and can only be stopped by the threat or use of military force. That’s what the Bush administration would have the public believe, as it pushes toward a confrontation with Iran over that country’s nuclear program. A key link in the argument is that Tehran has […]
